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so crisis 2 and the GTX 590 are both out

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so for this uh heavyweight battle I have

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the GTX 590 as well as the Radeon HD

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6990 and then whatever else I get around to benchmarking before the end of the

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day you can see my video card box is right there so uh I'll figure out what

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makes sense but I'm going to do some crisis 2 benchmarks since this is my

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first time benching crisis 2 I just want to show you guys what methodology I'll

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be using to test it so first of all you can see in the options I have configured

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it at 1080p with no vsync so that I can get a more accurate reading you can see

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the frame rate can clearly go over a thousand in the menu and I'm using the

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extreme system spec and then that's pretty much it there's honestly it just

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reaks of console Port it just does I mean you turn it on it asks you to

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adjust your TV and then you go in there there's no real anti-aliasing options or

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anything like that the reason that I am using the options that are in here

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rather than custom in things in the control panel is that I want you guys to

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be able to replicate the results easily at home so here we go I am going to go

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ahead and resume my game it also does not have save games or loading games or

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load games so I have to just play through a particular checkpoint and then

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make sure that I die before I get to the next checkpoint which is epic fail so

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basically I'm going to point myself this way I'm going to press my Benchmark

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start button and I will be playing for 2 minutes I have a little route that I'm

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going to follow and I'll I'll be focused mostly

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on following my path and less on killing

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specific guys so I go to that one side make sure he's dead and then I'm going

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to head towards the camp that I have to

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infiltrate I'm going to be using a walking speed so that my run throughs

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will be fairly consistent and this guy can die now I am

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playing on easy mode sorry guys it just really is a lot easier to Benchmark on

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easy than it is to

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um Benchmark on like hard mode because

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this guy see won't turn around on easy and I can kill him instead of trying to

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deal with whatever he's going to be throwing at me if I don't kill him ahead

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of time so I'm going to go up these stairs

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here should be a guy here let's see

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there he is hello now you're dead now

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you're dead there we go I'm going to head down this way and back towards the entrance where

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he'll die

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and this is like I said it's about a two-minute run

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through you'll

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die and the most important thing is just

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lots of scenery I'm going to blow up some barrels later on just to see how

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low the frame rate dips and uh following

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the same consistent run through is what I am aiming for here so you guys can die

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yay spray and prey you can die and then I'm going to be headed over

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here to blow up these barrels and hopefully they'll stop shooting me boom

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very nice and then I'm going to wait here for fraps to stop reporting and

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just do some sniping from here so this should give me fairly consistent results

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based on what I've seen so far and when frap stops recording it'll

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show the frame rate counter up in the top right again there we go so frabs has

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stopped recording so here I'll share with you guys in the intro my results

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with crisis 2 running at 1080p in the

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extreme preset with the GTX 590 so then

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all I do is go into my fraps folder go

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into my benchmarks folder and bring up this little file so that is what I used

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to compile my results I'm going to run some other video cards through this game

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and find out how they stack up in this latest and greatest crisis 2 title be in

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mind guys it's not direct X11 yet because there's no patch for it at the

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moment so what I'll probably do is retest once we have direct X11 as

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well so um I will not be releasing a

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crisis 2 GPU guide video today because

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there are some issues with the game so number one with my radon 6990 and just

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for Giggles I tried a different one to see if that would fix the problem it did

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not uh with my 6990 I get this awesome

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awesome flickering issue outstanding so there's a 13 page thread on some crisis

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Forum or other where people are anyone running multi-GPU is complaining about

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flickering performance issues uh some people are getting uh the bloom effects

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flickering others are getting Shadows flickering I'm getting a whole screen flickering so I have no idea what that

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means in terms of this performance number and how close that is to how

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it'll actually run but like look at this isn't this outstanding I could get a

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headache playing like this in like a minute I mean the game runs I suppose

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but yeah it's uh pretty apparent that nobody at EA or krych thought it

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necessary to ever test the game with a multi-GPU setup based on how many people

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are having issues so my performance review will have to wait and uh so yeah

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on the NVIDIA side guess what this this is actually kind of funny because where

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did my GTX 590 go oh here it

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is the GTX 590 actually runs crisis 2

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just fine I get 91.7 FPS compared to 62

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FPS at the same settings with the GTX 580 so that's probably about right

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considering how much lower it's clocked and sort of decent but not great scaling

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but get this my GTX 580 SLI setup

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actually scores only about 57 frames per second with my same playthrough so that

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means that while it doesn't flicker like the 6990 does my performance actually

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goes down in SLI with my particular SLI setup some people running SLI are

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complaining about flickering and other random issues too but that doesn't seem

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to be the problem I'm having with my system I've tried wiping drivers uh

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there's a fix out there it involves renaming the exe which because I'm using

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a steam copy I cannot do so guys basically this is just a teaser video

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that I will be doing a performance review of Crisis 2 as soon as I'm able

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to run all of my cards with it and I will be including as many gpus as I

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possibly can to give you guys the most comprehensive results don't forget to

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