News - Modders boost Crysis Warhead fps by 60 to 70%

[HEXUS]

Crysis Warhead runs smoothly on more PC's than Crysis did, but modders have already found ways to boost its performance.

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[Hicks12]

Ill try this mod in a few, i havent really had problems with enthusiast at getting a maximum FPS its more todo with a steady one which no setting gives >.<. Maybe the other mods will have co-op finally because that is something that would be VERY good for crysis.

[dangel]

It's not disimilar to my command line hacks in the other thread - but it does turn off motion blur entirely. It doesn't enable the underwater effects though (which I really like). The biggest straight increase with speed is killing off AA for me. I notice depth of field is off too.

Here's my quick tweakguide - this will run nicely on a 8800GTX PC with a 3gz dual or quad.

1 Go into the game, set everything to "Gamer", choose your res, set 4x AA (if you want AA)

2 Quit.

3 Create a new shortcut to the game exe (in Bin32 of the crysis warhead dir), rename it to Warhead Tweaked or something

4 add the following to the shortcut:

+r_sunshafts 1 +e_water_ocean_fft 1 +g_battleDust_enable 1 +r_WaterGodRays 1 +r_UsePOM 1 +e_shadows_max_texture_size 512 +con_restricted 0

(outside the quotation marks)

This will enable lots of eye candy whilst not sacrificing performance too heavily - the shadows tweak makes no visual difference but boost performance btw.

This works in the original crysis too.

I don't turn off motionblur and I reduce the shadow textures more too. With no AA this runs very well on an 8800GTX and has more eye candy.

One other thing - Crysis/Warhead both run faster under XP.

[Hicks12]

After using it for about 10mins i have seen little if any different, looks slightly worse without any extra performance that i can see and it crashed just now so i think its better on normal .

[SiM]

Is there something like this for Mass Effect? My 9800gtx at 1920x1200 averages less than 20fps as far as I can tell

[HSK]

I was trying my own config file for a cheap very high setting, (with a couple of things changed). Just got Warhead today, will try it with and without

[Rob_B]

If you read the thread it basically reduces some options (which have been around since Crysis) & the 'modder' openly states this, not quite the amazing performance increase noted as it does reduce IQ.

[noTHINGface]

I tried this config last night. To be honest I thought it adversely affected IQ a touch too much so went back to my own autoexec.cfg that I meticulously crafted for Crysis.

[baius]

So it works for some, and not for others.

I would have thought that an official patch will come out eventually (there hasn't been one yet, has there?) that will automatically test things like this and get better fps - but maybe not.

[Jagleman]

It's basically the same engine as the first Crysis - so all the tweaks have been around for a while. It's still a killer compared to everthing else tho!