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Crysis Demo Performance

Crysis will most definitely join our stable of benchmarks for a long time to come. The very high quality settings in Windows Vista thrashed our GeForce 8800 GTX when we tried running it at high resolutions. Frame rate performance kept doubling once we lowered the quality settings to high, medium, and low. The Vista version performed slightly slower than Windows XP at the same settings, but the difference was within three to five percent at the high and medium settings. The hacked very high quality settings under Windows XP were almost 20 percent faster than the Vista frame rates, but comparing frame rates between the two is pointless because it isn't an apples-to-apples comparison. The image differences between the two versions indicate that they don't have an identical workload.

Crysis Demo Performance

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Crysis Demo, 1600x1200

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High Quality - Windows Vista

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System Setup: Intel Core 2 X6800, eVGA 680i, 2GB Corsair XMS Memory (1GBx2), 750GB Seagate 7200.10 SATA Hard Disk Drive, Windows XP Professional SP2, Windows Vista Ultimate 32-bit. Graphics Card: GeForce 8800 GTX 768MB. Graphics Driver: Nvidia ForceWare 169.04.

The demo isn't a final release of the game, and as such might not represent all the features that Crysis has to offer. The full game comes out the week of November 12, so be on the lookout for further updates.

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jemlay
Posted Sep 18, 2008 10:48 pm PT

@KingRoyW - Crysis is NOT a DX10 game. It's a DX9 game that uses DX10 extensions. To date, 3DMark Vantage is the only pure DX10 application.
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KingRoyW
Posted Aug 16, 2008 10:14 pm PT

To answer you Munkyman, I wanted to know if there were any games that looked significantly better in dx10 compared to dx9, which would make vista look more attractive. Crysis is meant to be one of these, but people got smart and found out dx9 could do the dx10 graphics. So pretty much all games graphics are the same in dx9 and dx10, unless someone disagrees?

Don't forget in the last pic, XP has a dead Korean in the water. The more dead Koreans in my game, the better!
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Munkyman587
Posted Aug 15, 2008 4:49 pm PT

king, why are you even making threads in pc hardware discussion asking if you should get vista when you wrote comments like these?
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KingRoyW
Posted Aug 15, 2008 3:52 pm PT

.... Yeh, the only thing I see different is that the radar dish moved... but nothing else really. Is dx10 just a scam to get people to buy vista? Its the only good thing about it, next to the cheap flashy interface.
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KingRoyW
Posted Aug 15, 2008 3:52 pm PT

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hamadatoon
Posted Aug 12, 2008 2:00 am PT

relly. we dont need to run all games on Vista in 1600 by 1200 ris.
its very good to run games like Crysis on XP SP2 in 1024 by 800 on very High Quality.
for me . I have beat the game yasterday. using ( XP SP3 - 7300GTS - 2 giga ram - Core2dou 1.87 GHz) in 800 by 600 in Low quality .
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mazin-95
Posted Aug 4, 2008 12:05 am PT

There isn't MUCH different between very high XP and bery high VISTA
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Gizmogazmo
Posted Jul 29, 2008 7:40 pm PT

by the way guys who have high spec computers and cant put the graphics very high; well thats probably because youre putting it at rediculous resoloutions which dont make any big difference except to put enormous strain on your computers for s******t reason. i myself use 1024 - 768 pixel resoloution. oh and you should be no less then 1 gb ram for optimum gaming experiences.
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Gizmogazmo
Posted Jul 29, 2008 7:22 pm PT

Hi guys just to let you know im studying computer science and at the top of my class; so i know what im talking about; without having to sound immensely arrogant. i would like to say 3 things which you will find 100% essential; so take account;

1- the highest specs that you will need in 100% of games is 256mb graphics card with considerable features; 3.0 shader quality and so on. 3.4 ghz processing power with considerable cacheing size. a sound card that can hold its own; hd ones are great but you should also check the specs which should be of considerable standard. last and not least get a considerable motherboard to hold all these components or youre f****d; you should really get them in bundles; motherboard with free processer and ram or graphics card. oh yeah and considerable external products; a case preferablly large, and moniter, speakers, keyboard, mouse; doesnt have to be anything really amazing just has to hold its own. the internal products are what really count.

