Crysis Performance Improvement Guide

Crysis is a Crytek (German company) developed, first person point of view shooting game that was released back in November of 2007. Although the initial sales of this game were low, the visuals are praised by many for being extraordinary and seamless.

Crysis occurs in 2020, where US Army Forces Delta Team's Jake "Nomad" Dunn is given a mission to rescue scientists captured by North Korean forces. He is given a "nanosuit" that will allow him to change his speed, strength and it also lessens the chances of getting detected. The game offers several ways to finish the objective given to you; the beauty of it is that how you play the game entirely depends on the player. It has fully interactive environments, advanced shader technology and real time soft shadows.

Playing this game has the following system requirements:
Operating System: Windows XP or Windows Vista
Memory: 1.0 GB RAM (XP) or 1.5 GB RAM (Vista)
Processor: 2.8 GHz or faster (XP) or 3.2 GHz or faster (Vista)
Hard Drive: 6GB
Video Card: 256 MB
Sound Card: DirectX 9.0c compatible

The usual problem of gamers trying to play Crysis is that they have trouble in smoothly running it. Here are some ways to improve your Crysis performance:

- The game likes multi-core processors. You have to have at least two cores.
- It is highly suggested to play this game using the latest hardware drivers for your video and sound card.
- It ran at a minimum performance with a graphics card like GeForce 6800 and better with cards like GeForce 8800 GTX 768
- Change the game settings. Lower the resolution or you can use DirectX 9 instead of DirectX 10.
- Be sure to check out the performance improving patches that EA and Crytek have promised.
- Crysis 1.1 patch: Released earlier this year. Its size is 140 MB and it is for fixing bugs and improving gaming performance
- Crysis 1.2 patch
- Crysis 1.21 patch: Resolves client and server crashes while playing the game

- If there are some unnecessary applications running while playing, it is better to turn them off as these allow you to free up much needed extra memory.

- Uninstall applications and games you no longer use. These use us memory worth using for other applications.

- If you still have your thesis from high school in your hard drive eating up more GB's that you care for, free the space up by burning these data to CD's. As we all know, a full hard drive is a slow one.

- Do defrag once you've cleared up space. Defragging reduces the fragmentation of your files by reorganizing the contents of your disk so they are placed close together, making larger areas of free space, allowing your computer, thus Crysis, to run faster.

These are just some ways on how you can improve Crysis performance without having to resort to spending too much unnecessary dollars. Also note that as of date, Crysis can only be played at 30FPS. If you plan play Crysis at a higher frame per second, then wait for next year when the systems can (hopefully) handle it.

Kris Mainieri is an accomplished Computer Tech focusing on innovative and unique ways to help people take their computing performance to a whole new level free.

By Kris Mainieri