Crysis Single Player Demo Feedback Thread

[Xion X2]

Originally Posted by Gaco

I see.. I have only tried comparing an all high settings DX9 vs. an all very high settings DX10 (except Post Processing on medium) and I noticed much more realistic looking water in DX10, it was like how the water and waves moved. Can you have the pretty DX10 water with only high shaders? Is the good looking water depended on the wheter the water is set to high or very high?

The water in DX10 looks the same on lower shader settings as long as you keep it set to "very high" for water detail.

[Eliminator]

Originally Posted by Gaco

Seriously, are you 100% sure you didn't mix them up? It's not that I don't believe you, I just want to be sure!

YES 101% sure... try it yourself

[Xion X2]

Originally Posted by Gaco

Seriously, are you 100% sure you didn't mix them up? It's not that I don't believe you, I just want to be sure!

There's some bug in the demo that causes the textures not to load in on the mountaintops at times. I've seen it sit there and flicker back and forth before.

*shrugs* Hopefully they'll fix it in the final version of the game. But it's not a shortcoming of DX10.

[Mr_LoL]

Xion X2 what res are you running the game at?

[Eliminator]

Originally Posted by Xion X2

There's some bug in the demo that causes the textures not to load in on the mountaintops at times. I've seen it sit there and flicker back and forth before.

*shrugs* Hopefully they'll fix it in the final version of the game. But it's not a shortcoming of DX10.

thats not my point.... its 64bit vs 32bit... in 32bit DX9 the mountains look just as bad as 32bit DX10... 64bit DX9 however the mountains look much better... i cant run 64bit DX10 without freezing so i cant test it

[jeffmd]

Originally Posted by Gaco

Crank down the Post Processing to medium for a 6-8 FPS boost and a really minimal visual difference. I went up from 17-18 FPS to 23-25 FPS that way.

I looked in the config files that contain the settings for the low/med/high settings, and saw that many different controls are adjusted. I would MUCH rather like to tweak just one or two of those since I bet adjusting the whole lot will lose visual quality while gaining little or no performance.

[Xion X2]

Originally Posted by Mr_LoL

Xion X2 what res are you running the game at?

1680x1050.

[Gaco]

Originally Posted by Xion X2

There's some bug in the demo that causes the textures not to load in on the mountaintops at times. I've seen it sit there and flicker back and forth before.

*shrugs* Hopefully they'll fix it in the final version of the game. But it's not a shortcoming of DX10.

Wait a minute couldn't it be that it had nothing to do with DX9 and DX10, but that DX9 is 64bit and DX10 is 32bit? As somebody else mentioned they was a pretty good difference on distant texture in Far Cry depended on whether it was 64bit or 32bit!

[Raje]

I'm pretty surprised that I could play the demo with all high settings, 1680x1050, 4x AA.

[Zeus666]

Originally Posted by Xion X2

Again, for anyone running DX10, you need to turn the shaders down for better performance. There is around a 20fps performance hit between medium and very high on this setting. Screw all the other in-game settings.. leave them as they are (on very high if you have a GTX/Ultra.) At the most they will make a 1-2fps difference in framerate. Shaders are where it's at, and there doesn't seem to be any way to compensate for them--at the moment. Hopefully Nvidia can release a new driver that'll bring out more performance.

Thanks for trick !

[Gaco]

Originally Posted by Xion X2

The water in DX10 looks the same on lower shader settings as long as you keep it set to "very high" for water detail.

Ok.. well unfortunately you can't have the "very high" water in DX9 can you?

Actually the only thing keeping me from running 64bit DX9 exclusively now must be the missing very high water. I've noticed some little differences in lightning/shadowing and other minor stuff as well, but the DX9 just have so much better performance...

[Xion X2]

Originally Posted by Eliminator

thats not my point.... its 64bit vs 32bit... in 32bit DX9 the mountains look just as bad as 32bit DX10... 64bit DX9 however the mountains look much better... i cant run 64bit DX10 without freezing so i cant test it

No, I think you're not getting the point. I have seen the mountains in DX10 32-bit (on my rig) flicker back and forth between extremely detailed and blurry like is in your pics. It's a bug. It's not some advantage of DX9 64-bit over DX10 32-bit like you're espousing. I've even gone so far as to reload the same scene, and for whatever reason about half the time the detailed textures on the mountain will not load up. The other times they do. And then sometimes they sit there and flicker back and forth between detailed/blurry.

Probably due to the beta driver and incomplete demo.