Crysis hardware requirements?

[w0mbat]

Crytek showed Crysis @ CeBit.

Crysis @ 1920x1200 no AA
X6800 @ default + single 8800GTX @ default
20-25fps

Source: http://www.pcgameshardware.de/?article_id=571780

[Shintai]

Vista or XP? If Vista (And I presume it is) there might be room for a few driver enchancements. Specially since nVidia lacks so bad in that area on Vista.

[nn_step]

pity they don't mention the Ram in the set up.

[LOE]

add another 8800GTX, overclock both GPUs and the CPU and you will be able to play smooth at this resolution

[madcho]

add LN² truck too ...

[lizardmech]

Its hardly worth playing a game like that without AA. Theres so many objects on screen that it will just be a mass of jagged edges.

[NapalmV5]

forget the 8900gtx/x2900

bring on R700/G100 now!

[Patriote]

forget the 8900gtx/x2900

bring on R700/G100 now!

ROFL! :lol2:

[jbizzler]

Or you could play the faster finished game that comes out in Q4 with better optmized drivers as well. And if that's not enough, lower the settings one step.

[Cedde]

Meh... Doesn't sound to good for my system. Hope my X1950Pro will do an okay job in 1280x1024...

[eXceededgoku]

Recently tested an 8800GTS 640MB on my computer and I have to say that everything I thought about it up until now has ringed true and that is that its not very revolutionary and definitely not worth the upgrade from my current graphics card. Here's to hoping that the R600 will live up to all the recent hype (65nm, UVD decoder, etc.)

[Joor]

Im happy if I get around 60fps @ 1680x1050 with 4xaa 8 Af on.

You think I can get that with my current setup? im getting around 9.000 points in 3dmark 06

[lionel57000]

hope the 8950gx2 will be released before crysis ....

[VIctorj]

Reporter: "What hardware will crysis need to run properly?"
Brazilian Crytek demoman: "Crytek will run smooth in all current hardware"

That was just when G80s were released....give me a break.

[[XC] Lead Head]

Its hardly worth playing a game like that without AA. Theres so many objects on screen that it will just be a mass of jagged edges.

You do realize at such a high resolution, AA becomes less and less needed?

[Shintai]

Wonder more if it supports and use quadcores, or thats still something to wish for.

[arisythila]

I wonder...... If they are gonna make this in a 64 bit flavor... I seriously don't understand why company's have made NO games for 64 bit. I know farcry was 64 bit. which is awesome... but everything else is 32 bit. Is 64 that much harder to code?

~Mike

[madcho]

I wonder...... If they are gonna make this in a 64 bit flavor... I seriously don't understand why company's have made NO games for 64 bit. I know farcry was 64 bit. which is awesome... but everything else is 32 bit. Is 64 that much harder to code?

~Mike

you have only to check 64bits in your IDE. :rolleyes:

[Shintai]

I wonder...... If they are gonna make this in a 64 bit flavor... I seriously don't understand why company's have made NO games for 64 bit. I know farcry was 64 bit. which is awesome... but everything else is 32 bit. Is 64 that much harder to code?

~Mike

64bit is easy enough as such. But there is no performance improvement with 64bit due to SSE. Perhaps when games want more than 4GB. Then we might see more. But until then, why make 2 versions when 1 version fits all.

[[XC] Lead Head]

Wonder more if it supports and use quadcores, or thats still something to wish for.


Its already been announced the Crysis supports multi-core CPU, including quad-core IIRC

[eXceededgoku]

CSS supports 64 bit, it seems smoother on 64 bit...
Crysis will support multiple cores (excellent scaling from what iv heard) and 64 bit support.

[zakelwe]

I would imagine my SLi 7900GS should be ok at the 1280x1024 I play on my 19 inch monitor, maybe some AA and AF.

I'm a a bit concerned about the single core FX-55 though.

Regards

Andy

[Shintai]

SSE is mandatory replacement for x87 in 64bit btw. No x87 is allowed on 64bit Windows. Alot of times performance gains are simply due to SSE usage. Alot of publishers compile the endgame, not the developers. This is due to added copy protection schemes. And its seen quite a few times they forgot the use SSE compile flag.

