Crysis support thread will your system run it?

[Solaris17]

Official specs


EA and Crytek are finally answering questions about system specs for Crysis with the official minimum and recommended system requirements for the upcoming first-person shooter.

After months of guess work surrounding the system requirements of Crysis, the official specifications were released today. Gamers running Windows Vista will need slightly faster systems with more memory than those still using Windows XP.

Minimum System Requirements
OS Windows XP or Windows Vista
Processor 2.8 GHz or faster (XP) or 3.2 GHz or faster (Vista)
Memory 1.0 GB RAM (XP) or 1.5 GB RAM (Vista)
Video Card 256 MB
Hard Drive 12GB
Sound Card DirectX 9.0c compatible

Supported Processors:
Intel Pentium 4 2.8 GHz (3.2 GHz for Vista) or faster
Intel Core 2.0 GHz (2.2 GHz for Vista) or faster
AMD Athlon 2800+ (3200+ for Vista) or faster.

Supported Video Cards:
NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT or greater; ATI Radeon 9800 Pro (Radeon X800 Pro for Vista) or greater. Laptop versions of these chipsets may work but are not supported. Integrated chipsets are not supported. Updates to your video and sound card drivers may be required.

Recommended System Requirements
OS Windows XP / Vista
Processor Intel Core 2 DUO @ 2.2GHz or AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+
Memory 2.0 GB RAM
GPU NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS/640 or similar


I have a 3ghz dual core brisbane
3gigs of ram
and a 8600GT over volted and OC'd

how do you think ill do?

this thread is for ppl to post their specs so other members to tell them if they can run it decently...i knowby looking at the specs you could tell but maybe not the beta testers come in hany here what r your specs? how did it run?

[Conti027]

do you think i could max it?
also i took off the e6850 mod on my processor so will my e6600 do it?

[JC316]

You should do High settings, 1024x768 Solaris.

conti, you should be fine.

With my system, I should be maxing it out as well, I just hope that it can handle the 1680x1050 resolution that I game at.

[Frick]

I ran the beta 1280*1024 @ medium (when CPU was overclocked to 3Ghz) and it worked perfectly fine. :)

[Darknova]

I played the BETA at 1280x1024 at Maximum.

[rampage]

i played the MP beta 27>40 fps @ 1680x1050, and the beta is without physics and AI and still not fully optimised so it will be interesting to see how the SP demo goes with AI, physics and all its ooohhhh aahhhh stuff enabled ....

[newconroer]

Unless Crysis is the application that really does 'break' hardware... then...your main performance variables will still be:


Resolution
AA
Vsync


But, as always, expect that the minimum requirements are indeed minimum, and the recommended is not near the same as 'optimal;' unless some combination of DX 10 + Vista is going to alleviate previously experienced diminished returns on performance.


E6600 + 8800GTS 640 at 1280 res with no vsync, 4xAA, 16x AF etc. will probably have a 95% efficiency rating except a few large physics or explosion situatons. A bit of hitching may also ocurr from time to time.


And it should be deemed important that the beta is entirely irrelevant as many things were unstable as well as far from optimized.

[tkpenalty]

I'm guessing that Crysis will chew up a LOT of RAM... My one was at a crapcrawl, and I ran out of mem apparently... 1GB of RAM wont suffice.

[Bian0rm]

Would crysis run on my laptop with c2d t7100, 2gb 667mhz ram and an 8600gt ? with what settings, any guesses ?

[zekrahminator]

My X850XT, 2GB of DDR2 800, and A64 X2 4800 say bring it on :p.

[Ben Clarke]

What about my system ATM? All on stock, became unstable...

[zekrahminator]

I think you might want to upgrade the graphics card, add some RAM... :p.

[Ben Clarke]

Meh. It has 256MB, good enough for me. Besdies, new rig at Christmas, I hope.

[Frick]

I'm guessing that Crysis will chew up a LOT of RAM... My one was at a crapcrawl, and I ran out of mem apparently... 1GB of RAM wont suffice.

The beta ran just fine with.. Max players, 1280*1024 @ high were no problems at all, actually. The computer got slowish when I shut down the game, but otherwise it was fine..

