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    Crysis 2 Demo out!

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by tetutato, Feb 28, 2011.

  1. The Forerunner

    The Forerunner Notebook Virtuoso

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    Is there an ingame fps counter or are you guys using fraps? Can't say how i feel about the demo yet.

    Graphics are nice. Running it on hardcore at 1920 x 1080 on my 485m.
     
  2. stevenxowens792

    stevenxowens792 Notebook Virtuoso

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    Forerunner -- Radeon Pro, which is an ATI application launcher that forces settings (rather than use game settings) has a built in FPS counter. StevenX
     
  3. darth voldemort

    darth voldemort Notebook Evangelist

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    HOLLY CRAP ITS SO FUN ITS THE BEST GAME I HAVE EVER PLAYED EXCEPT SINGLE PLAYER CRYSIS 2 WHICH I DIDNT REALLY PLAY IF YOU GET MY DRIFT...
    sorry for caps its such a good game.
     
  4. stevenxowens792

    stevenxowens792 Notebook Virtuoso

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    @Luke Potter - I assume you are being Sarcastic?
     
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    niithegoat Notebook Consultant

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    I think a better version should be:

    never make a fps game for console then port it to PC. Do it the other way around.
     
  7. SoundOf1HandClapping

    SoundOf1HandClapping Was once a Forge

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    Still stuck on mycrysis.com trying to get my account created. How long is this process supposed to take?
     
  8. Slapyou

    Slapyou Notebook Enthusiast

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    I thought that's how they would have done it. Considering the demanding nature of the game I would have expected them to optimize it for pc first like theyre doing with BF3...
     
  9. SoundOf1HandClapping

    SoundOf1HandClapping Was once a Forge

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    Ugh. Right. Still no go on the account. Is there some secret to this?
     
  10. Phistachio

    Phistachio A. Scriabin

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    Yes

    I'm using 11.2 but with some tweaks in it.
     
  11. Rairch

    Rairch Notebook Deity

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    well tried everything to get an account with no luck.
    Everytime i try to log-in my email address or nickname are already in use, which to me says ive got an account!
    Just won't let me log in.
    Seems to me a fair few people on here are dissapointed with the demo :(
    Still keeping my pre-order though.

    I'll keep trying to log in ----
     
  12. usapatriot

    usapatriot Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    I played some more this morning and my impressions of the demo have changed a bit for the better.

    Still, the MP is mediocre, especially with the lowered player counts and no vehicles. The MP experience is REALLY dumbed down in Crysis 2 compared to Crysis and I'm not sure if I want to take a step backwards when it come to MP gaming.

    6 v 6 just ISN'T enough and while some of the maps are quite large, I miss the complexity and intensity of original Crysis MP battles with vehicles and more complex gamemodes.
     
  13. Dead2th3world

    Dead2th3world Pure Hatred

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    Managed to create an account but it says "invalid nickname" when i try to sign into a game .. very nice !

    By the way , the demo is available on steam
     
  14. jacob808

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    oh right on time to download and try then
     
  15. Regurgitate0927

    Regurgitate0927 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Couldnt get the game to run right in SLI. I just installed the new beta driver today and the sli profile update that went with it. Kept getting black bars and shapes on the screen. Unplayable. Really weird! I disabled sli and it worked fine. Says it has its own profile for SLI but i guess something wasnt agreeing. Either way im sure itll be fine once the game is released and im not gonna be playing the MP anyways.

    m17x R1, gtx 280m (x2) sli, duo t9600 2.8ghz, win 764, 1920x1200, verde267.24 beta nvidia driver, A06 bios, 4g ram,
     
  16. DRevan

    DRevan Notebook Virtuoso

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    You expect 100% working SLI in an NVidia supported game? IMPOSSIBLE! :D
     
  17. masterchef341

    masterchef341 The guy from The Notebook

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    using unreleased drivers...

    anyway, i agree that the multiplayer is mediocre, and its unfortunate because the game *looks* really nice.
     
  18. Darkness62

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    What kind of performance did you get on single card? I was able to force sli through the drivers, worked great on one level the Skyline, but performance was abysmal on the Pier only when I looked in the direction of the sun. Seems to make no difference which level of graphics I pick either. Might try a new beta driver tonight, might try the verde 267.24 that you are using or the last WHQL driver released I believe it is the 266.58.
     
  19. rot112

    rot112 El Rompe ToTo

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    I was already using 26658. The game still ran like the first on vhigh. It may be that new drivers need to be released for this game. But for now my money is going to dragon age 2. Unless they do something about this bad performance.

    I am using a g53 atm
     
  20. Phistachio

    Phistachio A. Scriabin

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    The bad performance is veeery easy to fix :


    - ADVANCED GRAPHICAL OPTIONS!!! :mad:
     
  21. mostwanted115

    mostwanted115 Notebook Consultant

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    whats the specs of your laptop? is it where you playing crysis 2 on?
     
  22. masterchef341

    masterchef341 The guy from The Notebook

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    honestly, adding more people would hardly help.

    the primary problem is that the game degenerates into a multiplayer solo run 'n gun. no teamwork or tactics to be had.
     
  23. Patrck_744

    Patrck_744 Burgers!

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    Use nVidia Inspector to force SLI and other stuff.
     
  24. HTWingNut

    HTWingNut Potato

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    I still can't even create an account.
     
