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Asus M3A78-EMH HDMI
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Crysis
About Crysis:
Crysis, a science fiction first person shooter set in the year 2020. You play as Lieutenant Jack Dunn, codename "Nomad", a United States Army Delta Force operative. The game starts out with a group of archaeologists doing research on an island in the South China Sea. As they were doing their research, minding their own business, they suddenly became overrun and taken captive by the North Korean Army. This is when the US Delta Forces were deployed to rescue the scientists. As the game goes on, you soon find out that the North Koreans are not the only threat on this island. Crysis, released towards the end of 2007, uses DirectX 10 and is currently the most demanding game out there.
Benchmarking Crysis:
For testing Crysis, we are going to be using a third party program very similar to FRAPS. This program is called "Benchmarking Tool for Crysis". With this we can tell it to render the timedemo multiple times and then generate a word file once completed with the results from every test. You can easily change game settings and how the benchmark will be performed.
For testing purposes we are going to be using the latest version of the game, version 1.1, which claims it enhances the performance of both single and multiple GPU processors.
Benchmarking Results:
Crysis |
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Medium Settings, with Anti-Aliasing Off : 800x600 |
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Run |
Min FPS |
Max FPS |
Avg. FPS |
Overall Quality: Medium |
1 2 3 4 |
0.59 0.59 0.59 0.59 |
15.32 16.51 16.51 18.20 |
10.14 10.51 10.71 11.12 |
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Crysis |
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Low Settings, with Anti-Aliasing Off : 800x600 |
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Run |
Min FPS |
Max FPS |
Avg. FPS |
Overall Quality: Low |
1 2 3 4 |
10.37 10.37 10.37 10.37 |
35.19 35.19 35.19 35.19 |
20.93 22.63 22.59 22.76 |
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Knowing that using the just the onboard graphics as the main video output solution, we decided to set crysis to the lowest settings and if it could handle it. And it sure did, playing crysis on the low settings at 800x600 we received an average of 22.22 frames per second, which was playable. We did decide to take and bring the settings up to medium and leave it at 800x600, this drastically lowered our frame rate to 10.62 frames per second. I was rather shocked when I saw the frame rate on low, I was expecting more along the lines of 10-15 frames per second opposed to the 22.22 fps received.