so crisis 2 and the GTX 590 are both out
so for this uh heavyweight battle I have
the GTX 590 as well as the Radeon HD
6990 and then whatever else I get around to benchmarking before the end of the
day you can see my video card box is right there so uh I'll figure out what
makes sense but I'm going to do some crisis 2 benchmarks since this is my
first time benching crisis 2 I just want to show you guys what methodology I'll
be using to test it so first of all you can see in the options I have configured
it at 1080p with no vsync so that I can get a more accurate reading you can see
the frame rate can clearly go over a thousand in the menu and I'm using the
extreme system spec and then that's pretty much it there's honestly it just
reaks of console Port it just does I mean you turn it on it asks you to
adjust your TV and then you go in there there's no real anti-aliasing options or
anything like that the reason that I am using the options that are in here
rather than custom in things in the control panel is that I want you guys to
be able to replicate the results easily at home so here we go I am going to go
ahead and resume my game it also does not have save games or loading games or
load games so I have to just play through a particular checkpoint and then
make sure that I die before I get to the next checkpoint which is epic fail so
basically I'm going to point myself this way I'm going to press my Benchmark
start button and I will be playing for 2 minutes I have a little route that I'm
going to follow and I'll I'll be focused mostly
on following my path and less on killing
specific guys so I go to that one side make sure he's dead and then I'm going
to head towards the camp that I have to
infiltrate I'm going to be using a walking speed so that my run throughs
will be fairly consistent and this guy can die now I am
playing on easy mode sorry guys it just really is a lot easier to Benchmark on
easy than it is to
um Benchmark on like hard mode because
this guy see won't turn around on easy and I can kill him instead of trying to
deal with whatever he's going to be throwing at me if I don't kill him ahead
of time so I'm going to go up these stairs
here should be a guy here let's see
there he is hello now you're dead now
you're dead there we go I'm going to head down this way and back towards the entrance where
he'll die
and this is like I said it's about a two-minute run
through you'll
die and the most important thing is just
lots of scenery I'm going to blow up some barrels later on just to see how
low the frame rate dips and uh following
the same consistent run through is what I am aiming for here so you guys can die
yay spray and prey you can die and then I'm going to be headed over
here to blow up these barrels and hopefully they'll stop shooting me boom
very nice and then I'm going to wait here for fraps to stop reporting and
just do some sniping from here so this should give me fairly consistent results
based on what I've seen so far and when frap stops recording it'll
show the frame rate counter up in the top right again there we go so frabs has
stopped recording so here I'll share with you guys in the intro my results
with crisis 2 running at 1080p in the
extreme preset with the GTX 590 so then
all I do is go into my fraps folder go
into my benchmarks folder and bring up this little file so that is what I used
to compile my results I'm going to run some other video cards through this game
and find out how they stack up in this latest and greatest crisis 2 title be in
mind guys it's not direct X11 yet because there's no patch for it at the
moment so what I'll probably do is retest once we have direct X11 as
well so um I will not be releasing a
crisis 2 GPU guide video today because
there are some issues with the game so number one with my radon 6990 and just
for Giggles I tried a different one to see if that would fix the problem it did
not uh with my 6990 I get this awesome
awesome flickering issue outstanding so there's a 13 page thread on some crisis
Forum or other where people are anyone running multi-GPU is complaining about
flickering performance issues uh some people are getting uh the bloom effects
flickering others are getting Shadows flickering I'm getting a whole screen flickering so I have no idea what that
means in terms of this performance number and how close that is to how
it'll actually run but like look at this isn't this outstanding I could get a
headache playing like this in like a minute I mean the game runs I suppose
but yeah it's uh pretty apparent that nobody at EA or krych thought it
necessary to ever test the game with a multi-GPU setup based on how many people
are having issues so my performance review will have to wait and uh so yeah
on the NVIDIA side guess what this this is actually kind of funny because where
did my GTX 590 go oh here it
is the GTX 590 actually runs crisis 2
just fine I get 91.7 FPS compared to 62
FPS at the same settings with the GTX 580 so that's probably about right
considering how much lower it's clocked and sort of decent but not great scaling
but get this my GTX 580 SLI setup
actually scores only about 57 frames per second with my same playthrough so that
means that while it doesn't flicker like the 6990 does my performance actually
goes down in SLI with my particular SLI setup some people running SLI are
complaining about flickering and other random issues too but that doesn't seem
to be the problem I'm having with my system I've tried wiping drivers uh
there's a fix out there it involves renaming the exe which because I'm using
a steam copy I cannot do so guys basically this is just a teaser video
that I will be doing a performance review of Crisis 2 as soon as I'm able
to run all of my cards with it and I will be including as many gpus as I
possibly can to give you guys the most comprehensive results don't forget to
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