Increase Crysis Performance - Discussion Thread

[supermep]

Can anyone suggest the settings I should use ingame/adding settings to the game txt file as well?

Here is my specs:
Win XP SP2
Pentium 4 530J 3.0 ghz (overclocked to 3.30 ghz)
ASUS PV51D-X Mobo with 1066 FSB
1 gig of Kingston ram DDR 3200
BFG Nvidia 7800 GS AGP 8X 256 meg vram (over clocked to 466 GPU/653 memory bus)
Sound Blaster Audigy 2

I want to be able to enjoy Crysis with some details turned on.

Right now my current settings are 800 by 600 with most everything on low.

Runs good but lots of the visual power is gone.

Thanks!

[redsunx]

Shaders on medium, shadows on low. Everything else low. And water high.

[supermep]

Originally Posted by Aus_Karlos

Basically this tweak improves the quality of the recommended settings that your computer can run at. It fakes a higher setting with minimal fps loss.
Example if you can run the game in Medium the tweak will improve the image to the point of it looking like high settings.

Also the option r_usePOM requires lots of GPU power. Disabling it will give back aprox 10fps on most systems. All it does is make terrain look more bumpy. Not much image quality loss if disabled.

Would that theory work if your computer can run the game in low and make it look like medium?

[Aus_Karlos]

Its hard to explain,
Lets look at the enviroment, on low there is little detail no sun shafts, low LOD settings ect.
What this config does is increase some values like LOD which have minimal performance loss if applied on some objects or terrian, Say on low the LOD for the terrain in the background is 1 and in the config the LOD is 3, thats what the new LOD settings for the terrian would be for low. It will make the background about the same detail as it is up close. As the rest of the settings are still in low having 1 out of 1000 settings on high will have near to no performance loss.
Sunshafts are easy for a system to make so i turned them on, they only appear if Postprocess is set to high or above. So if i only turn on one setting that makes the game more realistic there will be minimal performace loss as all other settings are still set to low.
So overall if your running the game in low it will look better and you could call it a medium setting.
Sorry thats the best explanation could come up with.

[CaptMorgan72]

How do I use this? I copied this in notepad and renamed it system.cfg and put it into the Crysis directory. Now do I select default or optimal settings? How do I activate these settings?

Originally Posted by Aus_Karlos

For a few weeks a fellow Crysis player named Belloni has come up with an amazing tweak. With his permission i have modified it a bit (lighting a bit off) and added some of my tweaks, he has also agreed that the changes ive made has improved crysis and is using them in his config. So here it is...

con_restricted=0

r_VSync=0
d3d9_TripleBuffering=0
r_ssao_quality=1
r_ssao_amount=0.4
r_SSAO_darkening=1.5
r_TerrainAO_FadeDist=1
r_HDRlevel=1
r_TexturesStreaming=1
r_ColorGradingDOF=0
r_ShadowJittering=1
r_ShadowBlur=0
e_gsm_lods_num=5
e_shadows_from_terrain_in_all_lods=0
r_UseEdgeAA=1
e_shadows_max_texture_size=768
e_view_dist_ratio=80
e_particles_lod=0.7
e_vegetation_min_size=1.5
e_view_dist_ratio_vegetation=48
r_sunshafts=1
e_water_ocean_fft=1
e_detail_materials_view_dist_xy=4096
e_detail_materials_view_dist_z=256
r_UsePOM=1
e_lod_ratio=8
e_terrain_lod_ratio=0.6
e_vegetation_sprites_distance_ratio=1.7
r_GeomInstancing=1
e_vegetation_static_instancing=0
e_particles_thread=1
e_cull_veg_activation=70
e_max_entity_lights=20
es_MaxPhysDist=300
es_MaxPhysDistInvisible=35
r_BeamsMaxSlices=250
r_DetailDistance=12
r_TexturesStreaming=1
e_hw_occlusion_culling_objects=1
gpu_particle_physics=1
es_OnDemandPhysics=1
r_MotionBlur=3

r_EyeAdaptationBase=0.15

You may need to adjust r_ssao_amount and r_SSAO_darkening as it also depends on your monitor brightness.

[Aus_Karlos]

They active when the game starts, to find out if its worked just look under options in the game menu, with the graphics settings some or all settings should be replaced with "Custom"

[redsunx]

~ exec (or exe I forget) system.cfg

[CaptMorgan72]

Hmm, the file is not being used. I went into options and checked in graphic settings and they are all set to the settings I was using before. Selecting optimal or default doesn't do the trick either. I am putting the System.cfg file that I made into the Crysis directory. That is where it is supposed to go right?

[CaptMorgan72]

Originally Posted by redsunx

~ exec (or exe I forget) system.cfg

I tried this in the console and it told me it is a unknown command

[koala]

When I used this config file, I just saved it in the game folder, overwriting the existing file, then started the game without making any changes in the settings menu. No need to set it to 'Custom' or 'Optimal', it does this automatically.

