Quick to forget? CRYSIS demo this friday!

All is quiet about Crysis lately and I was surprised to remember that it is coming out this friday. This demo is basically the final build. With a street date of November 13th and the demo coming out on the 26th that leaves them very little time to optimize before the game goes gold.

I figure they will take last minute glitches and bugs feedback but they can do very little to change the game overall in such a short period of time. Not a fan of a crysis rep hinting at needing sli cards to get the full experience. I hope they mean very high because high looks great and so does medium so a combination of them will look fine.

For me the demo will determine whether I buy the game depending on how it runs. If it runs well I'll review it if not then moving on.


Countdown:

http://www.crysisdemo.com/

 

i need faster internet Im so pissed. tell me how it is!!

 

Yeah, I've got to check this out on my 8710p...does it require Vista? I hope not...

But in any event, at one time they claimed the 8700GT would be fine with Crysis...I intend to test it.

 

Just in time to test it on my new laptop which will be here on thursday

 

Twice, the release of Crysis demo collides with my exam schedule. Sigh, I seriously hopes it runs well on 8600m gt, at 1024 x 765 with 60 solid fps no AA and v-sync that kind of well.

 

I am hoping that Nvidia comes out with there new GO card soon b/c looking at the minimum requirements of Crysis is a little scary.

I think that these programers must have stocks in Nvidia and such. Man I can't believe what a hog Crysis is, this is getting silly.

 

I think Crytek is pushing the envelope too much. There mentatility is that because Farcry was considered graphically amazing they have to hold on to their title for pushing graphics to new limits. I can hardly deny the results but lets see how strained our computers become.

 

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Fred, I don't think you have much to worry about with that setup!!!

 

The way I figure it, it can only be better running then what I know currently, and since I'm happy with the current.....Though I talking about with my desktop more so than my laptop....

 

Yes, I have no work and no school on friday.

 

I wasnt to pleased with the beta

Besides have exams on 5th, 6th, 14h, 15th, 16th of November so no time for games

 

Am I the only one who *isn't* completely hyped up about Crysis?
Sure, the graphics are impressive. Impressive, but not very stylistically interesting.
And the gameplay seems nothing out of the ordinary either. Ok, it'll probably be a fun shooter, but I don't see why we should consider it the holy grail of gaming.

 

Im with you on that

Before I was hyped, but after playing the beta all I can say the game looks good but doesn't deliver on the game play.

Also Far Cry looked amazing (still does) and it was very hardware friendly, Crysis looks good but is no way near hardware friendly...at least not yet

 

I want UT3 (this is Hardware friendly) not Far Cry 2 or crysis...

 

Can't wait for the demo this week and hopefully Nvidia/Ati will release an optimized Crysis driver when the demo comes out. I also hope they optimized the hell out of that game, because the last beta was unacceptable performance wise.

The thing I'm most curious about is DX10 performance.

 

Sweet cant wait, does anyone know when the crysis beta ends?, I haven't been on in along time now.

 

yeah, crysis is not really *special* in my opinion. Graphics look like they will be amazing but the style is just not there. Look at UT3, looks great- with great visual style, and for me crysis just doesnt have that. And UT3 runs and looks great on old hardware.
I guess we will see ... nano suit is cool though and in single player it might be better...

 

Yeah, me too. If it works then OK. If not the I'll cry and will be very angry and unstable for some time... :cry:

 

I'm with you on this one mate. It's the sort of game which appeals to graphic freaks mostly.

 

Graphics aside, I am excited because Far Cry was one of my favorite shooters. Even though it isn't the direct sucessor to Far Cry, it seems like it will be similar in flavor. I guess we will find out soon enough.

 

I'm not excited about Crysis. Really, I don't get excited about any game until it's released. It's always a surprise to see how the final version reacts across different hardware platforms. If you really need an 8800 to play Crysis, that's gonna be poor.

 

Well the beta from the crappy graphics was still ok, nothing stellar in terms of gameplay, it just seemed like the modern bf2. I'm not necessarily saying Crysis is great but its no worse than any of the other shooters coming out such as COD., UT3, Quake wars. (I never was a fan of UT, Quake series)

 

I am more impressed with COD 4, the performance is good for mid range setups. I had everything maxed with 1600x1200 resolution and it never dropped below 25fps.

