OK, so I have now finally got to play this game.

The graphics are not that bad that most of you make it out to be. Yes, it is DX9 but if you run it at 1920x1080 with all features enabled with the config tool it looks fantastic. The water effects are the ONLY difference from Crysis 1 since they are DX10 there. What a bunch of whiners...

If you dont have a rig to run this at 1920x1080 at AA and AF 8x and 16x then yes, it does not look all that fantastic. But with all the bells and whistles on it is by far one of the most good looking games of all time on the PC trailing Crysis 1. There are quite a few texture misses but I am talking about the overall picture here.

What do you mean have the rig to run it? i have a rig from 2008 and runs this with all setting blasted at 1920x1200. my main rig also plays this the same. The game still does not look that great.

Yeah even my PC can run it at ~60 fps on Very high.

I agree with Streaker... what games do you think look better? I'd be curious to check them out. I run C2 on the highest setting (without the config tool) at 1920x1080 in 3D and I think it looks spectacular, even with the textures somewhat lacking.

The combination of their draw distance, animations, and performance are unmatched in my experience (with the possible exception of C1).

I can run this on extreme on a a 1920x1080 monitor and I am running an old q6600 with a gtx 470. I easily get 60fps. I even made a homebrew autocfg file to push the specs even higher and that did no max out the settings.

This is a great looking dx9 game no doubt but there are a lot of poor textures in it, It has a inconsistent ai that is buggy.

The whole game is lighting based with. layered textures with decals and it lacks a certain polish that is needed.

Also I have to say if you want to see a game better than crysis 2 you just need to look at some of the mods made for crysis 1. visually crysis 1 with mods is greater than crysis 2.

If you don't believe me look here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93YKsiL9MDo&NR=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shZzYkpl5Nk&NR=1

that looks amazing! i have been using lifesis mod which looks amazing. I GOT TO TRY THIS!

An xbox 360 rig is more then capable of maxing out this beastly looking game.........

the game does indeed look very nice & shiney , love the effects on the submarine in the intro.

There's no doubt that Crysis 2 is a good looking game, probably the best that's been released in awhile but....

There are elements that appear to have been rushed or downgraded when compared to Crysis. Textures are inconsistent, there doesn't appear to be any POM mapping (although I could be wrong here 'cos I have seen some textures that looked quite good) plus things like soft particles etc. We kept being told that the CryEngine and thus Crysis 2 would scale appropriately for PC but this doesn't appear to have happened with the PC and console versions more or less identical.

Who told you water in C1 is only dx10? It looks exactly the same in dx9, you just need to edit a little config files. What about all low resolution textures?

i cant figure out how to install that mod.

This game is hard to place. It is not up to par with crysis however it's not a direct port given the fact that there are more effects on pc as well as aa and resolution. it's a maximum port. I personally think colliding buildings (impact) is a very good map. Possibly better looking than the originals. As well as the physics in that specific level being sadly what I was hoping the entire single player would be like

you have to install the mod with the editor there is a vid on youtube that shows you how

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUrTtwSNHWU&feature=related

I dont think it's fair to say that the game looks bad or terrible or sub par. Any person with half their brain power could tell that it looks amazing. Just because they designed an engine for the consoles doesn't mean the game looks worse. Crysis 1 is definately more photorealistic, I don't think anyone can argue that. But Crysis 2 is still the only other game I have played that has completely wow'd me in terms of graphics. I LOVE the lighting effects.

I think it's a solid looking game, and it definately has that epic feeling.

The impression one gets from the posts is that we have Doom style graphics. The whole visual presentation is one of the best.

I can run this on extreme on a a 1920x1080 monitor and I am running an old q6600 with a gtx 470. I easily get 60fps. I even made a homebrew autocfg file to push the specs even higher and that did no max out the settings.



You lie. I have an i7 860 and Ati 5850 with 8GB of ram and I don't get those frame rates on extreme at that resolution. Nice try though.

crysis 1 blows this games graphics out of the water. Still. 3 years later. LOL.

If you dont have a rig to run this at 1920x1080 at AA and AF 8x and 16x then yes, it does not look all that fantastic...

My friend is running this playable on a singal core system with a crap video card. You don't need a high end rig for this game at all...

I can run this on extreme on a a 1920x1080 monitor and I am running an old q6600 with a gtx 470. I easily get 60fps. I even made a homebrew autocfg file to push the specs even higher and that did no max out the settings.



You lie. I have an i7 860 and Ati 5850 with 8GB of ram and I don't get those frame rates on extreme at that resolution. Nice try though.

AMD Quadcore at 2.8ghz
4gb ram
Ati 5670

High 55 fps
Low 29 fps
Maxed out settings

AMD Quadcore at 2.8ghz
4gb ram
Ati 5670

High 55 fps
Low 29 fps
Maxed out settings

So you're getting 40fps or below on average. Thanks for proving my point.

I agree with Streaker... what games do you think look better? I'd be curious to check them out. I run C2 on the highest setting (without the config tool) at 1920x1080 in 3D and I think it looks spectacular, even with the textures somewhat lacking.

The combination of their draw distance, animations, and performance are unmatched in my experience (with the possible exception of C1).
how are you able to play it on 3d? my 3d option is grayed

I am not obsessed with dx11 although its addition would be nice.

I am more concerned with fixing the bugs that have essentially broken this game. I believe Crytek can and will fix these bugs but they have no sympathy from me in the meantime. This release is buggier than some BETAs I have tested.

Getting back on track, I am running this thing at 1920x1080 at extreme settings and my avg framerate is ~50-60fps. However, I don't care for a game being a graphical benchmark. There are more important things to think about.

I am more concerned with design elements that relate to functionality. For example, the multiplayer maps. These maps are simply rehashes of the single player campaign and are poorly designed. They should have taken time to think about gameplay and tactics when making these maps. These maps are uninspiring.

As for graphics, they should really fit the goal the game is trying to achieve. Games like Team Fortress 2 don't have spectacular graphics but it is the epitome of polish-very few bugs and everything fits a theme. The same goes for Bad Company 2.

Crysis 2 seems to be an attempt at using graphics to mask poor gameplay mechanics and polish. Unfortunately, graphics can't mask average game mechanics and these graphics aren't spectacular-just very good.

What I mean by spectacular was when Crysis 1 came out or when Half Life 2/Doom3/Far Cry 2 came out and they really pushed the envelope. Heck, even Oblivion was more impressive for it's time.

Have a quick look at: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/03/29/crysis-2-technical-anolysis/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rockpapershotgun%2Fsteam+%28Rock%2C+Paper%2C+Shotgun%3A+Steam+RSS%29
Retract your statement?

I'm running a brand new sandybridge rig here; I'm maxing as much as I can, the graphics aren't good. They are artistically good, and the motion blur serves to cover up a lot of faults, but if we're going to get technical here, and talk about the graphics - they are worse, a lot worse.

Hmm... On my rig on Extreme the textures look like **** in certain places. Not to mention the physics or lack thereof

my Feb 2008 pc runs it on extreme at 40-130fps.
Tried a custom config (made it myself so I could really push it) and its still only 25-70fps.

Also, it still doesnt look THAT amazing. Looks good, but, eh.