KiLL3r
8th November 2007, 03:00 PM
http://www.tweakguides.com/Crysis_1.html
Has heaps of great tweaks such as
'Very High' On The Cheap
There's another thing you can try if you find Very High mode is just a bit too strenuous for your system. You can try the "cheap" version of Very High, which basically only implements the more obvious visual enhancements of Very High. To do this, instead of editing your .cfg files as covered above, all you need to do is set your in-game settings all to High as normal, then add the following commands to your System.cfg file (or just test them in the console first): r_UsePOM=1, r_sunshafts=1, r_colorgrading=1. This will make High look extremely similar to Very High, but with a bit less of a performance hit. In a pinch, if you still need extra FPS, try disabling color grading as it takes up a big chunk of FPS. You can also turn off Edge AA (r_UseEdgeAA=0) to make things look crisper and boost performance further. That's the quick way to get Very High on the cheap, but obviously if you want to do things in more depth (which I recommend), then read through the Advanced Tweaking section of this guide and put together your own custom configuration to meet your needs.
Disabling the Introductory Movies
There are a large number of introductory/promotional movies which play before you reach the main menu in Crysis. If you wish to skip these and reach the main menu much more quickly, there's a simple method to do this: go to your \Program Files\Electronic Arts\Crytek\Crysis SP Demo\Game\Localized\Video directory, and rename all the .sfd files (except bg.sfd, which is the main menu background) to something else - e.g. give them all ._sfd extensions. Alternatively, create a new folder under that directory, call it whatever you wish, and move all the .sfd files except bg.sfd to that new directory. The game will now automatically skip all these introductory movies and get to the main menu within a shorter space of time.
Note that there is a g_SkipIntro command variable, but it doesn't appear to work in removing the startup movies, regardless of how it is implemented.
Has heaps of great tweaks such as
'Very High' On The Cheap
There's another thing you can try if you find Very High mode is just a bit too strenuous for your system. You can try the "cheap" version of Very High, which basically only implements the more obvious visual enhancements of Very High. To do this, instead of editing your .cfg files as covered above, all you need to do is set your in-game settings all to High as normal, then add the following commands to your System.cfg file (or just test them in the console first): r_UsePOM=1, r_sunshafts=1, r_colorgrading=1. This will make High look extremely similar to Very High, but with a bit less of a performance hit. In a pinch, if you still need extra FPS, try disabling color grading as it takes up a big chunk of FPS. You can also turn off Edge AA (r_UseEdgeAA=0) to make things look crisper and boost performance further. That's the quick way to get Very High on the cheap, but obviously if you want to do things in more depth (which I recommend), then read through the Advanced Tweaking section of this guide and put together your own custom configuration to meet your needs.
Disabling the Introductory Movies
There are a large number of introductory/promotional movies which play before you reach the main menu in Crysis. If you wish to skip these and reach the main menu much more quickly, there's a simple method to do this: go to your \Program Files\Electronic Arts\Crytek\Crysis SP Demo\Game\Localized\Video directory, and rename all the .sfd files (except bg.sfd, which is the main menu background) to something else - e.g. give them all ._sfd extensions. Alternatively, create a new folder under that directory, call it whatever you wish, and move all the .sfd files except bg.sfd to that new directory. The game will now automatically skip all these introductory movies and get to the main menu within a shorter space of time.
Note that there is a g_SkipIntro command variable, but it doesn't appear to work in removing the startup movies, regardless of how it is implemented.