Bought Crysis Warhead

Saw it was only 30$. I was bored. Had my credit card. Bought it on instict. Hopefuly it will run well on my laptop. Didn't buy crysis because I was told it would depress me because it wouldnt run well on my laptop. Hopefully warhead will run fine. How is the 360 controller support in this game?

 

According to your laptop specs, crysis should run fine on low settings.

 

The 360 controller integrates wonderfully with warhead. I say you can run medium with your config.

 

With the latest patch Crysis ran on my system just fine, but I had to due low settings only medium on texture. I suggest you play crysis first to understand the side story of warhead.

 

i was gonna say medium as well and i think im gonna stick with that guess.

 

It will run fine in mainstream mode.

 

I just got my HD Crysis Warhead Vid up today that I would like to share, just one video is not worth making a thread for.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1-4kiu5T8w&fmt=22

I had to drop down to 1280x720 to get playable frame rates while recording, but without recording I can use 1920x1080 all gamer settings pretty comfortably on single 4850 on my desktop.

 

Mainstream... pleh! Lamest way of choosing settings I've ever heard of. Whoever was behind the setting naming scheme should be shot.

 

Yeah, apparently you're only a gaming 'enthusiast' if you have a rig from the gods.

 

Fixed

I have dual 4850's and the problem is only one of them works in Crysis, if both worked I could go Enthusiast easy.

Crossfire does not work SLI does and you pretty much NEED sli or a dual card that is equivalent to SLI to play at the highest settings.

 

So Crysis and Warhead support SLI but not Crossfire? Not surprising since you see the Nvidia logo starting up the game. What a shame to see Nvidia have a monopoly over the GPU market but I'm glad to see ATI's HD4800 cards make deep deep impacts into the market and keep Nvidia on their toes.

 

Well thats it in a nutshell, no matter what code or drivers I use I have never gotten crossfire to work in crysis or crysis warhead.

I tried all display drivers old to new, including betas.

I tried the crysis multi gpu commands

I tried various crossfire tweaks like the Catylyst AI settings.

I am most postive its due to this game "belonging" to Nvidia.

No other reason can I see such a mainstream game that is Crysis not having Crossifire support by now. I mean this game is like the pinnicle of PC graphics and GPU advertisment. ATI has seen the many people say CF does not work and yet they never say anything, no "we know and we are working on it", no "fix coming soon", they stay quiet and its probably because they have too.

Some corporate ninja is holding them hostage over legality matters or something.

Other games not even as big as Crysis that have only a few people report CF issues you will quickly find notes in the next release of drivers ether in the resolved issues section they will say they added support for the game, or you wil find it in the known issues section saying its being worked on.

Crysis has never been in the patch notes for them to be working on CF support that I have seen, and there is an abundance of information out there about how people cant get it working.

I dont want to get off topic, and we have one similar going on at DTR about how there is more than one case in a Nvidia sponsored game that something bad happened for ATI. Too many coincidences dont add up to being a coincidence I think.

 

My desktop has CrossFire HD 4670 and I see significant performance boosts in Crysis with CrossFire enabled . . . I can't think of why yours isn't working, Vicious.

 

yea, not to derail the thread, but my CF HD4850 setup gets a pretty nice boost with CF enabled in crysis and crysis warhead. Enough that I can smoothly play in 1920x1080 enthusiast, no aa.

Btw, OP, you know there's a demo for the first crysis right? You could have downloaded that first and seen it first hand how it performs. Warhead does perform better, but not by that much imo.

 

I dunno I tried everything under the sun.

Its not uncommon, google will quickly take you to many people with the same problem.

I thought for awhile maybe it was working but when I turned off crossfire and disabled one of my cards in the device manager my fps stayed the same within a 2 frame margin.

This is the only 2 games I know of that it wont work for me. Crysis & Crysis Warhead.

Maybe this is isolated to the 4850 & 4870? Those are the two cards I read were having issues.

Hmm now thats something. Im using the newest 8.12 drivers and have the newest updates for the games. I get about mid 30's 1920x1080 on Gamer

I have not even tried Enthusiast.

Granted some areas are different than others, maybe 45fps in one area and then 30 in the next so I say 35 is the average. Its playable in gamer for sure but it does have some drops in frame rate that go below optimal from time to time.