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    Crysis Beta Open To Public! Yes You!

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by The Forerunner, Oct 2, 2007.

  1. The Forerunner

    The Forerunner Notebook Virtuoso

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    Eleison Thanatos Eleison

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    I think I'll just go ahead and load up a queue of screenshots with a .5 second transition cycle. It would be a smoother framerate :D
     
  3. Jdaswat

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    It's telling me the beta is closed again... :+{
     
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    it is, i dont know why though
     
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    ; ; 40 min wait
     
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    did anyone upload it anywhere, like rapidshare or something?
     
  7. The Forerunner

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    Wow that was such crap. They just released it today and they took it off already. How can it possible be full when they just released it this morning and I found out at 10. Lame, sorry guys.
     
  8. kraz30g

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    they took it off? are you unable to play it or is it a key/download issue?

    i have a key and accidently deleted the .exe because of the crashing - but i am right now about an hour away from having the .exe again from fileplanet.
     
  9. The Forerunner

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    Well if you have a key your fine. Yeah it appears they closed the beta. Makes no sense because I'm assuming that they had a thousand spots a couple hundred to over a thoussand sllots and I am on the east coast and wake up the earliest and found about it this morning. Hell some websites are reporting it as new like an hour ago.
     
  10. phil823

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    i got mine :)......last night at like 11:30 Central time...when i got it it said there was only a couple hundred left.....
    So do you have a Key Forrunner? If not Pm me
     
  11. Mimino

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    i don't think the key will work for him....i mean, it'll work for the install, but then after that u'll have to activate it or something, and i think that the activation only works one time/per key... not sure tho..
     
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    i got in + 10 chars
     
  13. phil823

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    i havent activated it or anyting... i downloaded Crysis and my desktop cant even start the installer....and my laptop is a couple days out...SO...yea.
     
  14. The Forerunner

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    Thanks alot bro, I owe you big time.
     
  15. phil823

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    np mate :) own it up for it!
     
  16. The Forerunner

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    35 minute wait before I can download the client. You sure though? I haven't activated cause your laptop might arrive soon and then I don't want you to regret it.
     
  17. Mimino

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    dude, go and google crysis_mp_beta_release_3.exe and dnload it from torrents..i'm getting 200+kbs ;)
     
  18. The Forerunner

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    Yeah but you need a key to get in, thats just the client.
     
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    but u already got the key, right?!
     
  20. The Forerunner

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    I'm downloading the official way, getting over 500KB, should be downloaded within 40-50 min.
     
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    ok. man...was just trying to save u some time :)
     
  22. The Forerunner

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    No I appreciate it, I would have done it if the fileplant downloader was gonna take forever.
     
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    man this game isn't playable at all :p (yes i know its only a beta).
    I'm playing at 1440*900 resolution with all settings to low and i get between 10 and 35 frames only :(. The funny thing is it isnt possible with my stoch drivers to use antialias because then i get a black screen with a few dots which should be objects :p
     
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    Yeah no wonder crytek delayed the demo.
     
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    i hope the demo will be more playable because this gaming card should handle the game well. Even a 8800gtx at stock is only twice as fast which means it probablye will get 20 to 60 frames at 1440*900 with low settings. that would be horrible! Or am i wrong?
     
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    Downloaded, extracting now.
     
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    I was able to play it at 1680x1050 or w/e on high with my 8800gtx, didn't get lag but it didn't look as good as i thought it would. I wasn't able to run it on high at 1920x1240 or w/e
     
  28. The Forerunner

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    Installing. Yeah, maybe new drivers will come out that will help optimize along the way.
     
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    Played the new beta. Doesn't run too well on my 8600 GT 256MB. I can play 1200*800 with all settings on medium, which runs OKAY but not great. I was hoping I could play with some medium, some high settings, but that won't happen. Hopefully the final release will be much better.
     
  30. The Forerunner

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    YEah played it right now too. THis game needs ALOT of work thats all I'm gonna say.
     
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    i just re downloaded the game because i wanted to see if i can fix the cryengine from crashing but it appears that everyone in here is having so many problems that i dont even want to mess with the game until the demo comes out... maybe i should just wait and my problem will be solved...
     
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    i dl'ed the demo earlier but where do you get your key
     
  33. Mimino

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    if u signed up, check ur email
     
  34. kraz30g

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    seems as though the texture problem is for everyone - u have to wait for it to load.... the one thing im having problems with is that if i dont have the settings at low then the cryengine2 will crash
    anyone else seen this?
     
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    direct x 10 isn't implemented in this beta correct?
     
  36. Cinner

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    Correct. Not only that but certain graphical features otherwise available in DX9 have also been disabled.
     
  37. Mimino

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    damn! check this out. got the game, blah blah blah. ran it, detected 1024*768 all med, no aa or af, i think. played it on that res, but the game looked like crap, so i decided to switch to 1280*800, from then it looked beautiful! i did lose, however, considerable number of fps, but it was still playable and looked great on those settings.
     
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    what kind of settings did u run it on
     
  39. Mimino

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    all medium, 1280*800, i thought i already said that...
     
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    8700m GT --

    1200x800
    all medium except for water/shaders/shadow

    very nice gameplay - smooth

    :) hopefully after they optimize the game and add dx10 support this game will rock. i see people complaining about their 8800 gtx stuttering in the games, so obviously crytek has some work to do.
     
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    yeah, thats why its beta ;)
     
  42. The Forerunner

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    Bah, I can't even get into servers now. None of them connect. Weird I was playing fine before.
     
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    i have the same problem - only solution i found was to just go to random servers and try to get in, one will eventually start loading ;p
     
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    yeah, it will...make sure u're not running any firewalls as well