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Interesting Quote from Crytek

Pants said:
I can still go back to far cry, crank it all the way up and to me it still looks fanatstic even compared to recent titles. Especially the x64 version which I am running. :)
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Agreed, great game fantastically coded engine! Still love it today and been playing it since my 9600 days! The game's survived the following upgrades! 9600se :( , 9600XT, 9800pro :cool: ,6800ultra, x850xt, 7800gt, 7950GX2.

With each jump in spec the game followed - although with the GX2 i think it's as good as it's gonna get on any rig! ;)

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They said they have options not on the out config file ie the front end. The additional options are going to be enabled through the config files, that is what they are talking about.

It will run well on any of the hardware currently out!
 
Robert said:
I really don't understand people in this thread. The game will run perfectly fine on most decent computers e.g. 9700 Pro > to current hardware. They are only saying the engine will scale to future cards...otherwise you can still have it looking fairly good on most computers.

Is it that hard to understand?
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do you actually concider a 9700pro to be part of a decent computer?
lmao...it sucks
 
"lmfoaooIAHJjwmgusux" It is a decent card which is SM2.0 capable. It will be the minimum for Crysis I'd image and yes it is a decent card. You'd probably get half way between low and medium with it on Crysis mainly due to the scaleability of the Crysis engine (as was the same with Far Cry).
 
Never understand why game developers say that they intentionally program a game so that it wont run at it's best on current hardware until a year or so into the future.

Don't know about others but I buy games to play now and rearely go back through my old games to see if they are now performing like they should have when originally bought.

To my mind it's just a cop out for poor, unoptimised coding. Make it run the best it can now - don't give the excuse that current hardware can't handle it.
 
decent, I would class as something which will run the game well
not decent, or low end or poor performaing I would class as something which will run the game in minimum everything with most - all turned off

to run the game at "decent" settings with a "decent" fps, 6800 at the bare minimum, otherwise you lose the whole point of the decent graphics and might as well go play farcry
 
Magic Man said:
Never understand why game developers say that they intentionally program a game so that it wont run at it's best on current hardware until a year or so into the future.

Don't know about others but I buy games to play now and rearely go back through my old games to see if they are now performing like they should have when originally bought.

To my mind it's just a cop out for poor, unoptimised coding. Make it run the best it can now - don't give the excuse that current hardware can't handle it.
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Well others do go back to games. I have played far cry over about 3 times. Now im getting a 24" screen i'm gonna play it again. :p

It's not a cop out - far cry was not coded poorly. I suspect crysis will be coded well too.

I don't get where your coming from? You can play it how it should be played on medium. But you have the added bonus of turning it up more in the future if you want to replay it.
 
see what stupid developers are doing again?

making games run rubbish on brand new cards we buy, well i am fed up with it..

they really need to change it because its disappointing and not fun at all.

screw this game, i am not going to buy it if thats the way the devs want to be.. stuff em i say.
 
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Perfect_Chaos said:
see what stupid developers are doing again?

making games run rubbish on brand new cards we buy, well i am fed up with it..

they really need to change it because its disappointing and not fun at all.

screw this game, i am not going to buy it if thats the way the devs want to be.. stuff em i say.
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They COULD make it so the highest settings work on the latest cards, like the 8800. But instead, the exact same settings are being called "High" and they're having extra settings (eg "Extra High") which are even higher. They could simply not give the option of settings that don't work smoothly yet, but instead they're going to give the option for the extra settings, then when the hardware's available the game will look even better.

It's not like "Oh I know what, lets make it run poorly on everyones computer", it's like "Lets make it so that, later on when people have even better cards, there's still some graphical improvements for them".

They're not taking anything away, they're giving more so that we have a game that's even more future proof, and will look even better in 2 years time when we don't think much of an 8800GTX anymore!

:D

It will still look sexy on your computer and will be very fun. Just because your settings screen isn't on "Ultra High" doesn't mean it's not going to look good ;)
 
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furnace said:
They COULD make it so the highest settings work on the latest cards, like the 8800. But instead, the exact same settings are being called "High" and they're having extra settings (eg "Extra High") which are even higher. They could simply not give the option of settings that don't work smoothly yet, but instead they're going to give the option for the extra settings, then when the hardware's available the game will look even better.

It's not like "Oh I know what, lets make it run poorly on everyones computer", it's like "Lets make it so that, later on when people have even better cards, there's still some graphical improvements for them".

They're not taking anything away, they're giving more so that we have a game that's even more future proof, and will look even better in 2 years time when we don't think much of an 8800GTX anymore!

:D

It will still look sexy on your computer and will be very fun. Just because your settings screen isn't on "Ultra High" doesn't mean it's not going to look good ;)
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i understand that, but its not the looks i am worried about, its the framerate at those levels of detail.

As long as you can run on high with a 8800 GTX - r600 or whatever, and not have a bad minimum fps then ok that will be great.. but only if.
 
HangTime said:
Never mind the fact that if the coders simply removed the top options from the menus, and renamed the middle settings to "SUPER-DOOPER-ULTRA-DELUXE" they would probably be spooging all over the shop
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PRECISELY...well said.

All above users complaining that the ultra settings might be too thirsty for their current rigs, would you prefer it if, purely for your own piece of mind, the developers reduced the max settings available so that in three years it will be old and outdated rather than still look good?

Psycho Sonny and niteflite01 - rtfq imo ;)
 
khimbar said:
Have you heard this or is this some kind of tease?!
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It was a reply to somebody saying the Crysis graphics engine will be used on other games, just made me think of a game with the game play and tension of AvP/AvP2 and the Crysis engine (or even just the FEAR engine).
 
Does every one just care about graphics settings
its a GAME
do you know what games are to have FUN and have a laugh
not play it and complain every second that the graphic suck and why my £££ card wont play it at these settings
i say rock on to crytek always good to push the boundries
 
jaykay said:
Does every one just care about graphics settings
its a GAME
do you know what games are to have FUN and have a laugh
not play it and complain every second that the graphic suck and why my £££ card wont play it at these settings
i say rock on to crytek always good to push the boundries
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i dont complain about that

but to enjoy a game it must be silky smooth.. and if its not you cant enjoy it imo, simple as that.
 
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