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Digital Foundry: Crysis Remastered on Switch: The DF Tech Review
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TL;DW
- Ascension mission has been cut.
- Dynamic resolution w/ temporal up-scaling: 1280x720p is the average but can go lower at 540p or so.
- Portable mode: capped to 720p when portable.
- Portable cuts back shadow quality compared to dock, otherwise mostly similar.
- Lighting tweaked significantly, SVOGI (Sparse Voxel Based Global Illumination) added.
- Lighting creates more natural sense of darkness/indirect lighting in indoors
- SVOGI runs at a low resolution on Switch but is scalable (will be used in other versions of the remaster too)
- Switch remaster comes up closer to PC than the last-gen 360/PS3 version.
- Certain lighting effects with volumetric properties removed.
- Per Object and camera blur retained, cinematic DoF also retained.
- Full destruction model retained but significant impact on performance on Switch.
- Certain things like foliage sway, destruction etc renders at lower frame rate
- More foliage present compared to PS3/360 version.
- Shadow Rendering is very low for foliage/trees compared to PC.
- Flashlight shadows re present but absent only from the 1st level
- POM absent from Switch version, it was present in PC/PS3/360 versions.
- It might come back to Docked more via a patch later.
- Water Rendering is more akin to the DX11 style rendering.
- Rendering of underwater areas takes a visual hit with almost everything underwater cut off.
Performance:
- Game suffers from frame time spikes which causes near constant stutter.
- Related to rendering pipeline from the 360/PS3 version which was inherited here
- Target 30 FPS is reached very often and much better than last gen port.
- However, heavy during combat frame rate drops significantly to 17~16 FPS
- Portable plays more or less the same but John prefers playing in portable.
- Some later missions have temporary minor pauses during combat which the dev have said they will address.
- Gyro aiming is present and works well.
- Ascension mission has been cut.
- Dynamic resolution w/ temporal up-scaling: 1280x720p is the average but can go lower at 540p or so.
- Portable mode: capped to 720p when portable.
- Portable cuts back shadow quality compared to dock, otherwise mostly similar.
- Lighting tweaked significantly, SVOGI (Sparse Voxel Based Global Illumination) added.
- Lighting creates more natural sense of darkness/indirect lighting in indoors
- SVOGI runs at a low resolution on Switch but is scalable (will be used in other versions of the remaster too)
- Switch remaster comes up closer to PC than the last-gen 360/PS3 version.
- Certain lighting effects with volumetric properties removed.
- Per Object and camera blur retained, cinematic DoF also retained.
- Full destruction model retained but significant impact on performance on Switch.
- Certain things like foliage sway, destruction etc renders at lower frame rate
- More foliage present compared to PS3/360 version.
- Shadow Rendering is very low for foliage/trees compared to PC.
- Flashlight shadows re present but absent only from the 1st level
- POM absent from Switch version, it was present in PC/PS3/360 versions.
- It might come back to Docked more via a patch later.
- Water Rendering is more akin to the DX11 style rendering.
- Rendering of underwater areas takes a visual hit with almost everything underwater cut off.
Performance:
- Game suffers from frame time spikes which causes near constant stutter.
- Related to rendering pipeline from the 360/PS3 version which was inherited here
- Target 30 FPS is reached very often and much better than last gen port.
- However, heavy during combat frame rate drops significantly to 17~16 FPS
- Portable plays more or less the same but John prefers playing in portable.
- Some later missions have temporary minor pauses during combat which the dev have said they will address.
- Gyro aiming is present and works well.
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Yeah, that's an unfortunate typo. The portable mode has an upper bound on resolution of 720p, but goes down dynamically to lower res. Docked mode has an average 720p resolution, but can go both higher and lower.
Article here:
www.eurogamer.net
Crysis Remastered on Switch: yes, a handheld really can run Crysis
Can it run Crysis? It's been 13 years since Crytek's epoch-making release hit the market - and in some respects it's st…
www.eurogamer.net
Some great elements, but a lot of compromises even compared to a port that ran on 2005 hardware. I was hoping for better. Also frequently drops well below 30FPS.
I'm not sure what you mean by the bolded. John mentions both a 'much better visual presentation' and a 'dramatically improved performance compared to the PS3 and XB360 versions' in the video.
Current status is 'delayed indefinitely' for the PS4/XB1/PC versions. Edit: Looks like they did mention it'd be 'a few weeks', so probably sooner rather than later.
The video shows a lot of compromises, like the refresh rate of foliage movement, ambient occlusion, some geometries and so on. There's various noticeable improvements compared to the prior console version, but I honestly expected better, especially as the framerate is still nowhere near ideal.
RC was probably developed with the Switch in mind from early on.
With this Saber is doing the best they can to bring it to Switch - lets see how its gonna look/perform after a couple updates...seems like they really wanted to hit that release date at least on Switch.
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Yes it's inaccurate, it's capped to 720p when portable.
Fixing it now.
This port looks really impressive considering it's running on a Switch. I'm surprised they're not selling this for a much higher price like other remasters/ports on Switch.
Will probably get since my initial playthrough of this game was a constant 20fps and lower anyway.
Will probably get since my initial playthrough of this game was a constant 20fps and lower anyway.
Even with the caveats, it's still a playable version of Crysis on a portable. That's impressive no matter how you put it.
Can we just talk about how this game has global illumination on the switch?? This is incredible, like we don't even have this on current gen consoles. How did this developer even do this? This has to be the most impressive looking engine on the switch...like I'm still in shock...svogi on switch
Do not hold your breath for the other versions IMO - I am thinking they all will be content incomplete.
Lol at people complaining here, sorry, it looks amazing and even runs quite decently for switch.
No, it shares some things with them but few, it's a different build altogether according to devs
It is using a different CryEngine version due to rendering and background features, but the overhwleming majority of assets, level placement for things and even the bugs (the flashlight bug on level 1) are all from the PS360 versions.
What exactly does this mean and is this going to be the troll focus?
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Seems like the pc version is going to be worse than the actual original version if its a port of the ps360 versions.
Yeah, seems likely. In yesterdays Stream they mentioned the Switch version was branched off from the other versions of Crysis Remaster so I'd expect content to be the same across all versions.
That sounds worse than what I wanted in the performance department. Now is just a interesting "look it runs on switch" curiosity. Oh well.
I'd be curious to know if this is an improvement performance wise from a straight port or if a straight port would have run a little better.
I'd be curious to know if this is an improvement performance wise from a straight port or if a straight port would have run a little better.
The game's Framerate cap is effectively 31fps, meaning it's never completely smooth. I would expect the other console versions to exhibit the same bug if they have a framerate cap.
I mean Switch just a bit more powerful than last gen, it's a great handheld though.
Really interesting result - it's a night and day improvement over the original console ports even with the odd change (lack of POM and lower refresh rate for foliage).
Not to mention it runs far better than the demo did on the PC I had at the time of release 😂
Not to mention it runs far better than the demo did on the PC I had at the time of release 😂
This was always gonna be the case - as I understand it the OG PC version is a product of its time and goes to town on a single CPU core - it isn't suited towards really any console since the game came out, let alone the Switch.
Ah, ok, I stand corrected then, in yesterday's stream the devs seemed to confirm it was not based on those.