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Posted May 22, 2012
This is just ridiculous and i think i want a refund on it. The fact that i can't play it smoothly on Core i7 920 @ 3,8GHz, 6GB RAM and HD6950 2GB is just plain idiotic. I mean even with no FSAA, just AF the game is stuttering horribly, mouse is laggy and i get crappy pauses all the time. And it's not PhysX thing, it's graphics. PhysX only makes things bad when you smash something and you have Advanced Physics enabled (which i don't).

I mean we're talking about the same system that was running Battlefield 3 with EVERYTHING maxxed out and it was still smooth as silk. Crysis 1 and 2. No problems. Need for Speed Hot Pursuit 2010 and The Run. TES:Oblivion. No problems. Then i run this old Cryostasis and its freakin unplayable. I just don't get it.
Posted May 23, 2012
Me too I got a high end computer and I can't play it on high settings. Even on low I'm like 25-30 or 60 fps at some places but generally its 25-30. Cause I buy this game for the graphics, when it came out I couldn't play it with my old computer. The most bad optimized game I have ever seen so far. Kinda sad about this. But you know no one could knew it could run badly today with quad-core and gtx graphic card. Its a 2009 game, still it support shader 4.0 when I got 5.0. Still strange.
Posted May 26, 2012
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rejzor: This is just ridiculous and i think i want a refund on it. The fact that i can't play it smoothly on Core i7 920 @ 3,8GHz, 6GB RAM and HD6950 2GB is just plain idiotic. I mean even with no FSAA, just AF the game is stuttering horribly, mouse is laggy and i get crappy pauses all the time. And it's not PhysX thing, it's graphics. PhysX only makes things bad when you smash something and you have Advanced Physics enabled (which i don't).

I mean we're talking about the same system that was running Battlefield 3 with EVERYTHING maxxed out and it was still smooth as silk. Crysis 1 and 2. No problems. Need for Speed Hot Pursuit 2010 and The Run. TES:Oblivion. No problems. Then i run this old Cryostasis and its freakin unplayable. I just don't get it.
It's a very poorly programmed game which is sad because it's absolutely incredible in any aspect that isn't technical. I gave it 3 stars on my GOG review and I would translate that as a 6 in a serious review. And I still feel I was way too generous, I once found a bug in which after chapter 11 reloading my save file would cause the game to cap at 5-10 FPS.

Honestly, I'd give it a 5 because it's literally a half-good game
Posted November 13, 2012
I have a Windows 7x64, 16G RAM, GTX 660 Ti, Core i5 3570. This seems to be better than some of the listed setups in this thread but I can't run everything maxed at 1920x1080 without significant lag. I can improve it significantly by going to 1280x720 resolution but that's a drag.
Posted November 16, 2012
Allow me to quote myself quoting someone else from a long time ago:
Was having terrible performance on my system: 14-18 fps in many places. After some trial and error I've found that the biggest performance drain comes from a combination of high-detail (soft) shadows and anisotropic filtering. The soft shadows I get, but the fps loss due to anisotropic filtering really surprised me - have never seen it have a 10-15(!) fps impact on a game before.

The third biggest drain is the caustic water effect. Combining it with EITHER high-detail shadows or anisotropic filtering literally brings me from 45-60 fps down to 10-18 in most areas of the game.

I have everything else maxed, including PhysX & EAX.

Anyway, hope this helps someone who has just bought the game and is wondering WTF their performance is so awful. Just try turning off anisotropic filtering, then turning down shadows to medium and lastly water caustics if your fps is still bad. You'll probably have playable fps after all that and still have 90% of the eye-candy.
I give the game itself at least a 8/10 - the gameplay could be better, but the atmosphere is thick enough to cut with a butterknife
Post edited November 16, 2012 by Mokkat
Posted November 17, 2012
The problems with performance all stem from the physx add-on that the devs tacked on when physx was starting to get bigger. It's jerry-rigged on top of the existing engine and simply makes the framerate completely unplayable. You just have to drop the physx down a notch or two and it plays just fine.

Some further tweaks that may help some - http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1394417
Post edited November 17, 2012 by Mobeeuz
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