P-6860FX ~ Crysis and T9300 Screen Problems

OK...very happy with the performance of my newly installed T9300 CPU. The problem is when I allow Crysis to set the advanced graphics settings, it selects HIGH. GREAT right? Well once you go back to game play the screen image looks like a photo negative and all leaves/rocks, etc. are this werid rainbow pixel 3D block.

Granted I can take textures and place them back on Medium as well as Shading....but it kind of defeats the purpose of having a high end CPU "giving" you the ability to up the game quality.

My 8800GTS driver is 174.74 (I believe, I need to check when I get home from work).

Any ideas from you all running the same setup? Or other recommendations with the lappy and drivers.

Cheers

 

The actual driver I am using is 175.63.

Any help from the Pros..would be appreciated!

 

just set some of the settings back to medium, i think crysis rly runs like that with a 2.0 GHZ dualcore too, this game is a graphic monster, not so much something that requires a high end cpu, i think

 

I have the same setup and my machine plays perfectly at high settings
Maybe its your driver
I got my driver from Gateway, using Vista 64

 

u r probably right, i tried it before i "updated" my video driver to the gateway version...

 

Not trying to burst your bubble but all you did was replace your CPU. Crysis is a GPU dependent game. I did pick up a couple of frames but nothing major I find the game far more responsive with medium, YMMV.

Here's my old benchmark; http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=218971&highlight=cyrsis+9300

 

My son has a P-6831 fx with the stock cpu, and plays Everquest 2 which is one of a few CPU intense games (Sony really needs to fix that) and it runs great. What I mean be saying that is while the 1.6ghz cpu that is in the P-6831 fx is a slow cpu, it still runs everything great. I know benchmarking there is a big difference in scores, but when it really comes to just playing games (thats why we all bought these lappy's) I think even the slowest cpu in the P fx series laptops runs awesome. Ok that being said I do plan on getting a x9000 just because I am one of those guys that likes to soup up things

 

If my wife would not have me killed, I'd jump on the X9000 in a second

Please do a before and after with built in bench marks. For video encoding, yee haaaa!

 

Hydra...knew the improvements wouldn't be that great on Crysis with the T9300 (but the smoothness is greatly improved on Medium settings)....just as much as you want a better "tweaked" computer, I wanted to eck out some performance on the game. With the game recommeding HIGH settings I was really encouraged.

Did the game recommed HIGH settings as well after your T9300?

el168, what drivers are you running from the Gateway site? The same old 16X.XX drivers???

 

I'm not dogging your decision! Wish I could afford a X9xx Yes, game recommended high, I turned them back down to my settings for game play.
It's just a game, right?

Please post your internal benchmarks.

 

We all seem to have the same problem, we have to have all our settings on max, or at lest know we can set everything on max.

 

I'm using the latest driver from Gateway 167.46??, released a week ago
I went to the video2go site and was going to use one of the drivers but someone on this forum said it crashed his system so I didnt even try
I upgraded to T9300 and found that it improved everything in the game, I set everything to high except blur effect (I turn off cause I hate it), and I changed water effect to medium
Frame rates vary but avgs. 30-50(max)- mostly in 30's (testing with Fraps), no overclocking, all non-essential software off, no v-sync
I definitely noticed that everything is a little faster than with original CPU
Maybe it was the driver?
I could have gotten the x9000 but I didn't think it was worth $600/ hoping that a Quad core CPU or better will be made available for this socket
so far, every game I tested so far runs at the highest setting with excellent results, Except Crysis which is (I believe, CPU and GPU dependent)
I read that even dual GPU systems have trouble with this game

 

El168, could you post your internal benchmarks so we can compare drivers? My post was with stock drivers, I'm using 169.09 now. I don't have Crisis installed now.

Thx

 

same here...it recommend high and i was jumping for joy, but when it played..... i had to back it down a bit....lol

i think it's trying to read a laptop system as a home built system with a full video card and chip to boot, so it sets all high.... you would have to ask someone in the sager and clevo forums runing a single gtx card if it did the same thing and how well the game ran. since the 8800 gts would be closer too a 8800m gtx.

 

Ok, I'll try to do it when boss not watching LOL

 

i get around 25fps on all high except shadow on medium 1280*768 2x AA with stock cpu. don't think it's unplayable at all

 

try this, when the boss isn't looking..

leave the settings as they are now, but run the game in dx9 mode instead of dx10

change the original shortcut to this..............with the -dx9 at the end
"C:\Program Files\Electronic Arts\Crytek\Crysis\Bin32\Crysis.exe" -dx9

then run it and tell us if your frames increase then.

