Before you knock crysis....

I see that the trend is this..." I have a *insert a number from two to five here* year old computer and I can play half life 2 just fine but this new game crysis, i cant play it maxxed out...why the he!! not??" If your gonna start off yoru threads starting anything resembling this just shut it! Ive never heard pc gamers gripe so much about an upgrade...did you expect that 7800 or x800 to last the rest of our life time or something? If you can get a playable framerate no matter what resolution this game is incredible. the amount of immersion puts a lot of other comparible games to shame. So enough of the "my crappy computer cant max out crysis...so obviously it sux!" threads. 31337r4v3n

[QUOTE="31337r4v3n"]I see that the trend is this..." I have a *insert a number from two to five here* year old computer and I can play half life 2 just fine but this new game crysis, i cant play it maxxed out...why the he!! not??" If your gonna start off yoru threads starting anything resembling this just shut it! Ive never heard pc gamers gripe so much about an upgrade...did you expect that 7800 or x800 to last the rest of our life time or something? If you can get a playable framerate no matter what resolution this game is incredible. the amount of immersion puts a lot of other comparible games to shame. So enough of the "my crappy computer cant max out crysis...so obviously it sux!" threads. greatmax1

Exactly. I play the game on med/high with 8800 GTS, E6600 and 2gb to get playable performance.

Maybe Crytek meant that we could max the game on 800x600.

once again...ur VERY uninformed. They never said you could max out crysis on modern hardware..thats the point. Thats why they said there is another year or so life in it. WOW...even in THIS thread someone is mad that they cant max out a game that they said you wouldnt be able to max out...this is funny. So i take it that almost everything on very high on yoru gtx and c2d isnt enough?31337r4v3n

i got a dual core/8800 the main thing seems to be having a dual core, most people complaining have single.

Now dont shoot me but,....i didnt think the graphics were THAT great, i had em all maxxed and yah they were very good but they didnt blow me away, looked like quake4 had a baby with far cry....

Demo was ALRIGHT, wasnt mind blowing.

agreed with post above. my e4400, 3 gigs of ram, GTX can run almost everythings on very high....once again why all the b!tching? upgrade or play i console i say...31337r4v3n

[QUOTE="31337r4v3n"]I see that the trend is this..." I have a *insert a number from two to five here* year old computer and I can play half life 2 just fine but this new game crysis, i cant play it maxxed out...why the he!! not??" If your gonna start off yoru threads starting anything resembling this just shut it! Ive never heard pc gamers gripe so much about an upgrade...did you expect that 7800 or x800 to last the rest of our life time or something? If you can get a playable framerate no matter what resolution this game is incredible. the amount of immersion puts a lot of other comparible games to shame. So enough of the "my crappy computer cant max out crysis...so obviously it sux!" threads. greatmax1

I have a 8800 , 2GB RAM , Q6600 and run nearlyt everything on Very High ( I turn post processing down because of motion sickness) at 1650 x 1050 ... Cevat was dead on the mark imo.

[QUOTE="greatmax1"][QUOTE="31337r4v3n"]I see that the trend is this..." I have a *insert a number from two to five here* year old computer and I can play half life 2 just fine but this new game crysis, i cant play it maxxed out...why the he!! not??" If your gonna start off yoru threads starting anything resembling this just shut it! Ive never heard pc gamers gripe so much about an upgrade...did you expect that 7800 or x800 to last the rest of our life time or something? If you can get a playable framerate no matter what resolution this game is incredible. the amount of immersion puts a lot of other comparible games to shame. So enough of the "my crappy computer cant max out crysis...so obviously it sux!" threads. Meu2k7

I have a 8800 , 2GB RAM , Q6600 and run nearlyt everything on Very High ( I turn post processing down because of motion sickness) at 1650 x 1050 ... Cevat was dead on the mark imo.