 

Yeah, I feel like the real glory in Crysis will be the single player. Especially because if you're like and love the pretties, you can chug along with 20-25fps and not have to worry about "OH **** SOMEONE'S GONNA JUMP ON ME AND THEN RAPE MY CORPSE." While someone still might jump on you, it's always possible to load a save point, and I find SP is generally a lot slower than MP.

Especially if you're comparing this to UT3, where the meat of the game in its multiplayer features so it's imperative that it can run well and have scaling back capabilities. That said, UT3 is the same ::expletive:: game they've been making for about a decade, whereas even if this is in fact, Far Cry two, at least you've got a nano-suit, some awesome foliage, fully destructible environments, and giant alien walkers that destroy the crap out of things.

 

lol metapod...havent heard that name for ages...back then there were 150 of these things, now ive lost count


Man quite a lot of games coming out in november, UT3, Crysis, COD4, maybe Gears of War. Also some great games already out like Orange Box.

Too bad I cant play any game at all until 16th Nov....Exams..

 

I feel your pain. I have a paper to write that's delaying greatly my TF2 and HL2 playing (course I promptly beat portal last night in one sitting).

 

i hope you dont mean your laptop...because that is better than most desktops. prolly aorund the power of an 8800gts

 

I almost forget! Thanks for the reminder.

So busy lately...ugh.

 

COD 4 looked nice and was fun, and i have been waiting for crysis, but when i found out my 8800gtx wont play it on very high at 1920x1200 i was a little angry...still something to look foward to, im bored replaying UT3, COD4, and timeshift demos lol

 

^ Here here. Yeah I've been playing demos alot lately. Finished bioshock, age of empires III, all of the Orange Box, taking a break from TF2 since I've been playing it for weeks on end. So its been demos thats been occupying my gaming lately.

 

wow, would you guys stop bashing the 8800gts when you obviously dont have one! In single card mode it runs 1920x1080 and never drops below 70fps.. EVER. and thats the 320mb version.. how is that comparble to a single 7950GTX running 1600x1200 @ 25fps?

oh, and I am a GFX person, I weould buy it just to look at it.. seriously..

but it was never Crysis I was looking forward to.. it's FarCry 2, and UT3, and IM GLAD they didnt SCREW it up like ALOT of game companies tend to do.. UT was perfect, im glad they left it alone for the most part.

 

Actually he was referring to dual 7950GTX's in SLI. Which actually is very similar to an 8800GTS 320mb on average, though at high resolutions in some games (ones with poor SLI support) it falls behind.

 

that's not my point... how is 25fps in 1600x1200 anywhere near 1920x1080 @ 70fps?

But I think I'm going off topic a bit much...

anyway.. crysis looks like it's gunna rock! cant wait for the official public demo!

 

I just saw the clip, and there is a gun that freezes people? Like literally turns them to ice. Alien tech from the campaign I'm assuming.

 

First of all, there's no way I'll believe that at highest settings you NEVER go below 70fps at 1920x1200. I'm sorry, that's just not possible.

Secondly, you have no idea if the settings you two were playing at were the same, what the rest of the setup was, drivers, etc. Without a controlled test, you can't really compare performance like that.

 

whenever you capture the prototype building in the multi beta, your team gets a prototype menu option to buy ****, which includes stuff like nukes and that gun.


bad thing about that freeze gun, it only keeps them freezed as long as your shooting at them with the beam, after you stop or ammo finishes they are back to life again.

only way to kill is you freeze and some one else takes the kill

 

Hmm no chance unknown is lying here. Look at this I ran Cod4 demot at 1920x1200 and the fps dropped to 20fps sometimes but usually around 25 on my Dell XPS M170 with a 7800GTX overclocked. Now how can a dual 7950GTX perform 25fps at 1600x1200.

Also I don´t use any AA, though 8xaf.

The 8800GTS has more raw shader power than dual 7950GTX, so it´s no wonder his 8800GTS performs at 70fps at 1920x1200 or if it were 1920x1080.

