Couple of new pics from Maldo's next version of his mod:
Fucking fucking! I feel like I should become a pig right about now to thrash about in there. It looks magnificent!
Never thought I'd ask for it but can you contribute more mud shots?
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Crysis 2 - PC modding and tweaking
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Fucking fucking! I feel like I should become a pig right about now to thrash about in there. It looks magnificent!
Never thought I'd ask for it but can you contribute more mud shots?
LabouredSubterfuge
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I think more importantly - Maldo says the new version will support SMAA (which I can't get working with C2 on DX11).
therealminime
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Soon, he was 98% complete as of yesterday.
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That's a retexture I can get behind.
Very muddy water shouldnt reflect much.
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Holy crap. I really like how Maldo's mod doesn't stray far from the original vision for the game at all. It looks very close to the unmodded game, just sharper. I hate it when mods play too much with the original assets.
EDIT: Hah. Didn't realize it was actually him that posted the new screens.
EDIT: Hah. Didn't realize it was actually him that posted the new screens.
Dictator93
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Yeah Maldo is a real pro. He has a great attention to detail and solid work ethic. I mean, I would not be surprised if he had already replaced 60% of all the games textures.
Hey, you! Thanks for taking the time to make the game look astoundingly beautiful
Really appreciate the work you've put into it.
therealminime
Member
Gah, so close. I will absolutely have to replay it when he releases the new mod.
-bakalhau-
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Welcome MaLDo! Your mod looks better than ever. This is the time I'm gonna download it and give it a try. It just look so much improved over the first version all those months ago. Great work, really.
Have you played Crysis 2? It's fucking awesome.
Sutton Dagger
Member
Should I download the Maldo stuff now, or just wait until the new release?
Wait until the new release if you can. His stuff now's not hard to install or too big, though (800MB), if you can't.
Vulcano's assistant
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Holy shit, the man himself?
I Love the crazy stuff done with POM.
Sutton Dagger
Member
Cool, will do.
Has anyone checked out Crysis Revival + C-mod? I'm downloading it now, I could do with some jungle action.
Edit: The more I play Crysis 2 the more I realise I miss the 'crisp' look of Crysis 1. I don't even know how to explain it, but Crysis 2 seems kind of blurry in a way...
scorpscarx
Member
Before I installed Maldo, I installed the 2 crytek patches, but got an error before installing each one of those, they seemed to work however.
Still tweaking this game, can't get it quite to the point that I'm content and actually start playing it lol.
Still tweaking this game, can't get it quite to the point that I'm content and actually start playing it lol.
r_postmsaa = 2
r_postmsaaedgefilternv = 3
Clearest you'll get it looking with in-game AA. Aside from that, all you can do is downsample, which takes a shit ton of power.
Sutton Dagger
Member
Sorry, where am I installing Mods in the Steam version? Do I have to create a mods folder in the main Crysis 2 folder on Steam?
legacyzero
Banned
Yep.. My shits never gonna look like that LMFAO.
Mmmm, I was never able to get all the vanilla DX11 goodness running smoothly on my rig but that Maldo config utility has me intrigued. Not to mention that texture mod, gorgeous. May have to reinstall the game.
Edit: Couple questions: I have the game on Steam, will it automatically patch up to 1.9 (DX 11) or do I need to apply that one manually? And what kind of performance hit should I expect with that particle mod vs vanilla "Extreme" (DX11) particles?
Edit: Couple questions: I have the game on Steam, will it automatically patch up to 1.9 (DX 11) or do I need to apply that one manually? And what kind of performance hit should I expect with that particle mod vs vanilla "Extreme" (DX11) particles?
Dunno bout your other questions but im fairly positive the steam version is fully updated to 1.9 with the texture pack and everything
Yep, it is. Played around with the Maldo mod a bit, looks absolutely phenomenal. I'm getting a fair bit of stuttering with the Maldo texture mod when I'm moving from area to area though. Within each area the frame rate is completely fine. I have a 1 GB HD 5770 and 4 GB of DDR2 RAM. Is that just not enough for the textures in the mod or is there a particular setting in the config that I should dial back to help alleviate the stutter?
These are the settings I'm using:
Also, what objects does reduced tessellation ignore vs full tessellation?
Yep, it is. Played around with the Maldo mod a bit, looks absolutely phenomenal. I'm getting a fair bit of stuttering with the Maldo texture mod when I'm moving from area to area though. Within each area the frame rate is completely fine. I have a 1 GB HD 5770 and 4 GB of DDR2 RAM. Is that just not enough for the textures in the mod or is there a particular setting in the config that I should dial back to help alleviate the stutter?
