Ever get this figured out? You definitely have something going on. Your pc should be able to run it flawlessly with those specs.

It runs like crap for me too. I tried the Steam version, but it's 32-bit only and the GOG version's 64-bit didn't help either. I finally get the game to run and it stutters and jitters like mad. I even had to do an 8-pixel adjustment on a custom resolution because with the standard resolutions the game was capped at 50FPS. I remember this running really well back on Windows 7 and I don't know what's happened. I finally gave up after spending 4 hours messing with it.

I have a Ryzen 5 1600 and a 1060 6gb and I can agree it runs so bad for the hardware, I don't really understand it either maybe something to do with the newest drivers?

Guys this game is notoriously badly optimised, on modern systems it is severely bottlenecked by single-threaded CPU performance. Is has always and will always run poorly, it was the butt of jokes for many years.

It's not single-threaded, though. But there is truth in it, as in - the game is optimized according to utter bullcrap prediction they got from Intel. Which was that the future will be 2-4core CPUs with cloaked at around 6, 7... maybe even 8 GHz. And now you can see results - a game that is using generally up to 3 cores and pretty much has entire AI parked on 1 core, which just chokes everything.

Reference: https://youtu.be/PcYA-H3qpTI?t=1059

I didn't say it was single threaded, but the bottleneck is the speed at which your CPU can execute a single thread.

On my quad core crysis usually uses about 18% CPU which is about one and a half cores. Makes perfect sense since when this game came out dual-core CPUs were still relatively new.

Sorry people for the connection in my brain to take so long.

I think I know what most people's problem is, as long as they do not have a junk processor like AMD's FX-4100.

Are you, who have terrible frame rates on good machines, on DirecX 11 or DX 12 capable machines, including using Windows 8 or later? I think you would benefit from installing DX 9 and DX 10.1 next to DX 12 (or 11 if you are still on that). You would think DX 11 and 12 would come with full support for DX 9 but that is not the case. You can have ie DX 12 and DX 10 and DX 9 installed next to each other no problem. Just download from MS or other trustworthy site.

Also, know that you can force use of DX 9 instead of DX 10. I forgot how to but you can search for it yourselves. I had to use that as my DX 10 capable GPU could only serve me a slide show ten years ago.