Why buy an 8800GTX..Crysis benchmark big dissapointment?

i got his from another forum, i would not believe any benchies till the games is out
"Crysis ran at 30 frames per second on Vista. Here's the details:

- 2048x1600 resolution
- High details (in pre-Alpha)

- Single-Core CPU
- 2GB of RAM
- 8800GTX

-Unoptimized

Yes, at 30 frames in Vista. Smile"

Well, why could this not be true? It's a very heavy game. When you see for example this crytek 2 engine tech movie>>> http://www.arena51.be/fr/videogame [...] p?id=24539 it will totally blow you away. But I agree, it could be a fake benchmark.....just wondering if there are more people who read about Crysis benchmarks that shows simulair results.

yes, exactly my point

Because it's already been discussed when VR-Zone posted this a while back;
http://www.vr-zone.com/?i=4555

HardSpell used the Ageia PhysX card and turned Physics on, however Crytek has already stated that they use VPU physics, not a PPU, so either the one graphics card is doing physics or the CPU is doing physics, either way the test is flawed if that's the case.

I'll believe Crysis Benchmarks, when I can buy it in retail and not some hack-job demo of dubious reliability.

Don't be stupid people .. Crytek is making sure their game is playable on every decent card out there and that's include 8800 series of course .

Not to mention many video previews showing Crysis with DX10 effects on a 8800 series .. Gamespot has stated previously that the "Alpha" version of the game was running at 60 FPS .. Maxed .. also on a 8800GTX !

Tomshardware itself has made a comparsion between Crysis on XP and Win Vista .. guess what ? the Vista system was using 8800GTX (the only DX10 hardware available for now) .. and the game was extremely playable . You can find this article on Twitchguru.com .

Isn't Oblivion just now able to be played with all the bells and whistles turned on with the release of the 8800? It won't surprise me if Crysis can't be played with all the settings maxed using current hardware.

Such is the price of these amazing game engines.

I guess it all depends what a difference DX10 really makes. Only time will tell.

go gametrailers.com search crysis and there we go, ingame with a 8800gtx tho the frame rates drop sometimes but ya.. long time till the release of crysis.

DX10 introduces alot of efficiency advances. Take a tree for example, whereas you'd draw each induvidual leaf in DX9.0c, in DX10 you draw one leave and repeat/rotate/resize it 10,000 times.

Even if said leaf is 1,000 times as detailed, you still have a 5x speed increase by the time you have finished the tree.

Now take a jungle screenshot with 50 trees, and you only have to draw one leaf for the lot of them.....

Hence the 5x increase not 10x

It is still far more efficient to rotate the leave and copy it than it is to draw a whole new one.

My point is that DX10 is capeable of increasing Gfx quality without decreasing performance, or increasing gfx quality loads for a minimal performance hit.

I read on a Persian website that the 8800 series will have an add on deisel engine that grants them dx10.a capabilities, but only for a hour at a time, so the engine can cool down.

You will see all these nvidia fanbois crying when crysis comes out and in BIG on the box says ENHANCED GRAPHICS FOR ATI R600 REAL DX10 Graphics Card.

Ah but see there is away around that.


I picked up a 8800gts from CompUSA for $400 + $50 1year replacement warranty.

In one year, I can turn in my card and get the latest and greatest or my money back.

Ya! NewEgg Suckers.

like the 8950gtx2 that nvidia is releasing soon. 2 chips in one card with 1gig+ of ram on it for $700-800... thats what im going for ^_^ witht that 1 year repleacement plan can i upgrade my 7900gs?

"real" DX10?

What is this then?

After all the delays the R600 has had, by the time the R600 is actually released, Crysis will be so old it will not be worth playing anyway.

so i guess that everybody that upgraded their cpu's to dual core and dx10 graphics cards are going to be shafted ,in your opinion, by a game that a company releases that isnt playable to most of these said people?! excuse me but im a bit drunk..but is it me or is this a load of bollocks an makes no sense?!

Don't worry, it's not just you. No one know for sure how Crysis will perform on an 8800, and damn sure no one knows how it will perform on an r600, but people love to talk like they have one of each in thier living room, and have been playing crysis for weeks.

read


/fud for dx10.a compatibility.

crysis allows for both dx10 and dx9.c

Right, but that wasn't the point now, was it?

Its funny how so many people are over exaggerating the requirements for this game. Calm the hell down, you haven't even played it yet.

I bet you can play it on a 7800 just fine. Thier not going to make a game that only 10% of PC gamers will be able to play.

You know what is more amusing. The amount of people that think such things are amusing because they themselves do not have the money to pay for an impressive-on-paper system, such as yourself Jamiepotter.
I am running Vista and I have a 8800 GTS. But you know what the real kicker is, I got Vista free from Microsoft and my 8800 GTS only cost me $150 bucks. I can bet that your not so impressive system on paper cannot give you half the gaming experience mine can. So put that in your pipe and smoke it Mr. Funnyman!

crim

lol.. ATI, the way it's meant to be delayed.

You know what is more amusing. The amount of people that think such things are amusing because they themselves do not have the money to pay for an impressive-on-paper system, such as yourself Jamiepotter.
I am running Vista and I have a 8800 GTS. But you know what the real kicker is, I got Vista free from Microsoft and my 8800 GTS only cost me $150 bucks. I can bet that your not so impressive system on paper cannot give you half the gaming experience mine can. So put that in your pipe and smoke it Mr. Funnyman!

crim

Im sure you stole it so says your name.

It's kinda funny. All he really did was prove that he wasn't one of the people I would find amusing if Crysis was rubbish. Which is fine, but I wouldn't be laughing at someone who stole it either!

Presumably _someone_ has paid through the nose for this hardware, however, and rushed out to get Vista the minute it came out...

What is this 'Mr Funnyman' reference anyway? I know it was in American Beauty, but this didn't seem to me to be the original source. Is it just an Americanism, like "How 'bout them Metz?" or something?