I'm pretty sure it also decreases the distance of detailed objects. So you'll see objects pop to a lower quality version at a shorter distance. Geforce experience turned my to medium too.
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Crysis 3 PC Performance Thread
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I'm pretty sure it also decreases the distance of detailed objects. So you'll see objects pop to a lower quality version at a shorter distance. Geforce experience turned my to medium too.
ShellyDeKiller
Member
psycho's just seen how great the game looks on PC
THAT'S PSYCHO???
ShellyDeKiller
Member
WTF man, my name's actually Patrick. You freaked me out for a moment there. lol
Why did they change him?
The Janitor
Member
24 years will do that to you :lol
ShellyDeKiller
Member
New voice actor too I suppose. *sigh*
RadioactiveLobster
Member
To be honest his original voice actor looked nothing like what he did in game, at least David Kennedy is close to the original Psycho.
nelsonroyale
Member
Psycho seems to have shrunk as well. I thought he was at least as tall as Prophet in Crysis. I far prefer his orginal design to be honest.
ShellyDeKiller
Member
Characters don't have to resemble their voice actor.To be honest his original voice actor looked nothing like what he did in game, at least David Kennedy is close to the original Psycho.
I liked him in C1 and Warhead. Gonna have to get used to a completely new character with the same name.
Almost finished building my new PC. Just waiting for my RAM. Stupid Royal Mail were supposed to deliver it today.
Hope my 7970 will be able to handle this well.
ThirdEngine
Member
Isn't this game set like 25 years after Crysis 2? Pretty sure that would be why he doesn't look the same.
RadioactiveLobster
Member
True, but since they were doing full body motion capture for C3 and voice capture at the same time, it helps if the person doing the capture and doing the voice are the same person.
editing CVars was a life saver. MP is so much better with FOV @ 80. Wasn't sure if that would be allowed. Now I just need to add the chromatic aberration command and I should be good to go.
Re: Geforce Experience app, I too think it's pretty good for finding a starting point. It It gave me a medium Object setting, with textures and a few others on Very High, shaders on High, plus 1x SMAA. Those settings gave me a very playable framerate at 1080P and I bumped SMAA to 2x/Medium. 680 OCed to ~1260/3570k
Re: Geforce Experience app, I too think it's pretty good for finding a starting point. It It gave me a medium Object setting, with textures and a few others on Very High, shaders on High, plus 1x SMAA. Those settings gave me a very playable framerate at 1080P and I bumped SMAA to 2x/Medium. 680 OCed to ~1260/3570k
Liquid_Bike
Member
What do you guys have your motion blur set to?
Is more better? And how does it effect performance?
Is more better? And how does it effect performance?
legacyzero
Banned
I generally like to cut mine down to about low. A good object blur is really all I need. But all that directional blur when I turn my head is shitty.
BigEvilTurtle
Banned
How do you edit the "CVars" exactly? Would like to change FOV.
I read nothing of the sort in the official forums. I wouldn't count on Crytek doing anything about it sadly.
RadioactiveLobster
Member
So my game has crashed 4 times in the final boss fight, no idea why but I can't finish the game since it keeps crashed.
It played fine for the entire game, it's only the final boss fight were it started to crash.
EDIT: Have done some testing. The crash happens at the same point each time (Final Boss Fight/Cutscene Spoilers:
that's when the crash happens)
I've tried disabling things I think might be causing problems. The crash happens at the same point even if Steam Overlay is disabled, Raptr Desktop App is disabled, MSI Afterburner is disabled. I don't have any other programs to my knowledge that hook into the game in any way or that could be causing the crash.
This is a game breaking crash for me, even if it's at the end. I cannot get past it. Haven't tried launching game in safe mode, we'll see if that works.
EDIT #2: Just noticed Origin games don't have a safe mode, I was thinking of UPlay games.
It played fine for the entire game, it's only the final boss fight were it started to crash.