@Bian0rm: It will run fine @ high I would think. :)

[zekrahminator]

The beta ran just fine with.. Max players, 1280*1024 @ high were no problems at all, actually. The computer got slowish when I shut down the game, but otherwise it was fine..

Your Core 2 Duo and X1950Pro prolly helped a bunch... :p.

[tkpenalty]

aah... wait nevermind, i had driver issues.

[J-Man]

I played the beta all on high @ 1440x900 with about 30 FPS exactly mostly all the time.

[mikey8684]

WHERES THE 24HR EARLY EXCLUSIVE DEMO ALREADY ???????????


:banghead:



:laugh:

[tigger]

Well mine runs the beta pretty well,at my monitors native.I will be buying a 8800gt to go in my machine,it will round it off rather nicely.

[J-Man]

What's the specifications on the 8800 GT? I heard it has more SP then the GTS?

[zordel]

Hi,
How would a workstation graphics card work with crysis? I've got an Quadro FX5500, E6600, 2gb DDR800.

Thanks,
AD

[pt]

if the fx5500 is 7900gtx (i think it is) based you will prob get meddium settings with some high

[AthlonX2]

the Quadro FX5500 is basically a 1GB version of the 7900GTX but only uses DDR2 @ 1000Mhz

[zordel]

So it should run well enough?

[trt740]

my 2900 xt 1gb ddr4 runs it very well

[bassmasta]

I played on a friend's rig today, only major difference is that he has a 1gig 2900. crysis is near max settings on his except for shadows or something on medium, but in order to put everything that high on my 512, I need to turn resolution down a notch, and still a large fps difference.

[ItzTheDish]

yo guys, i need some help. I running a laptop with 2 gigs of ram, 2.4 intel duo core, and a 8600M. I'm running vista 32-bit. I can barely run crysis on low settings. It doesnt make sense, I can run games like oblivion and bf2 at max with fps to spare. My queston is if the demo is running in dx10, how do I change it to dx9? And if its already running in dx9, wtf is wrong?

thanks guys

[newconroer]

The demo is old, and doesn't reflect much of the retail release.

With that said, it defaults to DX10, when in Vista..or so we think.

Have you tried using DX9 or XP compatibility mode? Though, and no to be an ass, when you said 'laptop,' any idea that I had that might help you suddenly went out the window.

[ItzTheDish]

haha i have no idea what you mean by laptop. Notebook? another name for it? I have no idea how to run it in xp compat. mode. i would really liketo know though

[newconroer]

You can right click any executable file and goto it's properties, then choose the compatibility tab. You'll want to check the first box 'run this program in compatibility mode for :' and the default option should be Windows XP Service Pack 2 (if not, select that one). Then apply it, hit ok etcetc.

This should force it to run as DX9. You can verify by going into the advanced visuals options of the game, and it should no longer be able to select 'very high,' for any of the settings.

[ItzTheDish]

thanks man, that did work. but for some reason, even though i have two out of the three core recommened requirements complete, i dont know why the game is still running so slow on medium.

[newconroer]

A) Requirements whether minimal or recommended are far from optimal :)
B) You're using a laptop or 'mobile' GPU. While some of them are pretty potent and have some 'pep,' they are not often that great. This isn't to say yours SHOULDN'T be able to play the game decently with 'medium' settings, but it doesn't sound surprising at all.

Make sure to use 1280X1024 or lower resolution, with no AA. The "Shader" quality and "Post Processing" setting seem to be heavyweights in determining performance for Crysis, and a few others might have to be taken down to a LOW setting, unfortunatley.

[Kreij]

2560 x 1600, all setting medium, AA Off.
Cinematics ran fairly well (a little chop in places).
Game looks gorgeous, movement was smooth until the first fire fight. It then turned into a slideshow and my brave character ate a dirt sandwich.

I had limited time so I did not fiddle with any settings.

[newconroer]

Lots of people saying it looks really good, so far I haven't been impressed. I personally find the tree leaves, even with very high shaders to look extremely outdated. They are far too crisp, and they feel like a blanket of green, with a bunch of holes punched in them to let light through. It looks nauseatingly awful at anything less than very high shader level.

