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Crysis On New Mac Pro With 8800!!!

:apple:I am at the RECOVERY LEVELin Crysis. My Mac Pro has 2.8GHZ (8core) and 8800. All my settings are on HIGH and I have AF to 16X and AA to 4X on 1600 by 1200. I get between 17 and 21 FPS. Very playable and looks stunning! Macs make great gaming PCs especially the MAC PRO. I love Apple!!!!:):apple::)
 
I've been benching crysis 1.1 on my Mac pro yesterday.

I'm using an eVGA flashed 8800 GT, overclocked to 715/1060. With everything high and no aa @ 1680x1050 i get a very acceptable framerate between 35 and 40 frames. When i turn 2xAA on i get between 17 and 28 frames, which makes it laggy IMHO. Not bad.... To bad there aren't any 8800 GT intel SLI drivers, otherwise i would have bought two GT's. Crysis is cool and all, but running UT3 at 2560x1600 with everything maxed out still gives me 60+ fps. That's a pretty good feat aswell.

With the ATI I can't run crysis properly because of the 1024x768 image quality on a 30" ACD. It just makes it to blurry. Also the UT3 performance of the ATI is cryable ;)

BTW: if your intrested in gaming performance on a 4 vs 8 core. I don't think you will notice any difference in terms of frame rates if you choose for a 4 core MP. The most games make use of 1 or 2 cores. Even crysis and UT3.
 
mikekim75 said:
I would really like to know where it says that FB Dimms are slow, ALL my searches say that FB Dimms are fast. In fact since they run series and not in parallel they are much faster than DDR 2, also FB Dimms are DDR2 with other stuff. I just want to understand a little better, I'm not arguing. Thanks
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slackpacker said:
I would like to see some benchmarks.... with all this talk about memory speed. All in all this talk is a waste of time I really doubt it will change the game at all and give any framerate difference at all.
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Here is an overview done by Mac on Intel. They link to some benchmark tests Anandtech did EDIT: look at page 11. The moral of the story Mac Pros run best with 4 FB-DIMMs populated. No more no less.
 
diamond.g said:
Here is an overview done by Mac on Intel. They link to some benchmark tests Anandtech did EDIT: look at page 11. The moral of the story Mac Pros run best with 4 FB-DIMMs populated. No more no less.
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Article is from 2006 and it still does not have any tests... just guessing. I agree with you that populating all four will give you the best speed. But what I'm saying is what are the REAL performance gains. I would like to see a Crysis before and after test. I bet you don't see a thing as far as performance gain.
 
slackpacker said:
Article is from 2006 and it still does not have any tests... just guessing. I agree with you that populating all four will give you the best speed. But what I'm saying is what are the REAL performance gains. I would like to see a Crysis before and after test. I bet you don't see a thing as far as performance gain.
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This is the best I could find. Sadly they are only testing Skulltrail and in the end don't really recommend it since it doesn't noticable outperform a cheaper system. Now this is in games mind you. Kyle readily admits if you have program that need 8 cores go for it. Really the only way you can get a similar test is to recreate it. Most here will say Crysis runs great (as it should on a $2500 computer) and that is fine. But those odd ball gamers want superior gaming performance for their coin. Sadly the MP doesn't offer that (yet). Simply, it isn't the fastest gaming box for the money.
 
diamond.g said:
This is the best I could find. Sadly they are only testing Skulltrail and in the end don't really recommend it since it doesn't noticable outperform a cheaper system. Now this is in games mind you. Kyle readily admits if you have program that need 8 cores go for it. Really the only way you can get a similar test is to recreate it. Most here will say Crysis runs great (as it should on a $2500 computer) and that is fine. But those odd ball gamers want superior gaming performance for their coin. Sadly the MP doesn't offer that (yet). Simply, it isn't the fastest gaming box for the money.
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So... The reason I purchased the Mac Was because it could run Games amazingly and it also runs OS X...The Best!
 
diamond.g said:
Oh, well what was the point of me finding the comparisions? You won't ever find a PC that will satisfy the requirement of running OS X and games, and still be able to run games faster than a similarly priced PC. (I hope that made sense)
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Oh your pathetic your trying to stir up nothing... go Troll somewhere else.

Yes I could but the whole thing is we are mac owners... the MP IS a great Game machine for Windows. It may not be the BEST We're NOT all going to go out and buy windows boxes. Get with it man.
 
slackpacker said:
Oh your pathetic your trying to stir up nothing... go Troll somewhere else.

