Crysis Demo (reposted)

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Anyone played it yet? I've been having a little dabble. You can really feel the Crytek stamp on the game.

And shooting down trees is immense
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Some of the acting is pretty terrible and the voice syncing seems to be off, but nevertheless looks pretty good so far.

Only problem... my computer won't run the game smoothly on anything higher than "medium" settings. Gutted. 8800 GTS, 2 gig of RAM and E6600 dual core, and Crysis laughs at me.

EDIT - other problem: the demo's well too short.
 
I don't suppose you've got a link to the demo? How big is it, by the way?

And out of interest, which version of the 8800GTS have you got? 320mb or the 640mb?
 
I got the 320 after I read a couple of reviews for some of the 640 versions. Seemed like the extra performance wasn't worth the extra money.

Crysis Demo Download Live Countdown October 26th 2007 PC EA Games

It's 1.8 gig.

It's a real shame about the settings - I have all the recommended specs except for the 640 vs 320, so I'm a bit peeved that it won't run smooth on anything higher. I can stand around and look at the scenery with the "very high" settings, and damn, it looks beautiful. I just can't move :)
 
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Thankee.

Give me an hour and I'll see how my system handles it. :p

I've got all the recommended specs, so hopefully it'll be alright.
 
I might have another crack at it later on with all the Vista settings turned down. I can't believe Aero takes up that much crank, but it's worth a try.

If you can get your PC to run the game smooth on "very high," I will be very jealous.
 
Heh heh. :p

All I've got over you is an extra gig of RAM, and the 640mb version of the graphics card. Processor speeds are the same, and we both run Vista.

I can't see what I've got making that big a difference with something as resource hogging as Crysis, to be honest. It'll just let it hog more. :p
 
I've just played it - my ptimal settings are apparently Medium! Laughed at us, Green? Crysis might as well bend us over sideways and... yeah...

I managed to persuade it to run at High settings, with 8x anti-alias, and it worked, but just about. Took a while for all the textures to load, but they eventually stayed there. :rolleyes:

I can run it at "Very High"... as long as I don't mind a lag of about a second. :p
 
Downloaded and played it. After I got my PC components out of its slobbering maw I decided to put it back in its cage until later this year.
 
The database crashed as I was replying earlier. Oh well.

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It was brilliant! Though I stupidly wasted all but my pistol ammo shooting down palm trees, and then segmenting them into the smallest pieces they could go. Testing the engine! Honestly! The trees split in set ways, sadly, though it is where you shoot them.

I especially liked the way the suit works. When taking people out I took the stealth option - get on the ground, cloak mode, move forward, scope the land with binoculars, shield until energy back up to full, cloak. Stand up, single shot to the head, get back on the ground quickly, wait for energy to be back up, cloak, creep forward and take their ammo. Repeat. It took me nearly two and a half hours to complete the demo! :rolleyes:
Oh, and for those who want it, there are new ForceWare drivers out tomorrow (169.01 - nVidia graphics card drivers). You can download them from the site today:

Windows Vista 32-bit

EDIT: That's interesting, they've removed them. Ah well. They might have them back up tomorrow.

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How'd it play on your system, CM? With your Uber, 768mb card?
 
Sadly, as I mentioned in the "Show Us Your" thread, my card is currently on RMA :( I believe there was a problem with that 768mbs of ram, at least I assume that was the issue, considering my experience with having gone through several cards that died because of problems with video memory. I threw both my old 7800GTX and an X1950XTX in the machine to test and they were horribly underpowered. Hopefully I'll get the card back soon, as I'm itching to see this thing in all its DX10 glory.

(Just as an aside, several of the guys I frequently talk to from my old XS benchmarking days have some of the best rigs on the market and they are all equally frustrated with their Crysis performance. Some of them are running dual 8800 Ultras in SLI, with Quad Core processors pushed to the limits under some pretty pricey cooling solutions; it seems even the enthusiasts won't be running this game up to the standards the videos have been displaying for another six months to a year.)
 
I feel a little cheated by that, though I'm not entirely sure why (I mean, I haven't been robbed or anything). There was some discussion about this on the PC Gamer podcast, whereby one guy was saying he wants to play his games on the max settings if he has a great rig. Why would games developers spend time and resources making the game for hardware that isn't even commercially available yet?

The counter argument to this was that in a year, you can go back with your new uber card and play it again on the highest (or in this case, probably second-highest) settings, thereby getting a new experience out of the same game.

I'm afraid I'm in the first camp. In a year's time, there will be newer, better games out, and I'd rather be playing them than going back to Crysis again. I'd rather they'd poured that time into the reasonable-settings version of the game and got it out six months ago. Maybe it doesn't work like that, though.

Like Commonmind says - people have been saying that Crysis will be able to run on surprisingly low-spec machines (though nobody said low spec will run the highest settings), and all the videos looked tasty. And now we find out that nobody can run it in tasty mode, and the low spec machines will be playing on the very lowest settings.
 
And run on low spec machines it does! I have proof! Well, not with me, but I've seen it.

A friend of mine has a Vista machine with a gig of RAM, the lowest spec DX10 graphics card he could find, and I think it might be a 2.0ghz processor. He can't get it to run on anything higher than the lowest settings, but run it does.

In all honesty, Medium settings are more than good enough. Whilst it would be nice to have the rights to brag about be able to run Crysis at Very High specs, Medium will do for me... and maybe High, if I turn off every unneeded process. Like Aero, and my virus checkers... and Windows.
 
I find that I like advances in games that push the hardware envelope. It gives me an excuse to upgrade at least a few parts every 2-3 years (changed out the processor for this one).
As long as a game is entertaining and plays smooth I don't really care much about the visual details (there is no time to look anyhow if you are about to die).
Replayability (I'm in your second camp), for me, is one of the things that I look for in a "good" game (Crysis looks like it will be very replayable thanks to the open environment). IMO, replayability is often enhanced, when games push the hardware capabilities (currently on medium). If they had limited the game to look the best on antique hardware (i.e. my 7800GT) only a very few people would be happy and most of us (including you) would complain that the graphics were dated. I, too, like playing new games but I occasionally like to replay the oldies (usually there are few good PC games released each year).

I'm not certain how tasty the settings have to be (it depends on your computer budget I guess).
Enjoy!
 
I can remember Christmas 2004. We got Sims 2 for our then four year old PC in the kitchen (it'll be about seven now, my word), and found out that we needed a graphics card that was DirectX 9.0c compatible. And so we bought our first graphics card - the 128mb nVidia GeForce FX 5200. The fella in PC World told us that it would play any new game for at least a decade! Cheeky beggar. :rolleyes:

And now look - we've got people with cards that are less than a year old, struggling to play a game that recommends said card for best results! Amazing!

I don't see how you can wait so long before upgrading, Joe. :rolleyes: :p
 
Now that's something I'd really like to try.

But I'm not too sure about it with this computer. It's an oldish AMD processor, and it's got to last me at least another hour. I might give it a shot with this system when I've built myself a new one, though, just to see if I can get my Vista base score up. :rolleyes:
 
Be careful, overclocking is one of those things that can turn in to an obsession. It started as a hobby, I went as far as building a refrigeration (phase change) unit for the processor, then I scaled back; now I just do it to get an edge.
Using Windows XP pro instead of vista for games helps performance too.
Enjoy!
 
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