Author Topic: Crysis: runs 'fine' and is pretty fun. (Read 2043 times)

MrAngryFace · « **on:** November 15, 2007, 05:29:51 PM »

Not a bad game so far. If you ignore your powers its a pretty basic run and gun, but if you use your powers you can have some fun. For example chucking a fuel barrel at a boat off shore then shooting it after it lands in the boat. I also ran out of ammo a lot and was at one point throwing potted plants at people. I also liked driving the humvee I stole through the beams of this hut and watching it collapse around me.

BlueTsunami · « **Reply #1 on:** November 15, 2007, 05:31:11 PM »

I have a shitty CPU on my PC so it was a stutter fest but I enjoyed tossing up wooden crates and shooting them out of the sky. Meta gaming!

MrAngryFace · « **Reply #2 on:** November 15, 2007, 05:36:28 PM »

Haha, I have a pretty beefy system and im stuck at medium everything cept shaders, 1024x768 with x4AA and even then there's screen tearing so I have to force v-sync cry

Smooth Groove · « **Reply #3 on:** November 15, 2007, 05:59:29 PM »

Change thread title to Crysis runs like crap but is pretty fun.

TVC15 · « **Reply #4 on:** November 15, 2007, 06:00:27 PM »

I'm going to hold off until I do some upgrades. I know I can run it fine, but something like this, I want to experience it in its full glory, since it probably won't be fun to play through more than 1 time. Or .25 times, if FarCry was any indication.

Smooth Groove · « **Reply #5 on:** November 15, 2007, 06:04:48 PM »

Quote from: TVC 15 on November 15, 2007, 06:00:27 PM

I'm going to hold off until I do some upgrades. I know I can run it fine, but something like this, I want to experience it in its full glory, since it probably won't be fun to play through more than 1 time. Or .25 times, if FarCry was any indication.

The Inquirer says that there'll be dual-core cards from both ATI and NV in January. The great thing about a dual-core card is that it draws much less power than a SLI setup.

MrAngryFace · « **Reply #6 on:** November 15, 2007, 06:07:17 PM »

The gameplay > FarCry so far IMO. I just cant imagine how hard it is on normal or hard. Im on easy and I do nothing but run out of ammo lol. The suit shit is awesome tho. Its like crackdown meets umm halo meets umm not the future

BlueTsunami · « **Reply #7 on:** November 15, 2007, 06:14:26 PM »

The suit rocks. Every game should have cloaking technology in some form

MrAngryFace · « **Reply #8 on:** November 15, 2007, 06:15:47 PM »

driving the truck through the shed felt very commando and awesome

Fragamemnon · « **Reply #9 on:** November 15, 2007, 06:19:41 PM »

Quote from: Jim Shorts on November 15, 2007, 06:07:17 PM

The gameplay > FarCry so far IMO. I just cant imagine how hard it is on normal or hard. Im on easy and I do nothing but run out of ammo lol. The suit shit is awesome tho. Its like crackdown meets umm halo meets umm not the future

The AI gets better on hard and delta more than anything else. I thought turning it up to full made the game way better when I played the demo, as the more dynamic enemies encouraged you to use more diverse environmental interactions.

Also, AA is murderous on the ol' framerate. Play it at high everything but shaders/shadows/postprocessing for snappy framerates at monitor native res.

MrAngryFace · « **Reply #10 on:** November 15, 2007, 06:21:13 PM »

I guess free AA is still a myth then

Have you tried forcing v-sync on it yet, what kind of hit can I expect there. Lots of tearin without it

Smooth Groove · « **Reply #11 on:** November 15, 2007, 06:21:27 PM »

Quote from: Fragamemnon on November 15, 2007, 06:19:41 PM

The AI gets better on hard and delta more than anything else. I thought turning it up to full made the game way better when I played the demo, as the more dynamic enemies encouraged you to use more diverse environmental interactions.

Also, AA is murderous on the ol' framerate. Play it at high everything but shaders/shadows/postprocessing for snappy framerates at monitor native res.

Then it wouldn't be the best looking game on the market, amirite? I think I'll just wait for better hardware like TVC.

MrAngryFace · « **Reply #12 on:** November 15, 2007, 06:22:17 PM »

I gotta agree, I luv me some effects

Fragamemnon · « **Reply #13 on:** November 15, 2007, 06:22:42 PM »

Quote from: Smooth Groove on November 15, 2007, 06:21:27 PM

Quote from: Fragamemnon on November 15, 2007, 06:19:41 PM
The AI gets better on hard and delta more than anything else. I thought turning it up to full made the game way better when I played the demo, as the more dynamic enemies encouraged you to use more diverse environmental interactions.

