I know I know I know it's the wrong board, but please just give me a hand here guys. Doesn't take a genius to tell that the Crysis 2 board isn't exactly teeming with life on the day of its' sequel's release.

I bought the Digital Deluxe edition of Crysis 3, and want to play through the Crysis 2 campaign first, but I'm getting ridiculously bad DX9 (no high rez textures) performance. When shooting at surfaces my frame rate drops to as low as 30, and I'm running this game on a GTX 590.

I've been told that downgrading to version 1.8 of Crysis 2 solves all the performance screwups introduced in 1.9. How do I do that? I'm thinking of disabling the "Automatically keep my games up to date" option in Origin and then re-downloading and re-installing Crysis 2, and updating it to 1.8 myself. Would that work?

Thanks to those of you that don't freak out at me for posting in the wrong board.

Anyone?

I'm not 100% sure but i don't think you can stop the auto update in Origin or even the retail DVD version, only way is to unplug or switch off your router/modem from your pc, not tried this myself but if there is no internet access then it can't update, but if the game will run or not without being patched i just don't know because have never tried it. I'm using a GTX 580 with Crysis2 patched to 1.9- 1920x1080 120Hz monitor - ULTRA - Motion Blur HIGH - DirectX11 and HighResTextures enabled all is ok for the most part but shooting at concrete can cause some physics slow down in-game and certain areas in some levels drop GPU performance quite low then picks up shortly afterward, but for the most part it runs ok and is quite playable even though the framerate is up and down like a yoyo haha. I think i average about 45fps with lows of 17 and highs of about 83fps, 3D enabled and VSYNC on it's a steady 30- 40fps with dips of around 20 in certain areas, and playing with an XBOX360 controller feels less laggy than using a mouse. That's my experience with Crysis2 on win7 64-bit (sp1) i7-860 - GTX580 1.5GB - 8GB RAM - SSD - X-Fi soundcard.