Crysis Remastered PC Performance Review and Optimisation Guide

CPU Performance – Core Scaling – A crisis in CPU Performance

While Crysis Remastered is less CPU limited than Crysis’ original PC release when using similar draw distance settings, Crysis Remastered remains as a major CPU hog. 

Despite the modernisation of Crysis’ graphical feature set, Crysis Remastered remains CPU-limited at high or higher settings and is largely single-thread limited. 

From 4-cores and 8-threads to 16-cores and 32-threads, Crysis Remastered’s performance at high settings remains almost totally constant, highlighting how the addition of more cores cannot solve the CPU-limited performance of Crysis Remastered. 

At high settings, AMD’s Ryzen 9 3950X cannot run Crysis at a constant 60 FPS, even when prescision boost overdrive is enabled. Beyond that, we suspect that the performance degradation when moving to four cores and four threads only registers decreased performance levels due to core-to-core latency changes. There’s a reason why AMD does not sell desktop Zen 3 quad cores without SMT. 

These CPU performance issues are similar to what was present within Crysis’ original 2007 release. Furthermore, hitching happens frequently when using these settings, especially when AIs notice players and initiate combat.