For some reason, I've recently been getting terrible stuttering (both visual and audio) with Crysis 2. I'm using the steam version. I've had the game since release day and it's been running smooth as butter until I recently updated.

Here's the weird thing: when I put it in windowed mode, and don't focus on the game window (ex: firefox is "active"), and I drag my mouse over the Crysis 2 window, the UI moves smoothly, like it did before, but once I click on the windows, it starts stuttering, and my CPU usage goes up (I'm running rainmeter with CPU monitoring)

Here're mys specs:
Intel Core 2 Quad @ 2.5Ghz
8 Gigs ram
Nvidia 220 GT

any ideas on what to do?

If you did not play in windows

pretty weak system specs....could be anything. What exactly is your cpu usage

Nvidia 220 GT
i used that card for my mediacenter,..not much good for anything else

the minimum i would say say is a gtx260 / radeon 4890

or use a custom autoexec.cfg and put these lines in it and save



sys_spec_shading=1
sys_spec_gameeffects=1
sys_spec_objectdetail=1
sys_spec_particles=1
sys_spec_physics=1
sys_spec_postprocessing=1
sys_spec_shadows=1
sys_spec_sound=1
sys_spec_texture=1
sys_spec_water=1
g_skipIntro=1
cl_fov=55
pl_movement.power_sprint_targetFov=55
i_mouse_accel=0
i_mouse_accel_max=100
i_mouse_smooth=1
r_motionblur=0
g_radialBlur=0
cl_zoomToggle=0
r_UseEdgeAA=0
r_TexMaxAnisotropy=0
r_PostMSAA=0
cl_crouchtoggle=0
r_ColorGrading=0
r_SSAO=0
r_VSync=1
e_shadows=0
g_enableInitialLoginScreen=0
r_HDRBloomMul=0,3
r_HDRBrightLevel=0,2
r_MultiGPU=0
g_useHitSoundFeedback=1
sys_MaxFps=60
r_DrawNearFoV=55

Nvidia 220 GT
i used that card for my mediacenter,..not much good for anything else

the minimum i would say say is a gtx260 / radeon 4890

or use a custom autoexec.cfg and put these lines in it and save



sys_spec_shading=1
sys_spec_gameeffects=1
sys_spec_objectdetail=1
sys_spec_particles=1
sys_spec_physics=1
sys_spec_postprocessing=1
sys_spec_shadows=1
sys_spec_sound=1
sys_spec_texture=1
sys_spec_water=1
g_skipIntro=1
cl_fov=55
pl_movement.power_sprint_targetFov=55
i_mouse_accel=0
i_mouse_accel_max=100
i_mouse_smooth=1
r_motionblur=0
g_radialBlur=0
cl_zoomToggle=0
r_UseEdgeAA=0
r_TexMaxAnisotropy=0
r_PostMSAA=0
cl_crouchtoggle=0
r_ColorGrading=0
r_SSAO=0
r_VSync=1
e_shadows=0
g_enableInitialLoginScreen=0
r_HDRBloomMul=0,3
r_HDRBrightLevel=0,2
r_MultiGPU=0
g_useHitSoundFeedback=1
sys_MaxFps=60
r_DrawNearFoV=55

^this should help some, nice work fusion

Thanks for all the replies everyone. I tried something different though. Since the game was running smooth as butter before, I uninstalled it and reinstalled it off steam. Initially it didn't help. I tried it again, but went to the steam folder and deleted everything that was left, and then reinstalled. Bingo. I'm not sure what it was in there that was causing the problem, but it's good now I guess!

See ya'll online!