Can I Play Crysis???

you Video Card should probably be upgraded...but do it right before Crysis comes out....and not now.cobrax75

Run it? Yes. Full settings? No. You'll need a DX10-capable video card to be able to do that. If you could afford that computer, you can afford the video upgrade.Crunchy_Pickles

    Thanks for the tip, I actually don't have that video card, I just put it there, because that is the one I was going to buy, everything else is up and running, but as of right now, all I have for video is a 256 on board, and that thing sucks, for obvious reasons... But to my knowlege, that card I picked is DX10 compatable, it's why I chose it...

    Could you suggest the best video card for me then? All I said goes, I have the 4 gigs of ram and all that, but I have a set of standards... I want it to be at least 512mb, it needs to have NVidea, and it needs to run through a PCIe slot, and only one... With 470 watts of power available... It also needs to have a HDTV Tuner, and dual DVI-D outputs... My budget is 200-300... 350 if it is a significant step up... So what would you recomend???

    Don't forget, it needs to be Vista capable... I'd pick one out myself, but all I've learned about computers over the past year, when I was saving up to buy what I have now, all I learned was from books and google, so it is good to hear from a PERSON who knows what they are talking about, because I'm not all to sure I do... I know enough to assemble my computer, and I think I picked out the parts pretty well, but with your comment, I'm not so sure I can pick out a good video card...

     At the very least, could someone please tell me things to look for, and why? I would like to spend as little money as possible on the video card, 150-200 would be best, but if it is worth the extra to stay in the origonaly stated budget, then I'm all for it... So any suggestions???.........

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I accidentally put 3.41 Ghz as my processor speed, it is only 2.41 Ghz, will that make a difference???.........

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I wouldn't wait for a video card to be honest the current 8800 Series are fantastic and again you can always SLI the suckers later down the road you can't do that with ATI Cards ...and not to mention the R600 will run you $500+ most likely so unless you really wanta wait and have the money sure go for it but the GTS is a fantastic medium range budget card and will do the job fine.BLiZZaK07

I will not get a DX10 Videocard to play Crysis. for the simple fact that DX10 is only available with Microsoft Vista, and to upgrade to a DirectX 10 card (PCI-X only) I'd have to replace my CPU, Mainboard, and Ram as well (There are no Socket 478 boards with PCI-X, nor DDR1 Ram).

However, your machine specs are totally fine to run Crysis in DX9 mode, but as previous posters have said, you will see neater more photo-realistic graphics if you and your Vista machine have a 8800 or similar DX10 card.

Personally, I will not get Windows ME2 (Vista), just to play a game with a graphics boost. I will wait next year when the "real" OS is to come out anyways, codename "Blackcomb" or "Vienna".

No you cant :twisted:

The game isnt released yet ;) 

Well you shouldn't have any problems on the RAM aspect :) ;)

Your processor would do fine also
But the thing to worry most about is the reason that Crysis is being built and fully compatible with the 8800 GTX
Your computer will definetly run this game but i can't guarantee you can run it at max(smoothly) 

This is the card I will be getting today when UPS shows up with all my parts. I got the tower yesterday and have to send it back. The whole front was busted like as if the box was dropped. So while I thought I would be putting it together today, I have another week now.

You rig should play the game, but no where near max settings. If the card I am getting cost to much for you, there is also this card. But if you want to play future games without upgrading again in a year or less, I would get a 8800.

[QUOTE="Crunchy_Pickles"]Run it? Yes. Full settings? No. You'll need a DX10-capable video card to be able to do that. If you could afford that computer, you can afford the video upgrade.lokiisback

    Thanks for the tip, I actually don't have that video card, I just put it there, because that is the one I was going to buy, everything else is up and running, but as of right now, all I have for video is a 256 on board, and that thing sucks, for obvious reasons... But to my knowlege, that card I picked is DX10 compatable, it's why I chose it...

    Could you suggest the best video card for me then? All I said goes, I have the 4 gigs of ram and all that, but I have a set of standards... I want it to be at least 512mb, it needs to have NVidea, and it needs to run through a PCIe slot, and only one... With 470 watts of power available... It also needs to have a HDTV Tuner, and dual DVI-D outputs... My budget is 200-300... 350 if it is a significant step up... So what would you recomend???

