But Can It Run Crysis?

Crytek announces Crysis Remastered | Crytek

Thursday, April 16, 2020 — The classic first person shooter is back with the action-packed gameplay, sandbox world, and thrilling epic battles players loved the first time around – with remastered graphics and optimizations for a new generation of hardware co-developed on CRYENGINE with Saber Interactive. Starting this summer, Crysis Remastered will be available for PC, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and for Nintendo Switch.

Crysis Remastered will focus on the original game’s single-player campaigns and is slated to contain high-quality textures and improved art assets, an HD texture pack, temporal anti-aliasing, SSDO, SVOGI, state-of-the-art depth fields, new light settings, motion blur, and parallax occlusion mapping, particle effects will also be added where applicable. Further additions such as volumetric fog and shafts of light, software-based ray tracing, and screen space reflections provide the game with a major visual upgrade.

“We are excited to be working on the Crysis franchise again, and to bring all the Crysis fans a remaster worthy of their passion for the game,” said Crytek CEO Avni Yerli. “It’s an exciting opportunity to be able to bring Crysis back to PCs and current consoles – even Nintendo Switch! – so that a whole new generation of players can experience the thrill of a battle in the Nanosuit.”

In Crysis 1, what begins as a simple rescue mission becomes the battleground of a new war as alien invaders swarm over a North Korean island chain. Armed with a powerful Nanosuit, players can become invisible to stalk enemy patrols, or boost strength to lay waste to vehicles. The Nanosuit’s speed, strength, armor, and cloaking allow creative solutions for every kind of fight, while a huge arsenal of modular weaponry provides unprecedented control over play style. In the ever-changing environment, adapt tactics and gear to dominate your enemies, in an enormous sandbox world.
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Crysis Remastered announced, reviving one of the best PC games of all time | TechRadar

But can it run Crysis Remastered? | Guru3D

I very seldom get super-excited about games, but there are rare exceptions. Crysis is my favorite game franchise, and the original that started it all is the title I have enjoyed playing more than any other. I love what they did with Quake2, (also among my all-time favorites,) so this should be awesome.

This was originally rumored sometime back around May of last year, but it's official now.

 

RDR2: look at me, I'm the captain now.
Crysis Remastered: hold my beer.

 

I'm interested to see what they are going to do with it. I need to go back and play it again.

 

I can't wait, I love the crysis series.

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I'm looking forward to this. I remember buying an 8800GTX 768MB to run the first one maxed out in 2007!

Charles

 

I really like it when games are released that are so graphically demanding that hardware upgrades are required to get the best from them. Titles like that are literally game changers (pun intended). They are a gift that keeps on giving, like a benchmark that runs for hours and never gets boring.

It would be extra awesome to have this as a harbinger of a Crysis 4 release later in the year.

 

Might actually need an AC for when this comes out.

 

crysis 1 is a game I always install first, and am currently playing assault. this is unreal...I was thinking and hoping crytek would do this then bam news hits the world...great news that has me excited and glad I can use an egpu with a 2080ti to run it on low lol...

 

OMG...
Its back...
We are saved from Covid-19.

 

Crysis 1, I remember playing on a 8400 GS low settings, 15-30 fps and beat it LOL

Now I can't wait to play 4K maxed out

 

what at 5fps...or are you talking about the original

 

original, I played the whole story at low settings 15-30 fps on a 8400 GS.

Now that I have much more powerful gear, I intend to enjoy the graphics.

 

we need a remaster ?? cryengine ,,only crying not work ,,
i play crysis 1 recently ,,still ok on ultra and 120fps ,,no need remaster

 

yeah it's to bad alot of the graphics mods are not on the internet anymore same goes for levels, because realifsis and volcano are still the king of graphics even to this day.

 

Crysis didn't continue to be demanding because it was scalable, it continued to be demanding because it was a relic that was not optimized well and almost everything was single threaded. So the only option was to crank out the best CPU OC'd to hell and back for single thread performance boosting.

I'm guessing they will fix this and it will scale properly for multiple cores now.

I'm pretty sure I read an article somewhere where they did a postmortem on this and the reason they made those decisions was Intel promising 10Ghz CPU's in the future. Of course we all know how that worked out and the Crysis engine architecture wasn't geared for scaling threading horizontally and instead bet on vertical scaling of single-threaded perfomance.

 

Crysis was a graphical powerhouse, but I honestly didn't think it was all that fun. I enjoyed the original Far Cry quite a bit more.

