Textures in Crysis 2 are just terrible right?

I mean seriously...look at these amazing pictures I just took in Crysis 1 Very High. Don't they just look stunning?

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Wow I'm so impressed. These textures are so next gen. So much better than Call of Duty 4 aren't they?

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Cmon people...Crysis 2 isn't exactly a monster when it comes to texture quality...but neither was Vanilla Crysis 1.

Think of it differently. Crysis 2 has no repeating textures due to blend layering. So it has a lot more textures to fit onto one disc and has to lose quality. Crysis 1 repeated textures a lot...and crappy ones often.

These screenshots have Crysis "Very High" running in DX9 via cfg files (Dx10 has no benefit in C1 and just takes 10 FPS for no reason). and POM is enabled. Natural Mod v 2.0.2 installed.

You guys keep complaining how the grass underlay texture in Crysis 2 is lower res than C1, but when you can't see that texture due to higher grass density in Crysis 2, what difference does it make? Crysis 1 had it's fair share of disgusting textures as well.

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Here's my contribution to this thread. VeryHigh settings, DX10. Shots are taken from level where you descent in to quarry. Cant remember levels name.

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Resolution is 1920x1080 and 4xAA,16xAF was used. POM was set off since it disables AF. There is lots of lowres textures in Crysis and those look even worse when displayed next to highres textures. There's couple of shots just to show that. In Crysis 2 textures are much more even quality and those doesn't catch your eye so badly like it does in C1.

Lots of people only seem to remember those highly modded textures and forget how bad original C1 sometimes look. And you dont even have to look for these textures, since they are so clearly visible. In my opinion highres textures doesn't make killer looking game. Game needs good lightning and shadowing. Even if game doesn't have so highres textures like C2 it looks amazing because lighting is something we havent seen before and it makes those lowres textures look good also. Ad in highres textures and imagine the rest.

How dare you blaspheme the holy name of Crysis.

Op = ****. Stopped looking at pictures the moment i saw one of them in the top right said DX9. Obvious troll is obvious.

So you're saying that crysis 2 didn't suffer at all from being console-focused in it's design?

Crysis 1 might not have had ideal textures either, but it pushed the boundaries of PC tech and made things move forward. If you tried to port c1 to the consoles they would explode, yet 4 years later suddenly the same consoles have enough horsepower for a crysis game? lol.

They should have called this "Crysis Lite" instead of 2.

How dare you blaspheme the holy name of Crysis.

I only speak the truth...and bring proof along.

Op = ****. Stopped looking at pictures the moment i saw one of them in the top right said DX9. Obvious troll is obvious.

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What difference does DX9 **** make? All settings are still on max and Dx10 features enabled via cfg files. Dumbass.

No I'm not saying Crysis 2 wasn't affected by consolization. Just saying Crysis 1 textures aren't better than Crysis 2...like many of you like to say.

If your running in dx9 there are alot of visual features that you dont get. Ontop of that, being a owner of crysis, i know for a fact that when my setting are all maxed out, my textures do NOT look that bad.

If your running in dx9 there are alot of visual features that you dont get. Ontop of that, being a owner of crysis, i know for a fact that when my setting are all maxed out, my textures do NOT look that bad.

Well go in the levels "Tank" and the one right after that. Yes they look that bad. Go behind any tree or bush and look at the ground or the side of the cliff. Or any rock for that matter.

And if you know anything about Crysis you would know Crysis DX10 was **** marketing from Crytek and had no new features. They artificially locked them to DX10 and with the proper CFG commands they could be enabled in DX9. Which is what I did...because the same features in DX9 also run better than in DX10.

**** troll.
Or, you're too stupid for this galaxy.

**** troll.
Or, you're too stupid for this galaxy.

All right. Fine. I'm a troll. Then prove me wrong.

If your running in dx9 there are alot of visual features that you dont get. Ontop of that, being a owner of crysis, i know for a fact that when my setting are all maxed out, my textures do NOT look that bad.

