So I'm quickly learning nowadays that the amazingly cool and fast 7950GTX that I got..............oh my......4 years ago, is now an OAP!

So does Crysis 2 support this card?

I only ask as I can install and start up the game fine and can see main menu ok, but when I start to play I get a blank screen. I see instructions pop up like 'Look Around' but everything is black so can't actualy see/do anything!

Any tips/help will be greatly appreciated.

Dual Core T7700
GeForce 7950 GTX
2GB RAM

Thanks

madwedge

I've never heard of that model. Do you mean the 7950 GX2, or 7950 GT?

Crytek are saying 8800GT, minimum. But I don't see any reason your card shouldn't be made to work, especially since it's probably better (or even very similar) than the GPU that's in the PS3.

Have you tried running the graphics app someone made, then setting everything to minimum, then trying to start the game:

http://www.gamesas.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=40&t=12953

This will give you lower graphics details than "high" will give you. Obviously, you won't be wanting to run the game like that, but it may help you determine which graphical features are making your video card incompatible with the game.

I'll give it a try. Thanks fenderjaguar.

The 7950 GTX is a laptop varient of the 7950 card which nVidia don't actually support. I have to get my drivers from here http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/

Will post back if successful or not. Thanks again.

The funny thing is that there is a message each time i start C2, that my 8800GTS is not supported. Yet it runs the game just great on Gamer aka High Settings after the patch at 1280x720p. (40-90FPS)

I tried the graphics app but didn't make any difference. I had the .exe on my desktop and ran it there and the autoexec.cfg ended up on my desktop too. Should this file be in the Crysis 2 root directory??

Thanks

So I'm quickly learning nowadays that the amazingly cool and fast 7950GTX that I got..............oh my......4 years ago, is now an OAP!

So does Crysis 2 support this card?

I only ask as I can install and start up the game fine and can see main menu ok, but when I start to play I get a blank screen. I see instructions pop up like 'Look Around' but everything is black so can't actualy see/do anything!

Any tips/help will be greatly appreciated.

Dual Core T7700
GeForce 7950 GTX
2GB RAM

Thanks

madwedge
Work, at all? Probably should. How good thought, I have no idea but nobody needs to tell you you're gonna have to crank everything to the absolute minimum. Use the Crysis 2 config tool laying around the web to manually set all the AA and the shiny stuff to the minimum, I don't think it everything gets turned off if you just use the lowest preset in the settings. And extreme FPS mod would come in handy but everything's so locked down yet, that don't think something like that even exists yet. Anyway, the game is damn well optimized, you might be lucky and still get reasonably playable framerates, people with the minimum specs were still able to play it properly, just maybe, you can play it at all, too.

I would say that it should. That sounds like the card that I had in my old laptop. If the FPS is too low you should be able to turn some stuff off by making an autoexec.cfg

As I say everything is black so I even see how it runs. Audio sounds smooth though!

Any idea's to fix the blackness issue? I updated my drivers about a month ago so these 'should' be ok....maybe!

If it's a laptop GPU, then maybe you won't be able to get it to work. I seem to remember on the back of the Crysis 1 box, it after the GPU requirements, it said "laptop versions of these chipsets may work but are not supported".

It's a shame, because having looked at the specs on that GPU, it's actually pretty good. Are you using windows XP, btw?

Have you tried using the Nvidia Omega drivers? They might work and be better than those you've been using. It kind of svcks that Nvidia don't actually support that GPU though

http://www.omegadrivers.net/index.php?option=com_phocadownload&view=section&id=2&Itemid=55

I feel your pain, though. I myself have a laptop with a geforce go 6100 in it. And there's a crappy driver that was made back in 2007 and that's it. It does play source engine games, not well, but they do run. But I mean your GPU was the high end laptop GPU that would have cost a fortune back in the day. and you would have expected nvidia to have made driver updates for it.

Sad to say but that's a mobile GPU that's approaching it's 5th year since release!

A game like this which, even despite it's current lack of DX11 support, is on the bleeding edge of visual prowess, is either going to stress an old card like that to it's limit, or have compatibility issues.

Having said that, this game is pure DX9 as it is, so there are no legit. reason it shouldn't work. May be though, that Crytek simply haven't supported anything previous to the 8800GT?

It should be remembered that the Go GTX 7950 is a card with only 32 shader pipelines, which aren't even unifed architecture based. The stated minimum req. of the 8800GT which is a card with 112 unified CUDA cores.

That is a biiiiig difference.

the Go GTX 7950 is a card with only 32 shader pipelines

As I understand it, RSX has only 24. RSX is only has 128-bit bus width, GTX 7950 is 256-bit. I would say that this guys GPU is either as powerful or better than RSX.

In which case why can't I see anything, lol. I've tried a full reinstall as well but no luck.

Going back to the Advanced Graphics installer. Should the .cfg file end up in the game root directory? Cos when I first ran it the .cfg ended up on my desktop??

Cheers