Interesting Crysis Interview

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I posted this in the graphics forum as well but figured its just as relevant here

Crytek said:
The team remains cagey when discussing Crysis all important hardware requirements, largely because its not the only one deciding them...
"For DX10 its too early because the drivers we have are still in beta", explains Diemer.
"But our standard machine is pretty much what it says Vista requires, which is dual core, a DX10 card - just one 8800 in our demo machines, and 2gigs of RAM. As for optimising downwards the rule of thumb we tell the R&D guys is high spec Far Cry equals low spec Crysis"
Yerli agrees, but theres a mischeivious old glint in his eye.
"No matter what PC you have, we'll bring you down."
"If you have SLi DX10 cards and 4 gigs of RAM, we'll bring you down; not because we want to do that but because we want to invest in the future. [Laughs] Actually if you have SLi DX10 it will be very hard to bring it down but there are profiles which we're not exposing through the outer config which would otherwise make the high-end systems run like mediums. Users would say "What the ****? I've bought a new PC for this?" So two years later you'll be able to reinstall Crysis and it'll look better"
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From EDGE magazine by the way, just typed it out so cant link it to you.

But that sounds interesting, stuff thats too demanding to run now so it will still look great in a couple of years, thats a damn good idea. But I bet its gonna push a few peoples buttons and cause an uproar

I suggest anyone interested in the game picks up EDGE as its got a massive article on it which really does explain some cool stuff, particularly multiplayer
 
dont quite understand above post, you mean its HIGHEST settings etc are too demanding for current systems to run really? basically with 2gb of ram, dual core and an 8800 its not like its gunna look shabby on a system of that spec
 
peetee said:
dont quite understand above post, you mean its HIGHEST settings etc are too demanding for current systems to run really? basically with 2gb of ram, dual core and an 8800 its not like its gunna look shabby on a system of that spec
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Its not difficult to understand O_o

Basically saying that there is stuff within the game that might be too stressful on todays machines, but in a couple of years you'll be able to turn those things on. So basically saying that the game wont still look that bad in a few years time

If you read the whole article you'll know more about what I'm saying, but that 1 paragraph summed up a large part of it
 
thats what i thought it meant, im just hungover and tired:)
Im fine with that really, I cant see how anyone moans about what FPS its going to run at on highest on there £2000 rigs etc, who cares, its a £2000 rig, its hardly going to look like a turd is it.
 
A bit like Farcry I suppose. The game scaled extremely well as the hardware got more powerful and though it can't bring a 8800 to its knees it still looks fantastic.
 
alexisonfire said:
Well i get like 90fps in farcry on max settings, so im hoping for 30-40 in crysis with high settings. :p :D
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Surely to enable the high settings in Crysis you're going to need Vista and a DX10 compliant card. My 7900GS 512MB gets 80+fps back from FarCry on maximum settings but I doubt it'll even scratch the surface of Crysis on medium.
 
alexisonfire said:
Well i get like 90fps in farcry on max settings, so im hoping for 30-40 in crysis with high settings. :p :D
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I think this quote can be put down to one thing, your head was in the clouds, but it kept going up, now you'v gone deranged through a lack of oxygen.
Crysis max settings will most be HARSH. Far Crys were remember.

*edit* iv just checked your PC specs, you're more insane than I origionally thought
 
only 90 FPS at max! OMGWTF! Dude, seriously, optimise! That's what i did and i can run just about any DX9 game out there. Even the nVidia Smoke demo runs at about 30FPS on my rig.

Intel rigs : Go for clockspeed.
AMD Rigs : Go for lower memory timings.

That's what i did, currently running at 2-2-2-5-1T @ 16-way at 166Mhz (dual channel which makes it about ~332). Ok, not fast clock speed but the timings more than make up for it.

And Crysis. Hah. My system will p*ss all over it :D

All i really need to get max settings is an 8800 since i already have the other stuff + more.
 
KNiVES said:
Your A64 X2 4600+ will '****' all over Crysis? LOL
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:D Yep, ** not mistaken lol. Remember kids, the key word for today is, optimise.

I optimise it about 4 times a month. Not just cleanup, memory and CPU optimisation, Windows Optimisation, GPU Optimisation, disk optimisation, etc.

That's exactly why my rig will p*ss all over Crysis. So pffffft, with a capital pfff. :p
 
Remember that Everquest 2 did this also..

even over 18months after its release most modern PC still struggle to run it maxxed out on the highest settings (maybe not an 8800 but i aint tested one f them yet)

But they wanted to develop the the game so that it was future proof so it wouldnt look old 1 year down the line.
 
bakes0310 said:
is this there way of saying its badly coded like fear so its gonna run like a dog on modern machines?
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Nah, i dunno if it's been mentioned, but when it wasn't optimised, one of the devs could run it on his machine which had a C2D, 2Gig DDR2, a single 8800GTX. And it ran decently. And that was unoptimised.
 
DJKahuna said:
:D Yep, ** not mistaken lol. Remember kids, the key word for today is, optimise.

I optimise it about 4 times a month. Not just cleanup, memory and CPU optimisation, Windows Optimisation, GPU Optimisation, disk optimisation, etc.

That's exactly why my rig will p*ss all over Crysis. So pffffft, with a capital pfff. :p
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i hate to p*ss on your parade but a 7600GT will not stand a chance on full settings. You're clearly derranged if you think otherwise. let me get this straight, you re-optimise CPU and graphics card ever week? How in gods name do you do that? You do know overclocks etc have nothing to do with windows? And tighter timings are better yes, but you're not supposed to sacrifice much clock speed to tighten them up.
You seriously are mad if you think that rig stands a chance against crysis, completely mad.

Oh wait, you're planning on getting a 8800, even then, still, you're mad! Crysis isnt due out for a while still, it will look lush, but you're not playing on high settings, thats a guarantee.
 
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I've decided to optimise my opinion... and wait until the game actually comes out!

By the way, The Elder Scrolls Oblivion 6, due out in 2020, will max out a 7950 right now... but if you optimise the front flange bake, you can get atleast 20fpms.

bring it on!
 
Crysis hopefully will rock but the problem is that gaming is not about graphics really but about gameplay. If I play crysis on my existing rig 2 GB RAM, 2x CF X1900XT and E6600 dual core and it runs well enough and I complete it then I am hardly likely to re run it 2 years later when I buy my new rig because I would have moved on and so will games.

Crysis is one game amongst many no matter how graphically intensive it is. Microsoft are just hoping that Crysis and Halo2 will get people to get into Vista. I have Vista and I have no reason to use it myself and I have the Ultra version with all the bells and whilstles.

In 2 years time I would hope that everyone is 64 bit Vista with new kernel that SP1 promises to make better effect of multi core technology. When I buy next it should be an 4 to 8 core machine as much ram as you can afford and dual integrated graphix chips fittled like CPU's are now.

Another game Alan Wake apparantly uses lots of threads of execution and hence the more cores you have the better the game will feel with play and hence yes maybe this game could be worth a re run with more cores.
 
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