Posted by Regeneration
on October 29th, 2007, 06:57 PM
If you are stuck with a DirectX 9 GPU or you are too lazy to install Windows Vista, then here is a nice tweak for you. Apparently, you can enable some cool Crysis DirectX 10 features without having a DirectX 10 GPU, DirectX 10 or Windows Vista, all you have to do is to edit the configuration files inside Game\Config\CVarGroups. You have to modify all files and replace the Very High variables [4], with the high [3] variables. If you find it too hard, then I have done it for you, just download this file and extract it the CVarGroups directory and pick ‘High’ settings inside the game. Credit goes to LennyRhys for the great discovery.
Last edited by Regeneration; October 29th, 2007 at 07:03 PM..
but, I'm gettin' to something fishy ... I'm not 110% sure but those modified setting will enable DX10 features, not DX9 ...
I look at some screens I made an compared to the screens taken by nv8xxx series users and they aren't the same visual effects
MS lied to us and Crytek has found a way to bring DX10 to XP
Last edited by zme-ul; October 31st, 2007 at 07:22 AM..
there is no actualy real reason why dx10 can only run on vista, them telling everyone that it can only work on vista is to force everyone to switch to vista so they can get your money, they propbably mayed these guys alot of money to disable thoes options in xp
how big of a hit on the fps are you taking for very high mode?
When running the CPU/GPU benchmarks that were provided with the demo, I was getting an average of ~32 FPS with everything set to "High" in Windows XP.
After changing all the settings to reflect "Very High" the benchmarks both reported an average of ~25 FPS.
Note: I had both motion blur and depth of field turned off, probably would have dropped another frame or two from motion blur. (r_motionblur 0 / r_depthoffield 0)
You can also set some things even higher than "Very High"!
Check out this guys "ultimate tweak guide", it's extremely worth-while and explains things you'd otherwise be clueless about. Also includes screenshots and a list of colour-coded & defined console commands (not to mention how to unlock your in-game console :P).
When running the CPU/GPU benchmarks that were provided with the demo, I was getting an average of ~32 FPS with everything set to "High" in Windows XP.
After changing all the settings to reflect "Very High" the benchmarks both reported an average of ~25 FPS.
Note: I had both motion blur and depth of field turned off, probably would have dropped another frame or two from motion blur. (r_motionblur 0 / r_depthoffield 0)
You can also set some things even higher than "Very High"!
Check out this guys "ultimate tweak guide", it's extremely worth-while and explains things you'd otherwise be clueless about. Also includes screenshots and a list of colour-coded & defined console commands (not to mention how to unlock your in-game console :P).
I did a remake of the Cvar files. Instead of just copying the high settings to [3] I also renamed old [3] to [2], old [2] to [1] and removed old [1]
This way what used to be:
High is Very High (This is all the candy!)
Medium is High (What used to be our highest setting is now activated when we choose medium)
Low is Medium
(It doesnt go any lower since there are only 3 steps in XP i had to get rid of low settings alltogether)
Before with the old cVars "hack" if I chose to lower some settings, I actually had to go two steps to medium (from very high) now since meduim corresponds to high it's only one step in that sense. There will of course be no Low settings, since they are now like the old medium, but I think anyone who uses thisk hack does not need to have anything set at low
Before we had 4 2 1 now we have 4 3 2 Which makes more sense.
Just like the original hack, I didn't touch the MotionBlur file which is set to 1 (Very High Would be 3)
I haven't tried the files myself but I think this will work.
Edit:
It seems to work fine, these are screenshots taken at 1280*800 scaled to 50% and auto contrast corrected with Microsoft office image editor to sharpen them a bit.
This is Low (as standard Medium):
This is Medium (as standard High):
This is High (the tweaked mode Very High):
I Hope the pics work, I'm not sure how to use attachments like this...
This means that if you install these cvar files, just go back to the menu and select "Medium" settings and everything will be just as it was previously on "High", consequently setting something to "Low" will correspond to the old "Medium" setting.
wow,niiiice one MrGnome @ welcome to NGOHQ forums!
Thanx I tried it out yesterday, and it's really good to be able to set some features back to what used to be high, (now medium after this hack), to gain some fps.
I'm glad to be here, thank you for the warm welcome!
I wrote a post about my new rig that I'm running this on, it's in my blog here. Great build for the money, extreme bang for the buck. Just as a friendly helper if someone thinks about upgrading to be able to play Crysis... For better FPS I actually have to run it at Medium (former High) Very high just doesn't cut it in critical situations.
First rule is dont trust ANYTHING you read at tom's hardware, he's got all sorts of spnsorship deals with nvidia and everything you read there is sure be biased bull***t
the 3850 is a bit slower then the 8800, the 3870 can hold it own, maybe a bit slower in certain cases but still a good card, both cards are good though
They do tell another story. The 8800GT tested there is an overclocked version.
My Radeon 3850 (ASUS with big cooler, whisper quiet) runs stable and cool at 720/950
Last edited by MrGnome; January 25th, 2008 at 09:00 PM..
A warm welcome to NGOHQ.com MrGnome and you seem to know your sh*t
I always felt the HD38xx series would shine a bit more with better cooling. What exactly are you using for a cooler just curious as this is my new hobby
If you dont want such a big hit in fps you can edit the autoexec.cfg file so that only some very high things are enabled. I enable the color filter, watershafts and sunshafts, and the POM. (A few more too I just cant remember). It keeps my fps high (30-50) and its basically very high settings, and I only have a $200 graphics card.
For the record: It's not that I'm lazy. And my card supports DX10. It's that I don't WANT to change to use-half-your-RAM-and-pay-Microsoft-loads-of-money-for-a-small-update Vista.
yeah!!... fps dropped to 11!! but I dont care about that much .. coz i;m not a hardcore gamer. at least i've used now the "VERY HIGH SETTINGS" tweak for DirectX 9.0c users like me...THANKS!!! btw i;m using a 9500GB 512Mb