For people that are wondering why their computer won't run Crysis, The key seems to be in dual core, just like Colin Mcrae DIRT. New games are optomized for Dual Core, and run very well. Even with my older Radeon X1600 pro I could play Colin Mcrae with everything but Shadows on high. I have an Athlon X2 4200+, Radeon X1950 pro 512mb, 2GB ram, and I can play the game at 1024x768 with three options (NO AA):

1) Everything on high except for post Processing on Med and Shaders on Medium

OR

2) Everything on high except Post Processing on Med and Shadows on Med.

OR

3) Everything on high at 800x600 (but I like 1024x768, crisper)

Either Shadows or Shaders down to Med gives me a big FPS boost. I'm getting between25-35 FPS.it looks like a great game, Far Cry with some twists. For those people that say the view distance is huge, so was Far Cry's, just because the view distance is huge, doesn't mean the game is gonna run like a slug, if you look at the resolution of far away textures and trees, you'll see a big difference from what's close (obviously).

For people that are wondering why their computer won't run Crysis, The key seems to be in dual core, just like Colin Mcrae DIRT. New games are optomized for Dual Core, and run very well. Even with my olderRadeon X1600 pro I could play Colin Mcrae with everything but Shadows on high.I have an Athlon X2 4200+, Radeon X1950 pro 512mb, 2GB ram, and I can play the game at 1024x768 withthree options (NO AA):

1) Everything on high except for post Processing on Med and Shaders on Medium

OR

2)Everything on high except Post Processing on Med and Shadows on Med.

OR

3) Everything on high at 800x600 (but I like 1024x768, crisper)

Either Shadows or Shaders down to Med gives me a big FPS boost. it looks like a great game, Far Cry with some twists. For those people that say the view distance is huge, so was Far Cry's, just because the view distance is huge, doesn't mean the game is gonna run like a slug, if you look at the resolution of far away textures and trees, you'll see a big difference from what's close (obviously).

i got dual core 2.4 6600 with an old 6600 gts !! and 2ddr1(..)

But i can run the game smoothly but the graphics suffer!!!

[QUOTE="greatmax1"][QUOTE="31337r4v3n"]I see that the trend is this..." I have a *insert a number from two to five here* year old computer and I can play half life 2 just fine but this new game crysis, i cant play it maxxed out...why the he!! not??" If your gonna start off yoru threads starting anything resembling this just shut it! Ive never heard pc gamers gripe so much about an upgrade...did you expect that 7800 or x800 to last the rest of our life time or something? If you can get a playable framerate no matter what resolution this game is incredible. the amount of immersion puts a lot of other comparible games to shame. So enough of the "my crappy computer cant max out crysis...so obviously it sux!" threads. Meu2k7

I have a 8800 , 2GB RAM , Q6600 and run nearlyt everything on Very High ( I turn post processing down because of motion sickness) at 1650 x 1050 ... Cevat was dead on the mark imo.

Is Very High even an option? On my Graphics settings, Very High is greyed out.

[QUOTE="31337r4v3n"]I see that the trend is this..." I have a *insert a number from two to five here* year old computer and I can play half life 2 just fine but this new game crysis, i cant play it maxxed out...why the he!! not??" If your gonna start off yoru threads starting anything resembling this just shut it! Ive never heard pc gamers gripe so much about an upgrade...did you expect that 7800 or x800 to last the rest of our life time or something? If you can get a playable framerate no matter what resolution this game is incredible. the amount of immersion puts a lot of other comparible games to shame. So enough of the "my crappy computer cant max out crysis...so obviously it sux!" threads. greatmax1

uhh i have a dual core and an 8800gtx and i run dx10 maxed out with no problems, don't know what your problem is but if you do have one, don't generalise.

tsk tsk, here we go again.A company releases a game that requires more engine power then whats currently available and they get shunted, to say it nicely.

I think i've scanned some 100 pages of Crysis degrading material and i've yet to see anyone compare this to the release of Doom 3. When Doom 3 was released you needed a topped out Alienware ALX station to play that on max, now aday's you can throw it over your shoulder with a 7900GTX.

No one has commended Crytek(sorry, no honor for EA on this, you suck!) on the job they've accomplished. They've once again ventured a digital freakin' minefield to come out with something that would set the bar (yet again) for games. I've yet to see a single person stop up and think; "Hey' a year from now we'll all be playing this on Very High with low/Mid range machines, and it'll still floor anything that'll be on the market by that time". Sure we can't play it on very high, or even high for many of us, but you fellas know what, the game looks fantastic on just medium settings. There will come a time where everyone will be looking back on this game and thinking how it really changed games as we know them.

tsk tsk, here we go again.A company releases a game that requires more engine power then whats currently available and they get shunted, to say it nicely.

I think i've scanned some 100 pages of Crysis degrading material and i've yet to see anyone compare this to the release of Doom 3. When Doom 3 was released you needed a topped out Alienware ALX station to play that on max, now aday's you can throw it over your shoulder with a 7900GTX.

No one has commended Crytek(sorry, no honor for EA on this, you suck!) on the job they've accomplished. They've once again ventured a digital freakin' minefield to come out with something that would set the bar (yet again) for games. I've yet to see a single person stop up and think; "Hey' a year from now we'll all be playing this on Very High with low range machines, and it'll still floor anything that'll be on the market by that time". Christ, my sisters Acer Laptop mowes down anything, and its a freakin' pre-built piece of crap compared to some of the glorified gaming rigs i see signatured around here.

Think. Its free.

I have a dual core and 8800gts 320 and canplay the game with med-high settings, and that's perfectly fine because the game still looks great and the gameplay iskicks ass. I don't see why everyone is constantly complaining about the graphics,, you can still enjoy the game(not to it's full potential)if people lower the settings.

The only problem I have is that I think the demo is not fully optimized yet. There are times when I can put everything onhigh andplay with a good 25-30fps(that'sin different areasand while i'mfighting the enemey). Then, while i'm not doing anything much besides running it'll drop between 10-15fps and not really change from that. Also, there are times where i'll put everything to medium andmy fps is only between 20-25. then again this just could be mypc sinceI don't see anyone else having this problem.

YES smart A55 post above...e4400, 3 gigs, gtx, xfi, 1680x1050 2x aa, 31 to 39 fps.....everything except shadows on VERY HIGH...31337r4v3n

I have an Xpertviosion 7900GT/GTO GTX Clocks AMD 3700+ Solo running on 2,65 gigs 2gigs ram

I can run the game perfectly, but no aa all on max under XP (high settings)

Remember this is a Demo not the full game every full game runs better then the demo,

Jericho demo runs like **** the full game runs smooth 30/40 fps

Crysis runs 25fps30fps/ medium shaders 30/40

Greetz SpeakR

tsk tsk, here we go again.A company releases a game that requires more engine power then whats currently available and they get shunted, to say it nicely.

I think i've scanned some 100 pages of Crysis degrading material and i've yet to see anyone compare this to the release of Doom 3. When Doom 3 was released you needed a topped out Alienware ALX station to play that on max, now aday's you can throw it over your shoulder with a 7900GTX.

No one has commended Crytek(sorry, no honor for EA on this, you suck!) on the job they've accomplished. They've once again ventured a digital freakin' minefield to come out with something that would set the bar (yet again) for games. I've yet to see a single person stop up and think; "Hey' a year from now we'll all be playing this on Very High with low range machines, and it'll still floor anything that'll be on the market by that time". Christ, my sisters Acer Laptop mowes down anything, and its a freakin' pre-built piece of crap compared to some of the glorified gaming rigs i see signatured around here.

Think. Its free.

Laviethan

Even with Doom 3 it was playable even on lowest settings! I ran Doom 3 on my old Geforce Fx 5200 at 1024x768 near medium settings with descent fps.I could care about maxing out games but I draw the line when ur Pc cant even play a game with a steady 30 fps on lowest settings. Even your Pc passes min. requirements and is almost or passes recomended system specs needed and fps goes between 15-45!

Even with Doom 3 it was playable even on lowest settings! I ran Doom 3 on my old Geforce Fx 5200 at 1024x768 near medium settings with descent fps.I could care about maxing out games but I draw the line when ur Pc cant even play a game with a steady 30 fps on lowest settings. Even your Pc passes min. requirements and is almost or passes recomended system specs needed and fps goes between 15-45!

04dcarraher

Uhh.....I have an old crummy computer and I played through crysis demo on low settings at 800*600.....and I had a blast. It ran at a solid 30fps.

If you cant get crysis to run on low then you must be on an EXTREMELY old machine, then I wonder what business you have installing crysis anyway. You knew it was very advanced, so with a machine so old, why bother?

tru an 8800 is obviously an 8800 but cmon everyone knows that a gtx annihilates a gts especially in dx10.31337r4v3n

[QUOTE="31337r4v3n"]I see that the trend is this..." I have a *insert a number from two to five here* year old computer and I can play half life 2 just fine but this new game crysis, i cant play it maxxed out...why the he!! not??" If your gonna start off yoru threads starting anything resembling this just shut it! Ive never heard pc gamers gripe so much about an upgrade...did you expect that 7800 or x800 to last the rest of our life time or something? If you can get a playable framerate no matter what resolution this game is incredible. the amount of immersion puts a lot of other comparible games to shame. So enough of the "my crappy computer cant max out crysis...so obviously it sux!" threads. greatmax1

I suggest your comp sucks. I running it almost maxed in 1280 by 1024 res with 40-60fps on a E6600 8800 rig with 2GBs of RAM.

[QUOTE="greatmax1"][QUOTE="31337r4v3n"]I see that the trend is this..." I have a *insert a number from two to five here* year old computer and I can play half life 2 just fine but this new game crysis, i cant play it maxxed out...why the he!! not??" If your gonna start off yoru threads starting anything resembling this just shut it! Ive never heard pc gamers gripe so much about an upgrade...did you expect that 7800 or x800 to last the rest of our life time or something? If you can get a playable framerate no matter what resolution this game is incredible. the amount of immersion puts a lot of other comparible games to shame. So enough of the "my crappy computer cant max out crysis...so obviously it sux!" threads. Platearmor_6

I suggest your comp sucks. I running it almost maxed in 1280 by 1024 res with 40-60fps on a E6600 8800 rig with 2GBs of RAM.

[QUOTE="Platearmor_6"]

[QUOTE="greatmax1"][QUOTE="31337r4v3n"]I see that the trend is this..." I have a *insert a number from two to five here* year old computer and I can play half life 2 just fine but this new game crysis, i cant play it maxxed out...why the he!! not??" If your gonna start off yoru threads starting anything resembling this just shut it! Ive never heard pc gamers gripe so much about an upgrade...did you expect that 7800 or x800 to last the rest of our life time or something? If you can get a playable framerate no matter what resolution this game is incredible. the amount of immersion puts a lot of other comparible games to shame. So enough of the "my crappy computer cant max out crysis...so obviously it sux!" threads. greatmax1

I suggest your comp sucks. I running it almost maxed in 1280 by 1024 res with 40-60fps on a E6600 8800 rig with 2GBs of RAM.

The game is CPU intensive because a quad core with an 8800gts beats a core 2 duo with an 8800gtx.

[QUOTE="Marfoo"]E6700 + X1900XT + 2GB RAM = Playable on all high at 1280x720, however I like to play at all high with shaders, shadows, and post-processing at medium at 1680x1050. Technically I can max this game at a lower resolution (720p), come on people 720p, that's pretty dang good, and on an X1900XT. besides, the game looks great on medium anyway, especially if you can afford putting textures and water detail on high, medium looks glorious, it's just missing some shader affects, like that washed out fog look. Crysis's performance is consistent with the workload the engine has to deal with. Rendering as far as the eye can see, nice shader effects, shadow effects, rendering dozens of trees, extremely realistic looking character models (have you seen those faces!?! They look so real!). If you can run it on medium at playable FPS, you're gonna have a good time, if you can run med/high settings, all the better. I bet if they medium was the highest the detail could go, and became "max". Everyone would be happy, because they can "max" it. It seems people try too hard to "max" the game and forget that it still looks REALLY GOOD on medium, and plays REALLY GOOD.Deihmos

Larger monitors do not look good in 720p at all. It's either an ugly stretched image or the fixed with black bars around the image.