» Fri Apr 02, 2010 6:02 pm
Sounds awesome, can make the graphics worse and everyone will be running at much lower FPS, sounds like a fantastic idea. The Cryengine 2 is not anywhere near as good as Cryengine 3.
The idea is to implement at the very least DX10. It'll end up looking a lot better.
I'm pretty sure that DX10 was never meant to be supported, just DX9 and DX11 (not sure why). Should be mentioned that you could force DX10 settings in DX9 mode on the original Crysis and the result was just that, it looked the same as the DX10 settings, there are many screenshots around the web comparing them.
Crysis 1 looked amazing not because of CryEngine 2 (well partly because) but mostly because of the tropical world and the way it was presented, but it was horribly rescource heavy.
CryEngine 3 is in every way better (have you seen the example videos of a tropical climate?) it is just presented in an urban jungle a city landscape, its like comparing apples to oranges. This DX9 mode looks fantastic and runs amazingly well in CryEngine 3, with DX11 unlocked the game is going to blow minds, but you have to take into consideration were not on a beautiful tropical jungle island.