Not true at "ripped us off with DX10/11" just wait and see
Weet jij soms iets wat de rest niet weet?

translation; joe noo samting wie doont..

When the hell am I going to be able to play this game?

I hope you're making good interest off my 60$

So who is going to own up to at least pointing the finger at whom is going to fix this? AMD with a driver update, or EA with a game patch? Clock is ticking folks, Looking for an official reply here, not necessarily a timeline though that would be great also!

Not true at "ripped us off with DX10/11" just wait and see
Weet jij soms iets wat de rest niet weet?

translation; joe noo samting wie doont..

people in these forums constantly talk out of their arse, stating things that aren't confirmed by anyone from Crytek / EA or AMD.

AMD released driver updates today for Crysis issues.. I have Dual ATI 5770 cards in crossfire and didn't have any problems..
Temp got in the high 75C, used overdrive to turn up the fans to 65% and lowered temps to 66c or so..

Not too happy with the performance of the 2 5770 so I ordered 2 ATI 6950 to run in crossfire. So when those come in I hope they will perform better.

AMD released driver updates today for Crysis issues.. I have Dual ATI 5770 cards in crossfire and didn't have any problems..


Got link?

The new driver did not help me at all, I'm running 2x5970s. Things actually may be a wee bit worse.
I'll hold out for the new profiles tomorrow

The new driver did not help me at all, I'm running 2x5970s. Things actually may be a wee bit worse.
I'll hold out for the new profiles tomorrow
Sitting with 2 shader unlocked HD6950s and I can confirm that the new drivers did not help.

DX11 patch is a no go...

http://www.fudzilla.com/games/item/22265-no-dx11-patch-on-tap-for-crysis-2

So let me see if I have this right? Crysis 2 was released before it was ready, with many known issues, as well as even more issues with the so called patch. They were aware of all this yet still went ahead and released the game. Now not only have I paid MORE then what PC games should cost, (since when did PC games cost the same as console?) only to find I bought a defective product. To top it all off, I also find that all the money I put into my PC using SLI/Crossfire so that I could make the game look and run at max settings, and do so with no issues, yet I find that EA/Crytek released a defective game and knew they did so. So now to "fix" one of the many problems I find I have to disable one of my graphics cards??? WTF??? Whats the point of running 2 cards when this is one of the games that made me want to add the second one only to find the game won't run to good with both cards enabled. Now, if I disable SLI/Crossfire, is that a guarantee that my game will run with no issues? Right now while it looks great with max settings, I had to turn them down some, yet I am still getting screen freeze & lag. This is going on in Single player, I have not tried MP yet. Its a shame that EA/CRYTEK were so worried about making more money that they first focused on the current gen consoles, then tried to port it to PC. Then again so they could make money, they knowingly and willingly released a defective product at a higher price point with a lot of known issues. I know this due to the fact that after spending an hour on the phone with "Tec-support" (support? that's a joke) with no results to my problem, they offered me two $20.00 card codes towards anything I wanted to buy from their store. However, they would not let you combine them together towards one game. Only 1 code per purchase. So I bought a game (Battlefield: Bad Company 2) which also seems to have issues. Anyway, I am getting off the point, what I wanted to say is, that after an hour or so on the phone, at the end of the conversation the guy I was talking with admitted that the knew the PC version of the game was defective, that they knew as much yet went along with the release of it so they could have it out when the console versions came out. Thus they knowingly released a defective product to the market, then they pretended to "Act Surprised" with the calls & issues that all the PC users were having. IMHO I feel that CRYTEK made a mistake of teaming up with EA who in my opinion cares only about the all mighty dollar. I feel those of us who first played Crysis on PC when it was released were expecting the second game to be A LOT BETTER!!! Alas, it is not the case. Not only did they focus on the console game first, they also seemed to go a few steps back with this one. I mean it used to be when you were talking about "Gaming on PC" people would at some point ask, "But can your computer run Crysis?" well its safe to say that that question no longer applies. It should now be, can your computer run it with out any issues? To which I am sure the PC nation would respond with a LOUD "NO!!" Crysis started out on PC, as such they should of put all their efforts into making Crysis 2 for the PC then porting it over. I am also a bit let down by the game as a whole. Don't get me wrong, I love the game (when it works) but I feel that with Crysis & Crysis Warhead that the open world game play & jungle setting made the game look, play, and feel great. Being they now moved it to NYC it seems its more on rails, with very little option to explore or even have a number of ways to approach an objective. It seems now they draw the path for you, and pretty much force you to follow said path. Oh well, kind of went on a rant. Sorry.

