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[LordOfChaos]

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/crysis-10-year-anniversary-benchmarks,5329.html


Thought this was an interesting article despite the tired old meme, just to see how far we've come per generation for 10 years.

 

[Beerman462]

OMG I can finally play at 60fps!

Spoiler

GTX1070

 

[MrOogieBoogie]

I recently played through Warhead on an i5-6500 + 1060 GTX 6GB + 16GB RAM and still managed to see framerates drop into the 30s during intense firefights. This is at 1680x1050, too. To be fair, though, the average framerate hovered between 85 and 100fps.

 

[TaroYamada]

I first played Crysis on a GTX 460 1gb and I'm glad I could play it maxed out. It's one of my favorite FPS games and it deserves to be experienced at that fidelity.

Just to be clear this was at like 1600x900 if memory serves and I wasn't always hitting 60FPS.

 

[DocEbok]

Wasn't it more cpu than gpu? :x

 

[LordOfChaos]

Wasn't it more cpu than gpu? :x

Sorta, but I mean, the 8800 that was from the same era as Crysis is still brutalized here on a modern CPU at 1080p

 

[Dreadnought]

You need a 1080ti to play at 4k60 what the hell

 

[Lister]

Isnt the game dx9? Its just not optimized for modern hardware.

 

[Ubername]

Isnt the game dx9? Its just not optimized for modern hardware.

It wasn't optimized when it came out, lol.

 

[Finaika]

Sorta, but I mean, the 8800 that was from the same era as Crysis is still brutalized here on a modern CPU at 1080p

980 Ti is a beast.

 

[DonMigs85]

980 Ti is a beast.

This is only due to a CPU bottleneck. The gap widens at higher resolutions

 

[ClaptoVaughn]

I got a 8800gtx at the time partly to play that. I remember tweaking the config files for hours to squeeze every frame possible out of that thing.

Stalker came out the same year. What a great time for shooters.

 

[Inviusx]

I remember being enraptured by the thought of owning an 8800GTX back then. Looking at it 10 years on makes me realise remember why I got out of PC gaming.

 

[metareferential]

That transistor/framerate graph is awesome: Vega is quite a shame compared to the 980ti, 50% more transistor count and almost the same performance.

 

[Black_Stride]

Sorta, but I mean, the 8800 that was from the same era as Crysis is still brutalized here on a modern CPU at 1080p

8800 was my shit and it got abused by Crysis.
Upgrade a few years later to GTX 260 and it still got its ass beat

But i think its worth noting that 1080p wasnt the go to gaming resolution.
I believe it was 1366 x 768 that was pretty big and 1440 x 900 was also popular with monitors at that time.

1080p was still relatively niche.

 

[CharmingCharlie]

I would love to give Crysis a new playthrough but for the life of me I cannot get this fucker running on windows 10. I have tried everything under the sun to get it running but nothing works. Ah well such is life, but one hell of a black mark on Cryteks rep (if that still exists) that their game is so problematic.

 

[Oemenia]

I really hope the make a HD trilogy. The 360 version plays, looks and runs great and on PC would be amazing.

 

[LordOfChaos]

Isnt the game dx9? Its just not optimized for modern hardware.

First page of the article shows DX9/DX10 graphics comparisons. iirc DX10 was a patch later.

I really hope the make a HD trilogy. The 360 version plays, looks and runs great and on PC would be amazing.

I actually didn't finish the 360 version because of the long segments of 20fps, at first it was impressive that it was ported to 7G consoles, but the sacrifices just made it unplayable for me.

1-3 remastered on the 8th gen would be something though, especially Pro/X.

 

[rodrigolfp]

I recently played through Warhead on an i5-6500 + 1060 GTX 6GB + 16GB RAM and still managed to see framerates drop into the 30s during intense firefights. This is at 1680x1050, too. To be fair, though, the average framerate hovered between 85 and 100fps.

You know that you can scroll down to see resolutions higher than 1680x1050?

Isnt the game dx9? Its just not optimized for modern hardware.

Default is DX10, but you can also run a DX9 exe.

First page of the article shows DX9/DX10 graphics comparisons. iirc DX10 was a patch later.

Not rly. DX10 option was there since day 1.

I really hope the make a HD trilogy. The 360 version plays, looks and runs great and on PC would be amazing.

14~30fps never was and never will be great: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwD2ty2UfBM

 

[LordOfChaos]

Not rly. DX10 option was there since day 1.

Oh right, it was Crysis 2 that had the DX11 patch and ultra graphics mode.

 

[DonF]

Related video by Lazy game reviews

 

[AP90]

980 Ti is a beast.

Agreed =)

And it is fairly easy to overclock.. I remember playing crysis on my 9800gtx @1600x900 and it took me months to get a stable oc on the core. I wanted every extra drop of performance out of my card just so crysis could be smoother.

