There are a lot of people asking questions about the new Ultra Pack (which is what I've heard it referred to as) and I wanted to compile the answers to the best of our combined knowledge right here. If anyone knows that any of this information is false, please correct me below.

This is not official, but merely answers to the best of my knowledge.

Question: How much will it cost?
Answer: Nothing. If you own the game it will be free, though it will require you install patch 1.9 or later.

Question: How much will it hurt performance?
Answer: No one except Crytek employees will really know the answer to this until it is released. However, we can speculate! Feel free to share your thoughts below, but I'm expecting a 20%-50% hit to the frame rate with everything at max (assuming your videocard supports all the features). Why the big range? Simple: these features are extremely advanced, but the CryEngine3 and dx11 are both highly optimized (over CryEngine2 and dx9). It's anyone's guess as to how this will balance out in terms of performance. Feel free to share your expectations below!

Question: How much disk space will it eat up?
Answer: The dx11 part is around a half a gig, but the HQ texture pack is a bit more complicated. The download size is around 1.7gb, but this is a compressed file. Early reports indicate it will take up over 5gb once installed.

Question: Will there be new graphics options or will it override the current "Extreme" graphics settings?
Answer: It is very unlikely this will replace the Extreme presets. I've heard this referred to as the "Ultra Pack" by nVidia employees. So, odds are good there will be a new Ultra preset under graphics options to enable these advanced features. Additional graphics options will be available in the advanced graphics options menu as well, though it is unclear precisely which new elements will be adjustable.

If you have any additional questions, post them below. I'll do my best to find answers. Keep in mind that some of your questions may be answered in the official early patch notes or dx11 thread.

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The DX11 part is compressed too. Apparently it takes up another 4GB.

The DX11 part is compressed too. Apparently it takes up another 4GB.

Holy crap! Does it overwrite existing data or actually add 4gb of raw data? If you can confirm this first hand or point me in the direction of where you got your info, I will update the post above accordingly! Thanks for the info!

From what I've heard, they plan on overhauling the "Advanced Graphics Options" even more w/ the Dx11 release (or maybe Patch 1.9), to where we have more than just "High", "Very High", and "Extreme". We are supposed to have full control now.

What you worried about how much space the patch takes for? Delete your p*wn and movies if you don't have enough space. :p

What you worried about how much space the patch takes for? Delete your p*wn and movies if you don't have enough space. :p

I think it helps people realize just how much new content they are getting. This isn't just a few texture swaps... at 5gb, this is going to be a huge overhaul. Plus, I'm sure people with slower connections or bandwidth limits will be concerned with download size.

I think it helps people realize just how much new content they are getting.

Lol. Blowing up texture resolutions isnt "new content".

I think it helps people realize just how much new content they are getting.

Lol. Blowing up texture resolutions isnt "new content".

Improved texture resolution is absolutely content. It's visual content, not gameplay content, I grant you. But improving textures takes a great deal of effort and time. If you don't think 5gb of texture data doesn't count as content, then don't get it. I will enjoy my new content enough for both of us.

From what I've heard, they plan on overhauling the "Advanced Graphics Options" even more w/ the Dx11 release (or maybe Patch 1.9), to where we have more than just "High", "Very High", and "Extreme". We are supposed to have full control now.

I've updated the master post to be a little more specific in this category.

I think it helps people realize just how much new content they are getting.

Lol. Blowing up texture resolutions isnt "new content".

How many developers offer this when they port their game with low resolution textures? Pretty much none, it's left to modders.

Crytek owned all u crybabies and losers who sit on c2 forums all day with no life like ipwn and emperorloser. u all cry and baby all summer long with your worthless posts and now crytek unleash greatest game in history and u all got owned and shut up and have to backtrack and try to make face so not to embarassment so much. rofl gg crytek dx11 own u losers. btw bf3 blows it looks like bad company 2 what a joke.

Crytek owned all u crybabies and losers who sit on c2 forums all day with no life like ipwn and emperorloser. u all cry and baby all summer long with your worthless posts and now crytek unleash greatest game in history and u all got owned and shut up and have to backtrack and try to make face so not to embarassment so much. rofl gg crytek dx11 own u losers. btw bf3 blows it looks like bad company 2 what a joke.

Uh maybe if you bothered to read any of my posts you would have seen that almost every time I tried to defend Crytek. I don't even have a DX11 card. Why would I bich about DX11? I tried convincing people here that this was a great game.