[perkam]

Core2: So Crysis is coming out.
Netburst Celeron: Really? w/e.
Core2: You're not worried?
Netburst Celeron: Nope, my owner's gonna be getting the Powerpoint edition.
Core2: Ah kk....

:p

Perkam

[Shintai]

Core2: So Crysis is coming out.
Netburst Celeron: Really? w/e.
Core2: You're not worried?
Netburst Celeron: Nope, my owner's gonna be getting the Powerpoint edition.
Core2: Ah kk....

:p

Perkam

ROFL. Well...we can sure say if those demands stay. Crysis is the game for the future, not for the current time :P

[bigdaddy25fb]

Just like Far Cry was....I remember HDR being implemented in that game way before we saw it anywhere else. Crytek knows how to innovate and push the envelope. Hopefully the Modders out there will be able to work some magic with Crysis.

[sladesurfer]

Well, not a lot of people have a monitor that supports 1920x1200

[[XC] MarioMaster]

my pc is gonna hate this game even at 1440x900 with no AA or AF

[nn_step]

i dont get it.

slide show == choppy game play

[MichelinGuy]

i think it's a driver problem, when it's released it will run much smoother. the developers can't make the game playable only for a small group of people. they'll sort it out before the game is released.

[xB0n3s]

add LN² truck too ...
Lol

[deathman20]

Lead Head;2074572']You do realize at such a high resolution, AA becomes less and less needed?

Indeed, I rather play games at my native resolution then have any AA. Sure if I can I'll take AA but if not im not going to worry about it. So if its getting 20-25FPS on the 8800GTX, that means we can probably see a decent improvment in drivers expecially for nVidia, ATI will have the new card out and have time to optimize. Either way that will be over 30FPS at that resolution with no AA which is more then fine for playing. Looking forward to it.

Not to mention they didn't say if it was DX9 or DX10 did they?

[Reznik Akime]

Indeed, I rather play games at my native resolution then have any AA. Sure if I can I'll take AA but if not im not going to worry about it. So if its getting 20-25FPS on the 8800GTX, that means we can probably see a decent improvment in drivers expecially for nVidia, ATI will have the new card out and have time to optimize. Either way that will be over 30FPS at that resolution with no AA which is more then fine for playing. Looking forward to it.

Not to mention they didn't say if it was DX9 or DX10 did they?

Indeed, I prefer to not have AA enabled and just run at the highest resolution possible. AA makes my eyes hurt and seems to put a slight blur on the screen. Not as crisp as say just running a higher resolution.

[J-Mag]

Not to mention they didn't say if it was DX9 or DX10 did they?

Well if you look at the screenshots it was running in Vista on that 30in Display. Also note they aren't running SLI, specifically due to the drivers on Vista.

[Omastar]

I would imagine my SLi 7900GS should be ok at the 1280x1024 I play on my 19 inch monitor, maybe some AA and AF.

I'm a a bit concerned about the single core FX-55 though.

Regards

Andy

FX-55? Why not sell it and pick up a cheap Opteron 165?

[deathman20]

Well if you look at the screenshots it was running in Vista on that 30in Display. Also note they aren't running SLI, specifically due to the drivers on Vista.

Screen shots wheren't working for me thats why I asked.

[perkam]

For a GTX, 20-25 fps without AA/AF on ANY resolution is just plain scary.

Perkam

[J-Mag]

Screen shots wheren't working for me thats why I asked.

Yeah? Just explaining what I noticed. DX9 would technically work on Vista, so I am not sure they tested in DX10. They didn't mention it in the article either. I think It is most likely DX10...

[FghtinIrshNvrDi]

it's gotta be driver problems.

Ryan

[grimREEFER]

that res is really high...that could explain the low fps lol.

[safan80]

With how long the delay is I'm sure faster video cards will be out when crysis is out.

[FghtinIrshNvrDi]

and I mean... I'm not crushed. My x1950xt should be fine at 1024x768. :p

Ryan

[Daveb2012]

Crytek showed Crysis @ CeBit.

Crysis @ 1920x1200 no AA
X6800 @ default + single 8800GTX @ default
20-25fps

Source: http://www.pcgameshardware.de/?article_id=571780

I should have r600 by this time, but I don't plan on playing this at that high of a resolution.