Hey people, according http://www.twitter.com/catalystcreator, today will be released a profile for catalyst 11.3 to solve the problem..let's wait and check.

But I am very sad because CryEngine3 before launch of Crysis 2 was different, we didn't see poor textures and other major problems in graphics matter, well in my opinion the game related with graphics is a regress comparing with Crysis 1.

What a shame.. it's complicated because the game has a lot of customization in background so it's sad need to use third-partys software to solve problem or improve graphics (like the way to change the size of the textures, using Crysis 1 textures..)

So..it's my opinion!

Thank you.

I really hope the new profile will work because as of right now, the game is an unplayble state with the flickering. And NO, i'm NOT going to hamstring my rig just so I can play a game. Crytek/EA shipped a lemon and now they have to fix it!

When the hell am I going to be able to play the game "The way it was meant to be played" Crytek?

Seriously do you guys know the cause of this or what? I'd have returned this game and given up a week ago, but I unfortunately used steam and it's tied to my account now, so I'd like to get my money's worth and at least play it.

Just a post saying you are fixing it and a rough ETA would be nice.

So let me see if I have this right? Crysis 2 was released before it was ready, with many known issues, as well as even more issues with the so called patch. They were aware of all this yet still went ahead and released the game. Now not only have I paid MORE then what PC games should cost, (since when did PC games cost the same as console?) only to find I bought a defective product. To top it all off, I also find that all the money I put into my PC using SLI/Crossfire so that I could make the game look and run at max settings, and do so with no issues, yet I find that EA/Crytek released a defective game and knew they did so. So now to "fix" one of the many problems I find I have to disable one of my graphics cards??? WTF??? Whats the point of running 2 cards when this is one of the games that made me want to add the second one only to find the game won't run to good with both cards enabled. Now, if I disable SLI/Crossfire, is that a guarantee that my game will run with no issues? Right now while it looks great with max settings, I had to turn them down some, yet I am still getting screen freeze & lag. This is going on in Single player, I have not tried MP yet. Its a shame that EA/CRYTEK were so worried about making more money that they first focused on the current gen consoles, then tried to port it to PC. Then again so they could make money, they knowingly and willingly released a defective product at a higher price point with a lot of known issues. I know this due to the fact that after spending an hour on the phone with "Tec-support" (support? that's a joke) with no results to my problem, they offered me two $20.00 card codes towards anything I wanted to buy from their store. However, they would not let you combine them together towards one game. Only 1 code per purchase. So I bought a game (Battlefield: Bad Company 2) which also seems to have issues. Anyway, I am getting off the point, what I wanted to say is, that after an hour or so on the phone, at the end of the conversation the guy I was talking with admitted that the knew the PC version of the game was defective, that they knew as much yet went along with the release of it so they could have it out when the console versions came out. Thus they knowingly released a defective product to the market, then they pretended to "Act Surprised" with the calls & issues that all the PC users were having. IMHO I feel that CRYTEK made a mistake of teaming up with EA who in my opinion cares only about the all mighty dollar. I feel those of us who first played Crysis on PC when it was released were expecting the second game to be A LOT BETTER!!! Alas, it is not the case. Not only did they focus on the console game first, they also seemed to go a few steps back with this one. I mean it used to be when you were talking about "Gaming on PC" people would at some point ask, "But can your computer run Crysis?" well its safe to say that that question no longer applies. It should now be, can your computer run it with out any issues? To which I am sure the PC nation would respond with a LOUD "NO!!" Crysis started out on PC, as such they should of put all their efforts into making Crysis 2 for the PC then porting it over. I am also a bit let down by the game as a whole. Don't get me wrong, I love the game (when it works) but I feel that with Crysis & Crysis Warhead that the open world game play & jungle setting made the game look, play, and feel great. Being they now moved it to NYC it seems its more on rails, with very little option to explore or even have a number of ways to approach an objective. It seems now they draw the path for you, and pretty much force you to follow said path. Oh well, kind of went on a rant. Sorry.
One thing that you didn't mentioned! The graphics are not as good as The Legendary Crysis in its time and I guess we should just consider Crysis 2 as a big lie and failure from the F***ing fake crytek that just ruined the game and in the other hand I think EA might not be responsible for this CRAP cause DICE works for EA too and Battlefield Bad Company 2 had some problems in MP but it was fixed in first days of release there were also free map packs for PC gamers which console gamers should have pay for them.
what I'm saying is that the game is ruined cause CRYTEK didn't make a PC game and believe me singleplayer is good maybe that's not exactly A CRY SANBOX game but its good and enjoyable.
I highly recommend you to play BFBC2 MP cause that's an awesome game.
sry for my bad english and for CryingForMoneyTek

@X-RayXI Haha, yeah, you're right of course.

