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Crysis: Bold, beautiful... before its time
I haven't seen anything on this forum yet about the newly released Crysis... so, here's my take.
I've been playing through it for 2-3 days now (not yet to the ice level), and think that it's so bleeding edge that few current systems will run it at performance serious gamers find acceptable. I have a system that is still dripping blood from the bleeding edge (not quite a QX9650 Penryn... but close), and cannot run the game with all graphics options cranked. I can get about 30 FPS on *HIGH* (not very high) settings on: QX6700 OC 3.2 Ghz Quad Core 4 GB RAM Vista Ultimate x64 8800 GTX 768 MB watercooled I drop to the teens if I try to turn on "very high" (especially shaders), or any anti-aliasing. Mind you, this is a gorgeous game even on "high" settings. The physics are stunning, and virtually every blade of grass is its own object. The water is fantastic. I can't wait to see what this looks like on a next generation nVidia (9900, or whatever). Until then, today's hardware is just barely adequate for this year's # 2 game (#1 being BioShock). Jester |
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