Yes I could but the whole thing is we are mac owners... the MP IS a great Game machine for Windows. It may not be the BEST We're NOT all going to go out and buy windows boxes. Get with it man.
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Thank you for correcting me. I shall edit my other post now.
 
I dont get why you got upset. You asked for benchmarks with reference to the difference in ram speeds (FB-DIMM) and you were provided a xeon setup with FBDIMM cmparing to normal DDR2. You didnt seem to care looking at the benchmark or dismissed it as being old even though it was not that irrelevant. The poster of the benchmark basically said "whats the point if you're not going to look at the link" and you jumped on him.

slackpacker said:
Oh your pathetic your trying to stir up nothing... go Troll somewhere else.

Yes I could but the whole thing is we are mac owners... the MP IS a great Game machine for Windows. It may not be the BEST We're NOT all going to go out and buy windows boxes. Get with it man.
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Slow Frame Rate at Relic Level

I have been playing this with all levels set to HIGH and AF at 16 for about four hours today. I got to the point where you are at the pit with the alien artifact and the whole place goes crazy. You then start the Relic level where you have to get to the river. At this point my system slows to a crawl with about 10FPS. I exited to the main menu where my mouse pointer was back to normal. However when loading the game again - same problem. I exited to Windows desktop and shut my system down. When I opened the case the graphic card was warm but not hot.
Has anyone else experienced the same problem. I haven't fired it back up yet to see if it was an overheating problem - the exterior of the case was warm but not unusually so and I didn't here the fans - so I'm not sure if they were running at full speed. What controls the fan speeds - is it built into the MB os part of the OS?
Alan
 
Jonny427 said:
Wait, I thought you can't...
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All ATIs Crossfire needs to work is intercard writes enabled (intercard writes isn't the correct term, but it means basically that) plus at least 2 2X00HD/3X00HD series cards. Nvidias SLi needs (a blessing from Nvidia and) some Nvidia hardware.
So as long as ATI's drivers has the option (which I am pretty sure they do) you should be good to go.
 
Are you using headphones to play Crysis, or speakers? I have some 5.1 speakers I would like to use, but heard bootcamp does not support surround sound currently? Would installing a sound card (i.e. creative) to use just in Windows be an option?
 
aaronw1986 said:
Are you using headphones to play Crysis, or speakers? I have some 5.1 speakers I would like to use, but heard bootcamp does not support surround sound currently? Would installing a sound card (i.e. creative) to use just in Windows be an option?
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I am using a 5.1 surround sound system from Logitech connected via optical and it works great under Bootcamp. I believe that if you insert the Leopard DVD after installing Windows under Bootcamp it will install the necessary audio drivers (Realtek I think).
Alan
 
orpheus1120 said:
Yes I am referring to what you are thinking. Then perhaps running the best Crysis settings (everything on high) on a Mac Pro is impossible given the Mac Pro doesn't have sli capability (IIRC). Yes?
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If you have an 8800GT and do an "autodetect" Crysis will set all of the options to HIGH. At this setting it runs great. I do!
Alan
 
Siron said:
I am using a 5.1 surround sound system from Logitech connected via optical and it works great under Bootcamp. I believe that if you insert the Leopard DVD after installing Windows under Bootcamp it will install the necessary audio drivers (Realtek I think).
Alan
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Really? This would be great. And you can actually hear things from behind you and such? Just wanted to make sure, cause there is a thread with people saying you can't do 5.1 in bootcamp.
 
aaronw1986 said:
Really? This would be great. And you can actually hear things from behind you and such? Just wanted to make sure, cause there is a thread with people saying you can't do 5.1 in bootcamp.
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5.1 works great (I did have problems until I realized I had the Tosslink cable connected to the "Optical In" port instead of the "Out" port :)). I get sound from my rear speakers but have not checked to see if it's truly the surround effects (to busy immersing myself in the game).
Alan
 
Siron said:
5.1 works great (I did have problems until I realized I had the Tosslink cable connected to the "Optical In" port instead of the "Out" port :)). I get sound from my rear speakers but have not checked to see if it's truly the surround effects (to busy immersing myself in the game).
Alan
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Cool. Which version of Windows are you running?
 
I stand corrected

I checked my speaker setting in XP under Bootcamp and it only shows 2 speakers - not true 5.1 even though it sounds good.
Alan
 
I ran Cryisis for the first time yesterday w/ Vista Ultimate 64bit and my Z5500 5.1 surround sound w/ the optical cable and I was able to have surround sound, also true with BF2142 and Oblivion.
 
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