My Crysis crisis

Technology and Gaming Help and Support
#1

I bought Crysis Maximum edition when it was on sale for $13.59 on steam. My hardware set up has run crysis just fine on medium (it runs ok on high too, but the cut screens get choppy on high so I leave it on medium). I never had a problem with it until I got to the aircraft carrier and had to fend off the first wave of aliens that came in. The game kept crashing through the battle at different time intervals. I figured my system was just getting overtaxed by it, so I turned all the settings on low and played it again, but the sky was multicolored and the game still crashed. I changed the settings back to medium and the sky remained multicolored for the next several times I loaded it. So I just tried to get through it the best I could using F5 to quicksave often. I finally got through it, and made it through the entire ship without a real problem. When I came back up and the alien exosuit climbed up on ship, warped into the sky and then warped underneath the deck, and the game continued to crash often. The only way i had to beat it was to walk over to where the radar said it was and try to get it to grab me through the deck at which point the top of the unit would appear above deck where I could shoot it, and used F5 often. I essentially did the same again when the final battle on the ship occured.

Through all of this, I have changed my settings, restarted my computer, check to see if my system was running too hot, and installed the latest drivers for my video card. Nothing seems to work.

So I moved on to Crysis Warhead. That game has run just fine on its medium equivalent, until I got to the hovercraft chase scene. The first time I played through that area I had no problem, but I died and when I came back everything was completely transparent except the ground and the shadows. I tried to load it on a much earlier save, and it is still transparent. I have since restarted my computer, checked to see if my system is again too hot, and changed the graphic settings. Nothing helps. Does anyone have any ideas?

System info:
Processor Information:
Processor: Intel Core2Duo E7400 2.8GHz
Speed: 2800 Mhz
2 logical processors
2 physical processors
HyperThreading: Unsupported
FCMOV: Supported
SSE2: Supported
SSE3: Supported
SSSE3: Supported
SSE4a: Unsupported
SSE41: Supported
SSE42: Unsupported

Windows Version:
Windows 7 (32 bit)
NTFS: Supported

Video Card: HIS ATI Radeon HD 4650
Driver: ATI Radeon HD 4600 Series
DirectX Driver Name: atiumdag.dll
Driver Version: 8.681.0.0
DirectX Driver Version: 8.14.10.716
Driver Date: 24 Nov 2009
Desktop Color Depth: 32 bits per pixel
Monitor Refresh Rate: 60 Hz
DirectX Card: ATI Radeon HD 4600 series
VendorID: 0x1002
DeviceID: 0x9498
Number of Logical Video Cards: 1
No SLI or Crossfire Detected
Primary Bus Type Not Detected
Primary VRAM: 512 MB
Supported MSAA Modes: 2x 4x 8x

Sound card:
Audio device: Speakers (High Definition Audio

Memory:
RAM: 2047 Mb

Miscellaneous:
UI Language: English
Microphone: Not set
Media Type: DVD
Total Hard Disk Space Available: 476929 Mb
Largest Free Hard Disk Block: 241703 Mb

#2

Im sorry, but people have had problems in those places.
You can try to repair the installation, but likely youll have to uninstall reinstall. Backup your game data through steam and slap your save games back in the folder when youre done.

If you want the game to run better, I have spent much time tweaking it. See my sig.

#3

Assassin, My brother reccomended me turning my game resolution down (my native resolution is 1680x1050) and when I did almost all the problems cleared up. I still crash on the ship quite a bit, but I’m just happy that its not extremely bugged. Who would of thought that the ingame resolution affected so much?

#4

My new pc, which handles the entire game on all high, also crashed there, just force it to run in DX9 mode, that should fix it.

#5

You can force the game to run in windowed mode at a lower resolution to keep your HD, etc (I use a vanilla copy and it doesn’t crash for me, I guess that’s because I’m using DX9 not 10).

It sounds like there are too many entities for the game engine to handle in DX10 so the engine crashes. I don’t know how, you might want to figure out a way to reduce the entity count. Just a thought.

#6

How do I get it to run in Dx9 mode in windows7, the instructions are there for vista on their site, but it doesn’t work for windows7?

#7

I had the same problem, to fix it go to the steam games list, right click on crysis and select properties, then click on set launch options and put “-dx9” in the box

#8

while you’re at it add -devmode as well to enable cool stuff like the epic thrid person mode.
and other things with the function keys.

#9

… not sure, seems to work fine for me.

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