Crysis, and the specs that CRYTEK give it

http://uk.gamespot.com/pc/action/c [...] id=6180628
"The latest such PC game is Crytek's first-person shooter Crysis. With the game set to arrive November 13, CRYTEK today revealed the minimum and recommended system requirements for the game."
unless gamespot is directly lieing, we finally have reliable specs

lol I think 512 should do ok

I have a 2.6GHz P4 and it is the fastest CPU my motherboard will support (ASUS P4T-E). I wonder if I'll be able to start the game or if it will detect the CPU speed and refuse to start up.

Hmm, not much detailed GPU info. I wonder if an SM2.0 card like the X800XT/X850XT is supported? More powerful than a 6800GT yes, but SM3.0 may be required. Too bad they didn't think to ask that one.

This is the specs from the incrysis WIKI you will see that theese include the X800
http://www.incrysis.com/wiki/index [...] quirements

I hope you are right, but those still look like the old leaked specs. 9800 pro or 6800GT? That should mean a 256MB 6600GT/6800XT/6800 vanilla should be able to be forced to run a DX9B path too and make min spec.

LOL, I bet Nvidia won't like a game box on a TWIMTBP title saying 6800GT or 9800 pro. :-)

Looks pretty convincing as an official site to me
http://www.incrysis.com/
Mactronix

Hopefully you'll luck out and have the drivers to play it issue free. It's about time we see official mobile support become a norm.

LOL at the Vista comment. I have a retail Vista Ultimate still sitting here unused and probably won't touch it until my next build.

I struck out today at CC trying to grab the orange box for $38 (ad said in stock today). Tried BB too and they won't have them until tomorrow either. But I got to hold a crysis preorder box in my hands, which almost made me forget why I came to the store. I wish the demo was out, can't wait to play this one.

I've been watching and reading a lot of posts concerning this game, and in general, video cards, and what will be needed in the near future. I made a few suggestions myself but was blown off. I bet a lot of people here are eating crow right now. HAHAHAHA

Sorry, had to do it..........HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Oh screw it! I'll just buy an XBox 360 and play Halo 3 if I want a shooter.

I did the same spin on the preorder box, but no matter how many rotations, I couldn't get the specs to appear either.

I originally hated the orange box idea for $50, but it's grown on me. Seeing it for $38 for ep2, TF2, Portal and the ability to give HL2 and EP1 away with a key, makes it easily worth it to me. If I could buy just ep2 for $15, I would do that instead though.

I have a 256MB 8600gts factory oc, q6600 cpu, and 2gb corsair xms2 ram. How well can i expect to run crysis at 1680x1050 without AA enabled?

Note: I could play the bioshock demo with dx10 enabled on vista with the highest settings with no problems

Thanks

I hope that the 320mb GTS doesn't take too big a performance hit from lack of memory, otherwise I might have to use the step-up on the card I just got when the new 640s come out.

Yup, I found myself in that same boat with 8800GTX street prices $100 under stepup price. If street prices for the card you want to step up to are way under evga list price, you are better off skipping the stepup, ebaying your old card and buying a new one.

But back when the 7900's launched and sold for list price, the step up made sense. Problem back then was availability as the 7900GT and GTX were out of stock from evga when I looked at stepping up from a 7800GT.

Are you infering that a 320 GTS will be terrible compared to a XT or 640?

In those tests you're talking about, there were a couple games where the 320mb started falling behind even an 860GTS w/ 512mb of memory at resolution of 1280 and beyond. Good thing I don't play any of those games.

I got a 2.4GHZ P4. I'm not as worried about my processor (I really am) as the abuse my graphics card will take. I don't even have the correct shader model, be my first place for [you] and I to look!

Nice find spuddyt. At last we have something substantial to chew on now rather than just speculation.

Still, minimum / recommended specs vary wildly in their real-world relevance, so even now I guess we'll have to wait for the demo and benchmarks.

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/foru [...] 20mb-640mb

Read mah theory

In short terms:

I think the reason why the 320 mb version falls in some games is because it dosent use virtual ram at vram. I would estimate this virtual ram would give a 90% framerate boost, looking at the stats I made. Crysis will most probably use the virtual ram. In quake wars, it dosent use virtual ram. With 4 AA at max settings at 720p, it uses 264 mb of video ram, 0mb of virtual. At 16 AA, it uses 308 megs, the max the 320mb version has. It does not use the virtual ram, and it could be trying to use 350-400 megs, which could explain the framerate drop. Using this theory, , id recomend 3gigs of ram for crysis if you have a 320mb version, 2 gigs for 640 . I think only the 8x00 series have the chip that can use virtual ram, not sure about the 7xxx series, I dont think they do, they suffer more from higher resolutions.

will it run on my 6600gt?? my pc specs are below.can i play it @800x600??

It'll probably run as fast as a slideshow.

@sunny

I'd wait. This may be the time that we really see the the 512mb hd2900 pro beat the 8800 gts 320mb. The pro isn't the perferable card in other games but for this one it may just beat it cause of the memory.



But don't buy either. Stick with your current card until the 2950 pro or 8800 gt come out!!!

I was using an x1650SE.. and the GTS was super cheap at Futureshop (299$ Canadian), I drove 1.5 hours to the store (the nearest city with a Futureshop store with stock), and 1.5h back. I really didn't want to wait for delivery. Both the BFG and EVGA superclocked were 299$ CDN, but the evga was sold out.

will the 8800gt be positioned below the 8800gts 320mb in the nvidia gf card hierarchy??? could be an affordable option for me then.busted my wallet on the coolermaster psu and case.dont have much to get 8800gt.
when will the 8800gt hit the shelves??

@ spuddyt,there wasn't much difference between the 6600gt and the 7600gt when it came to performance.and then there isn't much difference between the 7600gt and the 8600gt when it comes to gaming performance.all these are main stream cards with a 128 bit memory interface and each have 256mb ddr3.(the 6600gt had a 128 mb version too)
so if it plays on a 7600gt it should play on a 6600gt.gameplay is more important to me now(will change my attitude once i get a good video card!)bioshock worked on my pc without lagging at low settings though.but i played the demo without any hiccups.