 

I played them both at the same time and loved them both, but my personal preference was Crysis. Probably because of the sci-fi aspects associated with the super-human abilities enabled by the Nano Suit and fighting the Seph. I have played through every one of the titles in the Crysis franchise at least 4 times and have never been bored with any of them.

Playing Far Cry over LAN with my kids was super fun though. I normally do not particularly care for playing games with other people, but Far Cry ranks right up there with Quake2 and Unreal Tournament in fun factor. There is something about an every man for himself frag fest that never gets boring to me. As long as I know the people I am playing with and have control over participants via LAN, and it doesn't involve team efforts, chances are good I am going to have fun with it. We had many hours of family gaming pleasure with Far Cry. I think it is still one of my son's favorite titles because of his fond memories of that. And, he was the stinker that was always hiding somewhere with a scoped sniper rifle and picking off dad and his 3 brothers with headshots from far away. I think it was that "thrill of the hunt" aspect that made Far Cry so much fun. The tropical jungle environment was the ideal setting for that, too.

But, there are seldom ever any linear SP campaign FPS games that I could say that I absolutely do not like. What ruins if for me and causes me to lose interest in playing are the distractions like having to find clues, gather materials and craft things. I have a very difficult time staying engaged in titles that are not primarily run-and-gun mayhem and the only thing I need to find is more ammo.

 

One of the best Series ever made. The first was a mind blowing game and the fact that how Crytek made it ONLY for PC (Which we never saw again and perhaps won't see ?) and brought so many computers to it's knees. Very advanced technology in GFX Fidelity and even the story, art direction It was a superb visceral experience. Only a few games hit like Crysis which give that true FPS immersion (DOOM 2016 to name after a decade) And not just that, but the Nanosuit part and how damn super strong we were in the game literally choking and throwing around. I could remember so many movies while I was playing this Robocop, Rambo, Universal Soldier.

I still remember, how I played this game and finished it on my M15x which was my first PC with a powerful GPU, CPU and specs (It used to be a Dell Inspiron 15, running Core 2 Duo on Vista, no GPU) Core i7 820QM + the mega crashing HW failure prone GTX260M + 8GB RAM, not just that but all of the Crysis games on Delta in Crysis OG, Warhead and Post-Human Warrior difficulty in 2 and 3 until I got my Ranger and re-played Crysis 2 & 3. Epic ride it was during the college days. I explored NBR and T|I back then specifically for the PGA socket and MXM HW machine which turned out to be Alienware M15x with their superb lineup esp that beast M17x with SLI, those were the days, brother @svl7 and his work... I missed a lot of his mods, But I'm glad to have my 980M's vBIOS running great on his and John's work.

Great games, Great memories down the lane..

For the hardcore fans here are a few videos on this franchise, very worth watching.

Spoiler: History of Crysis

It's unfortunate that Crytek went bankrupt. They changed the Alien designs, level designs to limited spaces and lost that massive sandbox mojo which the OG had when making Crysis 2 and 3 for Consoles and downgraded a lot, and how they even tried to get it back in the final installment of Crysis 3 by making the levels much different to the Crysis 2's limited spaces and added the OG elements back even if little, the ending the pacing & narration everything was done spectacularly. The Crysis 2 OST was most stunning of all since It was done by Hans Zimmer. And they bought the rights to this IP from EA, plus this studio is still run by their own people, Anvi Yerli brother of Cevat Yerli, instead of getting bought by EA and end up making mediocrity (BioWare, Blackbox, ReSpawn...) This game will always have a special place.

The GOG editions of the game exist but as said the game doesn't scale on the Multiple Cores, and has some issues with 64bit exe and the AI in the game too even with 9900K. The remaster should fix all those things up. I just hope they do release both of the Crysis games, OG and Warhead since the OG one always had the proper full blown Nanosuit tactical from everything vs Consoles downgraded disaster. Also an editor would be great, just like the OG which made the game still being able to run with mods at moddb that legacy must always be continued for this fantastic game. As per Tim Willis from Saber, they are working on the both Crysis and Warhead, & from what I read this person has good respect among the gamers of that gen (Saber Interactive studio). I hope they do the justice of the Art Direction to HUD which had feedback based on the movement and the depth of the HUD displayed as in a Visor in real time, Menu design & every single point of this masterpiece.

Plus to those wondering about the promo art, for both the OG Crysis vs Crysis Remaster. The in game Nanosuit looks like this only, a bit thinner in the OG Crysis and Warhead, where as the super buffed beefy Nanosuit came with Crysis 2 and 3 from my observation. I hope we do not see any deviation or downgrades..

