Unofficial Crysis Warhead thread

[soulslicer]

Well, it's out. Everywhere, and I'll be getting the box version this afternoon (which is 14 hours away)

Has anyone tried the game yet? Any impressions you guys can give me before I get this game? A friend of mine just got the game, and according to him it was a bit more demanding on his pc, and his frame rates were actually down by two or three fps. Gameplay wise, he says the action is great, especially the ice levels and the Korean soldier standoff scene, but it's extremely rushed without any breathers between the game .

I'm pretty excited though, hope by 8600gt lives through this one.

 

[DEATH eVADER]

Its not on Steam International yet, we have to wait till its midday for Seattle. Buying Espressos and Cappucinos is higher on Valve's priority list

 

[Bakurei]

It's great! Runs smoother than Crysis with everything on high. The combat is really fun. I still think Crysis is the best FPS ever in terms of combat. In what game can you do this: You see an enemy soldier running to a building, you switch to speed and run near the building, instantly change to strenght, jump on the roof then smash the roof down, take the soldier by his troath and throw him trough the wall. There's a million ways to fight.

Gonna try the MP later on today.

 

[Lucid]

Almost bought this when I was browsing Walmart the other day.
But, then I came to my senses and bought Medieval 2 Gold Edition instead.

I'm going to wait for a demo to see just how optimized they made it.

 

[stemot]

Almost bought this when I was browsing Walmart the other day.
But, then I came to my senses and bought Medieval 2 Gold Edition instead.

I'm going to wait for a demo to see just how optimized they made it.

Here's an idea to how much optimized it is:-

In the original Crysis, I ran it at 1280x800 with everything high and the .ini command for the enhanced colour grading, with Warhead, I can run it with all the settings at Enthusiast (Very High) running at a better framerate before.

It truly is better.

 

[Lucid]

What are your specs?
My computer is about 3 years old.
AMD2800+ 2.09ghz, 7600GS 512mb, 2gb of ram.

 

[Lobster]

It still randomly takes a massive performance hit when the snow comes.

 

[DEATH eVADER]

It is more optimized in DX10; An example being in the original game, whereby any frozen surface would cause my FPS to plummet to 5FPS, now the frozen levels can output a below reasonable 20FPS, but it goes to show how far they have come. DX9 is smooth for me all the way through on 'GAMER' settings.

I can't use enthusiast settings, as performance will drop even in DX9, as well as DX10.

But I'm guessing its my hardware that is bottlenecking my performance. I currently have a 9800GTX 512, which is PCI Express 2.0

However, I have a PCI Express 1.0 Mobo. Now I know the new GPUs were manifactured to be backwards compatible, but doing some investigation, I found the PCIE2.0 has a larger data transfer rate than 1.0 hardware.

Would my Mobo be bottlenecking untapped performance from the GPU?

 

[Gray Fox]

No, as far as I know even the top cards aren't bottle necked by PCI E 1.0
Also It sucks monkey balls that, that card can't run the dammed game smooth on enthusiast.

 

[Ravioli]

It is more optimized in DX10; An example being in the original game, whereby any frozen surface would cause my FPS to plummet to 5FPS, now the frozen levels can output a below reasonable 20FPS, but it goes to show how far they have come. DX9 is smooth for me all the way through on 'GAMER' settings.

I can't use enthusiast settings, as performance will drop even in DX9, as well as DX10.

But I'm guessing its my hardware that is bottlenecking my performance. I currently have a 9800GTX 512, which is PCI Express 2.0

However, I have a PCI Express 1.0 Mobo. Now I know the new GPUs were manifactured to be backwards compatible, but doing some investigation, I found the PCIE2.0 has a larger data transfer rate than 1.0 hardware.

Would my Mobo be bottlenecking untapped performance from the GPU?

I would think so, my 8800gtx can run the original Crysis on Highest Settings rather well, around 20-30 fps. (depends what fps standards you have, we area all different).

