Crysis 10 Years On: Why It's Still Melting The Most Powerful Gaming PCs

Digital X · 2 May 2018 at 14:42

No probs. Enjoy!

Gerard · 2 May 2018 at 15:34

AWPC said:
Xbox 360 version looks good considering the ancient hardware it runs on!

It does but they had to scale back on the foliage massively, mountains with trees on the pc look like bare rock in the 360 version.

Its mad to think this game came out in 2007, :eek:

V F · 3 May 2018 at 10:09

Furos said:
I have recently finished this on my msi gaming laptop and it ran great. Only had a odd fps drop. Still a really good shooter and think I'll start crysis 2. I haven't actually played crysis 3 so I'll get stuck into that once I'm done with 2.

Wow so it still onky uses 1 core. That's crazy

People to this day diss Crysis 3, though I thought it was great fun. It is quite a darker game.

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 3 May 2018 at 10:18

Also,I was wondering for years why Crysis was still playable at lowish framerates and its explained in the video!

digitalx said:
You're in luck, CAT. Had these in my Crysis folder.

https://www.sendspace.com/file/npwrne ObjectsHD
https://www.sendspace.com/file/bcfi9w NewCrysisRocks (Slicers)
https://www.sendspace.com/file/9l75ca Nanosuit
https://www.sendspace.com/file/4vqtbi XzeroShaders
https://www.sendspace.com/file/loqm96 XtremeParticleChaosV7
https://www.sendspace.com/file/0qvm5y HighResolutionFoliageFinal
https://www.sendspace.com/file/9fa2j7 GlobalAmbientLighting

http://www.moddb.com/mods/blackfires-mod-ultimate/downloads/blackfires-mod-ultimate-for-crysis-1
https://www.fileplanet.com/194825/download/Crysis---Rygel-High-Texture-Mod (Automatic download, 2.1GB)
https://www.guru3d.com/files-details/real-lifesis-crysis-mod.html

I think that's all for now. Just read any readme's otherwise things will break.

Thanks!

Nate75 · 3 May 2018 at 12:01

Unable to find real lifesis though

The Guru3D link is dead. I have had a Google but not seeing it.. hmm..

Digital X · 3 May 2018 at 12:11

Gimme a few minutes I'll have a dig around.

@Nate75

Edit: Thank me later

http://www.mediafire.com/file/mminmjo1d0j/Real+Lifesis.rar

http://www.mediafire.com/file/v3n6k7er03rql0v/RELI2.exe

Real Lifesis 2

http://www.overclock.net/forum/78-pc-gaming/1014933-guide-crysis-mods-56k-warning.html Have a read through this as well.

Phew. That took a long time of searching.

Nate75 · 3 May 2018 at 12:59

digitalx said:
Gimme a few minutes I'll have a dig around.

@Nate75

Edit: Thank me later http://www.mediafire.com/file/mminmjo1d0j/Real+Lifesis.rar

http://www.mediafire.com/file/v3n6k7er03rql0v/RELI2.exe

Real Lifesis 2

http://www.overclock.net/forum/78-pc-gaming/1014933-guide-crysis-mods-56k-warning.html Have a read through this as well.

Phew. That took a long time of searching.

Nice one!

I did have a good look around...

Evidentially you are a Google Fu black belt

Digital X · 3 May 2018 at 13:01

The real lifesis.rar is JUST the files, not installer. I would use the RELI2 exe instead that should be all smooth sailing now.

Rezident · 3 May 2018 at 13:18

I don’t trust new releases anymore so I have been happily replaying old great games. Thank you so much for reminding me about this one. Can’t believe I didn’t think of it. Maybe I can finally max it out now ten years later!

I recall loving this game but the performance issues at the time were an issue, although it was surprisingly playable at 30FPS, whereas most games seemed to need 60FPS. Not sure if I’ve even played it on Ultra settings yet. I’m really looking forward to this. This was a truly stunning gameworld. Can’t wait!

Rezident · 3 May 2018 at 13:28

V F said:
People to this day diss Crysis 3, though I thought it was great fun. It is quite a darker game.

I did actually try to play Crysis 3 recently but the performance was appalling! Is it broken on AMD cards? It didn’t even look that good but performance was so poor, I could not get into it. It’s not even a new game, I thought performance would be much better by now!?

V F · 3 May 2018 at 16:10

Still stunning...

Rezident said:
I did actually try to play Crysis 3 recently but the performance was appalling! Is it broken on AMD cards? It didn’t even look that good but performance was so poor, I could not get into it. It’s not even a new game, I thought performance would be much better by now!?

With your Vega 64? What frame rate are you getting?

Rezident · 4 May 2018 at 09:38

V F said:
Still stunning...

With your Vega 64? What frame rate are you getting?

Yes on Vega 64. I think it was like 40FPS but it felt unplayable. I'm used to 100 - 144FPS these days with the new monitor. I haven't seen less than 70-80FPS in any game even in new games and the Witcer 3 etc. maxed out - apart form Crysis 3. It felt broken to me!

SS-89 · 4 May 2018 at 11:50

Even with all the mods it doesn't look as impressive anymore especially in comparison to current gen but when you consider it's 11 years old...that is what still smacks you in the face as to how far ahead of its time it was.

Phil2008 · 4 May 2018 at 12:06

I can run crysis maxed out in full detail no problem, that is crysis 1 without any addons

arc@css · 4 May 2018 at 13:19

SS-89 said:
Even with all the mods it doesn't look as impressive anymore especially in comparison to current gen but when you consider it's 11 years old...that is what still smacks you in the face as to how far ahead of its time it was.

+1

BENBOBBY · 5 May 2018 at 12:14

Great video, very interesting.

One Vision · 5 May 2018 at 16:15

CaptainRAVE said:
Still looks great. Shame we have moved forward so little in recent years. There was an interesting video about the Far Cry series that highlighted the many features in FC2 that were more advanced than 3, 4 and even 5.I guess its all about solid console fps these days

Yeah i feel the best FC was FC 2. Each new game gets worse, fc 5 i unstalled in around an hour. I could just predict the kinda game that was ahead, same as before although too samey. Boring.

HRL · 8 May 2018 at 07:37

Currently the Crysis Collection is reduced on Steam.

Still worth a punt for under £10 I’d imagine?

TheSwede · 8 May 2018 at 08:35

HRL said:
Currently the Crysis Collection is reduced on Steam.

Still worth a punt for under £10 I’d imagine?

Hmm was thinking buying this but then I saw two comment on the steam page that made me go "ahem what ?"

Do not buy the steam version of this game. I would try to track down a retail box version instead. Steam still refuses to supply 64 bit bin files and I have to force the game to run in dx9 mode to play it.

Why the developers had to put DRM on this and limit number of installations is beyond me. Won't allow me to start up the game due to what I believe is max number of installs Really wanted to play this and shouldnt be limited when myself and many others have paid for it. Steam also only has 32 bit version which is not as good as 64 bit. A good site to get this game from is GOG.com They do not have any DRM restrictions and the game is 64 bit. Crysis itself is an amazing game btw, just wish I could actually play it.

Is that true ?? Is not that I am in a rush buying the game, so since GOG has the 64bit version can just wait until they have it on a sale there.

Nasher · 8 May 2018 at 09:34

Gaming hasn't moved on for a long time because many of the best and most innovative developers left the industry from what I've seen. What we've seen in recent years is work done by obviously far less talented teams (like Mass Effect Andromeda). Nothing to make us go wow, apart from a few exceptions.

When studios got taken over by salesmen types and the likes of EA/Ubisoft/Activision etc who stifled creativity, they just didn't want to do it any more. Or moved on to small indie projects.