Weird crysis 1 perfprmance

[Djentleman]

Hello all.

I just got crysis recently for my new card and i seem to be having weird performance issues. Whenever it's dark in the game (like the start of crysis), i get perfectly fine performance. It's when there is light effects that it seems to make my fps drop.

Here's an example. If i even look at a flare, it brings my fps down by a 5-10 fps margin.- This includes other effects - such as, smoke; ice; steam; and any lighting in general.
One other odd thing, is that on any spec, low, medium, or high, I get the same fps. Only low doesn't cause my game to drop in the 20's.

This doesn't happen to me on any other game - this includes battlefield 3!!
I max battlefield 45-38 fps open area!

3D mark11 scores
Graphics score: 5905
Physics score: 5010
Combined score: 4646
Score: P5603 3d marks

My game is patched to 1.2.1.

And my system specs are,

Amd 1100t - clock: is 3.4; i can't seem to get it any higher on the stock cooler and my motherboard...
Asus M4a785-m: MOBO
His iceq 7850 - clocks: 1100 core and 1365 mem clock
5 gb of DDr2 - Clock: Just 800 mhz
Seagate 1tb 7200rpm 34mb cache

Thanks for readin'!

Edit: I would like to add, that the cpu benchmark for crysis on my system runs at like 5 fps. lol
2nd edit: I just did 3dmark11 and now my gpu score is 6262!!

 

[Djentleman]

If its on steam right click on it in your library, then properties, set launch options.

Add "-dx9" without quotations into the box and run.

Tbh not sure how to do it through windows.... Trying older graphics drivers sounds good too....

I don't think your CPU is the issue, Im almost certain I have seen people playing crysis on the 1100t.

I was also un-successful with this, it didn't work.

With non-steam versions, you just go to properties and go to the target line and add "-dx9".

I was still seeing bad performance...

 

[Djentleman]

Like I said, Crysis is at most going to use 2 CPU cores so the fact that you have 6 is irrelevant. Your CPU is not a good one for Crysis, and I really think you're seeing CPU bottlenecking - it sounds unlikely but all the symptoms fit.

Well is there anyway to fix this?

Should i just enable the first and the sixth? I Already only disabled four cores and had the 1 and 2 active; but saw the same performance...

 

[Djentleman]

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[Djentleman]

Alright bigmack, thanks for all the help!
And to everybody else that helped me with this!

 

[swifty_morgan]

all this regardless of the fact that his hardware is more than good enough to run the game maxed out................ but you still haven't explained the idiotic amount of memory ( in detail ) and the fact that it can't possible be running the way it should......... your machine.......... have fun with it.

 

[Djentleman]

Sorry it took me so long to reply... :/ I've been dealing with a very bad flu

I know but i have tried everything. Even a fresh install of 7!

Well, the reason i have five gigs (which i switched it to four to see if that would help). Was because i had an extra gig kickin' around and also the fact that i used to have six. But this changed after one of my sticks failed.

If you have more ideas, i'm more than willing to try them!

 

[swifty_morgan]

specifically what was the memory................

glad you're feeling better. stay away from my house for a couple of weeks.

 

[Djentleman]

800 mhz ddr2
I have four gigs right now. So it's running dual channel

Sure will, i don't feel like going anywhere soon! lol 😛