A bug in this game just made me laugh

Au{R}oN · #1 10-11-2009, 07:47 AM

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Originally Posted by RavenMaster

The story is good.... but thats about all. If u play with physx on the game is so screwed its a slide show. Playing with it off is less atmospheric but at least it works.

I Really don't know how you have can problem with a Triple SLI GTX 260 with PhysX ON.

I have a single GTX 280 and i reach 50~60 FPS with all setting maxed out and PhysX ON, @1440x900, and this can't be only because of massive CPU OC.

How you set the SLI configuration?

Try to use 1 card for the game, and the other 2 for the PhysX instead of use all three cards for both.

RavenMaster · #2 10-11-2009, 08:41 AM

The difference is resolution. You're running at 1440x900 i'm running it at 1920x1080. And for a resolution like that, multi-core cpu support is needed. The game does not have multi-core support therefore, at high resolutions even with 3 cards in SLI, because the cpu can only use one of its cores fully, the graphics cards can't communicate with the cpu as much as fast need to.

In Crysis i have no problem running that game smoothly at 1920x1080 / 4xAA / 64-bit / DX10 / V-sync ON because Crysis uses all 4 cores on my cpu so there is no bottleneck when using high resolutions.

Even with just 1 or 2 cards in the machine the game still stutters with physx ON at high resolution. I'm guessing more ice shards are present on screen at 1080p therefore more physx to contend with than 1440x900. But since Crysis is a more graphically intense game and i can play that fine, then im calling out Cryostasis for bad programming. Plus Cryostasis crashes quite frequently whereas Crysis does not.

Au{R}oN · #3 10-11-2009, 10:16 AM

Mhhh... the hardware requirment when you increase the resolution is just more amount of VRAM, because texture area bit more heavy.

Anyway, i tried @1080p with my LG TV, and the frame drop to a MIN of 28FPS and a MAX of 40FPS.

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Plus Cryostasis crashes quite frequently whereas Crysis does not.

Not true, both games have problem, and for me, only crysis gave me lot of trouble when i change from x32 to x64 even if the game support 64bit architecture.

RavenMaster · #4 10-11-2009, 05:35 PM

i wouldn't consider 28fps playable to be honest. Anything over 35fps is smooth sailing. But the stuttering i suffer with Physx switched on still happens even at 1680x1050 which is a considerable res decrease and still the problem persists.

The VRAM of my combined cards is quite high 2.6gb approx. Should be more than enough to run the game at max even with physx ON. I can run Mirrors Edge and Batman Arkham Asylum at max and those games are both Physx enhanced and work no problem.

I just dont get why Cryostasis wont work like that when physx is on

Au{R}oN · #5 10-11-2009, 09:28 PM

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Originally Posted by RavenMaster

i wouldn't consider 28fps playable to be honest.
I can run Mirrors Edge and Batman Arkham Asylum at max and those games are both Physx enhanced and work no problem.

Yeah, both PhysX Enchanced, but not at the same level of Cryostasis....

RavenMaster · #6 10-11-2009, 11:51 PM

You mean they're professionally programmed and they actually work as opposed to Cryostasis? It would seem so

Au{R}oN · #7 10-12-2009, 04:56 AM

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Originally Posted by RavenMaster

You mean they're professionally programmed and they actually work as opposed to Cryostasis? It would seem so

No, i mean that no game released since now come with the PhysX implemented in Cryostasis.