Originally Posted by neonplanet40
Can i ask why Crysis wasn't in the review? I would have thought that it would be the first game people would want to see results in.
Its a good card but you will pay for it. AMD currenty has an advantage at that point.
Yup, good question. Let me try to answer it.
Our Crysis testing, under Vista, has shown that whilst it's possible to generate numbers for any given resolution/setting, getting them to a reasonable standard deviation, on three runs, proves to be incredibly difficult.
We need three runs to eliminate any freaky results, but it happens all too often with this game.
For example, three runs might average 21.15, 18.25, 23.15fps, respectively. Run them again and the figures might be 20.12, 16.58, 23.15, for example: there's no consistency.
We've therefore dropped it until we properly explore custom-recorded timedemos, which is what we're doing right now.