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The Crysis Hardware Experiment

Sunday, 13 January 2008
The official Crysis Community/Crytek has been always providing the best news, support, resources etc.; yet, they're not about to stop, as this time they have set up something exciting and very informative for the fans, as in Christmas they "... took the time for a little in-house experiment. With only a limited budget of around US $900 we wanted to set up a brand new machine that can handle Crysis on High settings." This experiment is also provided with videos. The Experiment Together with EA we looked in shops around the world and bought the hardware parts to put together our machine starting from scratch. While we had a budget in mind, we wanted to still make sure this machine would have top-notch hardware such as a multicore processor or a DirectX10 graphics card. The Videos As you’ll see from the 8 minutes of video we recorded, Crysis looks absolute fabulous on High settings with this configuration and runs very smoothly on a 1280x720 resolution. They show different locations from the Crysis Singleplayer Campaign with everything set to High. The Configuration Below you find a rough list of parts we purchased so you can see and check for yourself about the total costs of such a high-end computer. The prices may vary from country to country, but overall the costs should be within the same range (shipping included). CPU: Intel Core2Duo E6750 GPU: GeForce 8800GT 512MB Motherboard: NVIDIA nForce 650i Socket 775 PSU: 600W ATX12V RAM: 2GB (2 x 1gb) 240-Pin DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit HDD: SATA 250GB 7200RPM DVD: 20x DVD±R Burner Case: ATX Midi Tower Computer Case OS: Microsoft Windows XP Home with SP2 The Message With this experiment we have shown that Crysis runs smoothly and provides and amazing, unparalleled performance on High settings and on an affordable machine that is readily available today. We know most of you already have a great base to work with, so compare your current hardware with the setup mentioned above and consider an affordable upgrade – you do not have to purchase a new machine. Crysis is very scalable and looks great on Medium settings compared to current next-gen games. Your Hardware? Of course we would like to know what kind of hardware you are running the game on and how it is running. We encourage you to run a benchmark test in Crysis which you can share afterwards with the members of your favorite Crysis forum Related links: - Patch 1.1 Benchmark Results - Download – Video 1 - Download – Video 2 - Download – Video 3 - Download – Video 4 - Download – Video 1 (Mirror#2) - Download – Video 2 (Mirror#2) - Download – Video 3 (Mirror#2) - Download – Video 4 (Mirror#2) Regards, -Crysis Dev Team Comment
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