2- you can get a top notch computer for 500 quid you just have to know where to shop and how to put the parts togeather or you can pay a bit extra to pay someone in a private computer store to put it togeather; and if they f****k up the parts then their responsible and have to pay up with cash or by giving you the same parts again if not a bit extra for all the trouble or you can do it yourself but trust me make sure youre no amature or youre just going to cause enormous grief but its generally quite easy to put it all togeather, installing the motherboard and processer are the only slightly more difficult bits but even then its quite easy. AND MAKE SURE
YOU GET A GOOD OPERATING SYSTEM WINDOWS XP IS BETTER THEN WINDOWS VISTA BECAUSE WIN VISTA HAS TOO MANY BUGS BUT THEN ALSO DID WIN XP WHEN IT FIRST CAME OUT SO I WOULD WAIT A FEW YEARS UNTIL THEY FIX THE BUGS WITH THE OP SYSTEM THEN YOU CAN CONSIDER GETTING IT. DX10 IS TEMPTING WITH VISTA BUT ITS NOT GOING TO PRODUCE AMAZING VISUALS UNTIL SOME FEW YEARS DOWN THE LINE AS DEVELOPERS NEED TO KNOW THE LIMITS OF THIS 3D ENHANCER SOFTWARE AND HOW BEST TO USE ITS FEATURES SO GO FOR XP.

3- look around and compare prices even at second hand stores. i myself shop at pc world, maplins and second hand stores and put it all togeather. but i would go to maplins to get fantastic deals for instance top notch graphics cards cost 70 - 80 quid and top notch processers cost 70 -160 quid and top notch motherboards cost 50 -120 usually with thrown in top notch processers and ram, so thats great but honestly look around as the rest of youre money can go towards other things you want. just remember you can even get things from your relatives if they dont want old moniters, keyboards or mouses; but you should really accept older external products like these as internal power is more powerful then external as that is the power of a pc in general.
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bane6667
Posted Jul 9, 2008 7:47 pm PT

i have an awesome comp but i found out the video card is old to no end so when i get a new video card ill play this on very high
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bfme2j26
Posted Jul 9, 2008 6:12 pm PT

yeah I just bought a new radeon 4870 so I'll probably see how this dx 10 thing on XP goes. Maybe I'll actually get playable FPS on very high...
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CaptainDingo
Posted Jul 7, 2008 8:37 pm PT

"not to mention 9 out of the 10 computers we fix are XP not VISTA"

It ever occur to you that the reason for that is because 9 out of 10 people are still using XP due to Vista's failure to be compliant with many aspects of older games? I've got a friend who was boned out of voice chat in Chaos Theory co-op because his microphone configuration button is grayed out, which turned out to be a side effect of Vista. Just one of many little things that Vista has ruined for you if you actually like to play older games occasionally. Not everyone plays the cutting edge DirectX10 enabled games. Especially since Crysis is the only one, and to be honest with you, I think the game looks great on mostly medium and some high settings, and from the looks of this comparison, there's no reason to upgrade to Vista unless you want the game to run slower. So much for Microsoft's claim that DirectX10 is faster than ever.
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jeremey9905
Posted Jul 5, 2008 9:58 am PT

loooks to me like this representation amounts to nothing at all, but that it apears that not for sure though that, havent played the game, there is a day light change proces in the game and that may be the difference. other words it goes from light to day in the game.
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lil_luz_10
Posted Jul 3, 2008 2:44 pm PT

Why do I see very little difference?
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ldiego08
Posted Jul 3, 2008 9:19 am PT

@tiranno

My PC is a Core2Duo E6600 @ 2GB RAM plus XFX 8800GT AE 512MB, I can run this at high with no anti-aliasing at 1152 x 864 (CRT Monitor)

I guess you should sell the 8600 since I used to have one GTS overclocked n' lagged even at medium settings.
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Cryser-Skyper
Posted Jun 27, 2008 5:24 am PT

I dont get is it possible to have DX10 on a Windows XP.But about the comparisons-Vista Very High Quality and XP Very High Quality are completly the same.But Vista requires a more powerful PC and that would cause games to lag more,so I prefer XP more over Windows Vista
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redanal
Posted Jun 25, 2008 4:09 am PT

