Crysis 3 - Discussion Thread

I had the very same problem, kinda funny. Anyway hows it working for you? I need a slight overclock to maintain 60fps on high settings. Very High just kills it and I get <30 fps, latest Beta of course

glad I could help

 

Doesn't show on my demo page (I am in Taiwan at the moment)... Guess I'll have to find an EU or an US proxy just for this... Stupid enough that it wasn't a global beta release...

 

This is the first Crysis game I've ever played, and it was not bad. The Airport is a fun map, pretty large.

It's pretty demanding, had to reduce resolution to 1600x900 and some of the settings in order to get smooth framerate. Have to play around with it a bit in order to figure out exactly which settings have any noticeable impact on performance. Unfortunately, it seems there is no way to disable the annoying motion blur. I set it to "disabled" but there is still some motion blur.

 

Ran perfectly on a mix of very high and high for me.

I thought the game was awesome.

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Which settings did you reduce?

 

I am hearing on guru3d that it is very demanding and that multiplayer isnt anything special, more or less everyone is hoping that singleplayer will be better or it will fail once again.

Didnt tried myself but you people having fun?

 

as far as i know it is a global release mate. if its past 8am where you are....... if in doubt....cheat. use one of the keys only meant for german age verification as loads have used them and they work. get key, go origin top left drop down and redeem product code.

 

Shadows, shaders and particles to high. The rest on very high and FXAA.

 

I ran the game on medium graphics at 1600x900, with AA and blur off....getting about 30ish FPS

the multiplayer is meh in my opinion, but then again, Im not a fan of multiplayer shooters or multiplayer in general

 

im running it max settings and AA at x2 with average 45fps with 13.1 drivers!!

 

so is the graphics ground breaking like the tech video suggests?

 

well its definitly demanding and sure looks beautiful, you will have to judge yourself. It kinda look like crysis 2 with a HD texturepack, but then its a long time since i've played crysis 2

 

I just downloaded the beta and all I can say is wow to the detail and lighting. easily the best looking game out. no competition

I have a 6990m and this is the settings I use



edit. bad news its great news... crysis 3 rocks

this forum is in a coffin with guy trying to escape. they banned too many people. makes you wonder

 

Were you expecting a bunch of people to comment on how cool your screenshots are? Pretty sure the people who are interested in this game would rather be playing the beta than sitting around in this thread.

 

I played the beta yesterday, but the performance is abysmal ^^

And I mean really abysmal, I run BF3 on ultra, everything as high as possible, with 40-50 FPS all the time.
When I put everything at max (and I really mean everything at max, not just settings high, but also everything else I could find) in Crysis 3, I get 5-6 FPS... Seems like they have some work to do finetuning, if a system with a HD7970m and an i7 (though 1st gen, but still) has this hard of a time running the game, then there's not going to be a lot of people who can run it on high.
Maybe it's 1 specific setting that makes it so demanding, though I haven't founding it yet.

So, seriously demanding on hardware, even if you think you already have seriously decent hardware

Some screens and settings. I get in between 10 (!) and 25 fps on average. And that's on highest settings, but not truly 100% maxed out.





It ain't really my cup of tea anyway. I loved Crysis 1 and 2 Singleplayer, and i'm sure i'm gonna love the Crysis 3 Singleplayer. The Multiplayer though I don't find it enjoyable or particularly good. I'll stick with BF3 and BO2 i'm afraid for the moment

 

Runs pretty well here on a 680M nearly maxed out (shaders, particles, shadows reduced from very high to high).

I'd say that's not bad for a game that looks this good.

 

yes, 'nearly' maxed out ^^
Really max everything out on highest res, and cry

did read on the crytek forums though that NVidia cards seem to perform considerably better currently then the ATI equivalents.

 

it's is demanding, my lappy can barely run it @ low settings + medium textures and flares ON, @ 720p..
May be more optimisation Crytek for low end configs ?

 

It wouldn't be any fun if you could completely max the game out whilst it's in beta form before it's even released.

