New screens of CRYSIS

UOcUK Poopscoop · 6 May 2006 at 22:36

NathanE said:
They're not mockups. Everything displayed in those screenshots is easily achievable on a DX10/Vista system. The new shader, physics and performanced improvements in DX10, along with Vista's enhanced graphics memory management capabilities allow for such impressive games to be created.

Is that from a brochure?

OV3RCLOCK3R · 6 May 2006 at 22:42

3rd screen looks awesome. Cant wait till this game's out

basmic · 6 May 2006 at 22:44

/pats 6800GT GS

Looks like I'll have to run it at 640x480 to get it at least playable.

dave2k2005 · 6 May 2006 at 23:03

basmic said:
/pats 6800GT GS

Looks like I'll have to run it at 640x480 to get it at least playable.

Didn't you hear mate? This was all running on a single X1900 with full settings to the max, so your 6800 will be alright for this game

NathanE · 6 May 2006 at 23:54

UOcUK Poopscoop said:
Is that from a brochure?

No. It's straight from the horses mouth... the guys that are actually writing the code behind Vista and DirectX 10.

akakjs said:
I have no doubt that dx10 could be implemented on XP

Have you seen the code? Vista has proper support for PCI Express graphics cards (currently XP just emulates PCI-E as regular PCI). DX10 takes full advantage of the unidirectional nature of PCI-E. This type of functionality is embedded so tightly into the kernel and is not something that can be simply backported to a previous OS.

UOcUK Poopscoop · 7 May 2006 at 00:15

NathanE said:
No. It's straight from the horses mouth... the guys that are actually writing the code behind Vista and DirectX 10.

Exactly, from the horses mouth. They would have to say stuff like that really wouldn't they?

I'm not for a moment going to say it isn't true (how could I know?) but it pays to take such talk with a pinch of salt.

NathanE · 7 May 2006 at 13:53

UOcUK Poopscoop said:
Exactly, from the horses mouth. They would have to say stuff like that really wouldn't they?

I'm not for a moment going to say it isn't true (how could I know?) but it pays to take such talk with a pinch of salt.

Horses mouth as in the technical guys, not the management or marketeers. If you can't believe them then you can't believe anyone... Seriously, why would they lie about the improvements that are on the horizon? Considering Crytek are demonstrating their game for real at E3 very soon...

locutus12 · 7 May 2006 at 19:05

meh, its nice looking but not worth the £400 upgrade.

ScarySquirrel · 7 May 2006 at 20:07

wow, they are looking damn good

-|ScottFree|- · 8 May 2006 at 03:09

ScarySquirrel said:
wow, they are looking damn good

I have to say, that looks awesome!!!

I have said that I will not spend mega bucks on a system again... this kinda game can be really harmful to your bank account

fornowagain · 8 May 2006 at 04:17

Agreed, no major upgrades for one game. But it does look good.

KizZ · 8 May 2006 at 05:45

Looks nice

G.O.A.T · 8 May 2006 at 09:36

akakjs said:
I have no doubt that dx10 could be implemented on XP (if its not already going to be).

DirectX 10 is a total page one rewrite of the API. The way it interacts with the OS and graphics driver is quite different to DirectX9 and should allow for a much more 'coded to the metal' approch much like developers are able to achive with the XBOX360.

Perhaps it could be done in WinXP but only with Emulation in the same way that DirectX9 is emulated on Vista. This would probably result is bad performance/bugs and general hassle.

Punisher161282 · 8 May 2006 at 10:15

Yeah Crysis should be a great game. I was (and still am) a big fan of Far Cry so hopefully this will be just as impressive. Hope it doesn't need the worlds most powerful system to play though.

Jimbo Mahoney · 8 May 2006 at 14:12

Opening post broken?

Stellios · 8 May 2006 at 14:16