Crysis2+DX11+Nvidia = looks better
Crysis2+DX11+ATI = not as good

what do you think ?

I'm sure ATI will improve their drivers and will allow their cards to run the game just fine in DX11, especially the 6000 series.

Nvidia will obviously offer better performance because of "The Way It's Meant To Be Played" branding all over the game.

I have 6970's in crossfire and I'm not worried about DX11 performance with Crysis 2.

(And I have no flickering at all with 60+ FPS at ALL TIMES with 11.3 and 11.3 Cap1)

ATI's downfall has always been their drivers. While I'm not a fan of one or the other I prefer Nvidia because of their constant support. Like above said, they'll improve their drivers and it will run better.

ATI's downfall has always been their drivers. While I'm not a fan of one or the other I prefer Nvidia because of their constant support. Like above said, they'll improve their drivers and it will run better.

At least ATI didn't throw out drivers that fried peoples cards..196.75 I believe...your going to tell me that Nvidias drivers are so great? LOL !

And DX 11 works great on ATI cards...just look at Metro 2033.

My 5970s crush any game out there and should have no problem stepping on the neck of Crysis 2 in DX 11.

Remember it was ATI who pushed DX 11 out there...not Nvidia.

it'll look the same, but nvidia cards may run better due to optimization on their part. However i'd expect AMD cards to catch up after a couple of driver updates too.

last time i checked, there's no company with "ATI" as their name. I learned that their name got pwned some time ago. it's now called "AMD".

Nvidia has had a longer time to perfect there drivers. The Geforce drivers from the 4xx series are almost identical to the 5xx series cards to to the very similar architectures. Unlike ATi (now AMD) the 5xxx series cards are almost 100% different to the 6xxx series cards. Even when they are mature the Nvidia will still probably perform better even though the 6990 is the more powerful card. Unless its a rare case of Metro 2033 which was optimized for Nvidia but plays better on the 6990 as apposed to the 590 (physX disabled).

I'm not sure about the 6000 series cards, but if tesselation is used for DX11, NVIDIA will notice a significantly higher framerate than the 5000 series. Just look up results from the Unigine bench.

ATI's downfall has always been their drivers. While I'm not a fan of one or the other I prefer Nvidia because of their constant support. Like above said, they'll improve their drivers and it will run better.

At least ATI didn't throw out drivers that fried peoples cards..196.75 I believe...your going to tell me that Nvidias drivers are so great? LOL !

And DX 11 works great on ATI cards...just look at Metro 2033.

My 5970s crush any game out there and should have no problem stepping on the neck of Crysis 2 in DX 11.

Remember it was ATI who pushed DX 11 out there...not Nvidia.

Looks like I pushed the fanboy button there. No drivers fried anyones cards so just stfu... Go play fanboy on an ATI forum, not here asshole.

Looks like I pushed the fanboy button there. No drivers fried anyones cards so just stfu... Go play fanboy on an ATI forum, not here asshole.

Actually quite a few cards got burnt out, it was a pretty big deal back in 2010 when it happened. However it was dealt with pretty quickly.

Regardless, who cares? Both companies have had good and bad drivers. Plus both have very competitive cards at the moment


I'm not sure about the 6000 series cards, but if tesselation is used for DX11, NVIDIA will notice a significantly higher framerate than the 5000 series. Just look up results from the Unigine bench.

It'll depend on how much tessellation is used. I'd rather them go all out though, even though i'm on a hd5870. if i can't run it, so what? gives me something to look forward to when i upgrade.

It'll depend on how much tessellation is used. I'd rather them go all out though, even though i'm on a hd5870. if i can't run it, so what? gives me something to look forward to when i upgrade.

amen to that

At least ATI didn't throw out drivers that fried peoples cards..196.75 I believe...your going to tell me that Nvidias drivers are so great? LOL !

Oh so thats what happened to my 9800GT?? wow :/ oh well it made me get an HD5850 around this time last year and i couldn't be happier

A lot of those benches include a ridiculous amount of AA, at really high resolutions I don't notice jaggies really. Take off the AA and things tend to run smooth. AMD's morphological filter can be applied as an AA alternative with no performance hit either, eyefinity is dope as hell!

A lot of those benches include a ridiculous amount of AA, at really high resolutions I don't notice jaggies really. Take off the AA and things tend to run smooth. AMD's morphological filter can be applied as an AA alternative with no performance hit either, eyefinity is dope as hell!

You get no hit in FPS when you enable morphological filter?! i get about a 40FPS drop in FPS when i enable it. and i have reinstalled drivers and updated.

A lot of those benches include a ridiculous amount of AA, at really high resolutions I don't notice jaggies really. Take off the AA and things tend to run smooth. AMD's morphological filter can be applied as an AA alternative with no performance hit either, eyefinity is dope as hell!

You get no hit in FPS when you enable morphological filter?! i get about a 40FPS drop in FPS when i enable it. and i have reinstalled drivers and updated.

o.O it's pretty light on performance for me, probably about 5fps or so tops on a 60fps game. I don't like it though, since it blurs everything.

Crysis2+DX11+Nvidia = looks better
Crysis2+DX11+ATI = not as good

what do you think ?
I heard NVIDIA paid $2,000,000 to EA for Crysis 2 and therefore I would expect that this was for making full usage of the Fermi GPU. ATI will have its own benefit from it, by the fact that the gme will in face be DX11, but the fair thing will be for the DX11 version to be designed to adapt to the Fermi GPU. Of course, from previous experience, it doesn't seem that this will lead to an NVIDIA advantage. The company probably just wanted to make sure DX11 will be there, or risk having very little motives from people to upgrade their cards