Only worry is why a Switch ? That one's GPU even being a Maxwell one is just a bit faster than PS3's RSX and a puny ARM A53/57 semi-Quad Core, plus it's a small display, dunno how the Crysis HUD will even look on that for the end user & PS4/XB AMD Jaguar cores ugh vs an Q6600 plus the GPUs from Radeon 77xx to sub rx480 class It is known to all of us...I hope it's just for their recovery in the gaming industry but not "New generation experience" drama.

Fingers crossed !

 

I think that is one of the main reasons it is so awesome. Titles built exclusively for PC are always going to be superior, and the more modern and powerful the minimum system requirements are, the better. Supporting consoles, weaker and older PC hardware holds us back from achieving greater things in gaming.

I wish there were more games designed for PC lovers rather than console jockeys. Having most games hit PC as a console port really sucks. To me, this is like the tail wagging the dog. I understand that game devs have to make money to survive, and there are lots and lots of console jockeys out there that are content with spending $250 - $500 on a chintzy gamer kid slop box. They'd rather spend their money purchasing crappy gamepad controllers and overpriced titles that seldom go on sale, have fewer features, and don't ever look or play as good.

Long live the PC Master Race... oorah, hooah and hooyah! Proud to be an elitist and make no apologies for it. Let the peasants enjoy their trashy consoles, "gaming devices" and smartphone gaming crap.

 

If there's one thing that will unite Nintendo, PlayStation, and Xbox fans, it's their universal hatred of the PC mustard race, and I can't say I blame them. It's precisely this type of attitude that turns a lot of those folks off from wanting to try it. Grow up.

 

That's fine with me. Better that they stay away or PC games would be catering more to $500 low budget builds especially suited for the Micro$lop Store UWP Kool-Aid drinking gamer trash.

 

If my memory serves me right, I played Crysis 1 on my Dell XPS M1530 8600M GT at 800 x 500 (or 640 x 400?) resolution with mixed of low, medium and high settings. Beautiful graphic was my priority. The fps was 10-20 but strangely it was playable at that time

 

And, that was considered a relatively stout laptop at the time.

I had an XPS M1730 with 8800M GT SLI and I think I was lucky enough that I managed to stay north of 30 FPS, but not by a lot.

 

I also had a Dell Vostro 15 with the 8600M GT. That was nice playing on there as well.

 

My, how time changes things.

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Run #1- DX10 2560x1600 AA=16xQ, 32 bit test, Quality: VeryHigh ~~ Overall Average FPS: 136.495

 

XPS M1530, XPS M1730 and Vostro 15. Yeah, the good old days

If I'm not mistaken Crysis 1 is only utilizing single core/single thread CPU. Anyone knows how to fix this?

 

Wait for the upcoming remaster is the only way to fix that.

 

Unless you are getting poor results using old hardware with a slow CPU, I wouldn't really worry too much about how many cores/threads it is using. I get well over 100 FPS with my desktop and laptop, and they are miles apart in performance capabilities. It plays flawlessly for me and leaves me with nothing to complain about, and has for a very long time. So, I don't really know why some people say that it needs to be "fixed" based on my own experience. See post above. Even the crappiest modern Core i7 notebook CPUs run at turbo clock speeds that are just about twice (or more) as fast as when Crysis was released ( 2007).

 

There's something cool about running these games on older hardware, sorta why I dig this channel.

 

Yeah... It's gonna be a good reboot.

That was back in the day when Team Red was still making good graphics cards. I was an ATi fanboy back then. I had a 9800 XT and a 9800 All-in-Wonder Pro.

 

Apparently this will also get released on Nintendo Switch and PS4 at the same time. Fingers crossed they don’t goof it up bro!

 

The fact that they're planning to do that suggests there will likely be some compromises that we'd be better off without.

 

The very first time I played it, I had to finish it with a mix of minimum and mediumt settings, at 1280x800 resolution. It took me several gens/laptops to finally play it at max 60fps ahahaha.

I am sure consoles will do whatever they can, and in the case of switch, it might be the lowest settings at 720p. I look forward to replay Crysis it's my fave out of all the games they made. I hope the physics shenanigans are intact, loved taking out buildings to crush enemies.

 

The fact that it's releasing on the Nintendo Switch at all, which is built around an Nvidia Tegra X1, should kill all hype of this being a new graphical benchmark.

This will be an up-rezzed Crysis with a few graphical flourishes added, nothing special.

Prove me wrong Crytek.

 

It will still be a welcomed reboot if it looks nicer. I love the original just like it is, so that will be icing on the cake if it turns out nice. Hopefully, they won't add anything stupid to it and just focus on making it look nicer without altering any existing aspects. But, in the back of my mind it is a concern that they actually have it on the agenda to make it playable on a piece of crap handheld toy.