About the only saving grace so far has been the resolution level of some of the ground textures.

Alas though, it is an old demo, here's to hoping for an improvement with retail!

[Morgoth]

what do you guys think of my lates creation
Case box
Mainboard D1325
CPU 2ghz P4 400fsb
Ram Sdram pc133 760mb
Videocard Geforce4 ti 4600 128mb DirectX 8.1
60gb harddriver :D
wil it run crysis? XD

[trt740]

what do you guys think of my lates creation
Case box
Mainboard D1325
CPU 2ghz P4 400fsb
Ram Sdram pc133 760mb
Videocard Geforce4 ti 4600 128mb DirectX 8.1
60gb harddriver :D
wil it run crysis? XD

no

[Darkmind]

My computer runs Crysis just fine. I get 15-25fps at 1024x768 with things on high besides textures and it's playable, and my high settings are modified to be like the very high settings (besides motion blur, and color grading i could care less for that).

BTW, wtf is color grading? It just makes the display look like a 480i :wtf:

[PVTCaboose1337]

My compie runs it really nicely... I like it but need an upgrade... 8800gt and Phenom X4.

[imperialreign]

well, finally gave it a shot - decent, not 100% impressive AI or gameplay. Learning the game is a slight curveball, but not too bad. The game is pretty, though, very nice graphics.

Anyhow, runs really good on my rig. Avg FPS 17-25 (which isn't choppy at all, even with massive shootouts). I get better FPS running it at 1440x900 than at 1280x1024.

All settings are at high. Although, I can't enable AA, though. With AA enabled, my FPS bottom out at 1. So I reduced the res to 1280x1024, AA still flatlines the game.

At least, though, the game still looks decent with AA off, and runs smooth.

I might consider buying the retail copy, but I'm thinking I'll wait a bit until the price drops a bit. I'm not impressed enough to have to grab a copy brand new to the market.

[Richieb0y]

oh yea my rig runs it but now i have a problem it runs dx10 but it does not give me dx10 visauls check here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8ZpEEUm--Q

and check the ohter videos those are on very high and show dx10 grafixs

[newconroer]

Richie, you might want to change the title of the vid on Youtube to "DX10 not working!" Or disable comment replies, as I can see people flooding you with nasty responses.

[Richieb0y]

Richie, you might want to change the title of the vid on Youtube to "DX10 not working!" Or disable comment replies, as I can see people flooding you with nasty responses.

ah thx i change it :toast:

[Widjaja]

Runs fine on my rig so far with med/high settings.
Appears very smooth and stutter free except for when saving game.

[imperialreign]

still running good. I've had to turn down shadow detail to med, gave me 5 FPS back. Also brought volumetric details and particle details down to medium, also - another 10 FPS. So running even better than before, with what appears to be very little impact to detail.

Shadows look a little . . . grainy, now, but not noticeable when you're gettin down.


I have noticed, though, I can't run any OC on my 1950. Even 5% of both GPU and MEM will artifact after about 5min. :twitch:

[lemonadesoda]

I'm running the demo on Windows 2003 at 1024x768 without problem.

Graphics and effects at medium, all options, except
Textures at MAX

CPU: P4 @ 3.0
GPU: FireGL-X3 (equivalent to X800XT)

It runs FINE. Only occasional lag when many AI. Very playable. Looks great. A faster CPU or Dual Core would help the AI slowdown. But I'm surprised the GPU is holding down very playable framerates. Well done crysis for a good engine.

[Peteballaghaderreen]

With my geforce 8600 gt, I can run crysis with everything on high and 4x AA, at a decent fps of 35-40. That's on Win XP and Directx 9

[Solaris17]

what? thats crazy my rig cant :(

[Peteballaghaderreen]

Bet your processor is holding you back. My e6550 is clocked at 2.33 Ghz. The AMD 3800+ is one of the lowest-range dual core CPUs available. BTW is crysis compatible with linux?? I didn't think so

[Solaris17]

im running xp at the moment while i downlaod packages i need to install for linux....my net adapter isnt detected and it thinks my sata drive is a flash drive :(.....i have a 3600 and though i know its low budget its highly overclocked...and except for the cach level is exactly the same as the 6000+ etc.....and i seriously doubt crysis would gain like 20fps with another mb of cache.....but your core 2 respectfully probably does make it so you can push that in crysis.

[Davidelmo]

With my geforce 8600 gt, I can run crysis with everything on high and 4x AA, at a decent fps of 35-40. That's on Win XP and Directx 9


Bet your processor is holding you back. My e6550 is clocked at 2.33 Ghz. The AMD 3800+ is one of the lowest-range dual core CPUs available. BTW is crysis compatible with linux?? I didn't think so

:laugh:

No.

You can't.

Unless you play at 640x480

[Solaris17]

lets not get into a fight about it i dont like fights very much

[Morgoth]

yea got anny proof? even ppl with heavyer system get lower fps with every thing high and aa on

[Davidelmo]

lets not get into a fight about it i dont like fights very much

It's not a fight, but I bet he is DRASTICALLY over-guessing his fps.

I can't run all high at 4xAA with a better CPU, graphics card and more memory.

I don't even think an 8800 Ultra, quad core +4Gb RAM can run all high with 4xAA at much higher framerates than he claims!

[Peteballaghaderreen]

It's true, minimum frame rate is 30 fps, and I always play at 1024x768.

[mrw1986]

With my geforce 8600 gt, I can run crysis with everything on high and 4x AA, at a decent fps of 35-40. That's on Win XP and Directx 9

I have a very similar system, if not better. My cpu is oc'd to 3.0ghz as well as my 8600GT is oc'd and I can run everything on medium at 1280x1024 NO filtering and get about 30FPS average. There's no way you're pushing those settings and getting those framerates...maybe 35-40 FPM.

[Solaris17]

It's not a fight, but I bet he is DRASTICALLY over-guessing his fps.

I can't run all high at 4xAA with a better CPU, graphics card and more memory.

I don't even think an 8800 Ultra, quad core +4Gb RAM can run all high with 4xAA at much higher framerates than he claims!


i kinda agree my system is marginally better except for the proc and i cant push those frames...but then again i plauy at 1600x1200 not 1024x768

[Peteballaghaderreen]

Don't believe me if you don't want to. Sorry for breathing

[Solaris17]

well its kinda more bealivable now seeing as i dont know many ppl that game on that resolution......and the sarcasm really isnt needed. if someone walked up to you and said they had a P4 2gigs of ram and an 8800 and was running crysis at max with 65fps would u bealive him?

[Morgoth]

yea 600x800

[cdawall]

lol i can run it


a64 3000+ @2ghz
BFG 7800GS OC @560/1480
ULTRA DDR400 @2X512 single channel 400mhz 2.5-3-3-6 1T
MAXTOR 60GB IDE


http://img.techpowerup.org/071110/settings.png

running between 10FPS MIN, 40FPS MAX, 20FPS AVG

[freeboy]

If I use the Digital coax out to a Digital reciever for my sound, I bypass all the sound requirements, yes?

[AsRock]

All on high except shadows are on medium and no AA @1600x1200 runs smooth no problems.

[Black Panther]

It's true, minimum frame rate is 30 fps, and I always play at 1024x768.

:wtf: In Oblivion (not Crysis!) I get a lower minimum frame rate than that, on a 3Ghz C2D and an 8600GTS....
What frame counter program are you using?

[DanTheBanjoman]

:wtf: In Oblivion (not Crysis!) I get a lower minimum frame rate than that, on a 3Ghz C2D and an 8600GTS....
What frame counter program are you using?

I hardly think comparing two totally different games is useful. As for showing framerate, people seem to be using fraps even though typing "r_displayinfo = 1" in the console should be better.

[kenusa]

Just wondering how well will I be able to run Crysis with:

Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 (2.66GHz) CPU/4M BOX
2GB of RAM
8800GT
Windows XP

and will I be able to run it smoothly with "High" settings?
How much average fps?

Thanks in advance.