[pharoah]

just got around to trying this myself,and it does help.

[Sugi]

My father and I are both playing Crysis. We love, but our rigs don't enjoy as much. We both have to play the game on the low settings with small resolution. Does this tweak apply to us? I tired it out anyways. It didn't really seem like it did anything for my game. Is there a console command for FPS? And, should I just remove this tweak, because this tweak doesn't apply to me and my father's computer?

Sugi

[Aus_Karlos]

Make sure you followed the step carefully. you will notice a visual difference with your game. Ive created the file for you, all you have to do is extract it and place it in C:\Program Files\Electronic Arts\Crytek\Crysis
Im also going to provide a link to another guy's tweak.
Its very good but it aims more to increase the look of the game at each settings level.
http://www.crymod.com/thread.php?threadid=21830
I recommend those who want to improve Crysis's look and have the hardware to cope with it.

[JimmyW@llopnuts]

have had demo a while as havnt had system to run it well didnt buy but now just got a xfx9800gx2 and went out and bought it after getting high fps on 1900x1200 everything @ high now it wont let me select very high settings in game????unistalled demo thinking that was the prob still no very high option please help
btw running xp
cheers jimmy

[Aus_Karlos]

You need Vista and a DirectX 10 card to access the very high settings in the options..
Try this page. http://www.crymod.com/thread.php?threadid=13790
Its a link to a config that enables the DX10 features for DX9

[Aus_Karlos]

Just thought i might update the thread a bit.
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Ultra High Quality Custom Config [Version 1.3.1]

Thanks to:

* Taowolf51
* Cuban_Legend
* MadBoris



Features:

* Better shadows
* HDR
* Parallax Mapping
* Very high quality textures, terrain and vegetation
* Lightning improved
* High Quality particles

Recommended (Need good specs, Dual Core / 4gb RAM / 8800GTX or higher)
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XConfig [Version 1.31]

Author:

• xGj

How to install
All you have to do is download the installer from the FileFront link. After downloading it, run it and select your prefered config level, there are 5 different levels based on different levels of hardware capabilities. The installer will give instructions on what configuration file to pick for your system.
After choosing the desired configuration level, select if you want to install modified Time of Day files (XToD 1.3) (more info on this above), you can choose to make a backup of the original files, not to make a backup, or not even install XToD.
After this, the screen with the installation folder will appear. Browse to your appropriate Crysis directory, a default example is already set in the installer: "C:/Program Files/Electronic Arts/Crytek/Crysis". This ofcourse doesn't have to be your specific directory, so press browse to change it if needed.
After this the installation will handle itself and upon ending it will open your Crysis folder. If you have selected to install modified Time of Day files, please run inject_tod.bat (or inject_tod_bak.bat if you have selected to install with backup) to inject XToD. Else it won't modify anything.

How to play PunkBuster safe and other keybinds
To play on PunkBuster enabled Crysis multiplayer servers, all you have to do is press F11 before going into a multiplayer server. This will change a command to ensure you can play totally fine on those servers, else you have the chance to get kicked out.
After finishing multiplayer play, all you have to do is press F10 again to refresh the original config. This can be done at all times, so it may come in handy when you are testing the differences between stock performance and XConfig performance.



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Natural Mod for Crysis [Version 2.0.2]

What does the Natural Mod add to Crysis?

* realistic atmospheric lighting
* realistic dusk and dawn
* realistic ambient fog
* realistic sun
* realistic night
* realistic moon position

[ssj4Gogeta]

@Aus_Karlos:

my system is:

P4 3.06 GHz 533MHz
2GB DDR2
8600gt 512MB DDR2

I get around 15-28 fps at high @800x600
What settings do you suggest? I can run 8600gt at 615 core and 1650 shaders but the temps get too high (90 C at full load), so I'm going to buy a cheap vga cooler. It might clock further, but I haven't tried cause the temps got too high. The memory doesn't clock beyond 450 (unrated) cause it's a DDR2.

I'll also overclock my processor once I get a new PSU.

Thanks.

[Aus_Karlos]

With that Card and CPU i would expect to use low to med settings.
Xconfig lets you install different config settings so i recommend getting that tweak. They have low, med, high and very high configs.
I would suggest start saving for a dual core (Your motherboard supports it). You will find Crysis and many other games will perform just that little bit better.

[ssj4Gogeta]

Thanks.

My parents say I'll have to do with this PC for at least another year, though I may be able to convince them to buy a cheap dual core (Pentium dual core 2.0 GHz?). So OC'ing isn't gonna do any good? I have 667MHz DDR2 RAM so I thought I'll be able to OC. My temps are around 42 @idle. So what if I OC the hell outta this one?

[Aus_Karlos]

Different system get different results when overclocked its hard to tell. You may not even get any performance from an overclock. Or you may just get 2-5fps extra.