 

Johnksss...I have been kick this question around the CryMod forums (theyt are not as 'answer willing' as this forum)...but what do I ("we") really loose when going from DX10 to DX9?

Are you implying that I could run Crysis on those "High" settings that got my blood pumping earlier?

 

you would have a better chance of running on high in dx9 mode than in dx10 mode. but you gain at least 10 frames playing in dx9. have you tried it yet?

 

there is about 3- 5 fps increase from dx9 to dx10

 

not with an xtreme chip

edit:and you can run a small over clock as well. se what happens
x7800/x7900/t9300/t9500 as well. also depends on what resolution you run.

 

I read somewher (don't remember where) That you can just right click on the shortcut and choose to play in Dx9 or Dx10. As for Nvidea wrong guessing system specs, that has been going on a long time and stangely it happens most often on games that advertise "best played on Nvidea". On COD4 I get the message to change my setting to optimal setting click yes if I do it sets the resolution to 800 x600 and textures to low. I have a P6860 and don't take the games advice I play on max settings.

 

just tried that right click...big 10-4 negative! not working...lol
you can make 2 shortcuts though. one for dx9 and another for dx10

as for cod 4. click cancel on that screen. that's what i do. cant keep having them changing my settings every time the game starts..

 

Running Crysis at DX9 improves FPS but you cannot run on very high settings

 

a 8800gts can never run crysis at very high anyways, i would say stick with dx9 and install Natural Mod, which adds some nice lighting but also some weird particles at night

also for vista users, go to Start, open the game folder on the right side, there should be a Crysis logo there, right click it you should be able to run it in dx9

also i would like to know how much improvements you get for crysis after you oc your GPU to maybe 600/900?

 

Can any setup under $2000 run Crysis at VERY HIGH at consistently high Frame rates?

 

from what they say...they is no single video card to date that will run crysis at very high with aa 8x. they ran a test with the 8800 ultra and it failed.

edit: we are not talking about sli or the new gx2 card. this only applies up to the 9800 gtx

 

i saw a guys on youtube doing 3 8800GTX SLI...performance was decent if my memories serve me right.
and did anyone try the natural mod for crysis? if yes, then tell me what you think.

and whoever overclocked their 8800gts plz tell me how it performs for games like crysis

all effort is much appreciated!

 

i was watching that video today.. 3 8800 ultras in tri-sli mode, but did you look at the resolution he was using 2500x1900 or something like that. and it was a 30 inch screen. if this is the same video.

nope on the mod...where do you download it at?

 

here 's the link, i think the lighting looks quite good
but at the beginning of the first mission i get grain effect. you can try it out and uninstall it anytime
http://www.crymod.com/thread.php?threadid=14195

 

thanks! downloading it now.

 

btw john, your GPU is OCed right? do you mind telling me your core/memory clock and how much fps you get in Crysis with dx9 1440*900 all high no AA?

oh... nvm, i saw the OC in your sig but didn't realize it was for your CPU

 

I actaully read it somewhere (don't remember where). I don't have the game otherwise I would have tried it myself sorry to mislead.
Seanno

 

no, not misleading..i was being funny. and was like...how did i miss an easy thing like that.

 

here's another goodie i found
http://files.filefront.com/Pydons+Shaders+Tweak+13/;9142353;/fileinfo.html

just unzip it and replace your old system file with the one either high or very high folder. increases 5 fps or more so while no apparent visual difference

i would recommend to back up the old system file though

 

will give it a try, thanks!

 

i can't get it to work with the natural mod altogether though

 

hummmmmmmm, i wasnt even sure natural mode was working on mine...i didn't do anything but install it. the started the the game...lol

 

did you get the grain effect in the beginning? and is some of your graphics settings shown as custom?

 

yep, sure did....and things seemed different... but after you just said that...then yep, it worked. it hought they said something about trying in some code and doing this and that...i was like.....ummmmmm, ill get back to that later..lol

 

lol yeah, you can tweak it however you want in the system file

 

you know me...ill get around to messing with that as well...lol. just to be nosey and see whats in there.

 

I don't think its worth it to spend $3000-$4000 to run a $40 game.
LOL

 

tis maybe true, but for those that can afford it, im sure they see it differently....

 

The Recession Checks won't help much.... I am glad some of you guys can afford premium systems from Falcon or Alienware

 

A Hobby is a Hobby

 

yeah, what flynnaz said!

 

i think it 's just a way to show how "cool"(geeky?) and rich you are.
Oh see, my PC can run the most demanding game in the world at all MAX, yay me lol

 

hummmm, guess you dont own anything of value huh?
(saying that in a fun sort of way)

lmao!

 

the 6860 is the most expensive and valuable product i have ever bought in my life, and i'm 19 years old