EDIT: Have done some testing. The crash happens at the same point each time (Final Boss Fight/Cutscene Spoilers:
After you shoot the Alpha Ceph with the bow, the cutscene happens with Psycho being trapped in the VTOL. When you can't hold on and get sucked up,
I've tried disabling things I think might be causing problems. The crash happens at the same point even if Steam Overlay is disabled, Raptr Desktop App is disabled, MSI Afterburner is disabled. I don't have any other programs to my knowledge that hook into the game in any way or that could be causing the crash.
This is a game breaking crash for me, even if it's at the end. I cannot get past it. Haven't tried launching game in safe mode, we'll see if that works.
EDIT #2: Just noticed Origin games don't have a safe mode, I was thinking of UPlay games.
You can type the commands into the console (by pressing the "~" key) or create an autoexec.cfg file in the game exe's folder. Info here should help: http://www.gamefront.com/crysis-3-pc-developer-console-commands/
type cl_fov 75 and r_DrawNearFOV 75
Make both values the same or it could look weird.
Perhaps try restarting the level? Could potentially be something funky with your save file.
it's like a transparent out line. Whenever I shoot it looks jacked up since it's almost like a double image from the gun. Hard to explain it but it's terrible. I'll try changing c_abb to 0, but I don't think that will fix it as I've done that before.
RadioactiveLobster
Member
It's a big ass level and I really don't want to do the final boss fight again. From what I've heard, there is only like 5 more minutes of game, I might just watch it on YouTube and not bother.
Coolbgdog12
Member
Tried the game. I have a GTX 550TI slightly OC'd, A FX4100 oc'd to 4.1GHZ and 8GB DDR3 Ram.
I have the game running at 1360x768 resolution, no AA, texture resolution on high and system specs at medium lens flare on and the game runs beautifully. The first level on that bridge where there's like a group of guys and a helicopter maintained 50-60fps while in firefight with them as told by Fraps. I would've thought this game would've came to a screeching halt on my rig. I can't seem to choose anything higher than 1360x768 though, they just don't appear.
I have the game running at 1360x768 resolution, no AA, texture resolution on high and system specs at medium lens flare on and the game runs beautifully. The first level on that bridge where there's like a group of guys and a helicopter maintained 50-60fps while in firefight with them as told by Fraps. I would've thought this game would've came to a screeching halt on my rig. I can't seem to choose anything higher than 1360x768 though, they just don't appear.
Terbinator
Member
Well my 2GB 680 just met its match.
Tried downsampling from 2160p with 4xMSAA and client crashed.
Tried downsampling from 2160p with 4xMSAA and client crashed.
RadioactiveLobster
Member
There is zero reason to use 4xMSAA (especially if you are downsampling). SMAA or TXAA are plenty good enough.
I do not understand this obsession PC-GAF has with super methods of AA that make a game unplayable.
Wtf. I get constant drops into the 20s at those settings. -_- Also have it capped at 30 with controller playing on my TV.
Radeon 7970 @ 1050/1450
i5 2500k @ 4.8 ghz
16 gbs memory
Not sure why the framerate takes a nosedive. I'm guessing AMD needs better drivers as usual
RadioactiveLobster
Member
TXAA uses MSAA
True, but (in some cases) it won't have as large of a performance impact as traditional MSAA and you'll get better picture quality.
Terbinator
Member
For curiosity and best screenshots possible.
Illithid Dude
Member
If I'm rolling with a 580, and I want to play everything on very high with no post processing and probably no AA, what kind of performance can I expect?
kutthoat5150
Member
is the game that bad or boring where having to restart a level is out of the question? I didn't mind at all having to do this for the first, and most of the second game.
RadioactiveLobster
Member
It's not bad or boring, I just don't want to go back through something I just played to see the last 5 minutes of gameplay that happens after my crash.
That level is a good 20 minutes from the start before I get to the point I crash (if I go for nothing but main objectives)
It's nothing against the level or the gameplay, I just personally don't want to go through all of it again
XANDER CAGE
Member
FXAA.
At 1080p, everything on very high, 8x MSAA? Not very good. 20-30 FPS with frequent drops into the teens.
