because pre-rendering has a rather nasty difference in quality, and can consume data space pretty quickly? (Oh, and most of the time it creates "breaks", like it or not!)

That said, pre-rendered would at least let you hit escape to skip it!

hahah, I just edited the config files to give me unlimited health and suit energy, then went around breaking buildings in two and smashing people four feet with melee using strength

also, dual pistols with laser pointers and silencers = awesome

The real challange is to defeat the demo on delta mode without firing a single shot, tranquilizer or otherwise. (and of course completing the secondary objective aswell)
Took me quite a bit and requires some interesting routes and enemy evasion tactics.
But its truly a lot of fun and keeps the adrenaline flowing.

Anyone else has done this?

I've done it on Delta using *mostly* tranqs (though I also put one in the head afterwards to prevent them from getting back up), but in a few places where I slipped up and they set off flares I had to bring out the big guns

Gamespot did a nice comparison of XP High/Very and Vista Very High settings, lots of images to look at.

One thing of note:

"Crysis will most definitely join our stable of benchmarks for a long time to come. The very high quality settings in Windows Vista thrashed our GeForce 8800 GTX when we tried running it at high resolutions. Frame rate performance kept doubling once we lowered the quality settings to high, medium, and low. "

Look at the purdy pictures here!

BTW, I forgot to give you my system specs when I gave the benchie:

AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600+ 2.41GHz
4X 512MB DDR2 533 RAM
Geforce 8800 GTX
Cruddy HP HD left over from an old computer, SATA2 with (I think) 7000 RPM.

Gamespot's 9.5 review

Good stuff to say about the game, that's for sure

they said

I got a high-end system for sure, but in the demo it was a kitten

so i wonder if the game will be running better in the full version as it should have the multi core option enabled

That, and they also said to make it on ultra high you'd have to drop the resolution.. which may not be worth it since even with high AA low res on large monitors looks crappy

On guru3d.com i read that they have planes on releasing a patch that will increase the performance by 40-50%.

Well im gonna wait see how it turns out.

Huzzah, that would be awesometastic You going to get the game? Would be great running around in MP and on your TS server The power struggle MP mode is a hell of a lot of fun, too

Btw, can you link to that site where it says they have plans for a performance patch?

this is where i got the info http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=243829

As I understand that post, he meant that running an SLI setup will increase Crysis performance 40-50%, not the patch itself.. though he did mention a performance patch. We shall see

Yeah, running the game on medium with no AA on a high end PC is unacceptable.

So for me it sounds far from being optimized, which i see around the net that im not the only one thinking that.

Depends. I don't think it's fully optimized either, but you also have to consider that most FPS have pretty small maps overall, and most of them are inside buildings and such. As someone mentioned in that thread, Crysis maps are what, 10 square miles? That's very ambitious, and it means the card needs to render tons more stuff than most FPS games do.

Using a little command for called -DX9 increases the performance insanely much
ofcourse its DX9 then, but to me it looks almost the same, so now i just gotta find the mod for better textures.

Driver 169.04
Settings:
Running Crysis 64bit
1680x1050
AA None

!TimeDemo Run 0 Finished.
Play Time: 68.50s, Average FPS: 29.20
Min FPS: 20.21 at frame 1952, Max FPS: 36.54 at frame 973
Average Tri/Sec: -27619754, Tri/Frame: -946018
Recorded/Played Tris ratio: -0.97
!TimeDemo Run 1 Finished.
Play Time: 72.53s, Average FPS: 27.57
Min FPS: 14.46 at frame 154, Max FPS: 38.20 at frame 999
Average Tri/Sec: -25752070, Tri/Frame: -933940
Recorded/Played Tris ratio: -0.98
!TimeDemo Run 2 Finished.
Play Time: 74.69s, Average FPS: 26.78
Min FPS: 14.36 at frame 146, Max FPS: 38.20 at frame 999
Average Tri/Sec: -25022316, Tri/Frame: -934509
Recorded/Played Tris ratio: -0.98

It's not a mod, it's changing a line in a config file. I think Gamespot mentioned what it is in that screenshot comparison link I posted earlier in this thread.

Or better yet: Here

heres how to change the settings http://www.crysis-online.com/forum/index.php?topic=11837.0#msg203789

and it looks as good as DX10 now i can run the game at 1680x1050 AA on 8

So, now that we know the game is beautiful and requires a monster machine to run, what can be said about the gameplay?

In two words: damned fun.

I don't remember the last time I had that much fun with an FPS. The AI is very well done! You try to approach a position defended by a stationary 50 cal machine gun, take some potshots, and if you hide they'll lay down a supressing fire on the rock/tree behind which you hid so if you stick your head out you'll likely catch a bullet (as a tangent, it's awesome seeing branches and leaves shot up by bullets! On bushes, the small branches will recoil from the bullet impacts and you can see leaves fly off, it's amazing). If you engage a patrol and hide, they split up and try to flank you from several directions. So many times now I killed a guy and hid, sticking my head out and waiting for the rest of them to come into the field of view from behind that one rock or tree.. only to either take a grenade from the side, or get shot from the back. Oh and they know how to throw grenades. If they see you running behind that rock, don't get too comfy sitting around waiting for your shield/health to recharge, because you'll be eating a grenade in a few seconds.

It's especially amazingly fun playing on the Delta difficulty, where you don't get grenade indicators on your HUD, and you have no crosshairs (need to toggle aim/laser pointer/scope if you don't want to guess where you're shooting. I love how they did the difficulties. They didn't make baddies take twice as many bullets to die, they just took away things that made killing them easy

I haven't gotten too far yet (thrice cursed work!), but the story so far picks up pretty quick, and gives you a pretty good feeling of suspense. Actually, it wouldn't be unfair to compare it to Predator Group of guys get dropped into a jungle, and pretty quickly realize just how screwed they are Combine that with being able to chop down trees with machine gun fire and grenades (I still love that scene from the Predator.. must get minigun in Crysis!), it's just an awesome game experience all around.

If your PCs can run the game, and you don't hate FPS games altogether, you will probably enjoy this gem

My comp doesnt have enough power to play this game, so I just tourture myself reading all these reviews...


Depression, here I come.....

In two words: won't run.

The darned DVD and my drive don't seem to be very compatable -- I had to fiddle around with them to get the drive to read it, and it "lost" it after the install. I'm trying to copy the disk to my drive now, see if I can run it using a disk emulator, but I'm not very hopeful.

Ouch, that's no fun. But if you do make a disc image and mount with D-tools, it should work. At worst you'd need to get a cracked exe if it checks for the disk, which will make patching difficult, but doable..

D-tools?

And I hate using cracks. I'm probably going to do so, but I hate it.

Edit: oh, daemon!

I can't wait till I get my computer up and running and upgrade to an 8800 GT (evga rules!) It should be a lot of fun.

So I just finished it.. and man, what can I say, I don't remember the last time I had so much fun in an FPS.

Multi, I don't think it was a bad ending by far.. it's perfect for setting up a sequel or expansion. Makes me think of this as a 'chapter' in a greater story, which is awesome.

The last level is amazing, but it was given away in the very first Crysis promo movies that started to come out ages ago