I would have to agree, that I myself own Crysis 1 and the texture's do not look as bad as the proof that iPwn has given us. I do agree with iPwn however, how DX9 and DX10 really gives no quality difference if you still have everything on Very High.

So you're saying that crysis 2 didn't suffer at all from being console-focused in it's design?

Crysis 1 might not have had ideal textures either, but it pushed the boundaries of PC tech and made things move forward. If you tried to port c1 to the consoles they would explode, yet 4 years later suddenly the same consoles have enough horsepower for a crysis game? lol.

They should have called this "Crysis Lite" instead of 2.

If Crysis 1 had the optimization techniques that Crysis 2 has, I highly doubt it would've been pushing the limits of hardware at that time. Crysis 1 was just a PC game, that's why it was highly un-optimized, but now that Crysis 2 is a multiplatform game, why bother giving the PC players the bad-performance version, when you might as well give all 3 platforms the same performance benefits?

**** troll.
Or, you're too stupid for this galaxy.

Why do you even bother posting if it's something so insignificant as calling someone a troll...

**** troll.
Or, you're too stupid for this galaxy.


I will not waste time to take screenshots of crysis 1, but what you've done there was showing the bad parts (wich you don't really see them if you don't look out for them), and you don't like to admit that the C1 textures look 99999999 better than C2 ones.Even on DX9.

Sorry but the SMG does not look that horrible at "all settings maxed". I only looked at the first link. Try harder OP.. 0/10.

Sorry but the SMG does not look that horrible at "all settings maxed". I only looked at the first link. Try harder OP.. 0/10.

Dude I was behind a bush when taking that picture. You couldn't see any lighting or anything from that angle. Look at the other ones. then it looks decent.

Sorry but crysis is 4 years old. With user made mods it destroys crysis 2.

Should this happen? No. How can crysis 2 be worse than mods that came out 2-3 years ago?

Sorry, but crysis 2 is not where it should be in terms of textures. this is 2011.

sure cry 1 has some bad textures, but so does cry 2. cry 1 was 4 years old and hardware back then was crap compared to what we have now. theres no excuse for horrible textures in cry 2, NONE.

Sorry but crysis is 4 years old. With user made mods it destroys crysis 2.

Should this happen? No. How can crysis 2 be worse than mods that came out 2-3 years ago?

Sorry, but crysis 2 is not where it should be in terms of textures. this is 2011.

sure cry 1 has some bad textures, but so does cry 2. cry 1 was 4 years old and hardware back then was crap compared to what we have now. theres no excuse for horrible textures in cry 2, NONE.

Did I not say anything about damn space availbel on disc? Having both an open world and good textures on one disc is impossible.

Sorry but crysis is 4 years old. With user made mods it destroys crysis 2.

Should this happen? No. How can crysis 2 be worse than mods that came out 2-3 years ago?

Sorry, but crysis 2 is not where it should be in terms of textures. this is 2011.

sure cry 1 has some bad textures, but so does cry 2. cry 1 was 4 years old and hardware back then was crap compared to what we have now. theres no excuse for horrible textures in cry 2, NONE.

Did I not say anything about damn space availbel on disc? Having both an open world and good textures on one disc is impossible.

2 discs or DLC.

If Crysis 1 had the optimization techniques that Crysis 2 has, I highly doubt it would've been pushing the limits of hardware at that time. Crysis 1 was just a PC game, that's why it was highly un-optimized, but now that Crysis 2 is a multiplatform game, why bother giving the PC players the bad-performance version, when you might as well give all 3 platforms the same performance benefits?




You sound like a communist or something. SAME FOR ALL!

No, you complacent fool, that's what graphics settings are for. Most guys that say "un-optimised" really mean "my PC couldn't handle it!"

Well no ****, if it's not running well, you "optimise" it your freaking self by going into the graphics options and turning a few things down.

Why should the high spec machine suffer because the xbox svcks?