[EternityZX9]

Well if you look at the screenshots it was running in Vista on that 30in Display. Also note they aren't running SLI, specifically due to the drivers on Vista.

Ok, so they were running on a 30inch display, no SLI, res 1920 x 1200, and since it was running under Vista I'm going to say it was most likely using DX10. With that in mind, I'm not surprised by those fps.

Now...what happens when we have wroking SLI/Crossfire Vista drivers (which we should by the time this game comes out), a machine with SLI'd Geforce 9800's / Crossfired 2900XTX's paired with a Agena Quadcore @ 2.5+ Ghz hmmm? I wouldn't be surprised to see a much higher frame rate then.

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[eXceededgoku]

I think this game will run fine on hardware which isn't even out yet, I wouldn't be surprised to see a much higher frame rate then.

:slap:

haha fixed ;)

[xoqolatl]

I wonder what will be the performance on GF8600... looks like another reason to go for 8800GTS 320mb

[ANP !!!]

Duh i m Worried now :eek: :eek:, hopefully i will get a good WC setup by that time, n i will run both my CPU + GPU OCed, if it manages to run at 35fps+ I will be More then happy. :D

[deathman20]

I wonder what will be the performance on GF8600... looks like another reason to go for 8800GTS 320mb

And you really think a video card with 320mb will really do that game justice?

[Hicks]

For god sake, any threads on performance of Crysis are just pathetic. Please, shut up about how it's gonna run, none of you have a :banana::banana::banana::banana:ing clue how it's going to run.

You really think a 8800GTX is going to run the full retail game at 25FPS? Why don't you just shut up about the god dam requirments, doing my head in.

It'a always like this. Doom 3, everyone said wouldn't run, and ran well on medium cards. Same with HL2. If the game is coded properly, and done well, it will run fine.

Grrrrrrrr......

[EternityZX9]

haha fixed ;)

By the time the game is out the hardware should be out too. Crysis = Q3 07...

:slap:

[Cuthalu]

For god sake, any threads on performance of Crysis are just pathetic. Please, shut up about how it's gonna run, none of you have a :banana::banana::banana::banana:ing clue how it's going to run.

You really think a 8800GTX is going to run the full retail game at 25FPS? Why don't you just shut up about the god dam requirments, doing my head in.

It'a always like this. Doom 3, everyone said wouldn't run, and ran well on medium cards. Same with HL2. If the game is coded properly, and done well, it will run fine.

Grrrrrrrr......

Well, when Oblivion shipped and all details were maxed, it was about 25fps with the best card available.

However, Crysis is a fps and therefore it's likely to have faster fps.

[7he ]-[0rr0r]

Well, not a lot of people have a monitor that supports 1920x1200
:D
Well perhaps i have one component that could be considered extreme then, My Acer al2616wd something tells me i'll be playing this on my old sony 19" crt though. With only an x1900xt to back it up.

[XS2K]

And you really think a video card with 320mb will really do that game justice?
At a lower resolution I think it would,anyway Crysis will be launched in aug/september enough time to solve any bug or optimize even more the game until then.

[gillll]

well it something smell fishy.

http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2945

lets take f.e.a.r from anand for a min.
i think it's one of the heaviests games.

http://images.anandtech.com/graphs/8800%20overclocked%20roundup_030907110324/14165.png

same res. ?!?! same cpu ?!? same gpu?!?

can't be an fps drop above 400%

game engine is after all a game engine :D

the aa*4 and af*16 version is more likely

http://images.anandtech.com/graphs/8800%20overclocked%20roundup_030907110324/14166.png

and closer to the "presumed fps"

i guess .... more tweaking is used or

the pc runs vista :D that 50% drop of fps

[nn_step]

For god sake, any threads on performance of Crysis are just pathetic. Please, shut up about how it's gonna run, none of you have a :banana::banana::banana::banana:ing clue how it's going to run.

You really think a 8800GTX is going to run the full retail game at 25FPS? Why don't you just shut up about the god dam requirments, doing my head in.

It'a always like this. Doom 3, everyone said wouldn't run, and ran well on medium cards. Same with HL2. If the game is coded properly, and done well, it will run fine.

