Crysis - 32bit vs 64bit on Windows Vista x64

Posted on Sun, 2007-12-23 11:46

After finding out the performance of Crysis on a Windows Vista x64 machine running in x64 mode in DX10, I wondered about how much different it made over 32-bit.

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32 Bit DX10 Windows Vista x64

Low Medium High Very High
800x600 79.64 50.71 27.70 20.01
1024x768 78.97 46.31 22.36 14.01
1280x960 76.65 37.87 15.30 9.83
1680x1050 69.06 28.59 10.40 6.17
1900x1200 51.25 26.17 7.26 2.76

Crysis 32 Bit Performance

64 Bit DX10 Windows Vista x64

Low Medium High Very High
800x600 71.79 46.67 29.05 18.25
1024x768 70.16 43.32 19.79 13.34
1280x960 68.71 36.36 15.01 8.94
1680x1050 64.38 28.32 10.44 6.4
1900x1200 52.43 25.89 7.29 2.32

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As you can see from the figures look very similar between the 2 and no correlation seems to appear from any of the results. I could look further in to this and come up with some shitty reason why which no one would care to read or understand, but I would say that they just run around the same as each other and they both have standard variance that you will get everytime you play it.

A Direct Comparison

The following graph shows the performance of 32 bit Crysis over the 64 bit Crysis. 64 bit Crysis is set to 100% on each setting. The resuts take in to account the average FPS throughout the whole of the benchmark, not the min or max.

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Conclusion

Well there isn't one. They look identical in game, performance is roughly the same. The game isn't made any more playable at any setting with either modes so use which ever one you want.

If you have problems with 64 bit Crysis running, you shouldn't find any performance problems dropping to the 32 bit client. If anything you may see a slight increase in performance, but nothing to write home about.

I won't do a comparison of DX9 vs DX10, because I think virtually every other website already has.

Comments

Phil

Sat, 2008-01-19 22:18

have you noticed any smoother game play between the two? It seems
like my computer plays smoother with Vista 64 compared to XPPro32.
AMD 64 x2 4800+, 2gb ddr400, 8800gts 512(new), ASUS A8r32mvp-deluxe

admin

Fri, 2008-02-29 18:24

Overall gameplay at points is smoother on 64 bit but the difference is so little there shouldn't be any major differences. If you have a problem running 64-bit just run 32-bit instead. You won't notice a difference.