Will Crysis run?

just wondeirng i love this game already but i dont know if my A8Js will be able run it well, planning to have 2g of ram soon

 

I dont see how anyone can answer this question for you considering the game hasnt even come out yet. Just google the system requirements, although i dunno if theyve released the official specs yet. Will run on DX9 cards with shader model 2.0.

http://www.digitalbattle.com/2006/07/23/crysis-system-requirements-released/

 

With 2 GB it should run fine. But to run Crysis the way it is ment, I recommend a DX 10 video card.

 

I'm sure that Crytek will design the game to scale down well on most systems.

Otherwise less than 1% of PC owners will be able to play it.


Medium level graphics in Crysis will probably be the same as high level graphics in previous generation games.

 

As noted Crysis hasn't even come out yet and it will be a while before it will. Judging by the specifications of your laptop, you should be able to play it fine because it's fast, even compared to some desktop machines.

 

Yeah it'll run fast, however becuase of your lack of GPU power you'll have to scale the details down a whole lot...

This game will be very demanding, there is so much to render, and a 7700 might have some trouble with higher resolutions and added detail.

 

The system requirements listed in post #2 are fake, they are completely different from the ones listed on the official crysis site..

 

Hmm, could you post a link to this "official" site you are referring to? I believe this is the official site, and as you can see there's no content yet. I think there's only estimations about the requirements, so propably none of should be called "fake" or exactly correct. Meanwhile, here's what Crysis-Online says about the system requirements..

 

I've always wondered, what rigs do developers develop their games on?

Surely, they will be testing games on current hardware, or do they have customised hardware lightyears ahead?
How then do they develop well for DX10 platforms well in advance, when many months ago, there were no DX10 cards avaliable?

I remember when HL2 was in its mid-stage, a developer was showing a journalist a section of the game, and it ran awfully slowly. I assume the hardware he was using was old. Yet, it was probably so slow, because the game was developed for hardware not avalible yet, in which time, the performance by the time the game were released, would have been good.

Am I right or wrong here.

 

It was developed using the DX10 engine. DX10 cards like the 8800GTX have been around since last November, and Microsoft has been working on Vista/DX10 for several years now. Microsoft probably gives its partners early versions of its DX10 software, just like Intel gives partners samples of their new chipsets months in advance, so companies like Dell and HP can release refreshed computers for a platform like Santa Rosa the week it comes out.

As for the whole DX9 and DX10 discussion, yes, DX9 cards will be able to play Crysis. Your Go 7700 is no joke, as it's pretty powerful, but it'll be very taxed by Crysis. I'd expect you'd be able to run at low to medium settings, no AA or AF, no other eyecandy, at around 20-30 FPS. As already mentioned in the thread, we have no way of knowing how a laptop will run a game that hasn't come out yet until a review emerges, or until someone tests it for themselves.

It's important to remember the Go 7700 is a DX9 card. Crysis is built around a DX10 platform. Although Crysis will support your DX9 card, the DX9 card will not let you unlock special eyecandy that only DX10 cards will be able to unlock. For instance, special smoke effects, shadow effects, lighting effects, physics effects that come with DX10, your Go 7700 will not be able to run.

 

why would he do that? i mean most people will be playing this just for those amazing graphics, apparently the best thing about the game, so playing with everything on low, you'll be missing out on so much, i'd say it's just not worth it. however it's pretty early to talk about that, but unless you're able to run it on medium, i'd say forget about it

 

Which do you think would be better for playing Crysis: a geforce go 7700 or a geforce go 8400?