Crysis framerates cut in half after loads

[nkarasch]

Q6600 at 3.2ghz
4gb DDR2-800
8800GTS 512 (stock clocks now)

The game runs smoothly on the first level (snow level=5 fps drop ) on all high settings with some very high such as physics, postprocessing and object detail. It hangs between 29-35 fps, but sometimes after I reload from my last checkpoint it runs at around 15 and I have to restart the game to fix it.

What could be causing this? The system is rock solid stable and it is fine on any other game

 

[randomizer]

Are you running any custom configs?

 

[spoonboy]

Have you patched the game yet? Heard crysis without the 1.1 patch has issues with save games corrupting. If you have patched it, arn't running custom configs, ...then your saved game might be buggered. Try the one before, or maybe the one before that. If it works fine then delete your broken save(s).

 

[jeremyrailton]

make sure that the video recording option in FRAPS isn't the same as your load button. That little nugget took me a while to figure out a few months ago.

 

[pauldh]

LOL @ fraps mishaps. I pulled a noob error. Was so dominating in TF2 I hit F10 to snap a pic. Dang F10 exists the game.

 

[Amiga500]

Q6600 at 3.2ghz
What could be causing this?

Crysis being badly coded?

 

[crusoe74]

Your system is similar to mine with similar performance at similar custom settings, however I made sure I installed Patch 1.1 prior to starting.

Have you patched the game yet? Heard crysis without the 1.1 patch has issues with save games corrupting. If you have patched it, arn't running custom configs, ...then your saved game might be buggered. Try the one before, or maybe the one before that. If it works fine then delete your broken save(s).

Yep, there's your problem

 

[nkarasch]

Hey haha yup fraps video recording is the same button as quicksave, F5

Wow Im an idiot haha. I noticed my partition for applications (like to keep things waaay to organized) was full and there were 48gb of videos in my fraps folder!

 

[pauldh]

LOL, yeah fraps video codec will fill your HDD rather quickly. I've been recording 14x9 HD fraps video and the files are huge. Record for me is default F9.

 

[nkarasch]

oh actually I think it was happening on quick loads, which is F9 in HL2 and Crysis

 

[gpippas]

I've doing that recently by accident. Completely forgot about fraps running. Makes for some nice video clips though.

 

[randomizer]

It's always when you aren't trying to record something good that you actually do.

 

[jeremyrailton]

I think I had around 40 gigs of video in my fraps folder before I realized what was happening. I thought Bioshock had some sort of awful bug in the code.

 

[randomizer]

:lol: