Perhaps the most visually stunning and hardware-intensive game on the market, Crysis is bound to stay with us as a benchmark for some time to come. ExtremeTech has taken an in-depth look into how Crysis performs with modern graphics cards. The results echo Crytek's claim that the game's engine is built for computers three years old and three years in the future. Consumer-grade hardware simply cannot handle the game at full speed.
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cant wait till february/march! New laptop, penryn processor, crysis in higher resolution and good settings
...Except that Crysis does utilize all four cores. It will utilize however many cores you have on your system. The developers made this engine to last for a while.
Most new games are coded for multi-core. It's you who'll soon be in the past.
When are people going to realise it isn't about multi-cores, its about gpu efficiency? :|
But Crysis isn't coded for multi-core, it's coded for a fantasy processor that doesn't exist in the real world. I think much of it also has to do with storage limits. I think hard drives are part of the bottleneck in this game, not CPUs. It's streaming stuff off them as you play, so it doesn't matter how fast your CPU is if it has to wait to load a dozen giant HD textures or new objects.
At what resolution though?
I'm running:
eVGA 680i
Quad 6600 @ 2.5GHZ
4GB DDR2 PC800
2x eVGA 8800GTX
2x 150GB Raptors in RAID0
XP Pro with PAE.
My native res is 1920x1080 and it still chugs...
4GB, quadcore, >512 MB card?
4GB, quadcore, >512 MB card?
Throw in a pair of 8800GTXs in SLI and you're probably close.
(and yes, I'm using the latest drivers and such.)
But you know, Supreme Commander strains this system a lot more than Crysis does, so I don't know what all the "It killed my system" noise is all about. Welcome to 2007. Enjoy your stay.
(However at max graphics it looked amazing. Too bad it was a screenshot with sound. :p)
Core 2 Duo E6600, 3GB RAM, Vista Ultimate, GeForce 8600GT.
Core 2 Duo T7500 2.2Ghz
2 GB Memory
nVidia GeForce Go 8400 GS
Runs Crysis on high for all with anti analising and amp turned to 2x, DirectX 9. (DX10 works but with like 20 fps less..)
lol I wouldn't have believed it either but if you were next to me I'd show you.
QUICK EDIT: Plus I said it runs, not runs well. I turn shadows to medium, anti and amp to off, and everything else on high to play the game. (It runs on what I claimed but not during action scenes/huge explosions)
I think the next big game will make use of multi-screen. single screen is a waste when dual can really open up a ton more possibilities.
I think the next big game will make use of multi-screen. single screen is a waste when dual can really open up a ton more possibilities.
There's different general grades of PC hardware. What the names of the various grades varies depending on who you ask. I Imagine they're using a grading continum something like this:
Obsolete, Entry-level, Consumer Grade, Commercial Grade, Professional-Grade, Gamer Extreme, Experimental/Custom Built.
I assume when they say "Consumer-Grade" they mean some HP or Dell box you can pick up at a big-box store. If so, they're right that that kind of machine will likely not be able to handle Crysis. Even Dell's so-called "Extreme Gamer" line isn't really very extreme, and the kind of stuff people usually buy from system builders like them are not aimed at gaming.
I think the next big game will make use of multi-screen. single screen is a waste when dual can really open up a ton more possibilities.
There's different general grades of PC hardware. What the names of the various grades varies depending on who you ask. I Imagine they're using a grading continum something like this:
Obsolete, Entry-level, Consumer Grade, Commercial Grade, Professional-Grade, Gamer Extreme, Experimental/Custom Built.
I assume when they say "Consumer-Grade" they mean some HP or Dell box you can pick up at a big-box store. If so, they're right that that kind of machine will likely not be able to handle Crysis. Even Dell's so-called "Extreme Gamer" line isn't really very extreme, and the kind of stuff people usually buy from system builders like them are not aimed at gaming.
Gaming= XPS, Alienware, VooDoo, or HP BlackBird.
Nothing else stands between.
AMD X2 5000+
2GB OCZ 6400ram
WD 36GB raptor
2x 320GB samsung 7200.10 drives
creative x-fi
8800 GTX with 163.69 drivers
21.3" samsung 213T LCD
and 25-30 fps is VERY PLAYABLE ?????
