Crysis DirectX 9 & 10 MP Performance

Crysis DirectX 9 & 10 MP Performance
[Sep 13, 2007, 10:23 pm ET] – Share – Viewing Comments

Total Crysis offers an update on how multiplayer will work in Crysis (thanks Voodoo Extreme). A number of topics are covered, including how DirectX 9 servers will be limited compared to DirectX 10 servers, not because of software, but hardware:

DX9 vs. DX10 – The endless question
To shed some light into one of the most discussed topics regarding Crysis multiplayer I would like to explain you the differences between Crysis MP DX9 and DX10.

As for the DX9 version we won’t have physics and day and night cycle in-game. That means you won’t be able to shoot down trees and/or alter any other objects than vehicles on the map. Additionally the time of day setting doesn’t change dynamically. This is caused due to the tremendous server load such physics might cause on crowded gaming servers. Still you will be able to experience maps with different time of day settings since the maps can be altered in the Sandbox2 Editor.

Rather than providing the community partially working features we limit this for the DX10 version only. Due to the strong hardware available with DX10, server load is less and performance is increased. This ensures the pure physics and day and night cycle experience without any limitation.

Gamers with a DX10 card are able to play on DX9 servers, but with the limitation of the respective server. Vice versa it is not possible for gamers with DX9 cards to play on DX10 servers due to the limited features.

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Sep 14, 2007, 09:26

theyarecomingforyou

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Sep 14, 2007, 09:26

theyarecomingforyou

I thought for older games like oblivion and older I may be able to slide with MAX settings at that resolution with a decent framerate

Ha. Sorry, but Oblivion is just a beast - full stop. I thought the same thing with my system but I was wrong. I'll just list my system before starting:

E6750 2.67GHZ (@3.32GHz)
8800GTS 513/800 (@650/875)
2GB RAM
Raptor 150GB 10,000RPM
22" Widescreen (1680x1050)

It's not as high end as your intended setup but it's somewhat similar. Oblivion runs pretty poor, all things considered - it seems the engine is limited and doesn't improve performance much when you throw topend graphics and multi-core processors at it. Still, obviously most games run well but certainly I wouldn't have gone for a 24" monitor myself - whilst I would LOVE one for desktop use it would just bring my graphics card to its knees. Sure you can get SLI but it doesn't support all games equally (or at all) and SLI support in Vista isn't as good. If SLI increased performance in every game between 75-100% then it would be brilliant but some games just don't run and others actually exhibit a performance loss.

For a single 8800GTX get a 22" widescreen.

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