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Can Consoles Run Crysis?

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"It's just over two years since CryTek released its astonishing first-person shooter Crysis, and despite enormous technological leaps in the PC space, it remains the single most important game available for testing graphical performance. At maximum settings, even the most powerful available combination of CPU and GPU still cannot run this game at 1080p with a sustained, v-synced, 60 frames per second."

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Bodyboarder_VGamer6021d ago

At a low setting yes, at a max setting obviously no. Console gaming it still struggling to run games on 720p at 60fps while on PC you can play them at 120fps and 1200resolution... That's higher than both the 60fps and 1080p that consoles can produce and lets not even talk about the texture quality and physics.

Fishy Fingers6021d ago (Edited 6021d ago )

True, but Crysis is a different beast to most PC games, very few people get to experience the game at anywhere near max settings, let alone with 60FPS. In fact I dont think there is a single GPU available on the market today that can handle the game at 1080 with a stable 30+ FPS. Hence Crysis becoming a benchmark first, game second.

Still, I'm one of the fortunate few who can run the game a high settings, a good resolution and stable frame rate, and while I know a lot of people here at N4G wont like to believe it, but it looks better on my rig than anything the consoles have brought to the table (yet at least), but the consoles do offer more "bang for your buck", which helps towards their popularity.

Cosquae6021d ago (Edited 6021d ago )

It's true that Crysis does stand apart from other games in terms of system requirements (though it is possible for 30+FPS @ 1080p, but not 60+FPS on current single GPUs according to the article).

The article itself is interesting to see how well current consoles would deal with Crysis 1 (around medium settings, 720p, 15-30fps) but in none of the screen grabs did I see any people, only environment. I wonder how they would cope when the bullets start flying.

Not that this is knocking consoles. Anyone who's played the game will know that it still looks very good at medium settings, though the loss of global illumination would be noticable.

Darkeyes6021d ago

That is why people should take the tech demos of CE3 with a pinch of salt... The demo showed phenomenal graphics for consoles, I admit (even beating UC2 and KZ2), but realistically speaking, the games didn't even run at a constant 20FPS + without any AI and absolutely nothing but just you roaming around.

Tech demos are always like these where the frame rates are cut down considerably and all people go hooo haa when they see it, but the final product disappoints. Not saying CE3 won't be good, in fact it's might be the best multi-plat engine out there, but don't raise your hopes to seeing anything that looks as good as the demos shown at E3 especially since the demos also didn't use AA... Expect games to use it and BAM there goes the dream for PC graphics.

As far as Crysis is concerned, the max I have seen it is at 48FPS with the latest ATI 5970 card. My own Nvidia chokes at an abysmal 20FPS at very high and have to cut down on AA to make it playable. The max you can expect from consoles is medium settings on PC.... Only exclusives utilizing the console can come near Crysis on PC (that too not too much near)... Sorry but thats the truth.

STONEY46021d ago

"In fact I dont think there is a single GPU available on the market today that can handle the game at 1080 with a stable 30+ FPS."

HD5870 can, and I think the GTX285 can too.

Cosquae6021d ago

Yup, the top of the line single GPUs can run it close to 60FPS. Looking forward to seeing what Fermi can do early next year.

And of course, for the financially comfortable, there's always SLI, Crossfire or 2 into 1 cards (295 or the X2 series), for when 60 FPS just isn't enough...

OpenGL6021d ago (Edited 6021d ago )

I own the 5870 and it is not fast enough to run Crysis at 60fps at any resolution I've tried from 1920x1200 to 1280x1024 with antialiasing disabled. At 1920x1200 it only runs around 30-40fps. This is in Windows 7 with a Phenom II 955 @ 3.6GHz with 4GB of DDR3.

Perjoss6021d ago

sorry, Crysis does not look 'very good' on medium settings. Even if you go from Very High down to High you see big differences in every department (shadows, lighting, texture quality, poly count, the list goes on). The xbox360 is over 4 years old and the ps3 is only a year younger than that. Reasonably priced PCs are only srating to run Crysis fully maxed now, so there is no way that old tech can keep up with that.

