Crysis Investigation

Test 2: Individual Settings, Part 1 (XP)

While changing all settings at once can give you a good overall picture of the game’s performance dynamics, individually changing the settings is more realistic in terms of a gamer trying to tweak the game, and is also more interesting to find out where the bottlenecks are. So that’s what we’ll do next.

First, here are the screenshots; the first one is all settings at high while the rest have one setting at low with the rest on high.

XP All High

XP Low Textures

XP Low Objects

XP Low Shadows

XP Low Shaders

XP Low Volumetric

XP Low Post Processing

XP Low Water

Here are the benchmark results from the GPU benchmark:

Clearly shader quality is having the biggest impact here with shadows, objects and post-processing also taking a big chunk.