crysis

[vanthus]

Just got my new pc last week & one of the first things i was going to do was buy & install crysis,but after reading some of the comments about it here i have second thoughts.Is it really a game i should avoid.I do have the system requirements,but all this talk about it being incompatible with windows7 64bit & it being a pc killer?is this really the case?

 

[Gorman]

Ok, Crysis is a great game. But it was designed to upset people.

when it came out in 2007-2008, no one could play it as it was so demanding, and im talking about ultra high end £3000 pc's, nothing could touch it. You were looking at SLI 8800 Ultras at £300 each to even get close.

Nowadays a GTX460 or equivalent can run it, but dont expect to be maxing everything out.

I have never had an issue playing it on Vista x64 or 7 x64, not sure where that comes from.

 

[vanthus]

Ok, Crysis is a great game. But it was designed to upset people.

when it came out in 2007-2008, no one could play it as it was so demanding, and im talking about ultra high end £3000 pc's, nothing could touch it. You were looking at SLI 8800 Ultras at £300 each to even get close.

Nowadays a GTX460 or equivalent can run it, but dont expect to be maxing everything out.

I have never had an issue playing it on Vista x64 or 7 x64, not sure where that comes from.

Ok, thanks gorman, ill give it a bash.the issue bit with windows7 came from other sites not this one.

 

[Saivishal]

Yep.. Plays great on my Win7 64 Bit .. No worries on that one.
I think the gripe people had with Crysis was due to its pacing.. the length was pretty decent coming around 15-18hrs if you roam around and not just stick to the point-point mission objectives.

Crysis Warhead on the other hand is a tightly paced shooter but coming short around 8hrs gameplay time (Its about a team Mate (Psycho) of the Crysis hero exploring other parts of the island in the same game timeline as Crysis)

 

[Phoenix]

I never really saw the attraction of Crysis, it would be better to benchmark current hardware with Metro 2033 since it's a DX11 game.

 

[Gorman]

Crysis is a great game, metro 2033 sucks

 

[vanthus]

I never really saw the attraction of Crysis, it would be better to benchmark current hardware with Metro 2033 since it's a DX11 game.

Im going to try crysis,its always well up the in the top ten on most sites ive looked at so cant be that bad.but i agree with your point about metro 2033 so ill probably give that a bash as well.

 

[Kalisnoir]

What is it with people thinking Windows 7 wont play anything lol. (It wasn't a personal aim at you btw, i know you just got the info from a source.)

Anyway, I have 2 x 1GB GTX460's SLI'd and I can only JUST about play it on Ultra everything, so I play it on High.

I personally think its an awesome game tbh.

 

[Sleinous]

What is it with people thinking Windows 7 wont play anything lol. (It wasn't a personal aim at you btw, i know you just got the info from a source.)

Anyway, I have 2 x 1GB GTX460's SLI'd and I can only JUST about play it on Ultra everything, so I play it on High.

I personally think its an awesome game tbh.

Thanks for that Means I should be able to play everything on ultra with SLI'd GTX 470s

 

[Kalisnoir]

Thanks ofr that Means I should be able to play everything on ultra with SLI'd GTX 470s

Yeah, you should be able to play on ultra perfectly fine tbh There isn't much difference in the appearance of it though I found.

 

[Sleinous]

Never even played Crysis, may buy it one day xD

 

[Evil Tactician]

Here's crysis on our machine - We only just made this video. Settings are a cross between high and very high - framerate is rock solid. Video is made with the framerate locked by fraps at 29.97 - but when not recording it's stable above 60. Can probably squeeze much more out of the settings if you would want.

[video=youtube;1LFe5zoqP3o]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LFe5zoqP3o[/video]

 

[Phoenix]

Can you choose how many frames per second fraps will lock a game to in the options?

 

[Evil Tactician]

Can you choose how many frames per second fraps will lock a game to in the options?

Yes - though you are actually choosing what frames per second fraps is going to record at. If you're rendering 29.97fps, you might as well record on that as well. Unfortunately fraps makes insanely large files when recording - which is a bit of a pain when you want to work with the files later. Some people use VirtualDub or similar programs to compress/encode the videos - so they become a lot smaller and then work with them. I don't like compressing them twice (and then a third time when YouTube does it as well) so I try to avoid that

 

[vanthus]

Yes - though you are actually choosing what frames per second fraps is going to record at. If you're rendering 29.97fps, you might as well record on that as well. Unfortunately fraps makes insanely large files when recording - which is a bit of a pain when you want to work with the files later. Some people use VirtualDub or similar programs to compress/encode the videos - so they become a lot smaller and then work with them. I don't like compressing them twice (and then a third time when YouTube does it as well) so I try to avoid that

boy,I dont have a fricking clue what you are talking about evil tactician,i just want to play the game,i know what virtual dub is but why would i need that if i just want to play,as for recording what do you mean,sorry for being a noob.

 

[Kalisnoir]

Virtual dub has no relevance to playing the game, he was talking to Phoenix about recording and compressing.
And by recording he means recording the game play, as in making a video of him playing.

 

[Sleinous]

I use virtual dub otherwise u end up uploading 30gb of vid segmented into 3.9gb files..... despite not being a fat32 file system

 

[vanthus]

Virtual dub has no relevance to playing the game, he was talking to Phoenix about recording and compressing.
And by recording he means recording the game play, as in making a video of him playing.

Oh,I get it,thanks kalisnoir.