At some point the devs need to take the heat for this, I mean I don't know if "optimized" is the right word but there is a complete lack of it over the course of 13 years. Hardware simply shouldn't be an excuse anymore.
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Digital Foundry: Crysis Remastered PC Technology Review
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Yeah and he didn't blame the consoles for anything. So go figure.
Oh, that sucks. I'll pick this up when it's really cheap in that case.
As a console and PC gamer, I don't buy Crysis on my consoles....unless it's dirt cheap. Even then, I'd rather Max it out on PC..... Because it is Crysis, lol.
Multi threading vs single threading is def a massive undertaking. I get it but damn this is the title that needed that kind of love. Look up the pros and cons of SMT. It has massive benefit the def need to design a game around it. Def would've been an overhaul.
Maybe it's just me, but calling the highest settings "Can It Run Crysis?" also just sounds pretentious. Especially when it still ends up falling short in some departments compared to classic Crysis
I'm definitely not saying that it's an easy undertaking but while the excuse was much more valid in 2007 it just doesn't work for me here in 2020 with the likes of a i9-10900K combined with a RTX 3080 out there. If the work wasn't going to be done (or couldn't be done) to get the CPU optimization up to speed for multi-cores then the effort is almost pointless as while the game still looks good and some of the Remastered visuals (RTX, increased texture res, etc) look better it simply doesn't have the visual splendor of a game you would expect it to given that it performs as badly as it does.
I have the game running pretty good with RTX set to high (could be my current level in the game too as it's obviously inconsistent) but, again, we should be able to finally get close to maxing this game out with great performance and that's simply not the case....unfortunately not even close.
Oh I agree. Kind of absurd they didn't make the game not hampered by single threading the game.
It must have been a marketing/Crytek decision because there's no way the team at Saber Interactive didn't know the original Crysis was CPU bound, and they had to know it would still be an issue. Then again, there are still people who think they can run Crysis at a perfect 60 FPS.
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That's DX11 for 'ya. Same thing with Flight Simulator 2020.
I'm genuinely surprised the game's backend wasn't ported to Vulkan or DX12. Doesn't CE5 support both?
Welp, I guess we'll just have to accept radio silence and intermittent updates from Crytek/Saber. Crysis Remastered should have been an easy slam dunk to generate sales and revitalize interest in an established ip. It really annoys me that Crytek doesn't really care enough about the title that really put their studio on map. Honestly, the fact that the PC version of the remaster wasn't handled completely internally should have been a red flag from the start. Props to Saber though for achieving what they have under tight timeline constraints.
Welp, I guess we'll just have to accept radio silence and intermittent updates from Crytek/Saber. Crysis Remastered should have been an easy slam dunk to generate sales and revitalize interest in an established ip. It really annoys me that Crytek doesn't really care enough about the title that really put their studio on map. Honestly, the fact that the PC version of the remaster wasn't handled completely internally should have been a red flag from the start. Props to Saber though for achieving what they have under tight timeline constraints.
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And younger people will look at that and think we were crazy to have thought Crysis was a thing of beauty.
10fps folliage physics and no wind sheer when something explodes, no piece by piece destruction, no incredible clouds at the beginning etc.. that's a hard pass for me.
I'd rather play the original.
10fps folliage physics and no wind sheer when something explodes, no piece by piece destruction, no incredible clouds at the beginning etc.. that's a hard pass for me.
I'd rather play the original.
On the downgraded physics, I just noticed that vehicles don't seem to affect a lot of the vegetation anymore. You just clip through plants now. VTOLs also do not push back trees and shrubs anymore when they get close to the ground. Though I guess that falls under the same category as shockwaves missing from grenades. Grass is also not animated for some reason in this map (Onslaught) in the remaster.
(At least the lighting and draw distance is nice here in comparison)
Another thing is I can't get over how long it takes to load levels. Loading my current Onslaught map checkpoint, compared to the original version at the same spot:
Remastered installed on a PCIe 4.0 SSD: 45 seconds (plus an additional 5 seconds I guess since it stutters like crazy on initial load)
OG installed on a HDD: 20 seconds
OG installed on a standard SATA3 SSD: 10 seconds
My 7200RPM HDD is loading the original game twice as fast as the remastered version installed on a 5Gbps SSD!
(At least the lighting and draw distance is nice here in comparison)
Another thing is I can't get over how long it takes to load levels. Loading my current Onslaught map checkpoint, compared to the original version at the same spot:
Remastered installed on a PCIe 4.0 SSD: 45 seconds (plus an additional 5 seconds I guess since it stutters like crazy on initial load)
OG installed on a HDD: 20 seconds
OG installed on a standard SATA3 SSD: 10 seconds
My 7200RPM HDD is loading the original game twice as fast as the remastered version installed on a 5Gbps SSD!
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The time to load a level on top of the inability to manually save the game irked my comparison work for video greatuly. In Crysis 1, I can just load up and save anywhere at any time and do it so quickly. Larger comparisons required me to make sure I grabbed some arbitrary checkpoint and moved my camera into a position right before the checkpoint happened so I could reload the view point consistently... and waiting for it to load which is just as slow on my 10900K machine here as it is for you.
Crysis 1 loads in like 10 seconds here othewise.
I can only imagine. I've been jumping back and forth myself between remastered and classic Crysis because I find it fascinating to see the differences between the 2 and those loading times in Crysis Remastered are starting to get to me lol. Reloading a level also sucks because I risk losing my current checkpoint.
Just noticed a new patch dropped. Seems to be good progress, I don't get that much stuttering anymore with raytracing enabled. The also fixed strength mode where your jumps and melee attacks are upgraded automatically, so no need to hold the button down anymore (no more jump input delay) and they brought back leaning.
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Turning off full-screen optimization in the shortcut properties fixed this for me, I think
Here's another comparison that quickly shows the difference in vegetation physics between remastered and classic. I really hope a future patch addresses this:
It's interesting how in the remastered version of this level, it seems like they decided to just ramp up the trees swaying around while classic animates normally. Was it to cover the missing shockwave effect?
It's interesting how in the remastered version of this level, it seems like they decided to just ramp up the trees swaying around while classic animates normally. Was it to cover the missing shockwave effect?
Huh, that actually seems to fix my dx10 problem. Thanks!
The game has been getting pretty good post launch support and performance has improved quite a bit in the latest patch:
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Crysis Remastered Performance Transformed - Patch 1.3.0 Delivers Huge Performance Gains - OC3D
Crysis Remastered Performance Transformed – Patch 1.3.0 Delivers Huge Gains When Crysis Remastered launched in September, a lot of people were disappointed. While the game looked great at its highest settings, there were some clear downgrades over the game’s original PC incarnation. Beyond...
DLSS yes.
As for h/w RT they state that they support RT h/w via Vulkan interop but I'm not too sure that this is actually true.
Hardware RT should work just like it did on launch day. I demonstrated in my video turning it on and off. It defaults to on with an Nvidia card.
DLSS still not in!