[Maximus3D]

It's about 20 hours left until this baby is out

http://www.crysisdemo.com/

Be sure to grab the demo when it's released and blast some aliens back to the stoneage.

/ Max

[sandykoufax]

Required system spec. is awesome.

Someone who has good system could be happy with the cool game during this weekend.

[ludi]

yeahh, I long for

[b-kandor]

I modified one of my systems for bioshock and crysis a couple of months ago -

I took my oc'd e6300 and added an 8800gts w/640 and a creative x-fi xtreme gamer card. It allows high settings at 1600x1200 so far for everything I've tried....

[b-kandor]

So it sounds like if you don't play crysis on vista you wont get in game physics and day/night cycling? It's confusing because they say there is a dx9 and dx10 version. I have a dx10 card but I'm running winxp for compatability - xp only supports dx9 so does that mean the game is limited by the os or the card?

[numerobis]

yes...
there was a comparison of dx9 and 10 look some months ago - dx9 isn't bad, but it's not THE crysis look. you need dx10, so you need vista.
there is an open source team that tries to port dx10 to xp, but i don't know if and when this could be done. we'll see.
i thought i could stay with xp and wouldn't have to use this vista drm sh*t - but looking at crysis and the faster render speeds i think i'll have no choice...

[Maximus3D]

Although there been reports from the early birds trying out the demo on both XP32 and Vista32 that they get double the framerate in XP32 compared to Vista32 with the same settings on both systems. That's obviously not very good..

But we'll see, Nvidia just released a new betadriver adapted for the Crysis demo so maybe it helps a bit.

/ Max

[Carl007]

I sure hope for that open source team to succeed.

[b-kandor]

yes...
there was a comparison of dx9 and 10 look some months ago - dx9 isn't bad, but it's not THE crysis look. you need dx10, so you need vista.
there is an open source team that tries to port dx10 to xp, but i don't know if and when this could be done. we'll see.
i thought i could stay with xp and wouldn't have to use this vista drm sh*t - but looking at crysis and the faster render speeds i think i'll have no choice...

Thanks for the info, I'll have to install vista for tree chopping apparently - but it looks worth it However, I think vista will mess with my bf2142 experience?

[Maximus3D]

And the demo is out!! someone jumped the gun and released it earlier than they were supposed to and now it's all over the web so go and grab it now.

/ Max

[b-kandor]

Where is 'all over'?

[Maximus3D]

Oops! sorry, but you can find it on Fileshack and on EA's server. Or just do a Google and you find some torrent links with the demo, be careful so you won't select the wrong one.

Here's where i'm grabbing it from now. http://na.llnet.cdn.ea.com/u/demos/Crysis_SP_Demo.exe

/ Max

[b-kandor]

Thanks for the link Max, that's much faster than a torrent!

[ludi]

thanks to our swedish sentinel

[b-kandor]

I tried it and was suprised that:

with a e6300 oc'd to 3.2ghz, 4gb's of ddr2800 (4,4,4,15) and an 8800gts w/640mb

I got 20fps with everything on high at 1280x1024. That was with 4x AA. I'll try later with no AA and see if there is a difference. But man, this thing needs a fast computer and sli by the looks of it!

The underbrush is awesome!