Crysis 2 graphic requirements

Firstly crysis 2 is set in a urban jungle.There are less polygons to render like only 15 buildings in a street while in crysis 1 due to hundreds of trees and bushes millions of polygons are rendered.secondly,its being developed with ps3/xbox in mind and thirdly in this interview with crytek engineer skip to 21:00 minutes and watch it till 22:minutes.You will see that a member of the audience asks the guy about the development hardware requirements for the cryengine 3 and he says that the nvidia 260/280's are "eating the engine for breakfast".

http://nvidia.fullviewmedia.com/gd [...] tracy.html

Metro 2033 was very demanding due to the heavy use of DoF to achieve the eery darkness effects.

I hope they make use of DX 11 for the PC version, however they must have learnt that they can't make another unplayable-except-on-future-supercomputers title.

Hadn't researched that a lot so I had unigine extreme tesselation in mind.I don't really mind an unplayable-except-on-future-supercomputers title as long as it has adequate gameplay.You don't have to play it at max settings to enjoy it anyway.Crysis looks stunning even at medium.

I don't think any games are using "extreme tesslation". Of the games that use it, I think Metro is using it the most right now and that is strictly for NPCs - it's not used on terrain. Obviously Unigene Heaven uses it a ton and is easily the "worst case scenario" while 3DMark 11 also uses it but it's nowhere near as intense.

As for Metro, easily the most demanding option was Depth of Field. I played around with settings, and DoF caused the biggest FPS drop with DX11, Very High details at 1080p. I got slightly better FPS with DoF off and 4xMSAA on, however, I preferred the visuals with DoF on and using AAA. Generally the game played at over 50fps with my crossfire 5850s, although there's some areas with a lot of lighting (god beams) which killed FPS (the library stands out in my mind, had 30fps in many parts).

Your GTX260 is incapable of rendering DirectX 11, so yes it would be slower than DirectX 10 and look identical.

Might sound stupid but thats the first I've heard of Crysis 2 going with 3d support, and I'm glad to hear it as my new build will be centered around 3d vision, thanks for the info haha.

From my understanding Crysis two will be LESS demanding then Crysis 1. I don't know exactly how they did it, but the graphics still look amazing.

Unless I'm mistaken, wasn't demanding ridiculous graphics horsepower part of the draw of Crysis 1? If the game is playable on less than a GTX 470, I'll be disappointed. I want to be sad that my rig is inadequate so that I can justify excessively expensive parts.

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Im getting an average of 70 fps on metro 2033 with everything maxed out!

I hope crysis didn't lower its graphics standards to meet hardware requirements for people who have crap computers and then complain non stop about how they can't run it and blame it on the games coding for being horribly designed to give poor performance. The simple thing is that Crysis is a game ahead of its time, its coding was excellent, because even at 20fps, crysis felt like it was running at 40 and its graphics were far beyond any other game, the first one was released on 06 and it still dominates the graphics department.

I hope the new Crysis which is like the only game I used to play every now then, keeps its ridiculously high graphics and I don't care if it needs crazy hardware...I want good graphics .

And as a side note, If I were Nvidia or ATI, I would give money to the makers of crysis to make it more demanding in hardware...I bet so many people actually went out to buy new hardware like more ram and a new GPU just for crysis .

when you said this it reminds me of this:

http://www.kitguru.net/components/ [...] ct-delays/

I also have a PS3, what I don't understand is that the graphics on the PS3 are almost as good as on high end graphic card, however I read somewhere that the card equipping the PS3 is equivalent to a 7600GT...
But I agree, I prefer gameplay for FPS on a PC rather than PS, except may be for games like GTA4, Red Dead Redemption that require joystick...

PC Guru_07:

"Game without good gameplay is rubbish.So crytex make sure crysis 2 has great gameplay and storyline.Eyecandy is secondary.Game which has only eyecandy quickly turns into a benchmark commodity."

^I Agree, for me personally graphics are very important, I look for eye candy first, but I generally agree, a game that is all graphics and no gameplay is no fun.


Griffolion:

"The PS3's GPU is more equivalent to a 7900 series one, but it's still not much of an improvement.

And no, the graphics on PS3 are horrendously bad compared to PC graphics, you just need to have the eye for it.

If you want to play joypad based games on PC, there are joypads available... "

^100% Agreed

Crysis 2's 3D is ''the Same as Avatar''
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/J [...] 12001.html

According to the "More Information" link under Zoro's avatar, he is 11 years old, so he was 1-3 years old when playing those games in early 2000. Hmmm...

i hope my sli 450's can pull medium settings... maybe in dx10 mode...


what can i say i'm a realist

i'm hoping but i'll reserve myself to hoping for medium settings dx11 turned off until the game is out and loaded on my system... that way i can only be pleasantly surprised not sadly disappointed

I found in a German Site the Crysis 2 System requirements, I don´t know if it should be trusted....(Look in the facebook post)


- internet connection to install the game & play online
- OS: XP/Vista/Windows 7
- CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo with 2Ghz, AMD Athlon 64 x2 2Ghz, or better
- 2 GB RAM
- HDD: 9 GB
- DVD ROM: 8x
- GPU: NVidia 8800GT 512Mb RAM, ATI 3850HD 512Mb RAM, or better
- Audio: DirectX 9.0c-compatible
- Keyboard, Mouse or Microsoft Xbox360 Controller for Windows


http://www.ea.com/de/crysis-2

That depends on whether you want to turn on the details. For all details, including PhysX, you need top of the line GTX480/570/580. Yes, it is creepy, it scared the crap out of me. There is a demo available, why don't you give it a try?

Yes, just don't touch DoF and leave it on AAA.

Stands for Analytical Anti Aliasing, it's just a system they use for basic AA. The only other option is 4xMSAA and that's pretty harsh. DoF = Depth of Field. For me with CF 5850s I could do either DoF+AAA, or no DoF + 4xMSAA. With both my FPS plumetted to around 8 lol, I guess it went over my 1gb VRAM.

Sounds like Crysis 2 won't be worth playing. Isn't the point graphics so amazing and demanding that I cannot play it on higher than medium settings? I do want decent gameplay, but if I want story I'll just play Mass Effect 2.

[quotemsg=for very high with tesselation and DOF I think tri sli 580s may do the job[/quotemsg]

Ahh nope I dont think so!