Performance-enhancing patch for Crysis is ready for download

Today marks the last day you’ll need to resort to witchcraft in order to get a few more frames per second in Crysis, because the game’s first patch is finally here! Among the many items it addresses, here are the most noteworthy:

• • Improved multi-GPU performance for users with multiple video game
• cards
• • Improved full screen anti-aliasing performance
• • Improved general rendering performance
• • Integrated advanced graphics settings which gives players more
• options to tune graphics setting to their individual PC
• • General weapons balancing improvements in multiplayer

But that’s only the tip of the iceberg — all of the specific fixes and tweaks can be seen after the break. Seriously, there’s a lot of ’em.

Let’s hope y’all will see superior results with Crysis after applying the update, but if not, there’s always the gameplay to fall back on, right? Right!?

Fixes

• • Fixed: Potential crash in D3D10
• • Fixed: Orange boxes apearing when hispec savegame loaded into lowspec game.
• • Fixed: Inconsistent damage dealt to vehicles when shot by LAW.
• • Fixed: Reflection resolution on D3D10, MultiGPU reflection update fix
• • Fixed: Memory leak with FSAA modes
• • Fixed: Infinite ammo hacks.
• • Fixed: Memory leak in D3D10 when switching screen modes
• • Fixed: Muti optimizations
• • Fixed: When player melees during gun raise animation, their gun will be in a permanantly raised position.
• • Fixed: Crash when loading savegame with level exported recently by editor
• • Fixed: Virtual keyboard does not function properly when a game pad is connected
• • Fixed: Users can lose the ability to look around with the Right Stick
• • Fixed: Setting screen resolution to “default” stops user from selecting last resolution
• • Fixed: Bug when changing resolution in D3D10
• • Fixed: Issues with Depth of field and water droplets in D3D10
• • Fixed: Crash on NaN warning

Updates

• • Added: Motion Blur UI and V.SYNC UI options
• • Optimized: Motion blur
• • Optimized: FSAA (Full Scene Anti-Aliasing)
• • Optimized sound id implementation
• • Enabled VSync functionality in D3D10
• • New benchmarking files for ice CPU benchmark.
• • http/xmlrpc password protected remote control session
• • Marked debug cvars as cheat
• • F12 (screenshot) now works in restricted mode as well

Tweaks

• • Reduced LAW splash damage vs. infantry in PowerStruggle mode
• • Slowed Rocket projectile speed down in MP slightly
• • Disabled automatic turret bounding boxes on vehicles to prevent issues with LAW hit detection
• • Reduced grenade explosion radius in multiplayer
• • Clamped water tesselation to avoid cheating in MP
• • MultiGPU improvements with depth map updates