Crysis - 'Ultra High' System Requirements

Alex UK · 1 Jul 2007 at 20:33

Bear in mind these are only estimates, but the system requirements to run Crysis on 'Ultra High' have been released. These do seem fairly credible, as the requirements were stated by Cervat Yerli in an interview with GamesRadar. Anyway, here's the link.

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Essentially, the requirements are:

CPU: E6600 Core 2 Duo
Graphics: Nvidia 8800GTS
RAM: 2GB

Seems that this isn't as demanding as first thought, though this game has been highly optimized.

Streeteh · 1 Jul 2007 at 20:35

I thought the ultra high settings were for systems that don't yet exist so it will still be an impressive engine in the future?

Meh, tis all guesswork anyway atm

-Nick- · 1 Jul 2007 at 20:35

don't believe it tbh

furnace · 1 Jul 2007 at 20:42

Well tbh, I don't think Crysis will be as demanding as people expect.

a lot of people are like "Oh I'm going to wait until Crysis comes out then upgrade to <insert top-end hardwere here>" as if they think Crysis will require that...

But really, they'd have to be an incredibly silly games company to make a game that only works on top-end hardware - something which a very small percentage of the pc gaming market actually have!

So I think we should be expecting this to run on a 7600, maybe even a 6600 - I think that's a pretty mid-range card and a lot of gamers who aren't hardware enthusiasts will be running that. I know a lot of people who have rubbish hardware but play a lot of PC games, and they happily spend £30 on a good game - that's who EA are going to want to sell to!

Maybe not "Ultra High" though as they did promise to bring any system to a crawl

But an 8800GTS would be more than enough for pretty awesome graphics, I bet

Saying that, I am upgrading to a 7900 because I'm fed up with jaggies

Margaret · 1 Jul 2007 at 20:43

Well I hope I only have to get a GTS or a GTX. :cool:

doodah · 1 Jul 2007 at 20:46

Streeteh said:
I thought the ultra high settings were for systems that don't yet exist so it will still be an impressive engine in the future?

Meh, tis all guesswork anyway atm

Might implement additional stuff, didnt HDR come around later on?

topgun06 · 1 Jul 2007 at 20:46

Well i hope that this is true. The spec seems a bit low to what id have expected. But still, if true it means i only need to upgrade my GPU to be able to play at Ultra High. I was planning on doing this anyway.

Deluxe1 · 1 Jul 2007 at 20:57

If them stats are correct i should have no problem in running at ultra settings.

Vonhelmet · 1 Jul 2007 at 21:17

I can believe those specs.

There again, I also wouldn't be surprised if they were higher. I'm just playing through Far Cry again on my pretty flash rig (E4300, 1GB RAM, 7900GS) and I managed to drop it to 12 fps at one point earlier.

KNiVES · 1 Jul 2007 at 21:19

If I can have something like medium textures and polygons but have all the special effects on such as motion blur, depth of field, HDR and etc, that will probably be good enough for me.

Azagoth · 1 Jul 2007 at 21:20

vonhelmet said:
I can believe those specs.

There again, I also wouldn't be surprised if they were higher. I'm just playing through Far Cry again on my pretty flash rig (E4300, 1GB RAM, 7900GS) and I managed to drop it to 12 fps at one point earlier.

How'd you manage that?

agnes · 1 Jul 2007 at 21:20

was gonna say, the ultra req spec will prob get you 15-30fps average, maybe a little over i would have thought, specially with that 20klm veiw distance.

i personally think even my rig will struggle with 1600x1200. not long to wait anyway

might even have to upgrade to a quad core just to get that extra 10 or so fps out of dx10 multi core compliant games such as crysis.

ags

Tom|Nbk · 1 Jul 2007 at 21:27

You guys need to remember the same was said for Far Cry and remember how well that played!, Crytek have been doing tons of optimisations so its all looking good.

LoadsaMoney · 1 Jul 2007 at 21:34

Alex UK said:
Essentially, the requirements are:

CPU: E6600 Core 2 Duo
Graphics: Nvidia 8800GTS
RAM: 2GB
Software: DX9 with Windows XP / Vista

You missed some out.

willhub · 1 Jul 2007 at 21:38

I'm happy I'll be able to play it on atleast medium settings now

knowledge123 · 1 Jul 2007 at 21:43

I wonder if they meant they meant the 320mb or 640mb version of the 8800?

snowdog · 1 Jul 2007 at 21:43

Don't believe it, last time in an interview some of the makers said it was playable on a 1900xt on mid-high settings...

EDIT: oh, ultra high requirements, DOH, I think its accurate.

james.miller · 1 Jul 2007 at 21:44

Azagoth said:
How'd you manage that?

you can do it with an 8800 if you ramp everything up lol.

Vonhelmet · 1 Jul 2007 at 21:57

Azagoth said:
How'd you manage that?

On the pier level (level 4), after you clear out the base where you have to blow up the armoury, you'd normally head to the right of the base and get in a truck and head off down the path, but there is another path off to the left of the base, past where all the mercs targets are. If you go down there, there is a whole pile of barrels and explosive stuff. I shot some of that up and while all the barrels were flying around it started to seriously chug...

I'm not sure, but that area may only be accessible in the added 64bit content.

Jono8 · 1 Jul 2007 at 22:00

sounds about right, seen as the game seesm to have been built and run around the 8800's and many of the videos we've seen have said they are running on a single 8800gtx. Infact the 8800 launch event had crysis running on them. I have no doubt that the game will run very competently on these cards.