Crysis runs cryfully slow on Vista 64 bit - 16.5 FPS at 1024x768 with 8800 Ultra

[SUBMAN1]

More ammo to keep XP Pro or MCE 2005:

-S

We tried to play Crysis on a DirectX 10 platform with a machine with 4GB ram and Vista 64 bit and we've learned that at high or very high settings, even at 1024x768 or 1280x1024 you get less than 20 FPS. We used the best card on the market, an 8800 Ultra overclocked all the way to 655MHz and it still scored some 16.5 FPS average in a benchmark. We tried to turn the FSAA and Aniso off and it still didn't help much.

The test machine is powered by two Athlon FX 74, 3GHz dual core CPUs, has 4GB of memory, and the above mentioned Geforce 8800 Ultra, but this is just not enough, and even at modest resolution it cannot play Crysis. I guess you can blame Nvidia’s 64 bit Vista driver.

We installed the same demo under Windows XP and we upped the FPS rate all the way to 36.5, which is enough to shoot and kill the bad guys. This is more than two times better.

If you don’t have Vista 32 bit go for Windows XP and it looks the same and it will work better. SLI still doesn’t work on Crysis

[FIREWALL]

Hi SUBMAN1 :D

I jumped over to this thread from the AGP one to ask about you feelings about the 8800 cards.

I only play subsims,flight sims and raceing sims and only those sims.

Takeing price out of the picture. Is The 8800 Ultra or one of the lesser 8800's the way to go for these kind of sims.

I'm building a new rig .

[Nightmare]

Hi SUBMAN1 :D

I jumped over to this thread from the AGP one to ask about you feelings about the 8800 cards.

I only play subsims,flight sims and raceing sims and only those sims.

Takeing price out of the picture. Is The 8800 Ultra or one of the lesser 8800's the way to go for these kind of sims.

I'm building a new rig .
I'm running a factory overclocked 8800GTS 320MB version which was a sweet spot for my budget and my needs. The 8800 series will allow you to push all current games at max settings with high resolution. For example, in SH4 I have everything maxed running at 1680x1050 resolution with 4xAA and 16xAF with ROW mod installed and I’m seeing 60FPS on the bridge during heavy activity.

The Ultra doesn’t give you that much improvement over the GTX line from the benchmarks I’ve seen. So if money is a little tighter, a GTX or a factory overclocked GTX would suite you fine.

The thing with these cards is you need have a fast new CPU to get the most out of them. I friend of mine threw one in an 4 year old single core (overclocked) Athlon and was bemoaning the fact that he wasn’t seeing even remotely close the performance I was.

[Konovalov]

The new 8800GT looks a great bank for buck card. I'm considering trading up to one from my current 7900GS. :yep:

This review is worth a look: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/NVIDIA-GeForce-8800-GT-G92,review-29719.html

[SUBMAN1]

Quite frankly, the 8800 from Nvidia and the 2900 XT from ATI are both pigs in my opinion. They are better as a personal 250 Watt space heater. I am skipping that generation since ATI has already announced that their new 38XX line will take less than 1/2 the power, and Nvidia is rumored to doing the same thing.

Just hold tight for a bit. Think of the 2900 and 8800 lines as overclocked cards. There is no reason they should consume half the power in your entire system!!! Including your hard drives!!

-S

PS. I still run a x1900 XTX and it performs nearly as well as these power hogs, and it is last generation! When I installed the x1900 XTX, I already thought it was a power hog. Seems I was not even close to what would happen next generation. I could probably overclock my x1900 with proper cooling to get near identicle perf as the current gen with the same power consumption!

[FIREWALL]

Thx to both of you for reply and input.

As for cpu I will use duocore 6600.

Price isn't going to be a main consideration but I see no reason in putting in an ultra if for my gameing needs which I won't change won't make any significant difference.

I also plan to fill all ram slot with higher end sticks. 4 gigs or more ?

Need to do a little more research there too.

[SUBMAN1]

Thx to both of you for reply and input.

As for cpu I will use duocore 6600.

Price isn't going to be a main consideration but I see no reason in putting in an ultra if for my gameing needs which I won't change won't make any significant difference.

I also plan to fill all ram slot with higher end sticks. 4 gigs or more ?

Need to do a little more research there too.If you stay 32 bit, remember that while you can put 4 GB in your system, you will only be able to address 3 GB for apps, and the other 1 GB will be for the WIndows kernel only - which means you will never be able to fully utilize the full 4 GB.

-S

[FIREWALL]

Thx SUBMAN1 :up: