Crysis vs Crysis Warhead vs Crysis 2 (PC)

[PCgamer81]

But...

the wife.

She just doesn't understand. I really shouldn't even bring it up until 2013. I'm fairly sure I can swing spending my Pell grant refund on a new platform (community college is cheap), but not until at least Christmas. Meh, I hate to wait that long, but them's the breaks.

I'm definitely getting 64-bit, an i5, and 8GB RAM, but I want to keep it all in a microtower - 14"x14"x7" I really like this case, and I really like my LED monitor (even compared to the 1080p and 1200p LCDs my friends have.) Plus I really haven't even seen the extent of what my 6870 can do. I know you both probably love your dual-card setups, but I prefer to keep it small and strong. Eventually I'll replace my card with an HD 8850 or thereabouts. And get a Corsair Accelerator for speed. 😀

I hope you don't mind my input.

You're good on GPU for all intents and purposes, if you plan to stick with 1080p or below. It is especially solid at 1680x1050. That particular card you have is excellent, actually. Very good upper-mid range card that I don't see you getting the most out of with your current CPU. I would recommend an upgrade at CPU first and foremost. Just that alone would be great.

Shouldn't you have the 64bit disc already? I thought Windows came with both...

BTW, I draw wife-aggro about my hobby as well. "It's not needed." "Grow up." "You have enough toys."

 

[jessterman21]

Shouldn't you have the 64bit disc already? I thought Windows came with both...

BTW, I draw wife-aggro about my hobby as well. "It's not needed." "Grow up." "You have enough toys."

Love your input, bro. Yeah I won't be upgrading my card for a while - it was my one selfish expenditure for this year, I think. Very pleased with it.

I downloaded the W7Pro Upgrade as a fresh install when I started school again - 30USD I've got a copy of XP, so I can do the same thing again this fall with the 64-bit version if I wanted.

Aw, "grow up" is a little harsh. And is that an Army of Two reference? Awesome.

 

[PCgamer81]

Love your input, bro. Yeah I won't be upgrading my card for a while - it was my one selfish expenditure for this year, I think. Very pleased with it.

I downloaded the W7Pro Upgrade as a fresh install when I started school again - 30USD I've got a copy of XP, so I can do the same thing again this fall with the 64-bit version if I wanted.

Aw, "grow up" is a little harsh. And is that an Army of Two reference? Awesome.

If you want to stay with AMD the 965 Black or 960T would go great with a 6870.

Yeah, the wife can be harsh, but I will never be whooped. I am game whooped! Please, sweet game. Don't go away!

Funnily enough, my wife jokes that if my computer had a ...you know... I wouldn't need her. True story!

 

[jessterman21]

If you want to stay with AMD the 965 Black or 960T would go great with a 6870.

Yeah, the wife can be harsh, but I will never be whooped. I am game whooped! Please, sweet game. Don't go away!

Funnily enough, my wife jokes that if my computer had a ...you know... I wouldn't need her. True story!

Nah, I'm breaking up with AMD. I was looking for a 95w Deneb for a while, but I bought the 6870 instead. And Sandy Bridge vs. Bulldozer sealed the deal for me.

Also, that's hilarious.

Crysis 2 observation: does anyone else seriously hate the Radio Free Manhattan guy? Everytime I hear a radio in-game I have to stop whatever I'm doing and find it so I can shoot it to death. Good thing the directional audio works so well.

"They're here to put that JACK BOOT IN!" WTF are you talking about? WTF is a jackboot?!? Shut up!!! Have a JAW to the face!

 

[PCgamer81]

LOL

Yeah, I know what you mean. I hate that damn racket.

So you are going with the sandy bridge? Good choice.

The i5 2500k or even the i3 2100 would be excellent for your GPU. I would also recommend the z68 chipset.

 

[jessterman21]

Something in the Blackfire 2 mod must cull the water because it no longer causes lags unless I'm looking directly at it, and 10m away or less

Blackfire 2 mod impressions:
- Loving the bright sunny days.
- The high-contrast is cool, but it makes the dark areas too dark, and your "eyes" don't adjust in the areas that are too bright. Reminds me of BF3, but the effect is less subtle. I'm thinking this could be fixed by an r_eyeadaptation command...
- 80 FOV is way too fish-eye for me. I turn it down to 65 at most.
- Quality mod's DOF is interesting, but I wouldn't play with it turned on.
- I'm not super-crazy about the slight mouse-smoothing, but it's okay.
- Capping the framerate at 40 smooths me out even more. (Rarely goes above that, and often drops down to 20...)

