Crysis

Post by **Daddyo** » Fri Sep 21, 2007 5:10 pm

Anyone seen this game yet? Might be interesting http://www.ea.com/crysis/home.jsp and details http://www.ea.com/crysis/theater.jsp
Looks like BF 2200 with aliens!?

YouTube · Post by **TronFAQ** » Sat Sep 22, 2007 11:15 am

At first I wasn't too excited about Crysis. But the more I see of it, the more I like it.

One thing is for sure. No other game on any platform can touch the graphics in this game. All the 360 and PS3 fanboys are going to be crying that their systems don't have the best graphics. And if Crytek does end up doing a port of Crysis to the consoles, the console versions will never be as good.

Post by **Mor.Evil-1** » Sat Sep 22, 2007 4:04 pm

FarCry comes to mind when watching this.

Post by **Daddyo** » Sat Sep 22, 2007 6:05 pm

The way those jeeps tumble and blow up is great, and the sunset image with the orange lighting effect on the environment & player really is cool. Nice fire too.

It said it's from the Far Cry folks. Needs a nvidia 6600 or better. I checked graphics cards out and i'm totally amazed by the increasing performance you can get with a new high end card compared to the year or two old one I've got (6800) http://www23.tomshardware.com/graphics_ ... &chart=277 which is 7x slower than the best out there. And I thought this card was working great with all these games I've been trying. Makes me wonder if you only run 1280x1024 if it's worth getting anything significantly better, aside from some DX10 effects I suppose. I'm wondering if new games can meaningfully even utilize the new cards performance at these moderate resolutions, maybe given that PCs are probably bottlenecking everything anyway.

Post by **xistence** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 3:12 am

Yup, it is coming from the same pps making FarCry, mainly two brothers here in germany with just a handful of graphicers and developer. They already shown with FarCry that you can produce astonishing games without even crying 'it is all soooo expensive'. Their new creation is totally blasting. Beside of Bioshock another reason to increase my system *sigh*.

YouTube · Post by **TronFAQ** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 5:22 pm

I just watched a video that someone recorded from the Single Player Demo of Crysis that was just released. And even though the graphics are in DX9 mode instead of DX10, all I have to say is HOLY CRAP.

This is a huge video, so be prepared for a lengthy wait.

http://stage6.divx.com/user/cognoscenti ... -Beginning

The characters in the cutscene? By far the most realistic I've seen in a game yet. They even beat out the ones in the Half-Life 2 series.

I don't know about the gameplay, but Crysis sure piles on the pretty. :shock: Maybe next month I'll actually have a rig capable of playing it at a decent clip.

Post by **Jademz** » Sat Oct 27, 2007 9:38 pm

Daddyo wrote:The way those jeeps tumble and blow up is great, and the sunset image with the orange lighting effect on the environment & player really is cool. Nice fire too.

It said it's from the Far Cry folks. Needs a nvidia 6600 or better. I checked graphics cards out and i'm totally amazed by the increasing performance you can get with a new high end card compared to the year or two old one I've got (6800) http://www23.tomshardware.com/graphics_ ... &chart=277 which is 7x slower than the best out there. And I thought this card was working great with all these games I've been trying. Makes me wonder if you only run 1280x1024 if it's worth getting anything significantly better, aside from some DX10 effects I suppose. I'm wondering if new games can meaningfully even utilize the new cards performance at these moderate resolutions, maybe given that PCs are probably bottlenecking everything anyway.

Yea, I just d/l it, and much to my suprise, (that is if the MP is a suprise) it's amazing. screenshots:

The difference in these games from experience, is getting sniped by Anderson in BF2, he's on wide screen, I'm not. if I'm shooting at him, he at me, he's shooting 1 foot + on my body, inside a corner of a wall, I'm obviously not. It's not fair, but that's how it renders for him.
At the right resolution, the game is better.

Again, the screens say nothing about a multiplayer but nonetheless, I autoconfig'ed my video, it set it to low. fine, it looks twice the realism, of what thier other games looked.

(590 foxconn sli 2.2 AM2 x2(4200) single 7600GT pcix 256mb ddr3 2GBcheap supertalent RAM)

Post by **AnimeMasta** » Sun Dec 09, 2007 6:26 pm

Hmm with my new pc I can run this pretty decently, when I autoconfig'd the game set everything to very high, but I think it got a little excited there, I was getting around 10-20 fps. with most of the settings on high, some on very high and one on medium it runs pretty well, at 1280x1024 with 2x AA.

It's pretty fun just running around in a boat or whatever shooting whole forests down and blowing stuff up. :lol:

Oh yeh, specs, if anyone is interested -

Asus P5K SE
Intel E6850 Dual Core, each running at 3GHz
8800GT, 512mb ram
2Gb G-Skill DDR2 800MHz ram
Logitech X-240 5.1 Speakers
Logitech G5 Mouse
LG Supermulti
Samsung 740N 17"
Thin Keyboard

YouTube · Post by **TronFAQ** » Sun Dec 09, 2007 8:01 pm

Hehe, I'll be joining the ranks of Crysis players soon as well. I've already got most of the parts I need to build a new computer. It won't be an absolute screamer of a system, but it will definitely be decent by today's standards. I built this system on a budget, and managed to spend less on this one than any other one I've built in the past.

Asus M3A32-MVP Deluxe Wi-Fi
Athlon X2 6400+ 3.2GHz
PC Power & Cooling 750W PSU
Radeon HD3870 512MB
Auzentech X-Fi Prelude 7.1 Sound Card
2GB OCZ Platinum XTC Rev. 2 DDR2 800MHz
2 x Western Digital Caviar SE16 SATA 500GB
LG H62N SATA CD/DVD Writer
Acer 2216WDB 22" LCD Monitor
Cambridge DTT2500 5.1 Surround Speakers (these are old, had them for a long time already)
Logitech Access 600 Keyboard
Logitech MX518 1800DPI Mouse

Post by **TRON.dll** » Sat Mar 08, 2008 12:01 am

Your pathetic computers are nothing against my supermachine!

OS: Windows ME
Free Disk Space: 5 Gigs
RAM: 256 MB

Said 'nuff. :lol:

Post by **xistence** » Sat Mar 08, 2008 2:40 am

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Said 'nuff.

Not real, C= 64 rules them all...

Post by **win3k** » Sat Mar 08, 2008 3:37 pm

Excuse me? You step onto my turf with your palette of colours? And sound as well? You think that a C64 is worth a damn (here's a clue: It ain't)? How 'bout a vic 20? No? Mr Amstrad take your fancy? pfffffftttt.

Now back off. This Sinclair ZX80 with 1K ram is mine, and mine alone, so go weep, Mary Jane. I have a PDP 11-70 as backup.

pah! Kids. Bet they can't even program in Fortran IV. Or COBOL. Or 6502 assembly. Amateurs, the lot of them.

win3k

Post by **SweatyPyro** » Sat Mar 08, 2008 5:25 pm

I look up to people like you. 8)

Post by **Daddyo** » Sat Mar 08, 2008 5:45 pm

I've been trying to get my hands on an atari 800 for awhile now - neat machine made for games. I've been wanting to try Star Raiders on it since I was a kid. Any of you ever have one?

Post by **xistence** » Sat Mar 08, 2008 11:03 pm

i started programming basic on a Atari 800 once ago when i was 12, lol. i still have that machine somewhere