Grrrrrrrr......

well that is the thing, just because the people doing the programming are paid doesn't actually make them professional Programmers, not to mention the desire these days to get the pretty graphics out fast and cheap, rather than lean and efficient.

[Kenetixx]

I wonder...... If they are gonna make this in a 64 bit flavor... I seriously don't understand why company's have made NO games for 64 bit. I know farcry was 64 bit. which is awesome... but everything else is 32 bit. Is 64 that much harder to code?

~Mike

Crysis is optimized for 64bit http://incrysis.com for more info

[NapalmV5]

no matter the driver improvement, this game just wont play @ max settings @ 1920x1200, same rez i always play @ even on R600/8800ultra/8900gtx

i guess thats what sli/cf is for

oh well, nothing new here..

[DFI pit bull]

I'm sure that future driver updates will solve the low FPS problem, it's still early days.

[Carfax]

Regarding Crysis and 64-bit:

Crysis will also take advantage of 64-bit CPUs. Crytek has had experience working with new technology, since it released a patch for Far Cry last year to take advantage of the new 64-bit processors from AMD and Intel. However, while 64-bit usually doesn't bring any measurable performance increase in games (most games just take advantage of 64-bit's larger memory space), it appears that it will provide better performance in Crysis. According to Yerli, the 64-bit version "will bring a performance difference of up to 10 to 15 percent on each thread" compared to the 32-bit version.

Source (http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/crysis/news.html?sid=6154899&page=2)

10 to 15 percent is actually fairly good, and it could make a measurable difference in the smoothness of the game.

It will be years before games can start to really take advantage of 64-bit computing.

Anyway, I would expect the K10 to perform very well in this game, because AMD has optimized their architecture for 64-bit performance moreso than Intel it seems.

[VIctorj]

So we'll be forced to change our 8800/8900s to N9900 R800 (???????)

[perkam]

Wondering if anyone has a link to a site that tracks DirectX10 Games ?

These are all the ones I'm aware of atm:

Age Of Conan
Alan Wake
Bioshock
Company Of Heroes
Crysis
Flight Simulator X
Halo 2
HellGate: London
Shadowrun
Supreme Commander
Unreal Tournament 2007
World In Conflict

Perkam

[deathman20]

Regarding Crysis and 64-bit:



Source (http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/crysis/news.html?sid=6154899&page=2)

10 to 15 percent is actually fairly good, and it could make a measurable difference in the smoothness of the game.

It will be years before games can start to really take advantage of 64-bit computing.

Anyway, I would expect the K10 to perform very well in this game, because AMD has optimized their architecture for 64-bit performance moreso than Intel it seems.

Yay good to know, running Vista 64 has benifits beside using my 4gigs of ram :) YAY

[J-Mag]

For god sake, any threads on performance of Crysis are just pathetic. Please, shut up about how it's gonna run, none of you have a clue how it's going to run.


What a whiner you are. You will obviously not stop these type of threads and are just promoting them when you post.

It'a always like this. Doom 3, everyone said wouldn't run, and ran well on medium cards. Same with HL2. If the game is coded properly, and done well, it will run fine.

Your definition of running well must be different than mine. I didn't like Doom3's performance until I got dual 6800gt's in SLI back then.

[[XC] Lead Head]

well it something smell fishy.

http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2945

lets take f.e.a.r from anand for a min.
i think it's one of the heaviests games.

http://images.anandtech.com/graphs/8800%20overclocked%20roundup_030907110324/14165.png

same res. ?!?! same cpu ?!? same gpu?!?

can't be an fps drop above 400%

game engine is after all a game engine :D

the aa*4 and af*16 version is more likely

http://images.anandtech.com/graphs/8800%20overclocked%20roundup_030907110324/14166.png

and closer to the "presumed fps"

i guess .... more tweaking is used or

the pc runs vista :D that 50% drop of fps

The FEAR engine is also one of the most unoptimized engines in existence :-P

[Timmay]

Lead Head;2078519']The FEAR engine is also one of the most unoptimized engines in existence :-P

I would say that BF2 takes the crown for "The Most Unoptimized Game Engine"