PC and Console Games Thread

**ssaloon** · November 10th, 2009 05:28 PM

Even with the GTX 295, Crysis: Warhead gets pretty average fps.

According to anandtech.com, the game is really taxing on GPUs..

Not too sure on the performance on the upcoming Crysis 2, though...

**Jun aka Pekto** · November 10th, 2009 08:36 PM

Crysis wouldn't be my first choice as a game I'd buy. There are better-optimized games out there. Playing it in a window at a reduced resolution and lower AA setting helped very slightly.

Medium settings seems to be much more playable (and still looks great). What's strange is if I used the "optimized" settings detection, the game defaults to High.

Looking at the grass closeup, it is a big improvement over the original Far Cry.

Add: The framerates may seem a bit low. But, it is pretty smooth, definitely playable.

**Jun aka Pekto** · November 11th, 2009 11:42 PM

Mitsubishi F-2A

**Jun aka Pekto** · November 12th, 2009 05:21 PM

This is probably more of interest to Linux (and possibly OSX) users who run Windows under virtualization.

Virtual Box 3 seems to have added 3d support although I've only been able to run OpenGL games so far.....
Virtual Box in Win 7 64-bit and XP Home as guest running Quake 2 3d-accelerated. The framerates is actually higher. It's just at the point of the screengrab with PrtScn, it dipped down. Mouse control is twitchy though. The game ran way too fast.

**Negus** · November 13th, 2009 01:31 PM

Would any of you go as far as this guy? l33t

**Jun aka Pekto** · November 13th, 2009 03:12 PM

Heck. That's not hardcore yet. He doesn't have triple monitors or TrackIR.

On the other hand, if he brought that with him from home....... I guess that makes him a true flight sim fanatic.

We need more like him.

**Jun aka Pekto** · November 13th, 2009 03:16 PM

For some reason, Crysis is running quicker even though detail is still set to High with 2xAA. Screen res is 1440 x 900.

**Negus** · November 13th, 2009 03:19 PM

Originally Posted by Jun aka Pekto

On the other hand, if he brought that with him from home....... I guess that makes him a true flight sim fanatic.

We need more like him.

only a truly hardcore fan would lug that around. He's got free wifi with that coffee to boot.

**rion** · November 13th, 2009 10:00 PM

For some reason, Crysis is running quicker even though detail is still set to High with 2xAA. Screen res is 1440 x 900.

*jun: windows 7 ba yang crysis mo? did you use update? last time I played it. may texture problem ako. though didn't bother to update it. nawalan na ako ng interest sa game.

**Jun aka Pekto** · November 13th, 2009 10:14 PM

Originally Posted by rion

*jun: windows 7 ba yang crysis mo? did you use update? last time I played it. may texture problem ako. though didn't bother to update it. nawalan na ako ng interest sa game.

Yup. I'm running it in Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit OEM. It's actually the pre-release demo. No updates for the demo.

I had texture problems with the original Far Cry in Win 7 RC. Everything is like a white fog. Heaven I guess

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I'd install Far Cry in this pc. But, one of the discs is going bad. Hopefully it's merely a scratch I can remove.

The framerates in the Crysis demo were 22-31 fps when I first installed it. Then, they went up. Crysis should do fine at 1440x900 because it's pushing less pixels than say, 1280x1024.

1440 x 900 = 1,296,000 pixels 1280 x 1024 = 1,310,720 pixels.

Once I hook my pc to our old 32" 720p tv, Crysis should do even better since the res is limited to 1280x768. I guess I can compensate for the lower res by increasing the AA to 4x.

**Jun aka Pekto** · November 14th, 2009 05:58 AM

I got turned off by Crysis when I heard how much of a resource hog it is. But now playing the demo with a rig that can handle it...... I like it. Crytek should've put Jack in it and called it Far Cry 2. Crysis should've been the one set in Africa.

POK POK POK POKAAAK!

**niky** · November 14th, 2009 10:40 AM

Originally Posted by Jun aka Pekto

I got turned off by Crysis when I heard how much of a resource hog it is. But now playing the demo with a rig that can handle it...... I like it. Crytek should've put Jack in it and called it Far Cry 2. Crysis should've been the one set in Africa.

POK POK POK POKAAAK!

Cool!

Is virtualbox3 free?

If so... I'm thinking of creating a double boot just to check it out... Windows is such a memory hog...

**Jun aka Pekto** · November 14th, 2009 10:53 AM

Originally Posted by niky

Cool!

Is virtualbox3 free?

If so... I'm thinking of creating a double boot just to check it out... Windows is such a memory hog...

Sun VirtualBox is free. But, it's a virtualization software within a host OS.

**Jun aka Pekto** · November 15th, 2009 11:52 AM

Sure enough. A bunch of Windows 7 updates/patches fixed the install issue on many games.

I downloaded the ArmA 2 demo again. But, there's a lot of nonstandard keyboard assignments. Obviously, this isn't Crysis or Far Cry. Ugh. I have to memorize the keys first......

But, it runs pretty well on my pc at 1440x900 with AA and AF maxxed out and everything else set to High (Highest/Very High is the top setting).

**Jun aka Pekto** · November 15th, 2009 12:30 PM

Yup. Even IL-2: Forgotten Battles is fixed. Yes!

**Jun aka Pekto** · November 19th, 2009 07:05 AM

I've been testing out games running in virtualized OSes.

This one is IL-2 Sturmovik running in XP Home via VirtualBox under Windows 7 64-bit host.

The 3d support is experimental and OpenGL games are the only ones that worked with any consistency. The framerates on this one..... I'm impressed. This is better than my Toshiba laptop running IL-2 natively. Unlike Quake 2*, this one is actually playable.

*The timedemos in Quake II were waaaaay too fast at nearly 300 fps<---that's under virtualized XP Home. Sheesh.

For Linux users..... They already have WINE and its developments. But soon, VirtualBox with 3d support will be another option.

**Jun aka Pekto** · November 20th, 2009 05:37 PM

Testing out the RTS World In Conflict here with its benchmarking tool. As I've said before, I'm about a couple of years behind in gaming. I'm just finding out some games now have framerate caps which limit the maximum framerates to a playable 30fps, leaving more cpu/gpu power to spare and keep the minimum framerates as close to the maximum as possible. With Crysis, it's always on which is why it seemed playable even with framerates in the mid-20's.

With World of Conflict, the framerate cap can be turned off which can lead to massive slowdowns with maximum activity onscreen.

**Jun aka Pekto** · November 21st, 2009 05:21 AM

I realize the current trend for most games is to emulate the real world as much as possible. But, real-world colors are pretty drab. Look no further than Crysis. The original Far Cry (with a similar setting) for the pc is lush and vibrant in comparison....... I actually prefer the colors of the older game.

**Jun aka Pekto** · November 24th, 2009 02:14 AM

I'm disappointed at ArmA 2. I thought Crysis was a hog. But at least if a pc was beefy enough to run Crysis, the game itself is quite polished with excellent single-player and gorgeous visuals to boot.

ArmA 2 is a very good simulation of combat especially with the multiplayer aspect. But, it's even more of a hog than Crysis with not as much eye candy to show for it. Crysis came out as simply overloaded with eye candy while ArmA 2 feels unoptimized.

Crysis didn't make game of the year when it came out because it was such a hog. But once the steep requirements to run it fluidly (and most graphics settings intact) was satisfied, I'd say it could've been GOTY material back in 2007.

1440x900, 2xAA, Very Highest settings:

**Jun aka Pekto** · November 27th, 2009 11:43 AM

Taking a break from Crysis. Relaxing with some Flight Simulator X.

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