At least most of them.

What angered me the most are the ver low res gras and ground- textures in Crysis 2.
Well if you own Crysis or Wars/ Warhead you can extract the textures from the .pak file and put them into your Crysis 2 gamefolder. Trust me it works!

For example:

the Crysis 2 grasstexture:
http://vghq.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Crysis-2-Texture.jpg

the replaced Crysis 1 texture:
http://vghq.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Crysis-2-Texture-2.jpg

I didnt figured that out myself ..so big respect for doomlord52 from Crymod.com

Here is another example how your ground textures could look like:
http://screenshot.xfire.com/s/112356268-4.jpg

Some guys over there are already working on a HD texturepack for Crysis 2.. it seems that a few textures got recycled by Crytek ( but scaled down to 512*512 mostly) but all the object textures are new ones. So its still far away till we see a " real"Crysis 2 HD texturepack instead of these simple replacements.

gunna be giving it a try.

That would not work... thats just the difference between very high and extreme
All the textures would have different names.

That would not work... thats just the difference between very high and extreme
All the textures would have different names.

it works fine. people all over the place are already doing it with great success.

Wow, so this is what most people are pissed about? Sorry but when I play I do not zoom in on the ground or any object for that matter just to bich about it later. If it looks fine from normal viewing distance (i.e. while you're PLAYING the game and not scrutinizing every damn object) then it's fine for me.

These WAAAAHHHHH CRYSIS 1 IS BETTAH WAAAHHHHH people are passing off as people who just want a real life simulation to me. You know what? Go outside. Bask in the sun. Ultra HD graphics in 3D right there for no cost. When you feel like PLAYING a game, come back to us.

its not the fact that it looks low res when it zoomz in its the fact that the first ones used higher res textures and overall looked better. Games graphics are supposed to get better, not worse. Im enjoying the game but it does anger me it looks identical to the 360 version.

That would not work... thats just the difference between very high and extreme
All the textures would have different names.

Actually, the ground textures dont really change with the graphics quality.

@ OP
Thanks for the mention, and yes, I am currently working on an HD-texture pack. I've found that some objects are in fact compatible with Crysis 1 (boxes, shipping containers, etc.), so thats sped things up a fair bit. However, its still going to require making some new textures from scratch.

If anyone is interested in helping, fire me a PM.

its not the fact that it looks low res when it zoomz in its the fact that the first ones used higher res textures and overall looked better. Games graphics are supposed to get better, not worse. Im enjoying the game but it does anger me it looks identical to the 360 version.


Let me get this straight. It doesn't matter how good a game looks, but games just have to look BETTER. Even if the game looks totally brilliant that doesn't matter because it has to be better than the last one? Ok.

The game looks pretty darn good compared to all the other things out there and runs even better. Oh, but of course that doesn't matter. The game looks good and runs good but what's this? Some console you don't even play on looks similar? All the good looks and good performance doesn't matter any more because you want your system to feel superior? Ok.


Faith in humanity = -100000

its not the fact that it looks low res when it zoomz in its the fact that the first ones used higher res textures and overall looked better. Games graphics are supposed to get better, not worse. Im enjoying the game but it does anger me it looks identical to the 360 version.



Faith in humanity = -100000

Technology preview. That is the key here. The game is a technology preview. It always was a technology preview, first with CE2 and now with CE3.
Right now is just the preview of the console lower detailed graphics and not what it should be, that you can make the best viewable PC game ever and also have the same game in consoles with its limitations. That is the problem, they did a game for consoles and used that to make the PC game, and not the way around.

Of course, when you have to make a game that will be playable on consoles you have to sacrifice some aspects on the PC gameplay, but that don't mean you are going to screw all aspects of the PC game, like the incredible good looking assets/images we are spoiled to have on Crysis and Warhead (CE2).

CE3 should convert those incredible assets/images to a good quality (lower than PC) console counterpart, but it looks like it don't do that, therefore is not the incredible engine they promoted.

So, this technology preview is a failure.

Would this get your key/account banned? With all the mods/exploits floating around, im kinda scared to try it....

this technology preview is a failure.
Not really. CryEngine 3 was designed for consoles, check out the live create feature. When the next gen consoles come out in the future CryEngine3 will update to accomodate the consoles newer tech. PC centric game development has waned for the most part. I will be very suprised indeed if anything more can be done for the PC with regards to higher graphic game world detail in crysis 2. What you see is what you get, there is no more to add?, i can't see what dx11 will add to crysis2?. Battlefield 3 will be the same, maybe?.

