crysis demo question

heres the story: I have a mac and my bro has a pc. I want to use his pc to play the crysis demo, but its kinda old. what i want to know is, if i download the demo, will his pc work like garbageallthe time or just when im playing?

and i know the the frame rate is gonna be really choppy, but i just wanna try the game.

Man, how old is his computer? I do know that Crysis is a system hog as I had gotten a brand new Dell XPS 420 with a nice video card (ATI 2600 HD) and the game (demo) put the detail at only medium quality with DirectX 10. Hope this helps, some...Panman_Dan

Not to be a downer or nothing, but an ATI HD2600 isn't a nice videocard. It's low/mid range at best.

I think he's asking if he downloads the demo will it ruin his brothers computer, the answer is NO.

heres the story: I have a mac and my bro has a pc. I want to use his pc to play the crysis demo, but its kinda old. what i want to know is, if i download the demo, will his pc work like garbageallthe time or just when im playing?

and i know the the frame rate is gonna be really choppy, but i just wanna try the game.

username59

Typical of a Macintosh not to think of providing specifications.

1. Go to the Start menu (accessed via rectangular bottom at left end of task bar, along bottom of screen). 2. Select 'Run'. 3. Type in 'DXDiag'. 4. Hit 'OK'. 5. If the results are presented as a text (.txt) file, copy and paste them into this thread. If they are presented in a tabbed window, select 'Save All Information...' and save it as a .txt file. Copy and paste it here. 6. Get a PC. 7. No, I'm not kidding. :p

EDIT: I guess I really didn't read your question. As has already been said, even if the demo runs like molasses, it should not effect your brother's PC when it is not actually running (allow for sluggish performance for several seconds after the game shuts down, however). But if you choose to post the DXDiag, someone can give you an estimation of how it will run--or if it will at all.

umm I don't see how it could "destroy" your computer so I think you could give it a spin.

and for the guy who got the Dell Xps 420, I just got mine recently too, accept a 8800gt 512Mb =]