Why is my FPS so low?

seanpull

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So here's my rig:

Core i3-3220
8GB of RAM
GTX 660

Now, it may make sense that my i3 would, to some extent, limit my FPS in games like Battlefield and Crysis 3, but my frame rates are low in the original Crysis. I'm playing on a mixture of high and very high, with 8xAA at 1920x1080. So this isn't even the max settings on a game that's five years old. Why is my rig struggling so much? I should be getting 60+ fps with these settings, but I'm getting somewhere in the 30s. My graphics card can't be the issue. My RAM can't be the issue. And my CPU can't be the issue. All of them are beyond the high end of hardware from five years ago. I also updated my Nvidia drivers to 310.90. I have no idea what the issue could possibly be. Does anyone have any ideas?
 
Crysis is nearly just as demanding as Crysis 3. Crysis didnt run particularly well, even on high end rigs, when it came out. Infact, Crysis Warhead and Crysis 2 were a step down in what you needed for it to perform well.

The old saying "but can it run Crysis" was around for so long for a reason.
 
Those numbers look normal for that setup with Crysis. That game absolutely demolished computers when it came out, and it still takes some serious horsepower to run smooth with high settings. If your numbers in other games look like they should, then you're fine.
 


Yeah, and that jump in FPS will more than make up for the loss of AA, particularly if you go from ~35 to ~70.
 
Thanks a lot guys. I knew Crysis was an overly demanding game, I just wasn't aware that it was that crazy. Also, thanks outlander for that specific tip. Not sure if it doubled my FPS, but it gave an instantly noticeable increase.
 
Anti-Aliasing is always a fairly big performance killer, and has little visual impact beyond 4x if your playing at 1080p.

Crysis at the time of release, required far more power than the hardware of the time could provide. Its still a fairly demanding game even by modern standards, as you have just found out.
Its a shame that Crysis 2 didn't really live up to its predecessor. Though Crytek are promising to melt our machines with Crysis 3, and from the looks of gameplay footage of the multiplayer Beta I believe them.