Horrible performance with overkill PC

[CheapAssGamer]

Originally Posted by primithras

Hello everyone,

I bought Cryostasis yesterday but I think something is wrong with my copy. I have an overkill game pc that can flawlessly run Crysis and other recent games on high but for some reason I can't juice more then 10 FPS out of Cryostasis?
I'm running the game on 1920*1080 with every setting on high, lowering the settings doesn't help either. Anybody got any ideas, maybe a wrong setting enabled or a damaged copy?

Specs:
*Windows XP SP3
*Phenom II X4 940 @ OC 3,4Ghzx4
*Sapphire HD4870x2
*8GB DDR2 1066Mhz RAM
*Foxconn A7DA-S

Is that winXP 64 or 32 bit?

[primithras]

Hello again,

Sorry for the late response, I've been busy with my exams lately. Thanks for all the comments, to answer some questions:

1) Running a 64 bit Windows XP
2) Changing the resolution to 800*600 ups my FPS to about +-30 but it's ridiculous that I have to play at such low resolution/quality ( 800x600 on a 24" moniter, yay! )
3) Disabling shadows and motion blur does not give a boost to my FPS.
4) Disabling one of GPU's only gives about +3 FPS, almost not noticable.

Cryostasis does not benefit from multiple cpu-cores.
Cryostasis scales not good with crossfire or sli.
Cryostasis does not perform well with ati-cards.

In my opinion, if you make a game and release it in 2009 but can't fix the above problems, just quit your day job as a developer please for gods sake.

[EvilInside]

Welcome to the club!!!1

Anyway... i don't thing this board has anything to do with developers... its more like user-to-user only... and not user-to-developer or anything like that if you know what i mean.

[Ascendant]

Indeed, it would appear that perhaps the developers (like for many games I've played) aren't listening to the players, or if they are, it doesn't show.

I normally run most games quite smoothly, on medium-high graphics (never bothered to try Crysis though). I got this yesterday, and it started alright. I even tried raising my settings to high at some point (and changing a few other things) and it seemed to work almost better, but with a nicer look. This morning, it was nearly un-playable, and now I'm suffering from the "head-bobbing" glitch, which is really frustrating, and I have no clue how it started, nor how I could ever fix it.

And I'm using an ATI Radeon X1650 series card, 2GB RAM.

And I don't know a whole lot about hardware, so I can't quite contribute to a solution, given that this really isn't my area.