Won't be possible on DVD9. It will only work with the power of blu-ray.

I hope u don't mean streaming textures from the disc cos that would suck major donkey balls on the game's performance as the bluray lens speed would seriously bottle neck the rendering speeds with those chunks of textures, it is always fastest and best to read from a physical hdd, why do u think even some of the games on ur precious ps3 request that u copy some files onto the hard drive for optimized gameplay because texture streaming from a br disc isn't a very good idea especially when u have detailed textures like the one's in crysis, if u even said the cell, it wouldn't have sounded too bad/flawed but even then the cell is one hardware unit with a single dye(PPE) emulating 7 other virtual cores(SPES) on silicone physical components, making for a total of 8 APUs on the same dye, so even then, it's abilities are limited even though it has impressive raw power available, processors can only do as much, u can have a quad core overclocked to 8ghz for that matter but without the adequate RAM, the power is held back, it's like having a PH.d College professor writing a long book but not providing him with enough paper and ink so he has the knowledge for the book but not enough resources to put his thoughts into writing to get a finished product, the ram will always be the bottleneck when rendering such a huge map, it's all about ram, because the processor gives instructions and doesn't necessarily store them, that is the RAM's job, and i don't think 512mb will cut it for a pre-rendered map at that size, i even doubt the first level of crysis can be fully loaded into that little RAM,

Edit: @DJ, yes I do know exactly what I'm talking about, console noob,
http://arstechnica.com/arti...

By virtual cores, meaning they are logical cores but not physical cores on one dye like the way the intel/amd processors, the hardware components of the SPEs are physical components but they are not physically designed like cores themselves, but applications would read them to be, in other words, the architecture is translated as an 8 core on the software side, so u have storage logic, control logic and execution logic all being translated by the hardware components of the processor,
"PS3 games typically install some amount of data onto the standard hard drive", isn't that exactly what I said? "why do u think even some of the games on ur precious ps3 request that u copy some files onto the hard drive for optimized gameplay?" or is it the wording? my point is BR may read faster than DVD9 but when the data to be streamed breaches a certain threshold, u are better off doing the streaming on the hard drive, that's why I gave that example of ps3 games copying files to the hard disk, please carefully read before u post a rebuttal,

the moment someone says anything that portrays the ps3 in any negative way in the least, they get tons of disagrees without people actually taking time to read through the post properly, so u end repeating what the other person said

I'm not greedy. I just want to play on a map the size of Rode Island. With a few hundred of my favorite people.

Huge's an understatement, that's universal.

haha yeah your right, i just told a work colleague and his jaw dropped. haha

There was another news on the front page proving that you can run Crysis fairly good on a 900 dollar machine...but yes, rendering a map 458 times bigger than Earth's surface would flatten even the entire army of servers and PCs in existence... ;)

Crytek has achieved a lot, but I can't help but wonder if they could have optimized the bloody engine a little bit better.

When you consider what last gens flagship card were...7800GTX @ 256MB, with these 8800GTX @ 768MB, I can't help but scratch my head at the thought of this monstrosity of a card not running this game well.

Q6600..... 8800ultra
Q6600..... GTX
Q6600..... SLI GTS (640mb)
Q6600..... SLI GT (512mb)

and so on......

None of the above give you stable frame rates at a "respectable" res (1650x1080).
Yes its playable, but is it really Crysis? No.

This video will always be impressive to me, even for years to come. Some things here are better than games we have today, OG crysis is the best version!

https://youtu.be/SVg63_aNr-...

I'm still shocked that it looks as good as it does today, puts some modern games to shame.

Truth has been spoken.

Yeah unfortunately Crystek's decision to bet on the linear progression of clock speed in CPUs was derailed by the unforseen shift towards multicore CPUs. It just wasn't built with that in mind because that wasn't even in the conversation at the moment

Yes.

Worth a try just because it's the only game that lets you pick up a turtle on the beach and throw it at enemy soldiers that should have been a back of the box feature.

But nah seriously unless you're nostalgic for it I'm not sure if it will hold up

Amazing, often misunderstood
The dumb AI was deliberate, so that the players can explore and experiment with the world and all the features.

It really is. Most people only remember it for its graphics but the gameplay was equally amazing.

I agree!

I’ll never forget Far Cry 2 and the amount of details they packed in.

Yea there were some issues with the gameplay loop and the sickness aspect but you could tell they really tried to nail details.