New Patch Gives Crysis Remastered A Big Boost On High-end PCs

A new patch for Crysis Remastered has been released today, which boosts high-end machines’ performance at the “Can it run Crysis?” setting.

At this point, anyone that knows anything about gaming, in general, will know what the phrase “But, can it run Crysis?” means. Crytek’s 2007 first-person shooter was so graphically demanding that it made even the most high-end PCs sweat with fear.

To be honest, even saying that there weren’t many machines that could run Crysis at the maximum setting would be a massive understatement for the game.

Crytek seems to love this tradition, it seems, seeing as how the remastered version of Crysis has a setting titled “Can it run Crysis?” with the name being given to the highest possible graphical settings for the game.

Initially, many believe that Crytek was simply joking with everyone and couldn’t possibly have added a setting that made their machines shudder. But oh, were they so wrong.

The Project Lead of Crysis Remastered, Steffen Halbig, even claimed that “In 4k, there is no card out there which can run it in ‘Can it Run Crysis mode’ at 30 FPS,” which is pretty bold when you consider the latest Nvidia’s and AMD’s graphics cards.

As is the tradition, not many high-end PCs could run the game at the setting, because of which Crytek decided to roll out a new patch to boost the performance of the game at the highest settings on appropriate hardware.

The patch, namely, 1.3.0, aims to bring a ton of performance improvements and fixes that improve the game’s overall experience on PC. Here are all the changes that have been implemented, as detailed on Reddit:

• Improvements made to the performance of AMD based systems where ray tracing is set to Very High.
• Improvements made to the Optimal settings option in graphics settings. The selections should now be more in line with your PC’s capabilities.
• Fixed some lighting that was missing in-game when the shadow quality setting was set to “Very high” or “Can it run Crysis.”
• Improvements made to raytracing when set to “very high.”
• Improvements made to look of the water in different instances for RTX GPUs (glare looks more natural, removed glowing artifacts/grain effect).
• Fixed an issue that resulted in a decrease of ~10fps when using Borderless over windowed or fullscreen.
• Fixed an issue that caused the framerate to drop when crawling through the body of a dead enemy.
• Fixed a memory leak that could occur at the beginning of Recovery – Village.
• Fixed an issue where launching the game with HDR enabled could cause artifacts to appear during cutscenes.

Crysis has always been a GPU-hungry and demanding game, but the remaster pushes the height of what this GPU slayer can do. That said, let’s hope that people’s dream of running this game smoothly at the highest settings can now finally be achieved.

About Crysis Remastered

Developed and published by Crytek, Crysis Remastered is a first-person shooting game that is now released for platforms like PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch. The plot takes users to a fictional North Korean Island which has been consumed by intergalactic species. Along with a wide selection of weapons, a Nanosuit will also be equipped by gamers.

This suit holds the power of making the playing character more nimble and strong. Thus, in this world of sandbox, gamers are meant to rely on brawn along with their brains to overcome the menace posed by the alien race.