Interesting Crysis Interview

Azagoth said:
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.
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I obviously didn't mean all high settings, like DX10 stuff. And not ultra high settings (if theres options). 1280x1024, 4xAA, 8xAF, high/medium settings. If they didn't make crysis able to play at those specs on a rig like mine, it was a stupid move. I doubt even when crysis comes out (if it comes out on its rumoured date), people will have a spec similar too mine. The developers said crysis should run an average of 60fps on a c2d, 2gb ram and 8800. They score about 12000 in 2dmark06, right? I score 6k, so 30fps in crysis not on max settings sounds about right. Obviously im only doing some very rough calculations here :p
 
alexisonfire said:
Obviously im only doing some very rough calculations here :p
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Rough as a Badgers arse - The game isn't even out yet and we have no idea how the engine works! You should be fine though.
 
cosmogenesis said:
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.
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The next system I buy will probably be ther next version of Xbox... if all this hoopla continues!!! At least you know what you're getting with the consoles!
 
Pablo72 said:
At least you know what you're getting with the consoles!
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A product thats hyped up for 2 years, released at a stupid amount of money, the only good games are released in the first 1-2months, and after 3months it just sits next to the TV collecting dust?

We do indeed !
 
alexisonfire said:
A product thats hyped up for 2 years, released at a stupid amount of money, the only good games are released in the first 1-2months, and after 3months it just sits next to the TV collecting dust?

We do indeed !
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Yep... sitting next to the growing pile of old graphics cards/strips of ram/cpu/psu's.
 
DJKahuna said:
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.
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HAHAHAHAH....HA
 
cosmogenesis said:
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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a lot of people replay older games, good games deserved to be played again. Im due another go round of Far Cry & Q4 soon, both brilliant games, i just fancy a go, and iv got a more powerful rig now so yea, they'll look stunning.
 
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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Nope, quite the opposite. ;)
As an example, through their partnering with the GPU developers Crytek had HDR and SM3.0 in the bag for Far Cry way ahead of the functions being available to the public.

They waited until they were commercially available to patch the game to enable them.

With Crysis they are taking the same approach designing the game and engine for today AND tomorrow, whether it be simply in terms of PC capacity or through new technology that isnt in the public domain yet.
 
One thing I've never really understood. If we consider Crysis a 'Next Gen' game, then I would hope that 'medium' will look better than 'maximum' on the games of today? So in effect some of us would have a game that looked better than anything they'd ever seen before but they would throw a toy-chucking wobbley because they can't set it to 'high?'

Hmmm, maybe I'm just new here... :p
 
DJKahuna said:
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.
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Your joking, right?


Will that be able to run Crysis at max? No, Med? No.

Low is the best your really probably gonna get.

My X1900XTX/3.456Ghz C2d will do med and no more probably...
 
Azagoth said:
Is that before or after it's been optimised? ;)
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ha ha, its optimised as it is, minimal services and defradded etc. ;)

No amount of optimisation will allow you to have high settings with high AA/AF without serious power behind it. :)
 
wait, so my rig wont be able to play crysis at full eye candy? or it will, but with a few hidden aspects turned off? i dont really like that lol, i would like to see a game that can be played at max everything if i paid the frikking money for a goly rig lol..... bah! could work out well though i guess :(

ags
 
This is why I wait a few years before playing games. I'm on Jedi Knight 2 atm :) Max Payne 2 next.

I buckled with Half Life 2 though :)
 
agnes said:
wait, so my rig wont be able to play crysis at full eye candy? or it will, but with a few hidden aspects turned off? i dont really like that lol, i would like to see a game that can be played at max everything if i paid the frikking money for a goly rig lol..... bah! could work out well though i guess :(

ags
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Ags, whatever is turned off will be because your rig (yes even yours) isnt capable of supporting it yet.

Its like a car manufacturer knows he has a much more powerful model coming out in 10 months, so instead of waiting to upgrade the brakes that are standard for all models of that type then, he improves them this year because he is able to do so now at a lower cost...
Okay reading that back its a LANGUAGE! analogy, but hopefully you get what i mean :)

The Cry Engine 2 has been designed with spare capacity so that it wont be quickly become redundant within the normal technology growth rate. By future proofing it as much as possible Crytek can market it as a development platform for the next "x" years...
 
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