Make no mistake, the console version of Crysis that is in development might look very nice, but it will no way look anything near as good as PC Crysis 1. Anyone who has played and finished the game on a nice machine will know exactly what I'm talking about.

badz1496021d ago

"how well can consoles run Crysis?"

y0haN6021d ago

FishyFingers the HD 5970 is sold as a single GPU, and that destroys Crysis compared to other cards.

champ216020d ago

5970 on my system.. runs crysis @60fps 1920*1200 4xaa

anyother game pretty much runs near 200fps :P

free2game3656020d ago

@badz149
they can't, because of lack of memory

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thehitman6021d ago

is set for 360/PC/PS3 release

Pandamobile6021d ago

Yes, but the engine has been massively scaled back to work on console hardware.

YoungKiller256020d ago

no the engine has been massively tweaked to gain the availability to scale it down for consoles.

it will be better than crysis 1 if you own a REALLY EXPENSIVE PC

free2game3656020d ago

The engine hasn't been "scaled back" the level design has.

Pandamobile6020d ago

scaled back = scaled down. You just reworded what I has said.

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PISSIO6021d ago

b.b.b.b.uutt PS3 HAZ 1080p 120fps!!!!!1111 60 framz zx zcond!!11

Fishy Fingers6021d ago

It could, as could the 360, or in fact even the Wii if the game were basic enough. Pong for example.

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Can you run Crysis in VR? Crysis VR Mod Available for Download

Holger Frydrych has just released a cool VR Mod for the 2007 version of Crytek's first-person shooter, Crysis.

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PrinceOfAnger491d ago (Edited 491d ago )

Playing it right now looks amazing! :D
so much fun, i hope they make a vr mod for crysis 2 / 3 too!

DivineHand125490d ago

This is amazing. This is the direction VR should go in to boost adoption. Since I have beaten every Crysis except 1, this is now a good excuse to correct that problem.

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Crytek Wanted Crysis To Be "Future-Proof"

According to Crytek CEO Cervat Yerli, "I want[ed] to make sure Crysis does not age, that [it] is future proofed, meaning that if I played it three years from now, it should look better than today." Yerli and the team designed Crysis' highest graphical settings for the PC hardware of 2010 and beyond.

While Crytek has officially announced Crysis 4 is in development, nothing new has surfaced. For now, gamers' only way to scratch that itch is to play the Crysis Remastered Trilogy available on PC and consoles.

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RaidenBlack495d ago

OG 2007 Crysis (not the remastered weirdo), is & will forever be a legend amongst the PC community.

PrinceOfAnger495d ago

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-...

RaidenBlack495d ago

OG Crysis physics, man ... amazing! Thanks for the reminder!

PrinceOfAnger494d ago (Edited 494d ago )

Looks really nice with VR mod too

FinalFantasyFanatic494d ago

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

Profchaos494d ago

I thought the remaster was fine tbh some rough edges at launch but after some patches it's decent

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isarai495d ago

I mean the lighting and physics still hold up extremely well. I still revisit it from time to time.

RedDeadLB494d ago

That CPU performance thing is preventing it.

isarai494d ago

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

DivineHand125494d ago

I remember when I tried to play Crysis with my Intel Pentium Dual core E2200 @2.2GHz , 4GB ram and GeForce 9400gt. I was a kid back then and that was the best I could do. I would get about 15 to 20 fps. When I over clocked the CPU to 2.8GHz I would get about 40fps. The experience wasn't good at all and it was the only PC game I could not run back then unless and put the settings on low. At that point the game went from cutting edge graphics to PS2 graphics. To this day I haven't completed the OG Crysis. I was able to complete Crysis 2 and 3 after building a new PC when I got my first job.

HyperMoused494d ago

Never played it, worth a try you think?

Profchaos494d ago (Edited 494d ago )

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

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Crytek went so overboard on the Crysis tech and sent devs to photograph leaves in Haiti

"The shader work that came out of this was mind-blowing at times."

RaidenBlack507d ago

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

vTuro24507d ago

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

RaidenBlack507d ago

Hope they try to pour nearly same amount of dedication to the new Crysis 4

DefenderOfDoom2507d ago

Well worth the extra work ! I enjoyed all 3 Crisis games and would also love a new one .

JunonZanon507d ago (Edited 507d ago )

Still wish game development was overall this passionate and minutious about their projects. Obviously, there are still some great studios as exceptions.

LikAChicken506d ago

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.

DivineHand125506d ago

I haven't beaten the first Crysis but I did play Crysis 2 and Crysis 3. I know some PC players were annoyed by the last 2 games being developed with consoles in mind but I believe it was an improvement. I had a great time with Crysis 3 to the point where I believe it was too short.