Crysis 2 Goes Direct X 11: The Ultra Upgrade, Benchmarked

[cleeve]

It’s here, it’s free, and it’s gorgeous. Crytek provides the DirectX 11 patch for which we've all waited, and we put it to the test to see just what it takes to run Crysis 2 at maximum fidelity. If you've been holding out, now's the time for Crysis 2.

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[Guest]

O.O

 

[Guest]

>.> the graphics card I bought a month ago is officialy outdated imo.

 

[dragonsqrrl]

Awesome, I've been waiting for Tom's to bench the DX11 patch. Thanks for the benchmarks.

 

[dragonsqrrl]

[citation][nom]bear95[/nom]>.> the graphics card I bought a month ago is officialy outdated imo.[/citation]
What graphics card did you buy a month ago?

 

[jjb8675309]

sweet it looks like if you do not have 580 sli you can toss this game out, outrageous requirements to max out imo

 

[bebangs]

Is your monster rig is bored? Can't find any other games to play with your rig? Get this patch.

 

[coldtortilla]

wow now I am really ashamed of buying a core i3 for my budget gaming pc, hopefully it won't be that bad considering that the game favors intel architecture.

 

[Guest]

Always when you overclock a amd system, the CPU_NB (northbridge ) is so or more important then clock itself. Just raise the multiplier and no cpu_NB over makes no sense at all!!! The performance boost its significative!!

 

[Guest]

And the game play still is average or below. When people say they want gameplay over graphics and then push Crysis 2 you know that is not the truth.

 

[Scoregie]

God i'm happy i upgraded my GPU thank god... to bad i have a AMD 1055T god DAM IT outdated again o well just an excuses to spend $1500 on a new PC thanks Crytek 😀

 

[Taylor422]

I would've liked to see how a single GTX 580 held out. There were single and double 570s, but only double 580s. Otherwise, good article. It looks like Metro 2033 has been knocked off as the benchmark standard.

 

[SteelCity1981]

So a $109 dollar Phenom II X4 945 CPU can play Crysis 2 just fine as long as you have a Highend GPU. Well I got one of the two now I need an Nvidia Geforce GTX 570 Time to retire my ATI Radeon 4770 and sell it on ebay.

 

[dragonsqrrl]

[citation][nom]SteelCity1981[/nom]So a $109 dollar Phenom II X4 945 CPU can play Crysis 2 just fine as long as you have a Highend GPU. Well I got one of the two now I need an Nvidia Geforce GTX 570 Time to retire my ATI Radeon 4770 and sell it on ebay.[/citation]
That processor will definitely bottleneck a GTX570 (at lower resolutions the performance hit seems quite severe), although yes, you'll probably still be able to achieve playable frame rates at anything but maxed out settings.

 

[SteelCity1981]

[citation][nom]dragonsqrrl[/nom]That processor will definitely bottleneck a GTX570 (at lower resolutions the performance hit seems quite severe), although yes, you'll probably still be able to achieve playable frame rates at anything but maxed out settings.[/citation]


Doesn't look that way seems like the Phenom II X4 945 @ 3gz paired with a Geforce GTX 570 on highest details on a 1280x 1024 with 45fps seems to be pretty playable.

 

[wintermint]

Don't wanna be nitpicky on typos but for your test setup.. you mentioned "OCZ PC3-16000" 😛

 

[dragonsqrrl]

[citation][nom]SteelCity1981[/nom]Doesn't look that way seems like the Phenom II X4 945 @ 3gz paired with a Geforce GTX 570 on highest details on a 1280x 1024 with 45fps seems to be pretty playable.[/citation]
Sorry, I just assumed that since you were going for a GTX570, you'd be running it at higher resolutions.

 

[flyboy86]

Wish they would have included the 5770 in crossfire.

 

[kurahk7]

It says "1920x1800" instead on 1920x1080 on the Dx11 page.

 

[crisan_tiberiu]

i have a GTX 460 1 GB, and yes, the benchamrk what Toms did its accurate. Maxed out on 1080p i have 20 -21 FPS. Core i7 2600k its bottlenecked by the GTX 460. I buyed the card last december.. so i dont wanna upgrde yet 🙁 or i should? oO

 

[iam2thecrowe]

the reason i tell people to get a 6850 minimum even for lower res...games like this. Toms, how do 6 core phenom2's scale?? does it see improvement over 4 cores?

 

[Travis Beane]

No! NO! NOOO!
Building my last Crysis rig cost me way too much. I don't have the heart to do it again (and by that, I mean money).

 

[ceej]

Was definitely surprised by some of the #s, particularly the SLI 460s. Also surprised at the lack of an X58 benchmark. I'm running D3D11 ultra and high-res textures at 1920x1200. I have a 4.2ghz i7 950 and SLI GTX 470s and I'm getting a constant V-synced 60FPS.

 

[memadmax]

The only thing that torques me off about DX11 is that there is no iteration for XP....

 

[dormantreign]

Thanks Crytek, Now i need to upgrade my 460 768mb card....Does this ever end. I have to say though, I'm glad they came though for their fans. Really appreciated Crytek.