Can't wait for MaLDo's update! It's looking incredible

*EDIT
Dangit, why don't any other console commands work? Do they have to be unlocked individually? FOV, fps cap, and HDRlevel work, but nothing else does... I want to mess with HDRBrightthreshold and EyeAdaptiation settings. Con_restricted isn't recognized either. 🙁

*EDIT EDIT
I take it back! Blackfire looks incredible after a few levels! Now that I've gotten used to the brightness, it really does add a special touch
I was so amped before I got Crysis 2 in Jan - I was like "I'm going to be playing the best-looking-game in the world on its highest settings!" It wasn't til MaLDo + Blackfire that I finally feel like that.

 

[jessterman21]

Gotta admit - I miss this thread.

How are you guys doing? Everyone enjoying MaLDoHD and Blackfire? Mal, you enjoying Crysis and Warhead?

I just finished Crysis 2 again, and had a blast. Gonna try the hardest difficulty next. Been playing Blacklight: Retribution, too - pretty fun, and no camping! Also, I've been capping the framerate in each of my games with Afterburner's tool. (For overall smoothness and better temps - I can put my side-panel back on my case now!) Vsync @ 30fps is a nice option in some games.

Made a compilation video of some modded C2 gameplay on my PC if anyone's interested. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2sEh-JB2cs

 

[Gothams Finest]

Crysis 2 is back on Steam as “Maximum Edition”, though at £25 you'd be stupid to buy it now with the summer sale around the corner.

 

[Gman450]

I got them all now....
Crysis
Warhead
Crysis2

and now rocking twin 2500K units, no longer got the AMD..

Tried any mods?

 

[Gman450]

Crysis 2 is back on Steam as “Maximum Edition”, though at £25 you'd be stupid to buy it now with the summer sale around the corner.

You seem to be rocking with 670s in SLi. How are they?

 

[Gothams Finest]

You seem to be rocking with 670s in SLi. How are they?

I've just had to RMA one of the cards, which is a ball ache 🙁

but other than that they're very good. I was going to go for a 690 but I decided to save some cash and go for 670 SLi which is very similar in performance.

 

[Gman450]

What happened to that 670?

 

[Gman450]

he stopped chattin' with mal~ on Steam and the CUDA is leaving him.... 😛

:lol:

 

[Gothams Finest]

What happened to that 670?

I don't know it just died on me. Just a bad card I guess. There seems to be quite a few people having problems with EVGA 670s.

 

[Gothams Finest]

he stopped chattin' with mal~ on Steam and the CUDA is leaving him.... 😛

Sorry mate, nothing personal.

 

[jessterman21]

Personally, I can't wait to see a 6.75" long GTX 670. Though I doubt the typical Accelero L2 fan will cool it effectively. I wonder if Zotac or Sparkle are brave enough to sell one with this cooler.

 

[PCgamer81]

I feel sorry for those who jumped on the 680s now that the 670s have taken the hardware world by storm.

 

[jessterman21]

Okay this has nothing to do with Crysis, but I just watched the new Tomb Raider trailer, something I was excited about last year when they showed the teaser, and all I can think is "wow that looks like a Playstation 2 game..."

Looks like a great game, but can we please get some decent character and object models up in here?!? Guess I'm spoilt.

 

[jessterman21]

Also, good news! Just convinced my wife to let me do a new build in July!

@PCgamer81, can you link the MaldoHD Config Tool 3.0b?

 

[jessterman21]

I'll be waiting for you to send me your Dell...
let me know when tracking is available... 😉

cheers.

Hah, I'll be taking the good stuff out of it and leaving it pretty much the way I bought it. Stock plus 2 GB Ram and the Athlon II X2 instead of the LE-1660. Should get about $200 for it. Selling the single-core online - and my HD 5670 for nearly the price I bought it. 😀

If you really want an exhausted little HTPC, let me know 😛

 

[PCgamer81]

Everything you need can be found here.

The instructions are all there, as well as the links.

http://www.crydev.net/viewtopic.php?f=308&t=71027

 

[jessterman21]

And what is wrong with Playstation 2?

Looks better than many of todays games IMO:

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/119774-25-emulation-thread

Oh it's great for what it is - in fact it's my favorite console to date. Mine's currently gathering dust by my TV, though. I was just disappointed in the 6-8 year-old-looking models shown in the trailer...

 

[Gothams Finest]

And what is wrong with Playstation 2?

Looks better than many of todays games IMO:

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/119774-25-emulation-thread

Excuse me while I lol

 

[Gothams Finest]

Everything you need can be found here.

The instructions are all there, as well as the links.

http://www.crydev.net/viewtopic.php?f=308&t=71027

Looks pretty cool.

 

[PCgamer81]

Looks pretty cool.

It is breathtaking if you can get it to work right. And there doesn't seem to be much of a hit performance wise (provided your CPU is clocked high enough).