crysis....whats the point?

so I downloaded the demo figuring I could at least play it on medium settings. I have 3gigs of ram and 7800 series nvidia graphics card and a 2.8ghz processor. plenty for most games. I was barely able to play it with everything on low.Now, im not saying that this game isnt a great game, however, i fail to see the point of it. im not particully impressed with it on a technical stand point. What impressed me is how doom 3 can run smooth as silk with everything on high on my older computer. that to me, is a technical achievement (too bad it wasnt that great of a game).its not particulary hard to make a game with great graphics and audio, realistic physics and etc. the challenge is to make it playable. so I dont see the point. why buy a game that I wont be able to play near its full potential untill another 2 years, unless I spend some serious money upgrading and whatever. but how many people truly are gonna spend thousands of dollars for one particular game? can someone explain to me who the developers are targeting as buyers?crysis....whats the point?
I feel the same way... Crysis looks really good maxed out, but on lower settings it looks pretty bad. :?crysis....whats the point?
i think there is a problem with your computer. I have an x800pro, 1gig of ram, and a p4 3.2ghz, and i can play this on medium with a good framerate.
I feel the gameplay is a cross between BF2 ...add in the super suit from Half Life and you have crysis. People that have a UBER PC and like to look at pretty water, grass and trees will have a blast though.
THeres a definite problem because I can plat at medium, decent framerate, geforce 7600GT, 2.5GB RAM
Style over substance I suppose.Also, you can't say graphic setting playability without listing resolution.
I feel the same way as well but get ready to get attack by the ppl who O so ran this as smooth as silk on 1024x768 monitors on high. Really dissapointed atm with Crysis. The visuals just dont give the gameplay justice and it feels as if I play this game already Idk why.
Idunno about that, i saw some pics of someone who played it with a 6600 and it looked all right to me. A 7800 should be all right.A few tips, however:
If you have AA on, turn it off.
If you have shadows on high, turn them to low or medium
Turn particles and post processing to low or medium
Water quality to low or medium
Physics to medium

And what resolution are you at? If youre used to 1440x900 or whatever it is, you might need to take it down a notch. For gits and shiggles I took it down to 1280x720 (way lower than the 1680x1050 I play at now) with medium settings and it looks fantastic.besides, the gameplay is the great thing here and Crysis definately has above-average gameplay. Its not revolutionary, but its definately better gameplay than Quake 4, Doom 3, Prey, and Far Cry.

I have a 1900gt, gig of ram, and a C2D and able to play it on mid settings, you should be getting mid settings.
Dude i think the problem is in your pc i played Bioshock on AMD 64 3000+ 1GB RAM GF 7100GS512
Played bioshock and crysis on medium
[QUOTE=''smellati''] so I downloaded the demo figuring I could at least play it on medium settings. I have 3gigs of ram and 7800 series nvidia graphics card and a 2.8ghz processor. plenty for most games. I was barely able to play it with everything on low. [/quote]How old is the 7800 now? Two and a half years old? That's pretty old. I've never had a GPU for more than two years, and I would never expect a card from mid 2005ish to perform adequately with a full blown high end numbercruncher from 2007. That's like expecting solid performance in Doom 3 from a Geforce 3.[QUOTE=''smellati''] Now, im not saying that this game isnt a great game, however, i fail to see the point of it. im not particully impressed with it on a technical stand point. What impressed me is how doom 3 can run smooth as silk with everything on high on my older computer. that to me, is a technical achievement (too bad it wasnt that great of a game).its not particulary hard to make a game with great graphics and audio, realistic physics and etc. the challenge is to make it playable.[/quote]It's important when judging Crysis to remember that the game has an extremely long draw distance, literally several hundred times that of Doom 3. And that puts a serious strain on the hardware.[QUOTE=''smellati'']so I dont see the point. why buy a game that I wont be able to play near its full potential untill another 2 years, unless I spend some serious money upgrading and whatever. but how many people truly are gonna spend thousands of dollars for one particular game? can someone explain to me who the developers are targeting as buyers?[/QUOTE]A lot of people have machines that can play Crysis on High/Very High - and plenty of people have machines that can run it on medium and low, and are willing to do so. It's true that the CryEngine 2 is ahead of the hardware, I think someone at Crytek said it has about 1.5 years of futureproofing to it. But at the same time, yeah, plenty of people can play it on high settings - I play it with everything on high @ 1600x1200 without a hitch. There is a large target audience.
In short,poorly optimized games are fail.
I have a Athlon 64 X2 4200+ 2.2GHz Dual-Core, 1gig ram, 7600GT, and Vista x64 and I play the Crysis Demo on all Medium settings, Water and Shaders on high and it runs and looks good...
I totaly agree .... %26 thats the main reasson that developers like VALVe , Epic , ID + many others do deserve the big bucks but olso theiyr work to make a game superb in all factors ... story , gameplay , graphics ! I have 2900 XT %26 it runs superb 1280 avg framerate 40 ....but the gameplay %26 story are over uses ...alien invasion , conflict between countries ..... %26 the nano suit %26 weapons are all taken from 3 games HALO (not a fan ) , HALF-LIFE( greatest fan ) %26 STALKER( fan ) :D ...evan that great A.I. that CyteK made is just to weak agaisnt your abilities ....%26 yes i played the game on medium %26 hard dificulty !
[QUOTE=''Matt60276789'']I have a Athlon 64 X2 4200+ 2.2GHz Dual-Core, 1gig ram, 7600GT, and Vista x64 and I play the Crysis Demo on all Medium settings, Water and Shaders on high and it runs and looks good...[/QUOTE] Resolution?
Im just wondering how much money they are gonna get out of this game. I mean i know it sucks but console games sadly gives the game companies more money today, and now here you have crysis, and pc only game which is great i think, but its almost also high end compuer only game.I cant even play it on low and get a smooth frame rate, and i max out games like fear with ease.
Well they are obviously targeting high-end PC owners, most of them will prolly pick this game up at some point and that should be enough to cover their costs, low end PC owners are just gonna have to wait 'till they upgrade. I'm still only downloading it but I doubt I'll be able to play it beyond low @1280x720 res, which just isn't gonna cut it for me. I'm not a graphics whore so I'm not bothered if I just had to turn down the settings to med and some even low, it's the low res and framerate that bugs me, it seems that barely anyone can play it on a decent res @30fps, and I just don't like streched image, especially when it's combined with a choppy framerate.And people, when you mention the settings you're running games mention the resolution as well, there is a massive difference between playing Crysis med settings on 1024res and playing it on med settings at 1680res.
[QUOTE=''Indestructible2''][QUOTE=''Matt60276789'']I have a Athlon 64 X2 4200+ 2.2GHz Dual-Core, 1gig ram, 7600GT, and Vista x64 and I play the Crysis Demo on all Medium settings, Water and Shaders on high and it runs and looks good...[/QUOTE] Resolution?[/QUOTE] 1024 x 768 I don't have a big LCD fancy monitor or anything. It still looks good. Good enough for me anyways.
Two steps defrag enjoySeriously Crysis looks better than any game i ve played on medium settings 1024X768, with a core 2 due e6400 1gb ram and 7900gs and looked bettert than any game i played before, (and ran smoother than fear) and the gameplay is just... perfect, icant just imagine a better game combining hollywood like sequences and so much freedom. If it doesnt get a better score than halo3 ill kill myself (or sb else) I cant imagine how good itll look when i upgrade...