SO DO YOU CONSIDER A HYUNDAI AN ENJOYABLE PLEASURE RIDE COMPARABLE TO THE EUROPEAN IMPORTS ??
ROFL
and 25-30 fps is VERY PLAYABLE ?????
SO DO YOU CONSIDER A HYUNDAI AN ENJOYABLE PLEASURE RIDE COMPARABLE TO THE EUROPEAN IMPORTS ??
ROFL
uh...well lets see 213T is the model number, and if i said 22" i would be lying...so uh... grow up?
25-30fps is very playable that for alot of people seems to run slow, and thats just a running average, fraps has gotten me alot higher in some places, im giving you an overall average for the entire game with everything turned on high, and i don't have that bad-ass of a system either.
You have something against korean automobile manufacturers? I've been in a few hyundais that ride better than some european cars....I lived in germany for 3 years and owned 2 bmws and my honda/friends hyundai rides alot better than those 2 cars ever did...
so again i state my previous statement...grow up.
Buying console games is pretty expensive. And some of us use computers more than just gaming.
Buying console games is pretty expensive. And some of us use computers more than just gaming.
Unless you video editing in high definition, and/or 3d graphics processing, what exactly do you do with your computer that couldn't be done on a computer 5 years ago?
If people want to play latest and greatest computer games on max detail settings and can afford the new systems every year, then more power to them. But I agree with Magallanes that an XBox 360 is a much better buy than a 8800 GTX video card.
That being said, dang I want to upgrade my computer!
System in a nutshell:
Point of view 8800 ultra
Intel Core Duo 6850
4 GB ram
32mb cache seagate drives
The key to running crysis smooth is running it on a lower res.. (figures). And don't even try using anti aliasing,
Very true.
Last edited by Slayerette on 08 Dec 2007 - 21:10
Very true
It sure is ironic so many people all of a sudden talking about 8800 Ultras -
And the people talking about playing it in XP --- STFU not even comparable
lol
attrib -sarcasm me:comments
you do understand that you can have roughly ~3GB of ram on a 32 bit OS, don't you? you can't utilize 4, but it will support 3 something.
Last edited by SirEvan on 04 Dec 2007 - 15:49
(Talking about the OP, not the first reply... Excellent reply
My performance...
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11/25/2007 11:37:15 AM - XP
Run #1- DX9 1024x768 AA=2x, 32 bit test, Quality: High ~~ Overall Average FPS: 45.025
My rig...
Abit AW9D-MAX (Intel i975-ICH7)
Bios version # 7.3.13
Intel Core 2 Duo CPU e6600 @ 2.40GHz OC @ 3.3GHz Arctic Freezer Pro 7
EVGA GeForce 8800 GTS 640mb
G.SKILL 2GB (2 x 240-Pin) DDR2 6400 800 Mhz 4-4-4-15
Copy/paste to replace the current autoexec file to...
con_restricted=0
r_VSync=1
d3d9_TripleBuffering=1
r_ssao_quality=1
r_ssao_amount=0.4
r_SSAO_darkening=1.3
r_TerrainAO_FadeDist=1
r_HDRlevel=1
r_TexturesStreaming=0
r_ColorGradingDOF=1
r_ShadowJittering=1.5
r_ShadowBlur=3.0
e_gsm_lods_num=5
e_shadows_from_terrain_in_all_lods=0
r_UseEdgeAA=2
e_shadows_max_texture_size=768
e_view_dist_ratio=80
e_particles_lod=0.7
e_vegetation_min_size=1.5
e_view_dist_ratio_vegetation=48
r_sunshafts=1
e_water_ocean_fft=1
e_detail_materials_view_dist_xy=4096
e_detail_materials_view_dist_z=256
r_UsePOM=1
e_lod_ratio=8
e_terrain_lod_ratio=0.6
e_vegetation_sprites_distance_ratio=1.7
r_GeomInstancing=1
e_vegetation_static_instancing=1
e_particles_thread=1
e_cull_veg_activation=70
e_max_entity_lights=20
es_MaxPhysDist=300
es_MaxPhysDistInvisible=35
r_BeamsMaxSlices=250
r_DetailDistance=12
r_TexturesStreaming=0
r_EyeAdaptationBase=0.15
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