Refresh Rate Bug

[Vit]

So I noticed that even though I was running the game at 100fps+, it was stuttery as heck and had screen tearing, which was strange since I am running a 144hz display. When I turned on v-sync to test it out, it capped my framerate to 60 and did away with the stutter and tearing, but instead now had huge input lag.

I found it weird that v-sync was capping the game to 60 instead of 144, so I did some research online and found out it's apparently a bug with the dx11 version of the game. When running the game at full screen, for some reason it forces the refresh rate of your monitor to change to 60hz, which explains the v-sync fps cap. Running the game windowed solved the problem and I was able to play at 100+fps without stutter, tearing OR input lag. That being said, there's no borderless window version, so the border was really unsightly and I couldn't center the game on my monitor..

I ended up grabbing Borderless Gaming, and it supports Crysis 2 pretty well, I am now playing in a borderless fullscreen window, and since it's windowed mode the game is forced to adopt the refresh rate of the desktop it's running on, which means 144hz.

Before I went with BG though, I tried the windows registry fix suggested somewhere around the internet, to add a registry entry and change its value in an attempt to force all directx applications to run at a set refresh rate. Didn't work, issue persisted.

Hope this helps anyone who comes across this same issue.

EDIT: I also noticed the shotgun animation seems locked to 30 fps for some reason so there's that.

[MrEWhite]

For some reason, disabling fullscreen optimizations for Crysis 1 and 2 fixed this for me.

[Vit]

Originally posted by MrEWhite:

For some reason, disabling fullscreen optimizations for Crysis 1 and 2 fixed this for me.

i actually tried that as well but didnt work for me. Game still changed my monitor to 60hz.

[MrEWhite]

Originally posted by Vit:

Originally posted by MrEWhite:

For some reason, disabling fullscreen optimizations for Crysis 1 and 2 fixed this for me.

i actually tried that as well but didnt work for me. Game still changed my monitor to 60hz.

Well, I'm using G-Sync with preferred refresh rate set to max, so I dunno.

[BlurBusters]

There is an easy fix.

1. Go to NVIDIA Control Panel (or AMD CC or use ToastyX CRU)

2. Create Custom Resolution

3. Create a resolution that's 2 pixel shorter.
1920x1078 for a 1080p
2560x1438 for a 1440p

4. Make sure that resolution ONLY has the max Hz refresh rate

5. Switch to it.

6. Launch Crysis 2

7. Crysis 2 works perfectly at max Hz

[Toquita]

Originally posted by BlurBusters:

There is an easy fix.

1. Go to NVIDIA Control Panel (or AMD CC or use ToastyX CRU)

2. Create Custom Resolution

3. Create a resolution that's 2 pixel shorter.
1920x1078 for a 1080p
2560x1438 for a 1440p

4. Make sure that resolution ONLY has the max Hz refresh rate

5. Switch to it.

6. Launch Crysis 2

7. Crysis 2 works perfectly at max Hz

This is the only fix that worked for me, using the Origin OG version of Crysis 2. Thank you so much!

[fessko]

The fix that worked for me:

1. Turn off V-sync in the game
2. Open Nvidia app, go to Crysis 2 settings
3. Set V-sync option to Fast.

The game then plays using monitor refresh rate without stuttering

[Jamie]

Originally posted by Vit:

So I noticed that even though I was running the game at 100fps+, it was stuttery as heck and had screen tearing, which was strange since I am running a 144hz display. When I turned on v-sync to test it out, it capped my framerate to 60 and did away with the stutter and tearing, but instead now had huge input lag.

I found it weird that v-sync was capping the game to 60 instead of 144, so I did some research online and found out it's apparently a bug with the dx11 version of the game. When running the game at full screen, for some reason it forces the refresh rate of your monitor to change to 60hz, which explains the v-sync fps cap. Running the game windowed solved the problem and I was able to play at 100+fps without stutter, tearing OR input lag. That being said, there's no borderless window version, so the border was really unsightly and I couldn't center the game on my monitor..

I ended up grabbing Borderless Gaming, and it supports Crysis 2 pretty well, I am now playing in a borderless fullscreen window, and since it's windowed mode the game is forced to adopt the refresh rate of the desktop it's running on, which means 144hz.

Before I went with BG though, I tried the windows registry fix suggested somewhere around the internet, to add a registry entry and change its value in an attempt to force all directx applications to run at a set refresh rate. Didn't work, issue persisted.

Hope this helps anyone who comes across this same issue.

EDIT: I also noticed the shotgun animation seems locked to 30 fps for some reason so there's that.

this is one of the main things they fixed in the remaster. gonna havet to get that bud. sucks but thats the only way to enjoy this game on Windows 10 without having to jump through a bunch of hoops and doing a bunch of b.s to play it

[sol Invictus]

1) steam library - Right click on crysis 2 maximum edition - properties - installed files - browse
2) bin32 - right click on Crysis2 - properties - compatibility - Enable windows 7 compatibility mode.
3) Repeat same process for Crysis2Launcher

[vlad[54rus]]

Originally posted by Ga Ga Pea Pap:

1) steam library - Right click on crysis 2 maximum edition - properties - installed files - browse
2) bin32 - right click on Crysis2 - properties - compatibility - Enable windows 7 compatibility mode.
3) Repeat same process for Crysis2Launcher

This doesn't fix the refresh rate glitch.