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Darth Vader
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Posted: 30th Oct 2007 07:14
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Well after a nice holiday from the forums ITS GREAT TO BE BACK! I haven't got up to much, just into games! I can't stop buying games and playing them, I've also started reading the Harry Potter books which I wouldn't have read because if religious reasons, but honestly I can't find anything wrong with them! In fact there great!
So before I turn this into a blog post... back to topic!

Crysis is amazing! My brother downloaded the demo at uni and brought it home to try out on his computer. For all you benchmark crazy people out there his system is,

Core Duo 2 E6600 2.2GHz
2GB 667MHz DDR2 RAM
Nvidia MSI 8800GTS 640MB DirectX 9.0c
Samsung 22" Screen
7200RPM HDD

Okay so its a pretty good system and Crysis ran a treat! All settings on high (Very high was disabled) No Anti Aliasing 1600x1090(I think) resolution and it ran like any other game! FAST! Not even when an explosion happened did it slow down! It was great! The graphics will blow you away and the realism is astounding!

Sure there were bugs, for instance we threw a piece of paper off a cliff and it plummeted like a sheet of metal! But that wasn't the worst, when it reached the water it wouldn't sink it bounced and danced on the surface! But that was probably the only really 'technical' issue we came across.

The water looked real. Underwater looked even better, and the environment acted like a real island. Trees fell down from were you shot them, leaves would move as you walked through them, and the buildings would crumble and fall if you threw hard objects at them.

All in all it is a great game, and the story looks to be intriguing. So I can't wait for the full version to come out, but I'm glad in one way; at least I have time to save up for my computer!


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DrewG
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Posted: 30th Oct 2007 07:17
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Cool. Nice computer system.

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Osiris
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Posted: 30th Oct 2007 07:27 Edited at: 30th Oct 2007 07:27
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Hmm, I tried it on my new computer that was built for rendering, I mean it usually plays games really well. However this game must not be optimized at all, that or the developer is craving mad (he is), because this game laggs so bad. I dunno it just seems like another shooter to me. Just that you need a supercomputer to play it is all.

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Darth Vader
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Posted: 30th Oct 2007 07:36
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What are your computer specs?


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Osiris
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Posted: 30th Oct 2007 08:21
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# Core Duo T2400 CPU @ 1.83 GHz, 667MHz front side bus, 2MB L2 cache
# 15.4" WSXGA+ (1680x1050) display
# 1024MB DDR2-667 RAM (2x512MB DIMMS)
# NVIDIA Quadro NVS 120 graphics solution with 512MB TurboCache

Upgraded to 2 gigs of ram of course. Also our laptop support center overclocked our stuff for us (to keep it safe they say). Anywho, this thing can tear through a very high poly job extremely quickly.

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Darth Vader
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Posted: 30th Oct 2007 10:35
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Quote: "Cool. Nice computer system."

Yeah I know. Pity it's not mine though!


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Posted: 30th Oct 2007 23:59
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Would it work well on my laptop?

- Intel Core 2 CPU T7400 @ 2.16 GHz
- 17" widescreen display (1680 x 1050)
- 2048MB DDR2 RAM (2*1024mb - 533mhz i think)
- nVidia GeForce Go 7900 GTX 512mb (yes, a dx9 card )
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Posted: 31st Oct 2007 00:51 Edited at: 31st Oct 2007 00:52
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crysis is just a bog standard shooter with fancy graphics and physics, boring!

learn blender, you will never regret it.
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Benjamin
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Quote: "crysis is just a bog standard shooter with fancy graphics and physics, boring!"

Then why are you posting on this thread?

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Posted: 31st Oct 2007 02:35
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I tried it on my computer-

GeForce 8800GTS
Intel Core 2 Duo 3.0GHz
2GB RAM

It ran great with fairly high settings. The physics are fun to play around with! I love shooting down trees!

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bitJericho
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Posted: 31st Oct 2007 02:45
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Quote: "rysis is just a bog standard shooter with fancy graphics and physics, boring!"


I think you might not have played it, because there's a lot of new stuff in that game. I loved the ability to divert power to certain systems, like being able to run fast, or being invisible


The greatest multiplayer text adventure ever...
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The game actually seems to have stolen ideas I had for a game... the superhuman, special abilities, albeit they implemented them in a slightly different way. Bums me out though that one of the hottest shooters of the year draws from an idea I had 2 years ago

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Osiris
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Posted: 31st Oct 2007 06:22
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Well I got it to work...slightly, 15 fps on low...

It seems Crysis thinks that low is high, so when it set stuff to "low" it actually set it to high...


POSSIBLE SPOILERS

Anyways, I think they did the cloak horribly wrong, making it so when you run it goes down faster, also its really dumb that I cant flip a truck in power mode, I can only die when it explodes after I touch it. I also didn't like the gun, it was horribly accurate, and that armor dosent do didly squat because hes shaking like hes got Parkinson's or something. It kinda fun for a little while, like at the beginning when you get to kill turtles, crabs, and shoot down trees. However I don't suggest doing that because your gun is inaccurate and does not have very much ammunition. I ran out ever time on the beach encounter with the boat, thats almost impossible to put out of commission when you can hit anything, then you have a crappy pistol that does little damage and they have like impervious body armor as well, I unloaded an entire clip into a guys back point blank and he didn't die until I put on power mode and punched him, well tried put for some reason it would not detect the hit, well finally I did, only to discover I was about to fight even more people, I had no guns, I mean I found some in a shack and I took the guns the people drop, but those run out of ammo fast too. Oh yeah and when you turn on fast speed its almost impossible to kill anyone from punching or hitting them, so you have to run up to them, turn off speed and put on power, then kill them. So all in all the game is an average.

