Comments on: Crytek: Warhead will run at high settings on a €400 PC

By: wz

wz — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:16:30 +0000

Lost and found: Another “0″.

By: morriss

morriss — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:31:07 +0000

Got an old Dreamcast too.

By: ecu

ecu — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:26:32 +0000

I’m planning to get a new computer soon, so I figured it’d be really cheap to be able to build a rig that could comfortably run Crysis, since it’s been out for a while. That still doesn’t seem to be the case, though! Looks like I’ll have to break the bank to get it running well, which is a shame. I might not even bother yet, I should probably wait another 6 months at least.

By: morriss

morriss — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:53:24 +0000

I’ve got a PS3, 360, Wii and PSP.

By: Killerbee

Killerbee — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:30:31 +0000

I played Crysis on Vista DX10 with a Q6600 (stock speed), two 8800GT cards in SLI and 3GB of 800Mhz RAM and, as I said in my post above, it ran smoothly at 1280×1024 with everything on Very High (no Anti-Aliasing) right up until the bit after the mountain (about 2/3 of the way through the game). After that it got a bit choppy, so I put the resolution down to 1024×768 and that saw me through to the end.

The thing to do with Crysis is not get too hung up about matching your monitor’s native resolution – it’s far better to play it on High or Very High with a lower resolution than to drop the detail settings (imho).

With just the one 8800GT you might lose a handful of frames per second compared to SLI, but it should still be playable. If not, just lower the resolution a notch further and you should be good to go.

By: OrphanageExplosion

OrphanageExplosion — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:55:25 +0000

So what can my Q6600/8800GT system do with Crysis? I only ask as my QX6850 with 1900XTX can still barely run it at medium settings at 1440×900.

By: pjmaybe

pjmaybe — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:14:31 +0000

Given Crytek’s recent stance on nothing being PC exclusive after Warhead, my guess is they’re gearing up for the big dumbdown.

It doesn’t really bother me. My rig runs Crysis just fine, and should run this like a dream. But it’s nice to have something out there that is so ludicrously over the top specs wise to give people something to aim at, at least…

By: Killerbee

Killerbee — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:26:37 +0000

I guess this is good news – as long as they haven’t sacrificed the quality of the graphics for those of us who did manage to play most of Crysis with everything on “Very High” settings (albeit at a 1280×1024 resolution).

By: Whizzo

Whizzo — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 11:46:49 +0000

When PC Zone’s preview turns up on C&VG it’ll say the same thing, Warhead runs on lower spec kit than Crysis did by the evidence of their playing it.

By: Psychotext

Psychotext — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 11:23:24 +0000

Maybe he meant €400 graphics card? =)

Either that or they’ve changed “high” settings to be equal to the old low and included “even higher”, “stupidly high” and “don’t even try to run this” settings.

By: pjmaybe

pjmaybe — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 11:18:03 +0000

Nup just all the bits from my previous machine

So really it didn’t cost me much more than £400

(in all seriousness though, if that’s correct then Crytek really have gone down the route of turning everything console friendly because there’s no fucking way the original crysis would run sweetly on a cheapo low spec PC. Not looking anything like those screenies from yesterday anyway)

By: Psychotext

Psychotext — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 11:13:02 +0000

At 640 x 480… yeah.

And PJ. You paid ~£300 for a “quad core beast”? That’s enough to cover the motherboard, the CPU and some ram. What did you do for the rest of the machine, use cardboard?

By: pjmaybe

pjmaybe — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 11:06:06 +0000

He’s right, my PC (a behemoth quad core beast) cost about that…

By: Robo_1

Robo_1 — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 11:03:51 +0000

Optimisation FTW!