And for that between Vista vs Xp
I tried every version of Xp(Crystal, black edition, 2007 edition, 2008 edition, sp1, sp2 and s3) and I triek vista versions(home, ultimate and ultimate sp1 x32 and x64)
and I gota say that Vista Ultimate Service pack 1 x64 or x86 is the best operating system I have ever had, in 2 months i haven't had even 1 virus or spyware, evey game works just fine, looking better than xp, style, MOST STABLE windows ever, no problem for a drivers, you don't even need to install drivers for motherboard or gpu... and much more.
Somebody just don't like vista but I tell you that Vista is much better than any version of xp!!!
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plm3d_basic
Posted Jun 20, 2008 4:40 am PT

There is no dx10 on xp. There's a hack that lets you play very high on xp though.
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boypho2000
Posted Jun 19, 2008 7:33 am PT

You can download DX10?? Where??
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KINGYoungKING
Posted Jun 15, 2008 11:50 pm PT

Dumb Asses U Can Download DX. 10 On Win. XP I Have It.
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-Sauron-
Posted Jun 9, 2008 9:56 am PT

I play on very high, windows xp
I don't like vista very much and theres almost no difference between the two screenshots.
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orcsblade
Posted May 28, 2008 4:11 am PT

almost no difference with vista and xp at very high
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troyrae
Posted May 24, 2008 5:23 pm PT (hide)

LOL, i like the way some people have turned this into a vista vs xp battle, Being a Computer Tech, I'd have to say Vista is a far better oparating system, Its more stable and more sucure, There hasn't been a peice of hardwere that vista hasn't been able to load drivers for that i've found yet!! execpt once i put a 5 year old TV tuner card in and it didnt like it, so after about a week of playing round with it i took it out!! the hardwere was obsilite, not to mention 9 out of the 10 computers we fix are XP not VISTA, every one that i know that has Actually installed VISTA on there comp has keeped it and not looked back, I personally use VISTA 64 home pream, and like it, if i didn't think it was better I would have gone back to XP straght away!!!, I play CRYSIS on very high at 1280x1080,,, Vista 64, AMD 6400+, 4gig ddr 800, HD3870x2, gose well :-)
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_HAV0C_
Posted May 17, 2008 10:37 am PT

there is little to no difference between xp and vista what so ever. you tell people that buying vista to replace xp is pointless, they just dont listen
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Smiley451
Posted May 14, 2008 5:59 am PT

i have windows right now, and i'm not buying vista for this. there's no difference between them, and vista has some instability to it anyway. Tiranno, if i were you, i'd keep whatever OS i have (cuz there's no difference). and only buy another video card after testing the game with your single.
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Ares_hot
Posted May 7, 2008 3:00 pm PT

Well, it's barely any differense, i can run this game on very high on everything and the computer doesn't ever slow down . World in Conflict too. =). It's kickass.
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markimsoad
Posted May 6, 2008 12:07 pm PT

windows xp its better...
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bangell99
Posted May 3, 2008 5:34 am PT

I'm not gonna get Vista just for DX10. XP is a much better OS, and I couldn't run at very high settings anyway!
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zimmbot
Posted Apr 30, 2008 5:17 pm PT

Dx10 would be a little better I have a 9800GX2 which can run it no sweet but with a 8600gt it would probably run better on Dx9 dont bother with vista though its a wast of time for the little difference in graphics
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tiranno
Posted Apr 27, 2008 6:20 pm PT

Someone could tell me if my PC can run it in High Quality?? Which is better, DX 9 or DX10??
It's a Core 2 Duo E8500, 2GB memory, GeForce 8600GT, Motherboard ASUS P5N-E-SLI.
If not do you think that I should buy 2 GeForce 8600GT to use SLI??
I haven't seen much diference between XP and Vista, I use XP should I use Vista??
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Corey496
Posted Apr 25, 2008 8:57 am PT

I have an AMD Phenom Quad-Core 9850 BE, an Nvidia GEforce 9800 GX2, 4GB OCZ Platinum 800mhz memory and I can run Crysis on Very High with framerates about 30-35 per second! Pretty good I think!
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13ozzy
Posted Apr 22, 2008 2:28 pm PT