As it was mentioned earlier in this thread, the graphics on release of the first Crysis wasn't too spectacular either. It was the modders who really pushed the engine to it's limit. I also remember that the first crysis wasn't very optimized at all.

As it was mentioned earlier in this thread, the graphics on release of the first Crysis wasn't too spectacular either. It was the modders who really pushed the engine to it's limit. I also remember that the first crysis wasn't very optimized at all.


Whilst poorly optimized, Crysis was leagues ahead of it's competitors in terms of graphical prowess. Crysis 2 definitely boasts some great, incredibly well optimized graphics (when they work :S) but it does not blow the competition out of the water as Crysis did. However, that really shouldn't be a shock considering it was being developed on multiple platforms.
But then I look at Uncharted 3 and realise just what you can get out of the PS3 and question whether they pushed themselves as hard as with crysis

so many ppl compare Crysis 1 to Crysis 2. Crysis 1 had awful AI, and tbo, the single player svcked so bad i never finished it. a week after Crysis 2 comes out and i've beat it twice already. its not all about the graphics. Crysis 2 does have a lot of bugs tho. multiplayer works great for me, and that is why i bought the game... the reason i buy any game, for the multiplayer. i dont even care that it won't get a DX11 patch. DX9 vs DX10 with Crysis 1 was hard to seperate w/o side by side screenshots. DX11 sure didnt make Dirt 2 any better. AVP has it and its a **** game, Metro 2033 has it too i think, and that is another **** game. DirectX sells video cards, only to be held back by DX9 consoles. Crysis 2 does feel unfinished, but what it does do, it does it well.

on another note, why do i keep reading on other sites about blog posts supposedly on this site that answer our questions? where the hell are they? ie: Tom-Crysis or w/e his name is, was quoted saying DX11 was never confirmed. why am i reading this on a site other than gamesas.com 7 days after the game is out, when the same article said he said it here?!

My poor 6970s going to waste FIX ASAP PLZ

so many ppl compare Crysis 1 to Crysis 2. Crysis 1 had awful AI, and tbo, the single player svcked so bad i never finished it. a week after Crysis 2 comes out and i've beat it twice already. its not all about the graphics. Crysis 2 does have a lot of bugs tho. multiplayer works great for me, and that is why i bought the game... the reason i buy any game, for the multiplayer. i dont even care that it won't get a DX11 patch. DX9 vs DX10 with Crysis 1 was hard to seperate w/o side by side screenshots. DX11 sure didnt make Dirt 2 any better. AVP has it and its a **** game, Metro 2033 has it too i think, and that is another **** game. DirectX sells video cards, only to be held back by DX9 consoles. Crysis 2 does feel unfinished, but what it does do, it does it well.

on another note, why do i keep reading on other sites about blog posts supposedly on this site that answer our questions? where the hell are they? ie: Tom-Crysis or w/e his name is, was quoted saying DX11 was never confirmed. why am i reading this on a site other than gamesas.com 7 days after the game is out, when the same article said he said it here?!
You're mistaken CRYSIS had some AI problem but so does CRYSIS 2! enemies stuck or vibrate sometimes and I say good visuals makes a game better although crysis 2 has a good gameplay but when its CRYTEK we expect REAL NEXT GEN graphics ..come on just play crysis 1 again and campare it to the new one ! where are the volumetric layers?clouds?high quality textures?this topic is for people whom paid too much for their high end specs and they want a high end game. I condemn CRYSIS 2 cause of flickering,network problem and no dx11 I never say the gameplay or story is bad actually its brilliant.
I don't get it MP is either Run & Shoot or Hide & Shoot!nothing special.they only converted the TIA and IA mod from crysis 1 to this game then you like it!?

5850 in crossfire is not working either

Geforce 470 gtx SLI Massive flickering when set to SLI mode.

Oh man.. They update the "Info thread" with promises to stamp out cheaters, but still nothing on this totally game-breaking issue? I haven't even played this yet due to this.

u can turn off crosfire or multi gpu mod via ure software for ure graffix card or u can simply runn the game in windowed mode it works for me over 3 screens so its just great.
also heard that by reenaming the *.exe file to shift2.exe it also workes ...

Good luck

Funny how this exact issue was in the build that leaked long before launch... One would've thought that SOMEONE at Crytek had actually tested the game on a proper gaming rig... Oh well, game maxes out at Vsync cap with only half my graphics card running it... Console port is ported imo...