From the screenshots and actual gameplay ofc, the game doesnt look its optimized atm. Sometimes its running at 99% gpu and sometimes it drops lower than 50%.

Im not sure whats happening - i aint using hyperthreading but a 2500k @4k, but comparing Crysis3 to BF3, i can say that BF3 uses the system in a % consistent ratio resulting in stable (and high) FPS.

I believe that the optimazation of Crysis3 is hardly from over. The only question is - will Cryo get down to it?

other than a few freazing instances i ran this game damn near full boar maxed out settings with out a hitch....











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Graphics are such a key part of the PC game experience these days, and folks want near photo realism most of the time for bragging rights I guess. I agree with Arne that this quest of perfect graphics is in many ways secondary to the game itself, the game should be what drives a buyer to shell out money to play not how good the graphics are.

That being said Crysis 3 is far from optimised as yet, and I suspect that it will be via the community that mods or major tweaks will come, or at least I hope so.

I'm a "whole picture" kind of guy. Graphics are important to me, I've invested in multiple 30" IPS' for that reason... however, story, animation, voice acting and pioneering new mechanics and genres are all equally important to me.

If I play a well written and executed game, with poor graphics, I am going to be focused on, and complaining about, its seemingly singular blemish. "This game is sooo good, if only they'd put the effort into the graphics too, it would be near perfect." That is a statement I think every gamer can look back and confess too uttering something similar too, be it related to graphics or otherwise. After playing BF3, I can hardly stand to play something with stiff, outdated animations. Pulls me straight out of the immersion. As new games raise the bar in one area or another, we all tend to adjust our standards, intentionally or not. For that reason, and to every Dev's dismay, it has ALL become important to me. :cool:

The third SLI or crossfire slot on motherboards should be a dedicated physic's card.Games really lack a huge amount of physic's.The motherboard builders and CPU builders need to get together and fix there systems and bios's up to run the third video slot to physic's, and do it like direct-x , make all the companies use the same code for physic's.
Imagine a crossfired video system with a 7990 dual gpu as a physic's card, sheesh, the game coders would have a whole new fandangle engine to run/build.

game "CRYSIS"created with CryENGINE software. It's very expensive software