Dual 7950GTX, a single 7950GTX is comparable to a 7900GT desktop performance, so no way his SLI setup runs as good as a 8800GTS

 

I'm going to download the demo Fridaymorning then I will go to school, in the evening Crysis is downloaded -> install -> PLAY
I really hope that I can play Crysis on medium with my Asus G1S:
-Intel Core 2 duo T7500 (2,20GHz)
-2GB ram (I december i will upgrade to vista 64 bit and 4GB, is this going to help to run more settings(video card) on high because it can use 768MB shared memory?)
-Nvidia Geforce 8600M GT

 

Eh?

A single Go 7950 GTX is equivalent to a desktop 7950 GT. It's also almost exactly half as powerful as an 8800 GTX, so SLI Go 7950 GTX's (assuming around 70% efficiency) would be roughly equivalent to a single 8800 GTS.

It is IMPOSSIBLE for an 8800 GTS to never drop below 70 FPS at 1920x1080 at all high settings in the Crysis MP Beta (Client #3) (if he's talking low settings then that's a different story). There's a whole thread on the Beta forums where people list their rig and their framerate, and people with 8800 GTX's at 1680x1050 average around 35 FPS at all high settings. There's no way a GTS could get double that framerate at a higher resolution.

 

Could you post a link to those forums please? I'd like to take a look.

 

I'm not allowed, sorry. Even the forums for the beta are under NDA, and are passworded.

Although in just 2 days we'll have plenty of performance threads look through (and Beta performance isn't representative of final performance anyway - at least, it better not be ).

 

I/alot of other gamers, who without a decent rig, will be very sad, if the beta performance represents the final performance of the retail game.
Most likely not, especially with all the bugs being sorted out and the extra one month they pushed back to optimize the game.

 

8400m gs ... i hope i can play it at all(sigh) ....

 

Crysis? We talked about Call of Duty 4 here not Crysis. Uknown said he got 70fps in Cod4 not in Crysis.

Oh you so you think that SLI doubles the performance so it´s equivalent to a 8800GTS? The SLI I have seen so far does not double the performance at all, so how can you say that his SLI config is as strong as a 8800GTS?

 

My bad - I missed the part about CoD4. (assumed Crysis since it's a topic about Crysis )

SLI doesn't double performance, (if it did, then SLI Go 7950 GTX's would = 8800 GTX). Rather, SLI provides about an 80% performance improvement (depending largely on the game and the drivers), which should (typically) put it around the level of an 8800 GTS.

 

I am sorry but there is no way that a single 7800 GTX overclock will get 25fps with full settings @ 1920x1200. The screen shot attached I am getting 10fps with everything maxed out and 1600x1200 resolution. I ran 3dmark06 and score over 10,000. There is no way a 8800GTS is getting 70fps with everything maxed @1920x1200, this game is not DX10 so there is no advantage for him.

This still is a demo though

Sorry for getting off topic.

 

Well if you compare his 8800GTS compared to your 7950GTX he has so much more raw shader power.

http://www.gpureview.com/show_cards.php?card1=475&card2=465

shader operations 115200 compared to your 13800, let´s face it your SLI setup is nowhere near his performance on a single 8800GTS. You can bet he plays Cod4 at that FPS. My 8800GTX rips through it like butter all maxed, this is a GTX though, but still a 8800GTS is a very good card and has far more shader operations than your card, not to speak about the bus width 320 bit compared to your 256bit bus.

As it seems you are comparing 3D Mark scores which say nothing about general gaming performance. This would say a 8600m GT is as fast as a go 7900gtx if you compare 3D Mark scores.

So your SLI setup runs UT3 as good as his setup too then since you say you´re performance is a 8800GTS? Wouldn´t think so.

 

Maybe it is when you play at 3D Mark's low resolution?

This discussion has nothing to do with Crysis anymore, btw.

 

This is very exciting - less than 17 HOURS to go. I built my desktop with the intention of playing this game so it had better be good.

 

Lets just hope my laptop can run it, so I can have some fun cutting down trees and be amazed with the physics by watching how they fall to the ground. =]