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so crisis - and the GTX 590 are both out so for this heavyweight battle I have the GTX 590 as well as the Radeon HD 6990 and then whatever else I get around to benchmarking before the end of the day you can see my video card boxes right there so I'll figure out what makes sense but I'm going to do some Crysis 2 benchmarks since this is my first time benching Crysis 2 I just want to show you guys what methodology I'll be using to test it so first of all you can see in the options I have configured it at 1080p with no vsync so that I can get a more accurate reading you can see the framerate can clearly go over a thousand and the menu and I'm using the extreme system spec and then that's pretty much it there's honestly it just reeks of console port it just does I mean you turn it on it asks you to adjust your TV and then you go in there there's no real anti-aliasing options or anything like that the reason that I am using the options that are in here rather than customizing things in the control panel is that I want you guys to be able to replicate the results easily at home so there we go I am going to go ahead and resume my game it also does not have save games or loading games or load games so I have to just play through a particular checkpoint and then make sure that I die before I get to the next checkpoint which is epic fail so basically I'm going to point myself this way I'm going to press my benchmark Start button and I will be playing for two minutes I have a little route that I'm going to follow and I'll be focused mostly on following my path and less on killing specific guys so I go to that one side make sure he's dead and then I'm going to head towards the camp that I have to infiltrate I'm going to be using a walking speed so that my run throughs will be fairly consistent and this guy can die now I am playing on easy mode sorry guys it just really is a lot easier to benchmark on easy than it is to benchmark on like hard mode because this guy's he won't turnaround on using I can kill him instead of trying to deal with whatever he's going to be throwing at me if I don't kill them ahead of time so I'm going to go up these stairs here did you do should be a guy here let's see there is hello now you're dead and now you're dead here we go and head down this way and back towards the entrance where he'll die and this is like I said it's about a two minute run through you'll die and the most important thing is just lots of scenery I'm going to blow up some barrels later on just to see how low the framerate dips and following the same consistent run through is what I am aiming for here so you guys can die yay spray-and-pray you can die and then I'm going to be headed over here to blow up these barrels and they'll stop shooting me mmm very nice and then I'm going to wait here for fraps to stop recording and just do some sniping from here so this should give me fairly consistent results based on what I've seen so far I have one fraps stops recording it'll show the framerate counter up in the top right again there we go so fraps has stopped recording so here I'll share with you guys in the intro my results with Crysis 2 running at 1080p in the extreme preset with the GTX 590 so then all I do is go into my fraps folder go into my benchmarks folder and bring up this little file so that is what I use to compile my results I'm going to run some other video cards through this game and find out how they stack up in this latest and greatest crisis to title bear in mind guys it's not DirectX 11 yet because there's no patch for it at the moment so what I'll probably do is retest once we have DirectX 11 as well so um I will not be releasing a crisis to GPU guide video today because there are some issues with the game so number one with my Radeon 6990 and just for giggles I tried a different one to see if that would fix the problem it did not by 6990 I get this awesome awesome flickering issue outstanding so there's a 13-page thread on some crisis form or other where people are anyone running multi-gpu is complaining about flickering performance issues some people are getting the bloom effects flickering others are getting shadows flickering I'm getting a whole screen flickering so I have no idea what that means in terms of this performance number and how close that is to how it'll actually run but like look at this isn't this outstanding I could get a headache playing like this in like a minute I mean the game runs I suppose but yeah it's a pretty apparent that nobody at Year Crytek thought it necessary to ever test the game with a multi GPU set up based on how many people are having issues so my performance review will have to wait and see on the Nvidia side guess what this this is actually kind of funny because where did my GTX 590 go oh here it is the GTX 590 actually runs Crysis 2 just fine I get 90 1.7 FPS compared to 62 FPS at the same settings with the GTX 580 so that's probably about right considering how much lower its clocked and sort of decent but not great scaling but get this my GTX 580 sli set up actually scores only about 57 frames per second with my same playthrough so that means that while it doesn't flicker like the 6990 does my performance actually goes down in sli with my particular sli setup some people running sli are complaining about flickering and other random issues too but that doesn't seem to be the problem I'm having with my system I've tried wiping drivers there's a fix out there it involves renaming the exe which because I'm using a steam copy I cannot do so guys basically this is just a teaser video but I will be doing a performance review of Crysis 2 as soon as I'm able to run all of my cards with it and I will be including as many GPUs as I possibly can to give you guys the most comprehensive results don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips for more unboxings reviews and delays apparently