Your e-ego must be super high. You think you're so cool because you can insult me on the internet. And now that I can see that everyone is happy, I have no reason to come here any more. I'll be too busy ass raping Ceph.

As for BF3 blowing, the multiplayer part, yes does look a bit disappointing.

Crytek owned all u crybabies and losers who sit on c2 forums all day with no life like ipwn and emperorloser. u all cry and baby all summer long with your worthless posts and now crytek unleash greatest game in history and u all got owned and shut up and have to backtrack and try to make face so not to embarassment so much. rofl gg crytek dx11 own u losers. btw bf3 blows it looks like bad company 2 what a joke.

Uh maybe if you bothered to read any of my posts you would have seen that almost every time I tried to defend Crytek. I don't even have a DX11 card. Why would I bich about DX11? I tried convincing people here that this was a great game.

Your e-ego must be super high. You think you're so cool because you can insult me on the internet. And now that I can see that everyone is happy, I have no reason to come here any more. I'll be too busy ass raping Ceph.

As for BF3 blowing, the multiplayer part, yes does look a bit disappointing.

+1. iPwn is a good member here, I can vouch for him.

And yeah, BF3MP does look like absolute **** from what has been shown so far.

Crytek owned all u crybabies and losers who sit on c2 forums all day with no life like ipwn and emperorloser. u all cry and baby all summer long with your worthless posts and now crytek unleash greatest game in history and u all got owned and shut up and have to backtrack and try to make face so not to embarassment so much. rofl gg crytek dx11 own u losers. btw bf3 blows it looks like bad company 2 what a joke.

Excuse me? Nobody actually knew DX11 and the texture pack where coming until 2 months ago(texture pack only today). Crytek released the game in a bad state and all the signs we got from NVIDIA and Crytek that we would have DX11 and the sandbox editor on release. The demo was poor and release on the Xbox 360 first, so what do you expect us to say?

Nobody really expected such things to come from Crytek this late and it doesn't happen much at all with other games like this. Crysis 2 was a poor port and didn't stack up to Crysis 1, so yes people were p*ssed.

I got one:

How hard is it going to be to run the game on its new settings? I heard Nvidia said their new card could only run it at decent frames. Probably a rumor/troll/something nvidia would say to make you buy their card.

Im on a gaming laptop. Core i5 and HD ati gpu (5730) Right now in Crysis 2 on a low rez i get enough frames that i have to have vsync on in "extreme". So im hopeful about the new patch. Especially seeing as i found out i can run Metro 2033 in dx11 in "high" with decent frames......i am thoroughly enjoying that game right now....beautiful graphics. Very much looking foreward to this patch! Just hoping it won't melt anything

I got one:

How hard is it going to be to run the game on its new settings?



I've done my best to answer this question in the main post, mate, but it's a tough one. Unfortunately, at this point, all we can do is speculate.

We're gonna need to know what the new white list of commands are and what they do exactly, thinking ahead here ...

we all know when they ported to console the game will be lower requeriments so im not sure how much it will take. it depends of optimization, but man what i want is sandbox 3 , like you are building you are playing live! saw in youtube a vid from this guys as is pretty sick! sandbox3 will be released with dx11 to show full power of cryengine 3

Im thinking this more a market move than a really crytek′s movie . smells to EA . to milk the people. but they need to make crysis 3 so lets support them.

just a reminder
It's NEVER too late!

we all know when they ported to console the game will be lower requeriments so im not sure how much it will take. it depends of optimization, but man what i want is sandbox 3 , like you are building you are playing live! saw in youtube a vid from this guys as is pretty sick! sandbox3 will be released with dx11 to show full power of cryengine 3

Im thinking this more a market move than a really crytek′s movie . smells to EA . to milk the people. but they need to make crysis 3 so lets support them.

Xbox exclusives will come first probably.

Wait until Monday, and stop posting this s.h.i.t.

Wait until Monday, and stop posting this s.h.i.t.
Folks post sh-it big deal! Rather posting sh-it here than in-game spamming the text scroller.
The OP has offered his expertise, fine, on monday i'll be the first one here asking what sh-it is about, fine.
On monday there's gonna be loads of sh-it flying, best to prepare beforehands, ..till monday and the guys get the patch together talking sh-it with like-minded folks is fine by me what?