However, 1080p, dropping shaders and shadows to high, going with 2x SMAA, vsync off yields for me fairly consistent 60 FPS with occasional drops to 50 (i7, 8 gigs Ram, 120 hz monitor).
thanks
BigEvilTurtle
Banned
Thanks. Also, don't forget to change the power sprint FOV. Sprinting reverts back to default FOV.
RadioactiveLobster
Member
I think it goes
No AA, FXAA, SMAA, TXAA, MSAA in terms of performance hit. Basically how they have it listed in the options menu.
No AA, FXAA, SMAA, TXAA, MSAA in terms of performance hit. Basically how they have it listed in the options menu.
Jay Shadow
Member
I think it's a video of him waiting between each line of his dialog.psycho's just seen how great the game looks on PC
TheVampire
Banned
Not good.
On that first level before getting in the dome I was on 15-25 fps
Just got the to dome now and its about 30.
Ill do more testing later.
Does anyone else get weird shimmering on the faces?
At first I thought it was something to do with the AA, but I tried every variation and it was fine.
It might be a shadows thing but I tried that too.
Running a 680m so it might just be a weird mobile driver bug and it's a minor blemish but it's just noticeable enough to be annoying.
At first I thought it was something to do with the AA, but I tried every variation and it was fine.
It might be a shadows thing but I tried that too.
Running a 680m so it might just be a weird mobile driver bug and it's a minor blemish but it's just noticeable enough to be annoying.
You are not the only one. I crash on the final boss too, never crashed once before that. I saw posts from a couple other people with the same problem.
RadioactiveLobster
Member
I said fuck it and watched the ending on YouTube.
Apparently after the point I crash at I miss literally 30 seconds of "gameplay", the rest is cutscenes and stuff you can't control.
GTX 680 @ 1260mhz, 3570K @ 4.1Ghz. This is my autoexec.cfg. I tried to put most of the tweakable values between their default High and Very High settings.
cl_fov 72
pl_movement.power_sprint_targetFov 72
r_drawnearfov 72
g_skipIntro On
r_ChromaticAberration 0
r_HDRBloomRatio 0.08
r_ssao
e_MergedMeshesInstanceDist 4
e_LodRatio 12
e_ViewDistRatio 55
e_ViewDistRatioVegetation 39
e_ViewDistRatioDetail 26
e_ParticlesObjectCollisions Static
e_ParticlesMotionBlur off
r_SilhouettePOM off
e_GI on
r_FogShadows on
r_FogShadowsWater on
r_SSReflections off
g_radialBlur off
r_ColorGrading off
Pretty solid 60fps at 1080P w/ 4x SMAA. The main things are the LOD settings, which seem to really help performance, and I don't notice much LOD pop-in so it's a great trade-off. Also turned off Particle Blur and Radial Blur. Some of the default values for Very High are much, much greater than the High default, so there's a lot of room in between to mess around. Fake edit: I realize some of the settings are redundant, apologies.
cl_fov 72
pl_movement.power_sprint_targetFov 72
r_drawnearfov 72
g_skipIntro On
r_ChromaticAberration 0
r_HDRBloomRatio 0.08
r_ssao
e_MergedMeshesInstanceDist 4
e_LodRatio 12
e_ViewDistRatio 55
e_ViewDistRatioVegetation 39
e_ViewDistRatioDetail 26
e_ParticlesObjectCollisions Static
e_ParticlesMotionBlur off
r_SilhouettePOM off
e_GI on
r_FogShadows on
r_FogShadowsWater on
r_SSReflections off
g_radialBlur off
r_ColorGrading off
Pretty solid 60fps at 1080P w/ 4x SMAA. The main things are the LOD settings, which seem to really help performance, and I don't notice much LOD pop-in so it's a great trade-off. Also turned off Particle Blur and Radial Blur. Some of the default values for Very High are much, much greater than the High default, so there's a lot of room in between to mess around. Fake edit: I realize some of the settings are redundant, apologies.