    Don't forget, it needs to be Vista capable... I'd pick one out myself, but all I've learned about computers over the past year, when I was saving up to buy what I have now, all I learned was from books and google, so it is good to hear from a PERSON who knows what they are talking about, because I'm not all to sure I do... I know enough to assemble my computer, and I think I picked out the parts pretty well, but with your comment, I'm not so sure I can pick out a good video card...

     At the very least, could someone please tell me things to look for, and why? I would like to spend as little money as possible on the video card, 150-200 would be best, but if it is worth the extra to stay in the origonaly stated budget, then I'm all for it... So any suggestions???.........

Beleive it or not, cards with lots of memory are actually a sign of poor performance (atleast concernering the 7000 series and below).  It is far better to have a 7800 with 256MB memory than a 7600 with 512MB memory.

With that said, I highly recommend getting the 8800GTS 320MB version.  It is modeslty priced (around 250 or so at newegg.com) and should offer great performance.  From what Ive read and heard, the 8600GTS model and lower should be avoided as even the "superclocked" versions offer, at the most, a 15% improvement in framerates over a stock 7600GT.

As for your current set up, I think its just fine.  A Crysis developer said that he could max (in Dx9 mode, mind you) Crysis with his 7800GT card.  I imagine a 7600 could problably run Crysis at 1280x960 with med-high details and still manage decent frame rates.  Also, the devs said that the game will run with a 6800 card.

On a personal note, I feel Crysis will be more akin to Supreme Commander, meaning it will be heavily dependent on processor power as opposed to video card power.  And since you have a dual core and 4GB of memory, I think that will definately help you out.

So, to sum up, either stick with your more-than-adequate 7600GT or get an 8800GTS 320MB version (or wait and see what ATI ofers, but I am like you and am going to stick with nvidia :D )

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[QUOTE="Crunchy_Pickles"]Run it? Yes. Full settings? No. You'll need a DX10-capable video card to be able to do that. If you could afford that computer, you can afford the video upgrade.mrbojangles25

    Thanks for the tip, I actually don't have that video card, I just put it there, because that is the one I was going to buy, everything else is up and running, but as of right now, all I have for video is a 256 on board, and that thing sucks, for obvious reasons... But to my knowlege, that card I picked is DX10 compatable, it's why I chose it...

    Could you suggest the best video card for me then? All I said goes, I have the 4 gigs of ram and all that, but I have a set of standards... I want it to be at least 512mb, it needs to have NVidea, and it needs to run through a PCIe slot, and only one... With 470 watts of power available... It also needs to have a HDTV Tuner, and dual DVI-D outputs... My budget is 200-300... 350 if it is a significant step up... So what would you recomend???

    Don't forget, it needs to be Vista capable... I'd pick one out myself, but all I've learned about computers over the past year, when I was saving up to buy what I have now, all I learned was from books and google, so it is good to hear from a PERSON who knows what they are talking about, because I'm not all to sure I do... I know enough to assemble my computer, and I think I picked out the parts pretty well, but with your comment, I'm not so sure I can pick out a good video card...

     At the very least, could someone please tell me things to look for, and why? I would like to spend as little money as possible on the video card, 150-200 would be best, but if it is worth the extra to stay in the origonaly stated budget, then I'm all for it... So any suggestions???.........

Beleive it or not, cards with lots of memory are actually a sign of poor performance (atleast concernering the 7000 series and below).  It is far better to have a 7800 with 256MB memory than a 7600 with 512MB memory.

With that said, I highly recommend getting the 8800GTS 320MB version.  It is modeslty priced (around 250 or so at newegg.com) and should offer great performance.  From what Ive read and heard, the 8600GTS model and lower should be avoided as even the "superclocked" versions offer, at the most, a 15% improvement in framerates over a stock 7600GT.

As for your current set up, I think its just fine.  A Crysis developer said that he could max (in Dx9 mode, mind you) Crysis with his 7800GT card.  I imagine a 7600 could problably run Crysis at 1280x960 with med-high details and still manage decent frame rates.  Also, the devs said that the game will run with a 6800 card.

On a personal note, I feel Crysis will be more akin to Supreme Commander, meaning it will be heavily dependent on processor power as opposed to video card power.  And since you have a dual core and 4GB of memory, I think that will definately help you out.

So, to sum up, either stick with your more-than-adequate 7600GT or get an 8800GTS 320MB version (or wait and see what ATI ofers, but I am like you and am going to stick with nvidia :D )

cards with a lot of memory can surrport high resutions so how can the be poor card there are poor cards with a lot of memory but this is not always the case