Just my two cents.

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Posted: 31st Oct 2007 06:32 Edited at: 31st Oct 2007 06:33
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You Crysis lovers might want to check out this: http://www.yougamers.com/news/13605_dx10_possible_in_windows_xp_for_crysis/

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Posted: 1st Nov 2007 02:36 Edited at: 1st Nov 2007 02:47
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I love crysis, and some guy on Incrysis forums knows a way that you can go into the config settings and get dx10 graphics on dx9.
I have xp with only 1.25 gigs of ram and a 256vram video card and the graphics can play with all low-medium (physics and textures set to high).
and osirus, the guns are actually realistically acurrate and from far away you usually cant hit them much, seeing as (im pretty sure) gravity is effected by bullets. And When I play the pistol can kill in a couple of shots. Maybe you get those problems form your computer.

ITS SUPPOSED TO GO DOWN WHEN YOU RUN FASTER! the more noise you make the more energy it uses to cloak you.

@ hessiuss or whatever

To my slight flaming.
And no matter what anybody says, crysis is a great shooter! If its doing so good and everybody loves it and it's obviously a big hit, why do you have to come and desperately attempt to knock it off it's pedestal! geez! If you don't care for the game, then go take some prozac and lay on the couch all day and dont bother us, because we actually care when a great new game comes out. It's not just another shooter, the powers are so original and add a whole new element to the gameplay. As quoted in an article I read:

Quote: " You might think that in the great worldwide gaming family, you're the cool, smart uncle who really opens the window of life to us. Sorry, no-instead, you're the humorless second cousin who invited himself over on Cristmas Eve and then pointed out that the kids din't distribut the tinsel evenly on the tree. Congratulations on totally missing the point."



That was from an article ABOUT gamers that, when during the hype of a new great game, come in and want to diss it. Sure, you may want to go home and play a cute internet flash game that you think is amazing, but we'd rather play a violent action lord-master of fun-death. And in case you were wondering, I would gladly defend any great game from an Ignorant flamer like you. (cept for world of warcraft). Get the point? thats what I thought.

THE FLUFFUM WAR: DEMO RELEASED
http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=115938&b=8&p=0

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Posted: 1st Nov 2007 03:22
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You would think that running would generate some type of electricity...like an alternator in a car. Also what good is that cool suit if it cant keep you still. Thats why I never understood recoil in these games, the suit should be able to compensate for the human bodies inability to keep still.

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Posted: 2nd Nov 2007 06:00 Edited at: 2nd Nov 2007 06:33
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Quote: "You Crysis lovers might want to check out this: http://www.yougamers.com/news/13605_dx10_possible_in_windows_xp_for_crysis/"


I agree with what the guy said in that link, not all DX10 features are available on XP (Geometry Shaders and so forth). But this tweak gets it damn close to DX10. Edit: or I should say, damn close to the DX10 version of Crysis

Attached is the ready "tweaked" XP files. Just place it in .../Crysis Demo/Game/Config/ and be sure to backup the existing one.

On my system,

Pentium 4 3.4Ghz Hyper-threading enabled
2048 GB PC3200 400Mhz Memory
Sapphire x1950 Pro 512 MB GDDR3
Windows XP Pro SP2

I get ~17 FPS on average with all settings on high at 1280x1024 with no AA and with the tweak average falls to ~12 FPS.


Quote: "Hmm, I tried it on my new computer that was built for rendering, I mean it usually plays games really well. However this game must not be optimized at all, that or the developer is craving mad (he is), because this game laggs so bad. I dunno it just seems like another shooter to me. Just that you need a supercomputer to play it is all."


From what I have read the game currently is not optimized for SLI or Crossfire and I have heard a lot of complaints that it is not using all cores on the CPU. But from what I have seen (from reading and testing myself) the game really is not all that CPU intensive, a Pentium 4 2.8 Ghz with Hyperthreading enabled should carry it. My CPU runs at ~60-75% while the game is running. The game seems to require far more GPU power than anything else, I read somewhere (cant remember now) that Crysis was designed for next generation video cards and that I do believe.

Anywho... from what little the demo shows off the game is amazing especially with the XP tweak, at 17 FPS it was playable, fairly smooth, at 12 it was tolarable but was better left for the ooos and ahhhs.

Windows XP Pro SP2, Pentium 4 3.4 GHz, 2GB Dual Channel PC3200 RAM, ATI Radeon X1950 Pro 512 MB
Windows XP Pro SP2, AMD Athlon XP 3200+, 1GB Dual Channel PC3200 RAM, ATI Radeon X1650 Pro 512 MB

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Posted: 2nd Nov 2007 11:16
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I agree with you Gen. I don't think its CPU intensive as much as it's GPU hungry. Although I think it needs a good dose of RAM to help it go down.


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Posted: 4th Nov 2007 01:50 Edited at: 5th Nov 2007 00:33
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Quote: "Although I think it needs a good dose of RAM to help it go down."


The most memory I have seen used by Crysis was ~950 MB, so 1.25 GB of memory will get you by ok but 1.5 GB should be more than enough as long you don't have to many processes running in the background. And this is just from what I have observed from the demo, the game may need more than at times. Anyhow if you have 1.5 gig, you should be ok, but it wouldnt hurt to get 2 gig if possible.

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