Buzz Out Loud Lounge: Crysis = awful coding?
Ohh but it would...
by Nicholas Buenk - 7/25/08 7:42 PM In reply to: Poor choice then? by thegibsonGet the electric cars on the market, and they'll keep being able to sell them as the infrastructure is built. I think Crysis handled it perfectly. They delivered to gamers the most advanced 3d engine. And people will keep buying the game as the hardware catches up.
Get the electric cars on the market, and they'll keep being
by R. Proffitt
- 7/26/08 8:15 AM
In reply to: Ohh but it would... by Nicholas Buenk
"Get the electric cars on the market, and they'll keep being able to sell them as the infrastructure is built."
This myth needs to be squashed. Every home I've lived in has the plug needed to recharge. Also, gas stations were not built before the current gas consuming cars hit the (?) road.
Usually...
by Nicholas Buenk - 7/26/08 8:28 AM In reply to: Get the electric cars on the market, and they'll keep being by R. Proffitt
The chicken and the egg need to develop concurrently. 
And look to the past for the answer.
by R. Proffitt - 7/26/08 8:30 AM
In reply to: Usually... by Nicholas Buenk
Gas stations didn't happen first. A quick look found those started appearing decades after.
You read the article about....
by Nicholas Buenk - 7/26/08 8:40 AM In reply to: And look to the past for the answer. by R. Proffitt
The british tesla competitor with the 10 minute recharge time? But it needs a 3 phase industrial power supply to achieve that.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17912_3-9997197-72.html
This will recharge from homes, but will need more infrastructure for fast recharge.
Still, I think internal combustion is dead.
No....
by Nicholas Buenk - 7/25/08 2:14 AM In reply to: Crysis = awful coding? by thegibsonAt launch maybe. But Crysis plays fine on mid-range 2008 graphic cards. A $150 graphics card should be enough to put the quality to high.
They made the right choice, aimed the game at the future, and people will keep playing the game for longer than would be usual.
Stop perpetuating the myth.
by themasquerade1013 - 7/25/08 7:32 AM In reply to: Crysis = awful coding? by thegibson<i>I keep hearing about how Crysis is so advanced and ahead of its time that it can only be played the most expensive computers with duel SLI cards and twelve gigs of RAM on a quad-core blah blah blah.</i>
Seriously. This kind of over-exaggeration is what created the myth in the first place.
Myth?
by thegibson - 7/25/08 12:31 PM In reply to: Stop perpetuating the myth. by themasquerade1013Sorry, myth? A little hyperbole maybe... but not much...
http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3163542
Minimum System Requirements
* OS - Windows XP or Windows Vista
* Processor - 2.8 GHz or faster (XP) or 3.2 GHz or faster* (Vista)
* Memory - 1.0 GB RAM (XP) or 1.5 GB RAM (Vista)
* Video Card -256 MB**
* Hard Drive - 12GB
* Sound Card - DirectX 9.0c compatible
Recommended System Requirements
* OS - Windows XP / Vista
* Processor - Intel Core 2 DUO @ 2.2GHz or AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+
* Memory - 2.0 GB RAM
* GPU - NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS/640 or similar
EXTREME TECH: http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2222410,00.asp
"Crysis supports DirectX 10 (as well as DX9), and at its highest quality settings, it's able to push modern hardware so hard that almost nothing short of an overclocked dual-graphics system can run the game at its maximum settings without turning into a slideshow."
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by Nicholas Buenk - 7/25/08 7:43 PM In reply to: Myth? by thegibsonA modern computer.
None of that hardware you list above is anything special or that expensive, it's just new.
Your right...
by themasquerade1013 - 7/29/08 10:07 AM In reply to: Myth? by thegibson12 gigs of ram is in no way an exaggeration. ...seriously.
ooookay....
by thegibson - 7/29/08 11:55 AM In reply to: Your right... by themasquerade1013I said I used hyperbole. Look it up.
Times have changed. Let me share...
by R. Proffitt - 7/25/08 8:02 AM
In reply to: Crysis = awful coding? by thegibson
Many machines could get a huge boost in the graphics speed for not as much as you suspect. Let me share that even the under 100 buck card you find at Tomshardware.com's "Best Video Card for the Money" which is updated monthly may be many times faster than what a machine came with. Here's the link -> http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-graphics-cards,1965.html
Del.icio.us'd!
by thegibson - 7/25/08 12:44 PM In reply to: Times have changed. Let me share... by R. Proffitt
Thanks. This will come in handy some day soon.
volumetric slowdowns
by MikeThinks - 7/25/08 8:59 PM In reply to: Crysis = awful coding? by thegibsonA huge portion of the Crysis slowdowns are volumetric smoke. I can play the game w/ everything on high until I get to a few scenes that have the volumetric smoke/fog. The two areas that were bad for me were a warehouse near the docs, and the cave where the cold blast is initiated.
6600 quad core OC 3.1 ghz
4 gigs ram
geforce 8800gt
Yeah
by Nicholas Buenk - 7/25/08 9:55 PM In reply to: volumetric slowdowns by MikeThinksI think that's true for most games. Smoke is always slow, I wonder why.
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