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And I sit here on a 900mhz computer which can`t even handle ffp effects right -_-
I am going to test it in two weeks...^^
And I think about buying vista until than to test it as well as some other stuff with DX10
But I`ll see.

Oh my god this is such a fuckin nice game with soooo fuckin [censored] [censored] nice graphics.
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Wow, I'll buy this game for sure, I never played such a well made game. Everything is fitting, the awesome graphics, the dramatic clips, the action loaded gameplay, ...

And I just tried the Sandbox 2 Editor. WED is cooler

@ D3D:

Great link

@ TWO:

I can only confirm

Cheers

Frazzle

I checked it as well. If I come to the beach where all the huts and vehicles are then it looks very flat and bad lighted with medium settings. But if I switch shaders and textures to high (all the other settings still medium) it becomes very slow and I have a DX 10 graphics card:

GeForce 8600 GTS (512 MB)
Athlon 64 3200+
1 GB RAM

If I set it to medium then it plays very well but it looks even worse than FarCry. So I will not buy it.

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I've got a 7900GTX, P4D @ ~ 3.9, 2G DDR2 and on high it runs with 20 FPS and looks so freakin amazing. On medium it's smooth and looks ok too. Worser than FarCry? You should test if you graphics card is broken

Edit: I'm sure the game is so slow because of your cpu, or in the words of my friend "3200er schimmelt doch schon". The AI and physics need much power.

yes. I think GPU is okay. Maybe it is really the CPU.

But really, look at the huts, barrels and all that stuff in medium quality. It is evenly lit, has no shadows. FarCry provides better graphics on my system.

So I have to wait for a new PC anytime in the future. It is no fun in medium quality for me.

There's a huge difference between the 8600 GTS and the 8800 GTS when it comes to performance too, so I think it's both the GPU and CPU actually. Still... the minimal specs say a 8600GTS should be sufficient for DirectX10, so I would expect it to run better..

Cheers

Frank on medium everything has shadows Well, at least in the Dx9 version.

Maybe it's due to problems in DX10? I know when I installed Vista on my other computer and installed Bioshock it looked worse than it did on XP with DX9 for instance. I can only play Crysis in high mode with my newest computer and card. Everything on medium and it runs very smooth on lower specs too.

... but in any of those cases the scalability of this engine is not very good compared to id-Tech or Unreal technology.

Even though I find the graphics nice, it's not what I find most breath taking (well, the shadows are nice). What amazes me most is the world objects interaction and physics...the way one moves...and how the sounds work...

I don't care that much about graphics. With medium details (dx9) turned on it looks a little better than Far Cry, only more detailed but it is the small things I like: mud and rain drops on the screen and the post processing effects in general.

I like the style of the demo (and hopefully game?) that is more military and squad based than the "lonewulf" far cry way (makes the game feel more real). Too bad the demo was that short...

low settings and high settings are two totaly different games.

some nice ideas (not new but well added):
+grabing other enemies
+lots of life on the island (animals)
+vegetation rig and collapsing trees
+reinforcement calls

the gfx are not even compareable to what was shown on screenshots, but still very nice and very dense.

lod is irritating a lot, especially on low settings (rocks and walls dissapear infront of soldiers)

i hate switching enemies in games (monsters or aliens). so a big minus point for me.


good and solid shoter game. might be on my budget list next year.

cheers

This is interesting:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=QBgcIfFOJbE

Some people found out that you can just change the config files of crysis to get the same visuals with XP (but even faster) compared to the DX10 version under vista. So is the DX10 version just a fake?
Look at the waves in the video above!

One of the users of this thread wrote:

"So Crytek basically greyed out the very high options under XP, simply because they and their buddies in the industry want us to buy the worthless resource hog that Vista is and the overpriced 8800GTXs. This move on their part is absolutely disgusting. Nothing new of course, but it hurts to see it coming from someone you respected."

Here is the whole story:
http://www.crysis-online.com/forum/index.php?topic=11837.0

I think DX10 isn't even available in this demo yet, but since I haven't tried this demo on Vista yet I don't know..
However if I recall correctly Crytek at some point mentioned a DX10 demo would be out a few days later.

It smells like conspiracy talk, but on the other hand Crytek themselves said already dozens of times that they were going to implement DX10 in Crysis bút that this was not going to mean that Crysis in DX10 would be a whole different game. If you're looking for a DX10 benchmark game Crysis is not it, it's comparable to Lost Planet as far as it's DX10 implementation....

Cheers

The very high screeenshots are absolutly amazing.
But actually I think, that they just didn't want to allow Very High to avoid thousands of users complaining about low fps in the demo And maybe even because it IS a demo and not a full game.


The whole athmosphere is amazing. Not only the Graphics, but also the sound and the animations. The Control of the Nano-Suite is also very innovative.

i'm too occupied with playing stranglehold atm... there are lots of so-called next gen games currently available, aren't there? crysis, enemy territory, stranglehold, bioshock, ut07. wow. we are at the dawn of a new era, or is it just me? games today have a minimum spec of, say 3 - 3.5 GHz CPU, dx9 PS/VS 2B/3, 1 GB+ RAM. aww

isnt it if you have everything on hing and mostin importent shaders on high then you comp while outomatical change it to dx10

looks like a meter for gamestudio from what it is to what i would like it to be

am i the only one who thinks the screenshots look amazing but ingame lots of shadereffects are noisy, edgy and irritating.
the whole vegetation for example is not smooth but very hard edged and fuzzy.
the highlights look great on screenshots but the palms ingame just look... weired.
but who cares about gfx anyway. buy jets and guns gold!


i think the reason for not "allowing" all functions in the demo might be the beta status and probably some errors, missing tests and tweaks.
i doubt they force us to buy vistas dx10 cards with this game. This is halo3´s job


one thing i noticed later one i like a lot and something that shows how much detail and effort they have added to this game: on elite settings you cant understand the enemies if you cant speak korean.

this is just a small thing and might be so unimportant, but this are features i will remember longer then great art and shaders.

aynone plays elite here? and anyone being able to hit enemies further away then 50meters with this settings?
even laying down and under the turtle on the beach, his accuracy is close to a miami quaterback.

i wouldnt mind if the enemy wasnt able to hit me from the other side of the moon, while being beaten with a baseball bat by o.j.simpson and singing the national anthem of bugtswanna.


cheers

94% in Gamestar..

btw: ingame it is MUCH better if you switch everything to very high.. Fantastic.. Tough..yes no very playable fps for me. ^^

Sounds like a great game to buy a year or two from now when you don't need a $4000 PC to run it at 60fps.