 

[Lovely Salsa]

I tried the game again when I got my 680 gtx. Unpatched, on max settings at 1080p I constantly got under 30 fps on the first area

Which I thought was insane

 

[pixelbox]

Damn

 

[bobone]

Awesome article.
I had just build a shiny new box with a 3870 around that time and was happily playing everything at high settings and resolution till I got Crysis. That game floored me. And made me really want to buy a second GPU to actually be able to run it.

I have a 1080 now, and it wasn't part of that test, so I'm going to have to give it a try myself.

 

[Cerbero]

8800 was my shit and it got abused by Crysis.
Upgrade a few years later to GTX 260 and it still got its ass beat

But i think its worth noting that 1080p wasnt the go to gaming resolution.
I believe it was 1366 x 768 that was pretty big and 1440 x 900 was also popular with monitors at that time.

1080p was still relatively niche.

Actually in 2007 1680x1050 was the to go resolution, with the Samsung 226BW as the hottest girl in town

 

[Phoenix RISING]

This just proves that Crysis is poorly optimized.

Crysis: Warhead runs better and without the jank, as do Crysis 2 and 3.

 

[rodrigolfp]

This just proves that Crysis is poorly optimized.

Crysis: Warhead runs better and without the jank, as do Crysis 2 and 3.

Not saying that C1 has good optimizations, but the size of maps and physics of Crysis 2 and 3 are by far not in the same lvl of C1. And Warhead is not much better to run.

 

[Futaleufu]

I remember the Directx 10 setting of this game was broken, in the last stage you would fall thru the floor at random times.

 

[rodrigolfp]

I remember the Directx 10 setting of this game was broken, in the last stage you would fall thru the floor at random times.

Never even heard of this.

 

[TheLaughingStock]

Games still look great even though they're old.

 

[Noleh8r]

This just proves that Crysis is poorly optimized.

Crysis: Warhead runs better and without the jank, as do Crysis 2 and 3.

Crysis Warhead, Crysis 2, and Crysis 3 might as well be from a completely different series when compared to the sprawling levels of the original game.

 

[Phatosaurus]

980 Ti is a beast.

The CPU likely was the bottleneck there. The 980Ti falls off in performance with AA and at higher resolutions.

 

[Quixz]

This game must have sold many 8800GTXs cause I bought one just play.

 

[120v]

glad i wasn't a PC gamer then. i would've gone insane trying to get it to run ok even if i had no particular interest in playing it

 

[old]

It's neat to see how much architecture generation plays a role in the Radeon cards. Big jump from Terascale to GCN. Another big jump to GCN 2.

Some years it's a huge jump in hardware. Some years it's apparently just a small clock boost.

 

[LordOfChaos]

It's neat to see how much architecture generation plays a role in the Radeon cards. Big jump from Terascale to GCN. Another big jump to GCN 2.

Some years it's a huge jump in hardware. Some years it's apparently just a small clock boost.

Also OG GCN got some classic AMD FineWIne on the driver side, held up pretty well over time. They seem to have the unfortunate habit of leaving more performance on the table than their competitor at launch day, but then also supporting it and tuning it longer.

 

[zeroOman]

The CPU likely was the bottleneck there. The 980Ti falls off in performance with AA and at higher resolutions.

U mean it well suck at higher resolution more than 1080p?

 

[llien]

Why did they skip 1060/1050? (or am I blind)

980 Ti is a beast.

Indeed:

 

[DonMigs85]

Why did they skip 1060/1050? (or am I blind)



Indeed:

Flagship GPUs only

 

[LordOfChaos]

Why did they skip 1060/1050? (or am I blind)



Indeed:

Holy moly does Nvidia do a lot more with a lot less transistors. Their relative margins are no wonder.

Then again AMD doesn't split compute cards from gaming cards like Nvidia, so depending on how you look at it you either get exceptionally priced compute, or a lot of transistor baggage for gaming.

 

[Greatest Ever]

980 Ti is a beast.

Arguably the best $200 I've ever spent was on one. I was pretty set when it came to 1920 x 1080 but now at 3440 x 1440 I'm starting to feel its limits.

Still, amazing card. I don't ever want to upgrade if I can avoid it without paying that much again.

 

[Morbid]

This game still looks better than some modern games, crazy.

 

[Laserdisk]

When I bought my 1060 6gb I reinstalled this and warhead.
Still amazing and beautiful games.

 

[jufonuk]

Could the switch run crysis ?

 

[Phatosaurus]

U mean it well suck at higher resolution more than 1080p?

Suck? No. The performance gap between it and better GPUs just widens. It's still a good card.

 

[Morbid]

Could the switch run crysis ?

360 & PS3 did so sure. I doubt it'd do 1080p 60fps though.

 

[DonMigs85]

360 & PS3 did so sure. I doubt it'd do 1080p 60fps though.

Yeah, we need to remember that the Switch is like a bit less than half the power of a GTX 750 (non-Ti) at best.

 

[PantsuJo]

Could the switch run crysis ?

Crysis 3 was being developed for Nvidia Shield (tablet and TV) so a Switch port is indeed possible, given the nearly identical hardware.

You can find info about this port on Nvidia Shield homepage or, as usual, YouTube.