Can we expect to play Crysis at high resolutions on High this year?

[Ragnorok64]

I just set my computer up with a 40" 1080p TV as a monitor and am saving up again to build a new PC. My crrent yard stick is going to be the ability to play Crysis on High at 1920x1080. There don't seem to be any GPU solutions out currently that can do this at a comfortable price. So what are the chances that something will be released this year that will be down to manageable prices by the end of the year?


Nvidia's 9000 series doesn't seem like it'll be able to do it. What about the proposed specs for ATI's HD4000 series? Anything know to be in the pipeline behind these?

 

[Ragnorok64]

The lack of response doesn't really fill me with confidence that my dreams of big screen Crysis will be fulfilled this year...

 

[ghost_uwi]

yeah
u can just taking all those choppy frames and imagine them running fluidly works for me lol

 

[dos1986]

Q9550 @ 4.0ghz
9800gx2 in sli will give it a good go...

 

[nkarasch]

High is pretty easy with current cards, if you are referring to maxed out or "very high" (vista only) then we have a little ways to go. According to extremetechs podcast, they got up to a 100% performance boost at high resolutions on very high with patch 1.2. Mix that with the HD4000 series or nvidias gt200 gpu and things are looking somewhat promising.

 

[dev1se]

I look forward to the summer when the new cards arrive.

Until then, there's mastercard.

 

[blacksci]

Yeah i dont see it happenin, not this year anyhow, ati need to get back on the horse b4 we see some real innovation in our graphics cards until then, I dont think we would have even seen the 9xxx series yet except ati brought out there x2 chip, and nvidia felt the need to retaliate....

 

[dev1se]

The 8800GTS / GT models were still selling rather well though...

 

[DirtyDrummer]

My 8800GTS 512 will play Crysis @:

1680x1050 on High (shaders on very high, shadows and post processing on med) and get ~30fps

1280x720 on Very High 2xAA (shadows and post processing on med) and get ~30fps

I'm afraid the words "Crysis" "Very High" "1920x1200" won't go together until the next generation of cards comes out.

 

[EXT64]

I think it is a bug they put in on purpose to make everyone think that their graphics cards are inferior

Seriously though, I think new patches + new cards by ATI and nVidia due out this year should give it a run for its money. It is only March after all.

 

[John Vuong]

I really hope the GT200 and the RV700 will be able to play Crysis on full settings.

I wish NVIDIA and ATI would release their monster cards instead of their revamped G92's and whatever.

 

[mayor_mccheese]

I would just put the game away. Then this time next year, act like its a brand new game, and by that time cards will be able to do it.

 

[blacksci]

Well the 9800x2 IS the fastest card out there, but only by a hair, and not at superhigh resolutions everyone is fascinated with right now. But its not a appreciable diffrence for the price your going to pay, 700 dollars for a 30% increase over the gtx8800 is not worth it. You turn on the aa and that drops to only 13%? Definetly not worth it, if this is the best there top end setup is going to give us right now, i dont see the gtx being any better, but well see, right now thats only speculation, but nvidia does seem to fall into these type of patterns...

 

[Nicocat]

Crysis isn't a good game... dunno why you wanna play it so bad =P

 

[Maximus_Delta]

Crysis isn't a good game... dunno why you wanna play it so bad =P

Are you a wind up merchant?

... or did you pirate the game and that's your weak attempt at justification for not paying for it?

 

[jkflipflop98]

Don't you know? The "cool" new "fad" is to act like a hardass against things that lots of people think are awesome, even if you secretly agree with them.

This guy is obviously "cool"

 

[dtq]

Crysis isn't a good game... dunno why you wanna play it so bad =P

Thats ok, I dont think world of warcraft is a very good game but apparantly 10,000,000 people disagree with me. Its possible Im wrong and its just that I dont like the game.

 

[randomizer]

Thats ok, I dont think world of warcraft is a very good game but apparantly 10,000,000 people disagree with me. Its possible Im wrong and its just that I dont like the game.

No no, you're right.

@Ragnorok64: Crysis is very playable if you spend the time to tweak it properly. There are settings that use up graphics horsepower without adding to much to the visual side of things.

 

[dos1986]

Its possibile

http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/1347/4/page_4_benchmarks_crysis/index.html

 

[deranged]

Crysis isn't a good game... dunno why you wanna play it so bad =P

I'm sorry buy I agree with him... The game looks great but the gameplay is kind of stupid.

You have to shoot the "bad guys" like 3000 times for them to die unless you have a perfect headshot, then they die really quick.

Also they came up with 4 or five things the Koreans say... the sound acting is probably the worst in memory.

Also swimming in the alien ship in Zero-G was a complete waste of time, I kept waiting for that section to end while holding off the temptation to stab myself in the eye.

 

[Craxbax]

I thought WOW was so chicks could play games online!

jk

 

[radium69]

well crysis is perfectly playable for me @ high with dx 9 @ 1680x1050 (without aa)...

This is with a GTS 512 overclocked and a Q6600 @ 3,2 ghz (2 gigs of ddr2 800)

i get a nice fps of 35 average on ( benchmark in crysis folder) and in game i can get rated up to 60 ... I don't know if it makes a big difference switching to 1920x1200 but to be honest, it even looks sexy on my old tv @ 1024x768 (tv out cable).

But to answer your question,
It depends on what money you want to spend,
I bet a similar system like mine, with a little bit more gpu power (9800GTX or GX2) can do the 1920x1200...

anti aliasing doesn't add that much of a visual improvement (well on dx9 that is)

I do think this game is visually very stunning, and the possibilities are endless

 

[jackieboy]

I think this year will be possible.....I get an average of 28.6 frames with
Texture,objects,physics,game effects,paricles and water turned at very high and the rest on medium......and this is done with one card with very little overclock on the cpu.....a hair less than 2.7......@ 1680x1050 with no aa....and the game looks awesome and plays great too....

 

[mpavao81]

My 8800GTS 512 will play Crysis @:

1680x1050 on High (shaders on very high, shadows and post processing on med) and get ~30fps

1280x720 on Very High 2xAA (shadows and post processing on med) and get ~30fps

I'm afraid the words "Crysis" "Very High" "1920x1200" won't go together until the next generation of cards comes out.

2 8800GTS 512mb OC in sli run it very well.

 

[cleeve]

I thought Crysis was cool. Maybe some of the end alien/flying/boss levels were weird, but the core jungle/supersuit gameplay was a lot of fun for me.

As far as "You have to shoot the 'bad guys' like 3000 times for them to die unless you have a perfect headshot"...

Well, these are military guys wearing body armor, not naked civilians. It's nice to see a game acknowledge that for once. Besides, if you're such a realism fan, why aren't you complaining that the nanosuit lets you take tons of shots before you die?

Regardless, I'd expect the R700/G200 cards to run it pretty smooth.