First post, by OM606
I've always been fascinated by this game. It came out when i was 14, and was the one of the motivations to work every summer to buy new hardware. I remember finishing the game at about 15 fps with a 8600 GTS, at some point upgraded to a C2D E6750 and a HD 4850 and played the game in 1680x1050, high settings DX9 at about 35 fps or so and felt like i've made it in life.
I've installed the game again on the XP machine i've recently built and man does this game runs like garbage on what was a mid to high end system around 2009. I thought i would be able to enjoy the game smoothly in 1280x1024 in very high settings but nope, that gives me maybe about 35-40 fps with the 4870, about 15 more with the 5850.
Going through old threads from around 2007-2009 on the internet, i'm reading comments such as "Crysis is really playable with low fps". Were people just convincing themselves after spending a few Ks in a system that can't run the game or maybe i've been spoiled by years of playing everything at 60+ fps?
In the 2nd and 3rd level of the game, framerate collapses to about 30 fps regardless of the GPU in combat. Everyone was talking about GPUs back then but it seems extremely demanding for the CPU. I guess crappy framerates are part of the nostalgia vs a modern a rig!
I find this game to be unplayable below around 50 fps. Who else tried to run it and wondered how we accepted things likes 25-40 fps back in the day? And if you played the game recently, what were the game settings and hardware?
Win7 x64 - Xeon E3-1271 v3 - Z97X-UD3H - GTX 960 - SB0880
WinXP - Q6600 G0 - P5B Premium - 8800 GTS 640 - SB0880