Crysis 2's graphics equal that of Crysis 1's, and exceeds in things like water ripples and lighting, but it's things like this....textures, that hold it back as well. I'm going to wait for official future patches, but if anything, this is a great solution for the textures. It goes to show CryEngine 3 CAN handle powerful textures for the idiots denying it. Just saying

Well, if you want excellence in PC gaming you have to buy indie games. A lot of them are way better than C2 (graphics) and there are new ones coming soon with high details everywhere and amazing gameplay.
Basically indie developers are keeping the PC game industry alive, like once was Crytek but now.

its not the fact that it looks low res when it zoomz in its the fact that the first ones used higher res textures and overall looked better. Games graphics are supposed to get better, not worse. Im enjoying the game but it does anger me it looks identical to the 360 version.



Faith in humanity = -100000

-100000 is not over 9000. Just saying.

Let me get this straight. It doesn't matter how good a game looks, but games just have to look BETTER. Even if the game looks totally brilliant that doesn't matter because it has to be better than the last one? Ok.



Thats right it's called progress. It's what happens whenever there is a sequel released for the consoles and they still have the same hardware.

Would this get your key/account banned? With all the mods/exploits floating around, im kinda scared to try it....

Crysis 2's anti-cheat is such crap that basically nothing will get you banned. ATM you'd have to go out of your way to contact whoever runs the Crysis 2 login system, piss them of a lot, given them reason to ban you and then continue to harass them until they did ban you.

Well, if you want excellence in PC gaming you have to buy indie games. A lot of them are way better than C2 (graphics) and there are new ones coming soon with high details everywhere and amazing gameplay.
Basically indie developers are keeping the PC game industry alive, like once was Crytek but now.

Give some examples, names of those games.

Would this get your key/account banned? With all the mods/exploits floating around, im kinda scared to try it....

Crysis 2's anti-cheat is such crap that basically nothing will get you banned. ATM you'd have to go out of your way to contact whoever runs the Crysis 2 login system, piss them of a lot, given them reason to ban you and then continue to harass them until they did ban you.

You do know we are expecting a patch this week right?


We’ve been working hard to resolve as many of the post-launch issues as possible including some improvements to our game security. These updates will be made available via automatic-download later this week.

Would this get your key/account banned? With all the mods/exploits floating around, im kinda scared to try it....

Crysis 2's anti-cheat is such crap that basically nothing will get you banned. ATM you'd have to go out of your way to contact whoever runs the Crysis 2 login system, piss them of a lot, given them reason to ban you and then continue to harass them until they did ban you.

You do know we are expecting a patch this week right?
Yeah I'm a little scared don't want to be banned I wonder if this is considered a hack

Okay, I moved the Texture.pak from Crysis into Crysis 2 and replaced the original Crysis 2 Texture.pak, and now the game is full of blocky effects, blurred or deleted textures, and the original textures look exactly the same. What the hell am I supposed to do, exactly? Is this a joke?

Okay, I moved the Texture.pak from Crysis into Crysis 2 and replaced the original Crysis 2 Texture.pak, and now the game is full of blocky effects, blurred or deleted textures, and the original textures look exactly the same. What the hell am I supposed to do, exactly? Is this a joke?

You should read the thread better, he says to extract from Crysis 1 Texture.pak and place the files in the crysis 2 game folder, he did not say swap the texture.pak because you will lose the newer textures like the CELL troopers

explore the crysis 2 disk and copy back over the texture.pak from the disc to reset the problem

Even if you replace the same textures that are present (e.g. grass_green_dry) it will still end up not working and there will be no textures anywhere. Its a way more complicated process.

Lets have faith in doomlord and hope that he will find some more skilled modders that can help him to finish a texturepack.
I dunno whats with Rygel and Mster though... i would love to hear from them in connection with modding Crysis 2.

its not the fact that it looks low res when it zoomz in its the fact that the first ones used higher res textures and overall looked better. Games graphics are supposed to get better, not worse. Im enjoying the game but it does anger me it looks identical to the 360 version.


Let me get this straight. It doesn't matter how good a game looks, but games just have to look BETTER. Even if the game looks totally brilliant that doesn't matter because it has to be better than the last one? Ok.

The game looks pretty darn good compared to all the other things out there and runs even better. Oh, but of course that doesn't matter. The game looks good and runs good but what's this? Some console you don't even play on looks similar? All the good looks and good performance doesn't matter any more because you want your system to feel superior? Ok.


Faith in humanity = -100000

You are such a god damn idiot, my god. The reason we are PC gamers is because we like things better than consoles, we like better graphics, more settings, mods, etc but when the company screws us over and gives us the same graphics as a console that has half of the processing power of the rig I spent so much money on.. then ya I'm **** pissed.

Sure the game does look pretty great but it should look a hell of a lot better, jackass.

On another note, this does work with the Steam game right?