But i wonna say that vista has better textures and a bit better shadows...(sometimes)
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13ozzy
Posted Apr 22, 2008 2:21 pm PT

I cant really see that much of a difference between vista and xp, i personally prefer Vista.
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Douken
Posted Apr 17, 2008 11:45 am PT

Bleh DX10... XP+Crysis+ Natural MOD 2.0 = Godness
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monty_4256
Posted Apr 7, 2008 1:59 pm PT

lol, vista has it's perks though, like not having to hack the game...
should have better performance when service pack comes round, XP performed rubbish when it was first released with windows 2000 being the prefered choice for gaming
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is0lati0n
Posted Apr 7, 2008 4:35 am PT

DX10 is obviously the better.
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bignice12
Posted Apr 5, 2008 7:38 pm PT

lol Mchief8 you are so gullible that was an april fools joke.
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redguard117
Posted Apr 2, 2008 2:08 pm PT

The DX 10 graphics are slightly better with shadows, water, and creating a "puffy" effect in the clouds, but besides that there isn't much difference. Between Very high and high, however, there's a huge difference. However, DX 10 adds some motion blur. In all the other sites I've looked at, Vista drops frame rates by usually 20 frames or more. I wonder why this didn't happen with the Gamespot tests. Even an Nvidia 9800 GX2 in quad sli can't play Crysis at over 25 frames per second on very high settings (for reference, Tomb Raider: Anniversary is at over 400 frames per second on the same system).
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MChief8
Posted Mar 31, 2008 1:20 pm PT

jocarl1215 not even NASA can run this came at maximum settings.
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enzojr
Posted Mar 17, 2008 8:14 am PT

szar
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ConstantinNC
Posted Mar 14, 2008 11:11 pm PT

X_ICE-MONKEY_X, I have the same configuration rig, it runs well on Very High 1440x900, Due Core 2 2.4GHz, 2G 800Mhz, GeForce 8800 GTS 640MB.
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X_ICE-MONKEY_X
Posted Mar 13, 2008 11:37 pm PT

I can run this game on very high (vista DX10) with my budget-ish rig, an 8800GT 2 gigs of 800mhz ram and an E6600 dual core CPU, whats the big deal? DX10 still looks better, in full flight its not like your going to notice, but if you can get that little bit extra... why not? frame rate is good, not choppy, and my resolution is 1440x900.
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Jerian
Posted Mar 9, 2008 9:00 pm PT

What I heard was that on most systems even ones with high end SLI you are going to play on MED settings if you want your frames above 10 lol
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wrpatt
Posted Feb 20, 2008 3:30 am PT

I have 880 GTX and i can run DX10 but i dont have vista!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Emmanuell
Posted Feb 7, 2008 12:10 am PT

I have a GeForce 8600m gs which is a laptop card and i run every thing on very high but with low resolution and the frame rate is from 10 to 25 at the most and the game looks amazing with direct x 10 way beter than xp i actualy played crysis on a 7600 series and the game surprsingly was ok with some stuf on high and some on medium and the shadings r in low and it was good for a 7600 series but when i got the lap top i can set everything very high on 8600 with lil stuters amazing card for its prise
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osxgp
Posted Feb 7, 2008 12:03 am PT

I don't see much of an improvement from XP to Vista. Besides, it's all about the gameplay.
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bulletxt
Posted Feb 6, 2008 9:12 pm PT

wait a minute. the pictures have almost the same quality. I said almost.

It is very easy to see that dx10, at least in these pictures, make the game look a bit more realistic especially with lights and colours wich are more real. it's not who knows what but there is the difference. I'm not shure though if it makes sense to upgrade an high end video card that is stuck to dx 9.. I actually think: no, it does not make sense to do such an upgrade.
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The_Godfather_
Posted Feb 3, 2008 2:07 pm PT

almost there is no difference between Vista and Xp quality.
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therightchoice
Posted Jan 27, 2008 12:51 pm PT

Hmm i cant actually see anydifference between em i flicked my mouse left to right inspectin every millimeter. can someone point em out? lol
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Tezuka16
Posted Jan 25, 2008 5:14 am PT

probably your cpu
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