It's good to have something to strive for performance/hardware wise.

 

As long as it's a well optimized game, I'm ok if requirements are higher, but it should be scalable like the other Crysis games. I could play Crysis and Warhead on an 8600m GT. I used mostly low settings but it was still a fun romp. I went back and played them both again once I got an updated desktop with higher end components (I think it was Core 2 Quad and GTX 260 at 1920x1200 - still couldn't "max" it out though, but mostly high).

I'm downloading now, will give it a shot. I'm sure with AMD it will only be a matter of time before decent drivers crop up to improve performance considerably.

 

this game is very demanding. crash site i run maxed. museum basically low/medium. hopefully c3 sp campaign runs like crash site.

 

I've never played any other Crysis game before, but I heard that the first Crysis was more demanding than the second due to being poorly optimized for modern CPUs.

In my case the Crysis 3 beta was a bit more demanding than most other games but significantly less demanding than Witcher 2. It runs OK at 1080p with most settings dialed down except post FX and texture resolution. But at 1600x900 the game is much more smooth and I seemed to die less often. In contrast, Witcher 2 runs like a slideshow at 1080p and 900p, even with all settings completely dialed down, and it's a bit more playable at 1280x720, but still looks and runs like crap.

I still haven't had a chance to play around with all the settings options to determine which have more frame rate cost, but I noticed one setting called "Object" has massive performance cost. This is one setting you want to dial down to low if your game is lagging. And as 32993x mentions, Museum was a bit more demanding than the Airport map for some reason.

I think they did a nice job with the art direction, and it looks great, but it is not quite the mindblowing otherworldly experience some others have been hyping. IMO these two maps don't look any better than RAGE for example, which had some similar post apocalyptic urban levels that were absolutely stunning, yet the idTech5 engine provides for much higher frame rates.

As for the gameplay, it was OK, but not as fun as some other multiplayer shooters I've tried such as TF2. The Hunter missions are kind of lame because either you are trying to just avoid dying, which is a bit boring, or you get killed and then you have a more fun objective, which is to kill the other players in stealth mode with Rambo bows, but if you did a good job by lasting a long time before getting killed, by the time you become a hunter there are only 10 seconds left in the mission.

The crash site missions are a little more fun, but one area that seems lacking is that this game seems to be too much geared toward automatic rifles. I've always found automatic weapons to be boring compared to sniper rifles, shotguns, and pistols. I never use them in single player games, because you are just spraying everywhere and you don't have to aim very carefully. In this game, I think the automatic weapons are OP compared to the pistols and sniper rifles. Haven't tried any builds with the shotgun yet.

 

Is anyone seeing an issue where when you start Crysis 3 beta the screen color profile changes and have to set it back yourself?

This game is really well optimized, using 90%+ of the CPU and also 99% on the GTX 680M.

I'd say without Ubersampling Crysis 3 is much more demanding than The witcher 2.

 

LOL Even the 7970 GHz Edition suffers with this game
This is only 1080p...

 

Perhaps Witcher 2 runs better than Crysis 3 on your Nvidia card, but in my case, Witcher 2 is completely unplayable at 900p and 1080p, even when reducing everything to lowest possible settings. Forget about ubersampling, that was like 3 or 4 fps. Only by dropping down to 1280x720, does Witcher 2 become playable, even on lowest settings.

In contrast, this Crysis 3 beta runs perfectly smooth at 900p, and it was actually quite playable at 1080p.

 

Well if you are going from the lowest setting then The witcher 2 is more demanding, but if you are going from the highest setting without the ubersampling, Crysis 3 beta certainly demands more.

 

I hope it will be as good as the first one ! =)

 

For me i get 30FPS with small dips to mid 20s with all at very high and motion blur at high.
But i have Anti Aliasing set to SMAA x1 only.

Looks great

 

You were able to aim with that FPS? Guess you are good I set to low and use TXAA instead for 45-60 FPS, and still the GPU utilization is 99% .