Crysis 2 texture size is haved comparted to Crysis

This was clearly for making the game run in consoles. Now, we as PC gamers, we don't need half the size on every texture... What Crytek has done is to release a console port on the shoes of a PC game.. there is no excuse in that.

Bioware released a 2 gig patch that gives high quality textures on DAII for PC. Why Crytek can do the same??

OMG u **** retarded people THEY WILL Release super duper ultra high resolution textures where when u zoom u will see the micro world just let them fix something thats REALLY broken first theyre allready working on MAXIMUM graphics geez. Its been like a week and u all are biching... when it hits exacly 31 days then start biching and flame crysis 2 then im on ur side but u still have no right to flame and bich on crysis 2 !

fail troll, get dx10 and you would know, i played on max and it DOESNT even look a like any of your pics.

You sound like a communist or something. SAME FOR ALL!

No, you complacent fool, that's what graphics settings are for. Most guys that say "un-optimised" really mean "my PC couldn't handle it!"

Well no ****, if it's not running well, you "optimise" it your freaking self by going into the graphics options and turning a few things down.

Why should the high spec machine suffer because the xbox svcks?

The High Spec machines do not suffer, that is why Crytek has given us *some* freedom to change the graphics settings way above what the Xbox's configuration has (the x360.cfg file). Now, I do agree that there should be more settings in Crysis 2. For example, someone with an insanely fast computer is running Crysis 1 at about 50fps average, on the maximum quality settings, with whatever mods installed. Now, if Crysis 1 had all of the optimization techniques that Crysis 2 has, you would be getting probably about 80fps, or even more. Why are people complaining about a Crytek game having such good performance? Please don't say anything about texture quality either, it's just textures, whoop-de-doo. And if you blame the performance increases in Crysis 2 on the bad textures, you're sadly mistaken. Texture quality only has about a 2-3fps impact (at most).

This thread is needed, the OP is right. Okay for the most part, yes, Crysis 1 has BETTER textures than Crysis 2, BUT, it's not as beautiful as people make it out to be. Seriously, people are comparing a MODDED Crysis 1 MAXED OUT to a regular Crysis 2. They only focus on Crysis 1's beauty then compare it to Crysis 2's ugly. They never focus on Crysis 1's ugly.

They also start to go on about how Crysis 1 was one of the best fps games ever and had AMAZING INNOVATIVE GAMEPLAY, when really, when you rewind back to 2007 at the release of Crysis 1, you read about tons of complaints that the gameplay svcks and the AI is stupid >_<"

Next thing you know, Crysis 2 is going to become THIS SUPER AMAZING GAME to these haters once Crysis 3 is released......damn hypocrits.

This thread is needed, the OP is right. Okay for the most part, yes, Crysis 1 has BETTER textures than Crysis 2, BUT, it's not as beautiful as people make it out to be. Seriously, people are comparing a MODDED Crysis 1 MAXED OUT to a regular Crysis 2. They only focus on Crysis 1's beauty then compare it to Crysis 2's ugly. They never focus on Crysis 1's ugly.

They also start to go on about how Crysis 1 was one of the best fps games ever and had AMAZING INNOVATIVE GAMEPLAY, when really, when you rewind back to 2007 at the release of Crysis 1, you read about tons of complaints that the gameplay svcks and the AI is stupid >_<"

Next thing you know, Crysis 2 is going to become THIS SUPER AMAZING GAME to these haters once Crysis 3 is released......damn hypocrits.

how is that not a fair comparison? are you retarded?

2007 game modded vs 2011 game?

pretty fair comparison you **** dumbass.

OP: DX9 medium come on man, and to top it off 1280x800 you either are on a old laptop or lowering your rez to make it look bad

OP: DX9 medium come on man, and to top it off 1280x800 you either are on a old laptop or lowering your rez to make it look bad

No it's DX9 max...same as DX10 max.

And my monitor is only 1440 x 900. I doubt 1920 x 1080 or such would make a huge difference in texture quality. I'm only playing in 1280 x 800 for recording purposes...forgot to change it. And I'm trying to get a new monitor ASAP.