These are the settings I'm using:
Also, what objects does reduced tessellation ignore vs full tessellation?
Probably the most detailed concrete walls in the history of video gaming [and others nVidia ploys to reduce preformance on ATI cards].
http://techreport.com/articles.x/21404/2
Wonko_C
Member
WTF at the concrete slabs, LOL.
Speaking of tessellation, I thought the GPU intelligently tessellated the models to reduce their "polygonal" look. But if I'm reading the article right, do the developers actually have to create the more detailed objects beforehand? Why can't the hi-poly objects be used in standard DX9/10 then?
Tessellation is an efficient way to deal with very high poly-counts. This feature is made exclusive to DX11, just as Siri is made exclusive to iPhone 4S (and obviously future models).
If the developer chooses the "lazy" tessellation, then it's just pointless. This can be seen in the Heaven benchmark tool, as well. I'd say it's an even worse offender than Crysis 2 in this area.
Horse Armour
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You have a slow graphics card, it's probably that.Yep, it is. Played around with the Maldo mod a bit, looks absolutely phenomenal. I'm getting a fair bit of stuttering with the Maldo texture mod when I'm moving from area to area though. Within each area the frame rate is completely fine. I have a 1 GB HD 5770 and 4 GB of DDR2 RAM. Is that just not enough for the textures in the mod or is there a particular setting in the config that I should dial back to help alleviate the stutter?
These are the settings I'm using:
Also, what objects does reduced tessellation ignore vs full tessellation?
The frame rate is completely fluid. It's stuttering when I move to a new section of the map. And I wouldn't say the 5770 is a slow card.
I get stuttering when I have too many VRAM hungry settings cranked.
Horse Armour
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It's slower than a 4870 which is too slow to play Crysis 2 DX11 (if it wasn't a DX10 card that is).
First, I'll say that a 5770 isn't a slow card. It's mediocre. Hell, a 4850 could run Crysis 2 at decent frame rates at 1680x1050 without DX11, of course. Believe me, I've tried (but it died soon after, lol).
Since you're saying you're getting fluid frame rates, around what does your frame rate hover?
I figured that was the case here, was wondering which settings in that config were the most VRAM dependent so I could turn them down.
Er, in DX9 the 5770 absolutely destroys Crysis 2. Ran it effortlessly at 1680x1050, 40-60 FPS.
I'll turn on an FPS monitoring program and report what my frame rates are with the DX 11 settings pictured in my post above.
Edit: Lowest FPS I saw on the 3rd level was during a scripted scene where the alien ship crashes through the tunnel you're standing in. 25 FPS.
Combat FPS stayed around 30 FPS. Exploration was 40+. Stutters were at the beginning of the stage, never during combat.
Not bad for a card that was $150 when I bought it over two years ago.
Anyone given this thing a go?
http://cell-systems.net/cfg-maker/client-cfg-maker/create-crysis2%E2%80%9D-autoexec-cfg/
Basically makes the autoexec.cfg for you, made one with everything maxed out and brought my rig to it's knees. Currently running an AMD 1100T 3.3Ghz, Asus 990FX Sabretooth motherboard, 16Gb DDR3 1800Mhz RAM and AMD 6970 2Gb GDDR5 video card.
If someone more knowledgeable than me wants to take a crack at it to make an excellently balanced .cfg file you're more than welcome to... I'm currently running Crysis 2 with Quality Mod and a config file from the Crydev forums, managing to get about 25-30fps @ 1920 x 1080.
http://cell-systems.net/cfg-maker/client-cfg-maker/create-crysis2%E2%80%9D-autoexec-cfg/
Basically makes the autoexec.cfg for you, made one with everything maxed out and brought my rig to it's knees. Currently running an AMD 1100T 3.3Ghz, Asus 990FX Sabretooth motherboard, 16Gb DDR3 1800Mhz RAM and AMD 6970 2Gb GDDR5 video card.
If someone more knowledgeable than me wants to take a crack at it to make an excellently balanced .cfg file you're more than welcome to... I'm currently running Crysis 2 with Quality Mod and a config file from the Crydev forums, managing to get about 25-30fps @ 1920 x 1080.
Yeah, I've never downloaded an 'HD' texture pack, but his is tempting, I'll admit.
Plus all the extra config options! Looking forward to playing C2 again.
If your problem isn't hitting a VRAM wall with the texture pack itself, maybe tesselation would be the setting to turn off. Your card while not bad, is a little on the lower end and tesselation is a setting even the higher end 5xxx series cards struggle with.