 

i use low,now. amazing thing is low looks better than crysis 2 with maldo 3.

 

I suggest to try turning up just the Post Processing and the texture resolution. The performance cost wasn't too bad and it was a great improvement to the visuals.

 

I'm getting 35-50 fps with everything set to "very high" on my 680m. But meh, MP is boring.

 

TXAA is Nvidia tech, SMAA is based on AMD's morphological. Just like HBAO is Nvidia, HDAO is AMD. It's all really dumb I think, these graphics tech should be independent of Nvidia/AMD.

Good reason. It's an Nvidia meant to be bribed engine. It was developed for Nvidia and Nvidia asked for a bunch of things I believe to ensure it will run better on their cards than AMD.

One thing you can do is reduce tessellation and DOF to improve performance. You only need 4x on tessellation, not 64x, or just turn it off completely.

 

How do you reduce tessellation? I didn't see any setting in the options menu.

 

lol no it doesn't. Want to know how I know? You've only seen youtube videos of Crysis 2 with Maldohd.

Oh, and I tried it. It looks good, but not as good as MaldoHD.

 

It's in the CCC. You can override tessellation settings.

 

Hackness try using Intel control panel colour tweaks instead of an ICC profile, then the changes will stick in all games:

 

Thanks, I was using "AMD Optimized" tessellation, but will try turning it completely off now.

 

Here's a quick run showing 680m at very high...

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this game has to have the best optimisation since half life 2.

 

Well i must say the A10 4600m's HD 7660g handled it better then i thought. Mid 30's typically around the low to mid 30's lowest fps i seen was 26. Everything on low at 720.

Useing the new 13.2 beta 3's so i cant wait to see if they can get some improvements with new drivers but so far so good.

 

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Been using that for a while now, it prevents CryEngine 3 games from changing your profile, including Crysis 2, Crysis 3 and Warface.

 

Anyone run it at low on a HD4000 at 720? Curious to see how the HD 4000 handles it.

 

Oh crap, I thought I muted the sound, you can hear king of the hill in the background, lol. And aspect is off. Just glad I wasn't yelling at my kids.

 

it runs crap.
not sure if its just the beta as the alpha didnt do it but the beta starts on HD4000 and you have to manually change it to dedicated 680.
it wasnt playable on the HD and it was set at the default settings and most things in graphics and advanced graphics was switched off.

680 runs at about 70c but im worried about cpu as all are mid 90c on the max temps. present value is about 75-80c but max value is mid 90s. when would this occur as as soon as i take a screen shot the present value is 75-80c.
this shows the same in core temps/hw monitor and info64

 

Well glad to see the HD 7660g really shows its teeth in this game for the cheaper laptops.

 

Mine isn't far from yours, max temp ranges between 86C~90C on my 3740QM and 68C on my GTX 680M, with XTU max turbo multiplier goes up to 97C in Crysis 3, was forced to tune down from 3.9GHz to 3.5GHz for that 86~90C lol.

 

thats it. time to max it out. everything going on ultra.

so whats the odds, will it melt my lappy? lets see


looks exactly the same on everything very high as it did with default but its a bit jumpy.

time to lower

im not bothered by fps in the slightest. so any advise what i should have set to what? 3720qm/680

 

Howdy folks I tried the Crysis 3 MP beta today. It ran at 30-40fps, never dipping below 30fps with FRAPS enabled and zero overclock. I ran with settings on 'High'. Does this mean I'll be able to play the final version Single Player on similar settings at 30fps and above?

The only thing that concerns me is that I appear to be below the system requirements in the GPU department - a GT 650M DDR3 is weaker than the desktop GTS 450. But I can run the MP beta fine - is Single Player more demanding or am I safe?

 

How the hell do you manage those frames on high? Fraps wasn't recording right? On high I get around 45 frames - with a 680.

Single player should technically be less demanding than multiplayer, but nobody knows for sure since its a beta . I guess you'll be fine. The game looks beautiful on low settings as well btw of you are aiming for 60fps