Crysis patch clamps water tessellation (finally!)

by Ludwig Kietzmann on Jan 10th 2008 7:30AM

We can't tell you how many sessions of Crysis were ruined for us by the rampantly unclamped water tessellation. Of course, the primary reason for that may be that we actually... don't know what water tessellation is. It has been thoroughly clamped though!

So say the notes released alongside the 139MB Crysis 1.1 patch, now available for download. Other issues dealt with (listed after the break) include improper water droplets, motion blur, FSAA optimization, animation bugs and memory leaks. If you've been having a blast with Crytek's visually stunning first-person nanosuiter, be sure to grab the first patch for tomorrow's game today.

Fixes

Fixed: Potential crash in D3D10
Fixed: Orange boxes apearing when hispec savegame loaded into lowspec game.
Fixed: Inconsistent damage dealt to vehicles when shot by LAW.
Fixed: Reflection resolution on D3D10, MultiGPU reflection update fix
Fixed: Memory leak with FSAA modes
Fixed: Infinite ammo hacks.
Fixed: Memory leak in D3D10 when switching screen modes
Fixed: Muti optimizations
Fixed: When player melees during gun raise animation, their gun will be in a permanantly raised position.
Fixed: Crash when loading savegame with level exported recently by editor
Fixed: Virtual keyboard does not function properly when a game pad is connected
Fixed: Users can lose the ability to look around with the Right Stick
Fixed: Setting screen resolution to "default" stops user from selecting last resolution
Fixed: Bug when changing resolution in D3D10
Fixed: Issues with Depth of field and water droplets in D3D10
Fixed: Crash on NaN warning

Updates

Added: Motion Blur UI and V.SYNC UI options
Optimized: Motion blur
Optimized: FSAA (Full Scene Anti-Aliasing)
Optimized sound id implementation
Enabled VSync functionality in D3D10
New benchmarking files for ice CPU benchmark.
http/xmlrpc password protected remote control session
Marked debug cvars as cheat
F12 (screenshot) now works in restricted mode as well

Tweaks

Reduced LAW splash damage vs. infantry in PowerStruggle mode
Slowed Rocket projectile speed down in MP slightly
Disabled automatic turret bounding boxes on vehicles to prevent issues with LAW hit detection
Reduced grenade explosion radius in multiplayer
Clamped water tesselation to avoid cheating in MP
MultiGPU improvements with depth map updates

Source

Tags: Crysis, Crytek, EA, Electronic-Arts, FPS, Patch, PC

Reader Comments (51)

I'm a bit peaved that it took them this bloody long to release the f'ing patch!

I waited literally months on the patch to play the game, working through some of my other game queue, but finally broke down and spent half a week tweaking it with CVAR's for optimal performance, then played and beat it not THREE days ago...THEN they release the patch!!

ARRGH!!

I ran the game medium gfx spec with max physics and motion blur, and it was amazing. I'm almost tempted to re-install just to try the patch out, but after the headaches I went through just to get it to run smoothly at around 50 fps, I don't think it's worth it!

Otherwise, it was a great game and the most fun I've had with a shooter in a long time. The physics really does bring it onto a whole new level of gameplay.

For reference, my specs are:

AMD Athlon FX-60 2.6GHz 5000+ X2 processor
4GB DDR400 RAM
Geforce 7950GX2 1GB DDR3 GFX Card
MSI K8N Neo4 Paltinum non-sli Mobo
Soundblaster X-Fi Xtremegamer
BFG 800W PSU

10 Fans in my Rig and I still needed to remove the side panel to reduce heating issues when running this game. Crysis put it through its paces for SURE!

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