Crysis 2 DX11 patch released, detailed

Posted Jun 27, 2011 at 10:07PM EST by Ryan F.

Listed in: News, Patches Tags: crysis 2, Crytek, Electronic Arts, patch

Crytek has finally released the long awaited Crysis 2 'Ultra Upgrade', giving PC gamers full DirectX 11 support and more.

Dubbed as patch 1.9, the Crysis 2 'Ultra Upgrade' promises to deliver "higher quality visuals and many other special effects" to further enhance the Crysis 2 gaming experience on PC. This includes:

Tessellation + Displacement Mapping
High Quality HDR Motion Blur
Realistic Shadows with Variable Penumbra
Sprite Based Bokeh Depth of Field
Parallax Occlusion Mapping
Particles Motion Blur, Shadows and Art Updates
Water Rendering improvements and using Tessellation + Displacement Mapping
Realtime Local Reflections (DX9)
Contact Shadows (DX9)
Improved Tone Mapping (DX9)

"With Crysis 2 being our first multi-platform game, our main focus was to ensure a successful delivery on all supported platforms," explains Tiago Sousa, Crytek's Principal R&D Graphics Engineer regarding the long overdue update. "Unfortunately, such constraint didn’t allow us to concentrate on DirectX 11 with the level of commitment that is to be expected from a Crytek release.

"This is the reason why it was decided to give the R&D team sufficient time and effort after the release of Crysis 2. The “DX11 Ultra Upgrade” is the result of this work: it is a free visual upgrade add-on introducing DirectX 11 support, as well as a wealth of graphical improvements and performance optimizations for both DX11 and DX9 API’s."

The Crysis 2 Ultra Upgrade is available via an auto installation once you boot up your PC copy of the shooter. Last week, we also posted the full patch notes of the update, which you can see here.

Via [Crytek]

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