Also, AA is murderous on the ol' framerate. Play it at high everything but shaders/shadows/postprocessing for snappy framerates at monitor native res.

Then it wouldn't be the best looking game on the market, amirite? I think I'll just wait for better hardware like TVC.

Getting a decent framerate > fancy stuff. The real gem of the game is the interactive environments and emergent gameplay IMO (at least from what I played in the demo).

TVC15 · « **Reply #14 on:** November 15, 2007, 06:36:24 PM »

Also, I would imagine that this is the sort of game that will benefit hugely from both patches and driver updates. Patches because I think it was sort of rushed to release for Xmas (I really doubt the devs wanted to ship it quite this early, or if they did they thought hardware would be a bit better by now). Driver updates because this is going to be used as a benchmark for driver devs for, well, the next year or so.

I'm anxious to get into it, but there are enough other good games out right now that I can put it off for a bit.

BlueTsunami · « **Reply #15 on:** November 15, 2007, 06:37:34 PM »

Fragamemnon is correct. Its a mixture of the visuals and crazy physics. As far as the interaction with various objects, it feels like a hugely open ended Half Life 2.

And you can kill fucken Turtles then shotput them

MrAngryFace · « **Reply #16 on:** November 15, 2007, 06:37:36 PM »

I got the game running what I would guess at 20-35 fps (which IS playable) at 1280x1024 with Textures/Objects High, shaders, post processing and effects on HIGH everything else on medium, no AA.

This works ok now, but the early game isnt that busy, trying a more active area soon. I dont need 60 fps, I need around 30 consistently.

MrAngryFace · « **Reply #17 on:** November 15, 2007, 06:45:04 PM »

Ok, in a busy fight I ended up settling for these settings at 1024x768 x4AA. I get playable FPS here even during busy parts.

MrAngryFace · « **Reply #18 on:** November 15, 2007, 07:53:09 PM »

Lol, my PC couldnt cut it. Knocked down to medium everything at 1280x1024 x2AA. Way more stable.

BlueTsunami · « **Reply #19 on:** November 15, 2007, 07:54:09 PM »

I guess this game will need to be played with SLI'ed cards or something (or as SmoothGroove pointed out, use the new Dual Core GPUs)

MrAngryFace · « **Reply #20 on:** November 15, 2007, 07:55:06 PM »

Yeah, that and a quad core setup lol. OH WELL. looks plenty nice anyway, just wanted MOAR

Smooth Groove · « **Reply #21 on:** November 15, 2007, 07:57:21 PM »

Quad-core CPUs don't help that much although dual-cores are much better than single cores.

BlueTsunami · « **Reply #22 on:** November 15, 2007, 07:58:37 PM »

I would probably be contempt with everything on Medium but I would want the Post Processing on high. DOF and Blur = fucken awesome

TVC15 · « **Reply #23 on:** November 15, 2007, 08:02:41 PM »

I need to be able to play at my native resolution, with at least 30 FPS, and I want most shit on medium to high.

Smooth Groove · « **Reply #24 on:** November 15, 2007, 08:09:42 PM »

Quote from: TVC 15 on November 15, 2007, 08:02:41 PM

I need to be able to play at my native resolution, with at least 30 FPS, and I want most shit on medium to high.

High five. I don't want to be like those dirty poors that played Quake 3 at 640x480 w/ everthing on low.

BlueTsunami · « **Reply #25 on:** November 15, 2007, 08:10:40 PM »

1400x1050 is my native res. Too much for Crysis ;_;

MrAngryFace · « **Reply #26 on:** November 15, 2007, 10:18:18 PM »

Its not like we're dirty poors or have bad rigs tho, Crysis is just a bitch

CajoleJuice · « **Reply #27 on:** November 15, 2007, 10:34:38 PM »

Quote from: Smooth Groove on November 15, 2007, 08:09:42 PM

Quote from: TVC 15 on November 15, 2007, 08:02:41 PM
I need to be able to play at my native resolution, with at least 30 FPS, and I want most shit on medium to high.

High five. I don't want to be like those dirty poors that played Quake 3 at 640x480 w/ everthing on low.

That's how I play HL2 and its mods. :'(

bud · « **Reply #28 on:** November 16, 2007, 07:57:13 PM »

i played max payne on the lowest settings possible (700mhz duron/64mb ram/16mb nvidia tnt). my rig was made for bullet time

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Author Topic: Crysis: runs 'fine' and is pretty fun. (Read 2043 times)