Crysis objects flickering

Hi,

I'm running Crysis at full resolution and High Detail and keep getting objects that flicker. Trees in the distance appear as blast of white light flickering behind the object.

My System:
17-inch WideUXGA 1920 x 1200 RGB LED (1200p)
Intel Core i7 720QM 1.6GHz (2.8 GHz Turbo Mode, 6MB Cache)
8GB Dual Channel DDR3 at 1333MHz
Dual 1GB ATI Radeon Mobility HD 4870 in CrossfireX
1TB Raid 0 (2x 500GB 7,200RPM HDDs)

I'm running this on an external monitor set to 1920x1200 and the game is set to the same.

What variables do I need to play with or should the system be able to run this setting with no problem?

thanks, Ed

 

Not sure if this will help but make sure you have the latest patches for Crysis. I think they are 1.1, 1.2, and 1.21. Make sure you have the correct drivers for extrenal monitor.

 

Disable crossfire. I have problems with Crysis and crossfire.

 

It appears to be a problem with Crossfire ATi cards.

Force your game to run in DirectX 9. To do this, right click the shortcut, go to the shortcut tab, and under the 'target' box, after the quote marks, enter '-dx9' (without quote marks, with a space after the previous quote marks, and make sure the - is in there).

Running it in DirectX 9 will stop the flickering. It should also provide a significant performance boost. DirectX 10 really doesn't give much of a visual quality improvement, and if you want to run it in Very High but in DirectX 9 (usually locked) then there are autoexec.cfg mods that can force it to run in Very High in DirectX 9. (Look it up on Google for more information)

Apart from that, if you insist in running in DirectX 10, then disabling crossfire MIGHT stop the flickering but it will incur a significant performance hit. I'd highly recommend running it in DirectX 9.

 

Like Falcon said, make sure you have the patches from the crytek site....they make a huge difference - makes things like flickering trees in the background stop flickering!.....crossfire shouldnt cause you an issue but you may get some wavy lines which can be averted with vsync turned on in the game options...yeah, it will limit fps to 60max but your hardly likely to get that with settings all v high etc.

Hope this helps.!

 

Thanks!

I've started installing the Crysis patches and tried updating my external monitor driver. Apparently my Dell 2405FPW monitor doesn't have a driver to run under Win 7. By default it is running under Generic PnP Monitor. Unfortunately I can't use Dell.com to get support because they notice I'm on an Alienware. Guess its time to place that call to them directly.

 

Happy to report that installing the Crysis's patches from Crytek took care of the flicker. Now running on Very High detail on 1920x1200 with no flicker.

 

Excellent - glad to hear you got it sorted....happy gaming!

 

I know this is a resolved issue but just wanted to add that I had the exact same problem with Nvidia 9800GT's in SLI. This one isn't specifically an ATI issue. The patch fixed it.

 

Glad to hear you got it up and running. I think the patches fix a couple HUNDRED bugs. Currently running the game with crossfire no problem.

 

Great guys thanks. Had no idea there were patches. I usually get Steam games. Fixed my crossfire problems too.