 

[DEATH eVADER]

I seem to get crashes on only certain levels; The infiltrate the Sub, The Train and the Airport

I also got a BSOD during playing Wars

 

[stemot]

What are your specs?
My computer is about 3 years old.
AMD2800+ 2.09ghz, 7600GS 512mb, 2gb of ram.

AMD 64X2 4200+
3GB Ram
Geforce 9600GT

Funnily enough, the snow levels in this game are smoother for me than the non snow levels.

 

[DEATH eVADER]

AMD 64X2 4200+
3GB Ram
Geforce 9600GT

Funnily enough, the snow levels in this game are smoother for me than the non snow levels.

Because the grass is not moving

I bet you if they stopped the foliage from reacting to wind, you would probably get +20FPS

And yeah, I agree, same for me

 

[Lucid]

AMD 64X2 4200+
3GB Ram
Geforce 9600GT

Funnily enough, the snow levels in this game are smoother for me than the non snow levels.

That's not reassuring at all for me.
Any game that comes out in the next 4 years will run great on that rig. ;(

 

[stemot]

That's not reassuring at all for me.
Any game that comes out in the next 4 years will run great on that rig. ;(

Crysis could only be run on high, not Very High as I have Warhead.

 

[Dalamari]

I can't verify the ****ING game through Steam

It's shit

 

[Escaep]

Question: Does this optimized engine apply to the original Crysis? Or is it only Warhead?

 

[Ravioli]

Played through some of the first level, its VERY optimized!!! So far i think the game is great, but then for some reason it crashed without error message

 

[Dalamari]

Was fun until the snow came, then the aliens and crap took the "one man army" feel away.

I do kinda enjoy it but I don't think it's anything special once you get over the visuals

 

[KagePrototype]

soooo should I get crysis or crysis warhead?

 

[Ravioli]

soooo should I get crysis or crysis warhead?

You will be completely lost in the storyline and would also miss some very important key situations. I say play Crysis first in order to feel the danger thats growing and to get to know what you are dealing with.

 

[alehm]

soooo should I get crysis or crysis warhead?

Having played Crysis and not playing warhead yet, I would suggest getting Warhead.


#1- its optimized so that is a performance plus!

#2 Crysis was Ok- When it was all said and done I realized how much better I like the pre-alien part of the game, which was ironic because I spent the first 2/3 of the game moving ahead looking forward to getting the 'alien' part.

There were things thrown in seemed to take the game in different directions. Like a whole level or two where I am flying plane shooting stuff. Flying a plane? Come on. Then the final boss thing seemed so out of character in terms of gameplay.

So even if Warhead follows that same disapointing formula, at least the game is optimized.

 

[Deleted member 56031]

Hard to say Warhead on the plus side has better optimisation but crysis will get you into what's going on easier.

I would say crysis first personally.

 

[clarky003]

Hopefully getting it tomorrow, The intro looks shit hot.

 

[B_MAN]

picked it up yesterday
and yes, it is very well optimized
the snow levels in the original crysis gave me some problems but now it seems to run smoothly (same settings)
and although you can sneak around alot and choose your own path, it seems to be a little more focused on keeping it fast and action-packed
the new weapons are pretty cool too. i especially like the armored car with the mini gun attachment
not bad for 30 bucks!

 

[stemot]

This is a video of a cut scene using in game graphics, there are spoilers though, so I've hidden in case people don't want to see it.

The game is brilliant.

Spoiler

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4OsAw8JeVA

 

[Dalamari]

soooo should I get crysis or crysis warhead?

Well, they both take place next to eachother, so either game you get you won't be missing any big plot points

 

[Asuka]

Question: Does this optimized engine apply to the original Crysis? Or is it only Warhead?

HELL YES!!!

Btw Warhead was everything i thought Crysis was going to be.

You know all the crazy shit you saw in the trailers. Like cars flipping and crazy nano suit combos. Well in the original they barely gave you opportunities to create situations like that. In warhead its EVERY MIN!!!!

btw, at the end of Warhead when is that in Crysis? Couldn't remember.


Crazy screenshots below. Not really spoilers but whatever.

Spoiler