Official Crysis Demo thread

mohawk · 26 Oct 2007 at 13:24

why are people buying it off ripoff ea link to get a demo 24 hours earlier than other sane people? makes no sense to me, take you £34.99 get compltely wasted tonight wake up tomorrow at 1pm and download it

best idea imo!

NightSt@lk3r · 26 Oct 2007 at 13:26

mohawk said:
why are people buying it off ripoff ea link to get a demo 24 hours earlier than other sane people? makes no sense to me, take you £34.99 get compltely wasted tonight wake up tomorrow at 1pm and download it best idea imo!

same reason people bought a fileplanet subscription to get a beta key.

and no, i have no idea what that reason is.

cozm01 · 26 Oct 2007 at 13:27

"go to the install directory 2 Bin folders open the one you need 32 bit or 64 bit then click on crysis32.exe or crysis54.exe the game will start."

CGrieves · 26 Oct 2007 at 13:29

mohawk said:
why are people buying it off ripoff ea link to get a demo 24 hours earlier than other sane people? makes no sense to me, take you £34.99 get compltely wasted tonight wake up tomorrow at 1pm and download it best idea imo!

I didn't, I paid £29.99, same as it will be over the counter.

mohawk · 26 Oct 2007 at 13:30

and u have no cd's and can only download the content in the first 6 months unless u pay an extra £2.99

Shadowness · 26 Oct 2007 at 13:31

Well im gonna buy the game anyway, so what difference does it make as to when I buy it?!

killer_uk · 26 Oct 2007 at 13:33

Jabbs · 26 Oct 2007 at 13:36

mohawk said:
and u have no cd's and can only download the content in the first 6 months unless u pay an extra £2.99

All you have to do is keep the cache files on your harddrive and you can install it anytime after that, like i do with bf2142 although i never play it now.

Peve · 26 Oct 2007 at 13:38

Very annoying I was sure Crytek/EA said the public release would be the 26th :mad:

NightSt@lk3r · 26 Oct 2007 at 13:39

Peve said:
Very annoying I was sure Crytek/EA said the public release would be the 26th

they did, but then they screwed up the release to the pre order customers so had to delay it a day for the general public.

CGrieves · 26 Oct 2007 at 13:40

mohawk said:
and u have no cd's and can only download the content in the first 6 months unless u pay an extra £2.99

Correct, and once downloaded, the files go on an SAS RAID1 array on a server backed up nightly to LTO3 tapes. I don't want worthless CDs or game boxes that'll never be used or looked at again to clutter up my home, so this is a perfect solution for me.

silversurfer · 26 Oct 2007 at 14:06

zomgwtfbbq are you saying its 27th now

LoadsaMoney · 26 Oct 2007 at 14:06

Wtf 5-16fps on an 8800 GTS. :eek:

Samione · 26 Oct 2007 at 14:08

LoadsaMoney said:
Wtf 5-16fps on an 8800 GTS.

Is that what you're getting, on very high settings I assume?

Robert · 26 Oct 2007 at 14:10

I don't understand why people are using very high. It has already been said that the game will scale two years ahead.

Samione · 26 Oct 2007 at 14:14

Robert said:
I don't understand why people are using very high. It has already been said that the game will scale two years ahead.

Yeah, the settings of which aren't even enabled in the game yet, there's patches coming out for that stuff. Very high is supposed to be working on current hardware tbh.

Gerard · 26 Oct 2007 at 14:26

Well i preordered it and from what i can see theyve released a broken demo. Every single time i do the halo jump and drop into the water the game locks up. I launch the sandbox editor and find my spawn point, as soon as i kill the first enemy the editor closes. Can't launch the 32 bit version of the demo, anytime i do i get told to log into ea dload manager to verify ownership, even when i am logged in.

Clearly an amazing demo, hopefully the full game lives upto this standard.

thecremeegg · 26 Oct 2007 at 14:28

22 hours to go until we get the demo - damn you EA

killer_uk · 26 Oct 2007 at 14:29

Stick your code in there and log in, works fine then, http://www.ea.com/ealink/

Getting around 22-28fps at 1280x1024 everything very high, 4xAA 8xAF. Surprising how smooth it is though when in the higher 20s

Thats with 8800GTX, E6600 at 3Ghz, 4gb ram

EDIT: And with everything on high I get around 10fps more. Meaning around high 30s. Wonder what these nvidia drivers will bring

RavenXXX2 · 26 Oct 2007 at 14:31

killer_uk said:
Stick your code in there and log in, works fine then, http://www.ea.com/ealink/

Getting around 22-28fps at 1280x1024 everything very high, 4xAA 8xAF. Surprising how smooth it is though when in the higher 20s

SPEC??