 

Just having it run without issues on modern hardware and perhaps be properly multi-threaded would be a win. Perhaps with some new higher resolution textures. Removing some of the CPU bottlenecks so modern hardware can go crazy with it would be a win.

 

lol.. that handheld toy has some excellent games. It's actually a good thing Nintendo has been opening up to M rated games IMO.

 

Yeah, I don't have a problem with that per se, as long as they do not dumb it down for PC gamers to accommodate it. Maybe a separate toned down version for weak hardware.

I'd really like the PC version to be unusually demanding and stressful, and have minimum system requirements to be no less than current generation GPU, like maybe a minimum of RTX 2060 or equivalent, and no less than say an 8700K CPU or equivalent, in order for it to hold 60 FPS at 1080P with maximum settings. Would also be nice if it needed at least 16GB of DDR4 and 6GB of GDDR6. If they make it as tough for 2020 hardware to run as it was for 2007 hardware, it will be just about perfect. Then maybe they'll get another 13 to 15 years out of the reboot.

 

Maybe if they just add RT without DLSS 2.0 they can bring everything to it's knees.

 

ahem.....witcher for switch///crysis remaster will be epic. I doubt you will be able to max it at 1080p with a 2080ti crytek isn't dumb

 

It's a remaster, not a remake.

In the case of the latter, there'd have been no way to scale a game between a Tegra X1 and current-gen GPUs.

This should tell you a lot about the intention of this remaster. Do you really think melting high end PCs can be a priority when consoles are in play?

 

Crysis was the last game to bring an otherwise "Standard" PC to its knees, ending a long succession of kings...

I think first came Doom (poor guys with 1 MB of EDO RAM who couldn't afford to upgrade because 1 MB of RAM cost $120). I was one of them.
Then Quake, then Unreal (that game really let the hardware genie out..no Voodoo2 card, no Pentium 2, no 30 FPS for you), then Quake 3 (professional/semi pro FPS gamers played this in WIREFRAME textured MODE for the FPS), then Medal of Honor: Allied Assault (OP shotguns and all..this game was a CPU hog), and then the late great Battlefield 1942, which forced people to upgrade to Pentium 4's and Radeon 9800 Pros, and then finally...Far Cry 1 (yes, Far Cry 1...was brilliant), and the graphical sequel--- Crysis. Maximum game.

Everything else has been a joke since then.

 

This got to be the funniest comment i ever encounter in YouTube that makes my tummy cramp!!!

 

oh I know I'm just hopeful...and that will get me nowhere in the end but the arguement is will they downgrade it to switch levels or upgrade to 2080ti levels it goes both ways they are improving the textures and adding raytracing so no the switch will not be the priority. ps4 xboxone and pc will be the priority and after playing the drop dead gorgeous game fallen order on pc and seeing the fidelity on the ps4 i'd say theres a strong chance this will knock our socks off since this is crytek and ea

 

I agree. It is highly likely that it will.

 

I just download 2 mods (HD textures 2016, and blackflys lighting mod) and I'm pretty sure its going to look even better with ray tracing and even better textures, right now as it stands this is looking like a game from 2025 and nothing in 2020 can even touch the lighting effects not even rdr2.

Will be interesting to see what crytek does.

https://ibb.co/tPW8wR3

edits... how do I show you guys how good it already looks with mods

I have the settings to blue filter and stock settings with dark shadows and color grading off
it looks photo realistic already and I want to prove it

 

That game was F.E.A.R. for me, back in 2005. Literal game changer for hardware and A.I.enemies and lighting effects. The A.I is still considered one of the best.
Would give bundles of cash for a Remastered F.A.E.R.

Crysis will have to hold me over Fantastic game

 

Yes, I love F.E.A.R. as well. Excellent game and I spent many hours playing it. All of the old school shooter games like these were amazing and if you ignore the advances in technology relating only to eye candy, they highlight how badly most newer games suck. Or, how the developers suck. I guess it depends on how you look at it.

 

Yea, I touch like 1 AAA title a year (usually 1-2 years after its release for that sweet Steam Discount). Some things have enough to peek my interest at under $30. No way paying more than 1/2 price on any of the new titles.

Everything else is puzzle and Indie games. I somehow managed to log 867 hours in Portal 2 Community mod maps, lol.

If your a fan, I can recommend the just released Black Mesa public beta. They (Crowbar Interactive) did an excellent job remastering of Half Life 1.

I just spent the last month and 1/2 (About 30 straight hours of game-play) reliving that awesome game from my childhood.

 

Yup