Resolution Comparison (No AA)

Crysis 1.2 was exactly as fast as Crysis 1.1. Both versions produced the same frame rates, which were slightly faster than the original Crysis.

As you can see, there was a small but noticeable boost in frame rates at all resolutions. However, the improvement was not significant enough to really matter. Crysis was just playable at 1680 x 1050 at the High setting even with a system built around the high-end Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 quad-core processor and the NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT graphics card.

Resolution Comparison (2x AA)

With 2x anti-aliasing enabled though, we noted some performance improvements. Crysis 1.2 was about 2-3% faster than Crysis 1.1. Crytek did not lie when they said that the Crysis 1.2 patch would correct "a number of memory leaks with FSAA modes".

Here, you can clearly see the small advantage in frame rate Crysis 1.2 had over Crysis 1.1 at all resolutions. Now, let's take a look at the impact of the graphics card driver on Crysis.