  25. masterchef341

    masterchef341 The guy from The Notebook

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    are you being sarcastic? it's pretty much true. bullets penetrate pretty much everything, and it ends up playing out a lot like a hybrid of call of duty and halo with a shiny coat of paint.

    obviously these games are popular, but it means that when you play crysis 2, you feel like you've had the experience already.
     
  26. Megacharge

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    Yep, and with that, and lack of vehicles, I must sadly pass on Crysis 2.
     
  27. Megacharge

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    If you've ever played Crysis Wars before you can just log in with that account.
     
  28. spradhan01

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    lol after 24 hrs, just created an account.
     
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    Finally got in. Dumb. Nothing original at all. I just hope the single player campaign is epic and at least finishes the story of the original two.
     
  30. daranik

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    This game looks ALOT like Killzone2/3 for PS3, texture work and poly meshes are very similar. That said im disapointed in the story, the game is best summed up like this : great looking console game, decent looking pc game, and IMO not as great looking as the first. Early opinion though I'll wait till the final product for my judgement.
     
  31. Nick

    Nick Professor Carnista

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    An HTTP error occurred while getting:
    MyCrysis - Registration

    Details: "Unable to contact target server after 1 tries.".

    :(
     
  32. daranik

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    Are you crazy, theres a level were you just drive a tank down a street and shoot everything, and you can hop into any enemy vehicle and use the turret.
     
  33. Megacharge

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    If I can't fly a vtol, or a heli, or drive at least 3 different types of tanks, or play in big open maps, then to me it is not as good as Crysis Wars and it's a waste of my money. I'll just stick with Wars.
     
  34. Aikimox

    Aikimox Weihenstephaner!

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    I officially suck at this game, lol. But it's still fun :)
     
  35. Syberia

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    I prefer just shooting people without massive vehicle spam to ruin the fun. Downloaded the demo last night, maybe I'll get around to playing it today.
     
  36. Megacharge

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    I'm so tired of the same old boring run around and shoot people. It's better having vehicles in the mix, it brings more tactics into play, and is all around much more fun IMO.
     
  37. daranik

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    I was just playing Battefield play4free and man vehicles blow, I like a straight up shooter sometimes, don't get me wrong I enjoy a tank every once in a while, but they are so over used.

    On a side note I like the hotkeys for the abilities makes switching from one to another alot easier, or if you hold jump it does the strength jump anyways, same with holding the melee button.
     
  38. stevenxowens792

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    Vehicles help a game as long as it's balanced correctly. BFBC2 (IMO) is the best game to date. Yes, Bf2 had more vehicles but the destruction is too cool in BC2 to dismiss.

    StevenX
     
  39. sidhu88

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    The lobby doesn't start n i just sit there listening to lil too epic music.. n the gameplay is quite boring.. haven't had enuf time to try out the game coz its so effin hard to join a game!
     
  40. daranik

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    I agree BFB2 balanced correctly, but most BF games go over board with vehicle to the point were it might aswell be a combat vehicle simulator! That said in BFBC2 it was easy enough to take down a vehicle its just a pain when every two seconds your ducking in a bush so a tank doesn't take you down, and BC2 destruction was too pre rendered and not enough real time.

    Same wall break same buildings colapse in the same way, I look at it like vehicle damage in GTA , finally in GTA IV we have some nice real time damage and it made a huge difference. It was a gimmick in BFBC2 like the nano suit in crysis. I do like being able to shoot through material and blow out a wall, but it should be ALL walls not just outside walls, and they should ALL look different and not the same.
     
  41. The Forerunner

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    All the graphics options in the world aren't going to change the lack of vehicles and bad hit detection. Come on Crytek... Do the needful

    LOL
     
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    I read somewhere that MP was not made by the devs that made Crysis 1 and warhead single player. So I hope that SP will be entirely different from the MP demo!
     
  44. The Forerunner

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    It's going to have vehicles I'm sure. It's just showing off the suit abilities and whatnot.
     
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    So, I created an account, but when I go to log in--this is the Steam downloaded version, if this means anything--I get told my nickname is invalid.
     
  46. Star Forge

    Star Forge Quaggan's Creed Redux!

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    Create another one using the in-game menu system. Happened to me as well and the in-game one went through.
     
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    After all night testing, i succeded to achieve 45fps on 1366x768 on gamer with my laptop. I can play even in Hardcore with FPS of 22-25, but i can't be good at it then :/. After turning off some things and lowering resolution, I can play HC on 1024x600 with average of 40. Which is nice btw. Im waiting for more tweaking of the demo, I wanna lower shadowmaps and couple of more things...


    @Phistachio
    Give me some tips for tweaking drivers please :) PM will be good too.

    Tnx in advance
     
  48. Shadowfate

    Shadowfate Wala pa rin ako maisip e.

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    They said that DX11 will only be patched later?????
     
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    I really hate the console feel port of this "demo." So my system specs is in my sig and I am playing on gamer in 720p and I get like 12fps. I have to play at 848x480 to run that game at barely 30fps!
     
  50. Regurgitate0927

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    I got around 40fps on single card. It looked nice. I really wanna try some of the responses I've got to force sli to work right. I've only played skyline. It seems the other runs poorly for everyone so everyone just votes for skyline every match haha.
     
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