Thoughts 07 Dec 2007 09:05 am
Crysis
I had a chance to try the game Crysis on a machine that is very similar to my game machine:
AMD 64 x2 4800
2 gig ram
Radeon X1900XTX 512meg
On board sound card DirectX 9.0c Compatible
Windows XP pro
The minimum hardware requirements listed are:
Intel Pentium 4 2.8 GHz (3.2 GHz for Vista), Intel Core 2.0 GHz (2.2 GHz for Vista), AMD Athlon 2800+ (3200+ for Vista) or better
1GB (1.5GB on Windows Vista)
NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT, ATI Radeon 9800 Pro (Radeon X800 Pro for Vista) or better
256MB of Graphics Memory
DirectX 9.0c Compatible sound card
XP or Vista
Recommended hardware:
Core 2 Duo/Athlon X2 or better
1.5GB
NVIDIA 7800 Series, ATI Radeon 1800 Series or better
512MB of Graphics Memory
DirectX 9.0c Compatible sound card
XP or Vista
We only ran the game for a few of hours and our online research was minimal but this is what we found.
With the setup on his machine we foresaw no problems…… WRONG!
Frame rate dropped to a point in certain scenes, that it felt like I should go out for a cup of coffee while waiting for the next one to load.
We also got the end of level, all objectives met, and no new objectives given bug. They say to restart the level or possibly load a save game from someone else. ——This is not acceptable.
You can tell that there will be a sequel since it never ends. I guess that the programmers are too busy writing that to bother with patches.
On the up side. It sure is purty.
My advice is to wait until the patches are issued and play something like Bioshock until then, but only after you’ve loaded their patches.