Crysis Warhead + 8600m GT?? Check here!

Hey, guys. Cuban just released his v3.0 config, but the IQ with settings for those with an 8600m GT (which is considered low-end in the installation of Cuban's config), especially the DDR2 version, isn't as visually compelling as I think we'd like it to be. So, I took it upon myself to tweak out his config with customizations and additions of my own, and, well, I impressed myself. I ask that you guys check it out. Some screens are below. The game is extremely playable. You pull an avg for about 20-25fps on 1280x800 a DDR2(OCd), which is what I have.

Crysis Warhead+8600m GT config

Same screens + a few more

 

Please post your thoughts if you tried the config. And for those who don't know how to use this, you just have to drop it into the Crysis WARHEAD folder.

 

Sorry, but I didn't like it. Any build based on high shaders is just too slow for me to actually enjoy playing (commonly under 25 is too slow), or cuts corners like object quality or motion blur, which ruins the experience. I took ultima rage's level 4, axed the shaders and shadows to mainstream, and it runs smooth (25-35+ FPS throughout) but doesn't skimp out on the beautiful explosions, phsyics, and nauseating motion blur. Sure it doesn't look like RL, but mainstream shaders/shadows still look decent, and it's actually playable...

I can post that if anyone wants it.

 

sure. post yours up. ill be glad to give it a go.
the 20-25fps that I avg are fine for me since I'm a console gamer. I only recently started pc gaming (about a yr). Whenever I play, I have to turn the mouse sensitive down from the default in almost every game because its too quick.

 

http://rapidshare.com/files/209725990/autoexec.cfg.html

 

thnks. ill let you know how it goes(im in my CCNA class atm).

 

Your talking 20-25fps on what graphics settings?

 

Everything is all customized. The settings resemble enthusiast's textures, motion blur, water, and lighting effects. The shaders are semblant of the gamer settings.

 

From my experience without the modification shaders and motion blur cut the performance most. With both set at mainstream and the rest at enthusiast I can get up to 1400x1050 perfectly playable (DX9 of course). Although having ample CPU power may help here.

 

it definitely does! shadows and object quality are extremely taxing on performance. So for you to pump them out at max on that rez must be in part due to your CPU.

 

I made my own version of cuban's level 3... try this out, it gets a little lower performance than my mainstream shader build, has no motion blur or depth of field, and has lessened lod and particles. But the shaders are nicer kinda like a 2.5, there's hdr and edge aa.

http://rapidshare.com/files/210946528/autoexec.cfg.html

Let me know what you think...the textures may be a bit too high for 256mb cards, if so just change them in game.

 

I think you can really see the difference between that and what it really looks like on enthusiast.






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While i think its neat that you can make it run on that hardware, i think there is a big difference between how it looks though. (This is everything maxed except for 0xAA - 20-30 fps average). The vid is compressed even though i uploaded the raw 1/2 gb file.

 

I couldn't change the lod in-game, but yeah, you can see the difference.... as well as the huge fps drop! Honestly I think the stock enthusiast is too dark, I would use a cutomized very high config and probably get more fps from it.

 

Wow, 50% fps drop, thats crazy!

 

well i have a 9600m gt and i did the tweaking myself and i'm getting 25-27fps with enthusiast. for those people who think that's way too low, then thank the crysis developers for some intelligence. they implemented motion blur that really smoothes out gameplay so it feels like you have like a normal 60fps game.