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

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




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.
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The 64bit part is true, the DX9 part is not. I bought it on Origin last year, the full collection which has Crysis 3 and it only has the 32bit versions for Crysis/Warhead and they run DX10. As the POM features work.

Besides, everywhere I read they all stated the 32bit versions gives more fps than 64bit.


Nasher said:
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.
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They left? Where did they go? Some of the best I'm seeing is Naughty Dog... and Guerrilla.
 
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Do they all support controllers?

I play K&M with very few things these days. Almost blasphemy, I know. :eek:
 
V F said:
The 64bit part is true, the DX9 part is not. I bought it on Origin last year, the full collection which has Crysis 3 and it only has the 32bit versions for Crysis/Warhead and they run DX10. As the POM features work.

Besides, everywhere I read they all stated the 32bit versions gives more fps than 64bit.
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Ahh right, thanks for the explanation, much appreciated ! Not to fused about the FSP, as long as the 32bit version just runs fine on a 64bit system, then I be happy with that. :p

And just now realised Steam don't sell Crysis 3. But with the offered price Steam has for the Crysis, Crysis 2 Maximum Edition and Warhead right now is cheap, incase one wont like the games. If later wanting to play Crysis 3 the difference is not that big between Origin's complete edition and the one Steams offering right now. The Steam offer ends on the 14th of May so I will have a tinker about it. Thanks again @V F :cool:
 
HRL said:
Do they all support controllers?

I play K&M with very few things these days. Almost blasphemy, I know. :eek:
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I know Crysis 2 and 3 supports the controller very easily but so does the first game with some niggles...

Crysis has great 360 controller support. Except that you can't change the controls unless you edit .ini files.
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I tried it out, and it really shows that Crysis is too much for the 360 controller. One cool thing though is that the controls are already set when plugged in. Crysis is very hard to play with when using a 360 controller.
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Crysis has great 360 controller support, it has full rumble and everything. However, the 360 controller doesn't have enough buttons to have all the controls in Crysis mapped to it, and it is MUCH harder to use than a mouse and keyboard. Don't even think about playing with a controller on Delta.
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https://www.gamespot.com/forums/pc-...e-use-the-360-controller-for-crysis-26466951/


There is a section in Crysis 3 you need to use the gamepad as it is simply too slow for the mouse as the range is short.

 
willhub said:
I wouldn't think Crysis still melts the most powerful PC's, my 8800GT played it at max with mods.
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At 640x480 maybe, seen people back in the day with multiple 8800 gtx ultra's trying to get this to run well. That guy that used to be a big youtuber "maxishine" had 2-3 way ultras at one point.
 
I recall seeing a video where tri-SLI GTX285s were running Crysis, and that, I believe, was the first time that I remember seeing the game running particularly smoothly.

In fact, that video may have been a Maxishine video. Can't remember.
 
Gerard said:
At 640x480 maybe, seen people back in the day with multiple 8800 gtx ultra's trying to get this to run well. That guy that used to be a big youtuber "maxishine" had 2-3 way ultras at one point.
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Was at 1440*900, still, it managed fine on an 8800GT and anyone who played the game loads and tweaked with the settings back then would know how well it ran on 8800's
 
willhub said:
Was at 1440*900, still, it managed fine on an 8800GT and anyone who played the game loads and tweaked with the settings back then would know how well it ran on 8800's
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Define fine? Playing it below 60fps wasn't fun.
 
I've just been playing this on my old pc I made with a disk drive which has a GTZ285 in it. I'm getting 45+fps at 1080p high settings (highest I go on XP) with no Aa, it struggled with AA on.

Crysis 1 supports controllers but there is no built in 360 controller support/profile. There is a mod for that though.

In terms of the number of installs thing, Crysis is one of the early EA DRM games that limits you to five installs like Spore and Mass Effect. However there is a deauthorisation tool on EAs website to get an install "credit" back. I usually search Mass Effect Deauthorisation Tool and then one of the top links will be a page with lots of game covers on it - just click the Crysis game box. I am glad gaming has gone past the limited install phase of DRM.
 
willhub said:
Was at 1440*900, still, it managed fine on an 8800GT and anyone who played the game loads and tweaked with the settings back then would know how well it ran on 8800's
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Same card as me and it wasn't fine. Not even max settings and you could hit sub 30fps in a lot of areas. My card was clocked as well.
 
almoststew1990 said:
In terms of the number of installs thing, Crysis is one of the early EA DRM games that limits you to five installs like Spore and Mass Effect. However there is a deauthorisation tool on EAs website to get an install "credit" back. I usually search Mass Effect Deauthorisation Tool and then one of the top links will be a page with lots of game covers on it - just click the Crysis game box. I am glad gaming has gone past the limited install phase of DRM.
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Well it says limited to 50 install activations on Steam.

Not sure I’ll ever hit that limit. Suspect I’ll have given up playing it well before then.
 
I had a 560ti and struggled a bit(1920x1080), had to lower some settings. The benchmark would just crash the system, so bought a second 560ti. It ran really great, but still could'nt max everything out.
 
I was never sure if it was demanding, or just very badly optimised masquerading as demanding.

I just remember everyone running out to buy 1080's and then still complaining it ran like poo :D
 
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