Farcry2 release date 24th Oct

izzy eckerslike · 5 Sep 2008 at 17:43

http://www.custompc.co.uk/news/604800/far-cry-2-release-date-revealed.html

Eagerly awaiting this

Monkeynut · 5 Sep 2008 at 19:23

Is this an all new engine or CryEngine derivative?

Darkwave · 5 Sep 2008 at 19:39

Monkeynut said:
Is this an all new engine or CryEngine derivative?

It's an all new engine by Ubisoft called 'Dunia', Far Cry 2 has nothing to do with Crytek.

izzy eckerslike: Thanks for the heads up about the release date.

Shamikebab · 5 Sep 2008 at 19:47

Can't wait for this, each new video just looks better and better

LoadsaMoney · 5 Sep 2008 at 19:47

Havok PhysX as well, can't wait.

Gerard · 5 Sep 2008 at 19:50

Ulfhedjinn said:
It's an all new engine by Ubisoft called 'Dunia', Far Cry 2 has nothing to do with Crytek.

Actually, its a rewritten farcry engine, they say less than 4% or so of the original cryengine remains. So its new in one sense but not exactly from the ground up new.

Hamoodii · 5 Sep 2008 at 19:50

Was just reading about this GamesTM, looks awesome will be buying a copy of this along with Fallout 3

XPE · 5 Sep 2008 at 20:30

Stupid Question but doesn this game have any sorts of multi player ?

Shamikebab · 5 Sep 2008 at 20:38

Yes it does, usual sort of stuff afaik.

Darkwave · 5 Sep 2008 at 21:06

Gerard said:
Actually, its a rewritten farcry engine, they say less than 4% or so of the original cryengine remains. So its new in one sense but not exactly from the ground up new.

You better inform Ubisoft that their own developer blog is inaccurate then, because this video states pretty clearly that it's a brand new engine, developed specifically for Far Cry 2 and is two years in the making (as of last year).

Margaret · 5 Sep 2008 at 21:08

Can't wait for this on PC, the console version looks pap, plus I spotted multiple FPS drops in some of the videos and tearing!

marktime · 5 Sep 2008 at 21:12

Anyone know if an 8800GTX@1900x1200 + Q6600 is going to be realistic for this? Don't want another Crysis experience.

mr.sly · 5 Sep 2008 at 21:19

You should be okay.

marktime said:
Anyone know if an 8800GTX@1900x1200 + Q6600 is going to be realistic for this? Don't want another Crysis experience.

Minimum requirements

CPU: Pentium 4 3.2 Ghz, Pentium D 2.66 Ghz
AMD Athlon 64 3500+ or better
Video card: NVIDIA 6800 or ATIX1650 or better Shader Model 3 required 256 Mb of graphic memory
Memory: 1 GB
Media reader: DVD-ROM
Hard drive space: ~12 Gig or HD space. (tbd)

Recommended

CPU:Intel Core 2 Duo Family AMD64 X2 5200+, AMD Phenom or better
Video card: NVIDIA 8600 GTS or better ATIX1900 or better 512 Mb of graphic memory
Memory: 2 GB
Sound: 5.1 sound card recommended
Media reader: DVD-ROM

Supported Video cards

NVIDIA 6800, NVIDIA 7000 series, 8000 series, 9000 series, 200 series. 8800M and 8700M supported for laptops.
ATI X1650-1950 series , HD2000 series , HD3000 series , HD4000 series.

Gerard · 5 Sep 2008 at 21:32

Ulfhedjinn said:
You better inform Ubisoft that their own developer blog is inaccurate then, because this video states pretty clearly that it's a brand new engine, developed specifically for Far Cry 2 and is two years in the making (as of last year).

Theyre classing it as a new engine just the way IW do with the cod games because its been overhauled so much.

The engine will take advantage of multi-core processors as well as mulituple processors and support DirectX 9 as well as DirectX 10.[15] Only 2 or 3 percent of the original CryEngine code is being re-used, according to Michiel Verheijdt, Senior Product Manager for Ubisoft Netherlands.[

Shamikebab · 5 Sep 2008 at 21:34

marktime said:
Anyone know if an 8800GTX@1900x1200 + Q6600 is going to be realistic for this? Don't want another Crysis experience.

That should be more than enough!! It is on PS3 and 360 as well.

mr.sly · 5 Sep 2008 at 21:43

Shamikebab said:
That should be more than enough!! It is on PS3 and 360 as well.

Hehe, it won't look as good, and it definitely won't be 1900x1200.

Shamikebab · 5 Sep 2008 at 21:51

mr.sly said:
Hehe, it won't look as good, and it definitely won't be 1900x1200.

um, obviously :confused:

marktime · 5 Sep 2008 at 21:57

Shamikebab said:
That should be more than enough!! It is on PS3 and 360 as well.

that's a relief - can't afford to upgrade for a few months yet.

mrk · 5 Sep 2008 at 22:40

Havok Physics eh, good thing I have a 4870 then, now we will see who laughs the hardware physics laugh EH!

EH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hamoodii · 5 Sep 2008 at 23:03

mrk said:
Havok Physics eh, good thing I have a 4870 then, now we will see who laughs the hardware physics laugh EH!

EH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Reading that post out loud made me laugh