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Crysis 2

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Crysis 2
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Developers
Crytek
Publishers
Electronic Arts
Engines
CryEngine 3
Release dates
Windows March 22, 2011
Crysis 2 on Wikipedia

Warnings

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Key points

PC version features high resolution textures, tessellation, high quality shadows and more PC-specific features.
Great for benchmarking graphics cards
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General information

Crysis Website
MyCrysis Forums
Crysis Wiki - A wiki for everything Crysis related
Steam Community Discussions
Steam Users' Forums for game series

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Amazon.com
Origin
Maximum Edition
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Origin
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Maximum Edition / Use CD key given on Steam to unlock on Origin.
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Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Instructions

Patches

Patch 1.9 prepares Crysis 2 for DX11 features and high-resolution textures. Each need to be downloaded and installed separately from the 1.9 patch.

DirectX 11 Ultra Upgrade

Features

With this package the following DX11 exclusive features will be activated

  • Tessellation + Displacement Mapping
  • Realistic Shadows with Variable Penumbra
  • High Quality HDR Motion Blur
  • Sprite Based Bokeh Depth of Field
  • Parallax Occlusion Mapping
  • Particles Motion Blur, Shadows and Art Updates
  • Water Rendering improvements and using Tessellation + Displacement Mapping

Requirements

  • DX11 compatible graphics card with 768 MB Video Memory
  • 545 MB HD space
Download

The DirectX 11 Ultra Upgrade can be downloaded here.

High-Resolution Textures

Features

The High-Resolution Texture Pack doubles the fidelity of many of the games art assets.

Requirements

  • 64-Bit Operating System
  • DX9 compatible graphics card with 768 MB Video Memory
Download

The High-Res Texture Pack can be downloaded here.

NTCore 4GB Patch

Crysis 2 is very memory intensive. This app improves performance for Crysis 2 on 64-bit Windows systems with more than 2GB RAM by allowing it to access up to 4GB RAM.

Modifications

BlackFire's Mod 2 and MaLDo HD Textures

For those who truly want to push Crysis 2's graphical fidelity to its limits, BlackFire's Mod 2 and MaLDo HD serves their needs. A step by step list of instructions is available at this forum post over at Crydev.net [1].

Game data

In-game general settings.

Configuration file(s) location

Template:Game data/row
System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/108800/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

Template:Game data/row
System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/108800/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Origin
Steam Cloud

Video settings

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In-game general graphics settings.
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In-game advanced graphics settings.

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Field of view (FOV)

Instructions

Input settings

In-game key map settings.
In-game general gamepad settings.
In-game gamepad layout settings for the player.
In-game gamepad layout settings for vehicles.

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Audio settings

In-game audio settings.

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Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Czech
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Polish
Russian
Spanish
Traditional Chinese
Turkish

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
LAN play
Online play
16 Online server browser stopped working on May 31, 2014.[1]

Connection types

Ports

Protocol Port(s) and/or port range(s)
TCP 80, 2891, 2990, 6667, 29900, 64100
UDP 27900-27901, 64100
Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) support status is unknown.

Issues unresolved

Statistic screen

The statistic-screen in the menu displays that 13 weapon-attachments are findable in single-player but in fact there are only 12. Therefore it is not possible to achieve "100%".

Issues fixed

Extreme lag while using Nvidia video card

Instructions

Crash to Desktop at Startup

Instructions

External TV locked at 24 Hz

Instructions
Instructions

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP
Processor (CPU) 2 GHz Core 2 Duo / AMD Athlon 64 X2 CPU
System memory (RAM) 2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 9 GB
Video card (GPU) GeForce 8800 GS
Radeon HD 3800 series

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/108800/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (108800) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References