Crysis 3 graphics mod
This is why, on K-putt’s computer - a quad-core Haswell Xeon 1230v3 with an overclocked Radeon 7950 - he only gets around 2 frames per second. See the Flickr link below for the full-res download. (In case you’re wondering, true 8K is 33 million pixels per frame, or 16.5 times more than 1080p).Ĭrysis at 8K, external landscape. We’re not talking about a brace of GTX Titans here - we’re probably talking about 10 GTX Titans, all working in perfect synchrony, to deliver a decent frame rate. The full-res screenshots uploaded by K-putt clock in at 24 megabytes. In short, rendering Crysis 3 at 8000×3333 at a playable frame rate requires 13 times the processing power of your high-end gaming rig. By comparison, a 1920×1080 frame is a measly 2 million pixels. (Read: Triple monitor madness: GTX Titan, GTX 680, and Radeon 7970 go head-to-head at 5760×1080.)Īt 8000×3333, each frame consists of 26.6 million pixels. It’s also worth pointing out that K-putt didn’t actually get up to 8K (7680×4320), instead settling for an ultra-wide-screen 8000×3333 and portrait 3750×5000 shots. The end result still looks a lot like Crysis 3, just a little more contrasty. He also used SweetFX, a program that allows you to customize a game engine’s shader code, to tweak the output’s colors and contrast. This new EXE enables lots of new functionality through the in-game console - cvars, in game engine speak - allowing him to pump the resolution up, change the draw distance, and make other changes on the fly. To get Crysis 3 up to 8K, K-putt had to use a program called OnTheFly that produces a hacked version of the main Crysis executable file. For full-size images, see the Flickr link below. Crysis 3 isn’t quite as crippling as the first game - it runs at reasonable frame rates on most mid-to-high-end graphics cards - but it’s still one of the best ways to stress a graphics card, and it’s still one of most beautiful games on the market.Ĭrysis 3 at 8K, cityscape. To this day, “does it run Crysis?” is still a pretty common meme in computer hardware circles. Don’t get your hopes up for 8K gaming any time soon, though: K-putt has a pretty beefy gaming rig, and yet it could only muster 2 fps when running at 8K resolution.Īs you’re probably well aware, ever since Crysis was first released in 2007, it has been the benchmark for graphics card performance and beautiful real-time visuals. Crysis 3 at 8K looks so good that you could be mistaken for thinking that these screenshots are hand-drawn concept art - but in fact they’re straight out of the engine. You know how your computer struggles to run Crysis 3 at 1920×1080 at very high detail? And you know how beautiful it looks, even at that humdrum resolution? Well, now an enthusiast called K-putt has used a hacked Crysis 3 executable to run the game at 8K - and I’m not being hyperbolic when I say that the resultant screenshots are probably the most beautiful examples of real-time computer-generated graphics that I’ve ever seen.