Crysis single player demo

[Judgement]

edit: wrong thread.

 

[AzN]

Jesus they even have the correct accent for North Koreans. If you aren't Korean it's pretty hard to tell the difference.

Nice graphics but it feels like you are playing farcry with some stuff added to it. I tried very high settings and see my frame rate craw to 4 fps. LOL. It still looked pretty at medium settings but still only 25fps on my 8600gts. Too freaking slow...

I wasn't too fund of it. The vehicles drive same as farcry and did I mention it runs really slow.

 

[bamacre]

Originally posted by: Azn
It still looked pretty at medium settings but still only 25fps on my 8600gts. Too freaking slow...

Did you expect more out of an 8600 GTS?

The developers had stated a LONG time ago that the game will be very demanding and designed for future hardware.

 

[cmdrdredd]

Originally posted by: Azn
Jesus they even have the correct accent for North Koreans. If you aren't Korean it's pretty hard to tell the difference.

Nice graphics but it feels like you are playing farcry with some stuff added to it. I tried very high settings and see my frame rate craw to 4 fps. LOL. It still looked pretty at medium settings but still only 25fps on my 8600gts. Too freaking slow...

I wasn't too fund of it. The vehicles drive same as farcry and did I mention it runs really slow.

It runs on in DX9. Try it.

I did and it looks just about the same to my eyes, maybe a few minor things like trees not falling apart and such are gone.

 

[AzN]

Originally posted by: Raduque
Trying to play this game is like trying to play Farcry on my 9700Pro when it was first released. Even with my 7900GS overclocked to 900mhz on the ram, it's still slowdown city even on medium.

Actually Farcry ran great on a 9700pro. I remember playing 1024x768 with a 9700pro everything maxed out. With Crysis I'm getting low 20's on medium settings.

 

[DangerAardvark]

Read the previews, watched the videos. It's a game where you shoot guys. Where's the hook? Where's the thing that's supposed to make me want to play this?

 

[Fenixgoon]

Originally posted by: DangerAardvark
Read the previews, watched the videos. It's a game where you shoot guys. Where's the hook? Where's the thing that's supposed to make me want to play this?

freedom. i'd say that's the absolute biggest draw to far cry and crysis. you approach enemies on YOUR TERMS - not like doom or HL where there is a path conveniently (or blatantly) set for you and monsters pop out of the closet.

you can go all the way from hardcore stealth to run and gun, and each will have advantages/disadvantages (i go for the middle ground because i get pwnt running, and total stealth is too damn slow )

 

[Polish3d]

Originally posted by: DangerAardvark
Read the previews, watched the videos. It's a game where you shoot guys. Where's the hook? Where's the thing that's supposed to make me want to play this?

its fun

 

[imported_Flimflam]

I can't even play the thing. AT medium detail the textures are gone for example the guys on the plane all i see are their eyes. AT high it looks like low detail on any other game and runs like complete ass.


heres a pic at medium on the plane.
http://img453.imageshack.us/img453/2883/crysis1yc9.png

this is with an X1800 and the latest drivers

edit2
Apparantly it decided to work now not sure what the deal was

 

[MmmSkyscraper]

The only slowdown I got was during the cut scenes, it was so bad the audio was out of sync by a number of seconds. I was running at 1440x900 on an 8800 320MB, everything set to high and 4xAA. I had a few moments near the end where textures freaked out a little but only on certain objects.

It felt exactly like FarCry with better graphics and a suit that gives you stupid super powers.

 

[MarcVenice]

Hmz upon installing this game it told me a crucial Windows update was missing. I looked it over in a few seconds and it had something to do with virtual memory and resource allocation of the gpu and it's memory. Dunno how this affects things, have to reboot now, but it might solve some issues for some people? Update name was: Update for Windows Vista for x64-based Systems (KBKB940105)

And how do I run it in dx9 mode, in Vista? Can't find the option, and upon installing it didn't make a folder 'games' like cmdrdredd mentioned. Rightclicking the Crysis Icon also does not display an option to run in dx9 ?

 

[1ManArmY]

Originally posted by: Zenoth
WOW !

I just finished the Demo on the Normal difficulty and it was a BLAST ! I've never, ever experienced any first-person-shooter game like Crysis. It must be the very epitome of FPS gaming. I mean that game encompasses everything that developers have learned in FPS gaming throughout the years into a single game. The Demo alone, in my opinion, already beat the heck out of known FPS games.

The physics puts the Source engine to shame, and that's not saying little. The graphics are certainly the very best PC gaming has to offer to this day, even in DX9. The sounds are totally real, the textures (on High) are of near-reality looking (photo-realistic), the controls feel fluid, very precise at the same time, responding and to the point. The interface (suit/hud) is just what you need, it's not annoying to the eye, it has a very high-tech feeling. And the water guys ... the freakin' water in Crysis makes Bioshock's look ten years-old. The atmosphere of a breathing, living environment isn't equaled by any other games ...

I could go on and on and on ...

You can physically BEAT buildings down to shreds, you can shoot them too, you can grenade them, but in the end they're almost all destroyable (only the ones with tick concrete weren't destroyable, but the furniture inside is all destroyable). You can pick up barrels, sand sacks, chairs, tables, cans of food, you can pick up the roaming live animals around, you can even pick up the debris resulting of a destroyed object. I am still quite shocked by the quality of this product. To be honest I expected to be disappointed, because the multi-player mode did not impress me (expect for the graphics, but then I was wondering how would the game-play be like in single-player). But now, I am even more than merely impressed. I don't have much words to describe how rich and complex Crysis really is, but I believe that we've indeed reached a completely new generation of video-gaming.

All that was on my system below, in my signature, using the 163.76's (I've tried 169.01's, but I reverted back because they were causing issues to some of my other games, some of them quite old, but I still like them). I played at 1280x960, no AA, no AF, everything in-game set to "High", everything single option to that setting without exception. I could run constantly at around 35 to 45 frames-per-second, so I was quite satisfied by the performance too. The game seems to be quite optimized.

To conclude my reaction to this amazing game I'd like to point out at something I really thought would literally suck, which is the A.I. But, once more, Crysis delivers even within the A.I department. I played on the Normal difficulty, and already the Korean soldiers used cover very efficiently, they NEVER ever got stuck anywhere, even though they walked and crouched, and even ran on very difficult terrains. I even noticed and heard a group suddenly gathering up to one point after spotting me for a brief moment before I went back cloaked, and then one of them started to issue orders, such as "move to the right", and I clearly saw one of them responding to his orders and moving exactly as the higher ranked officer ordered him to, and the guy who was responding to his order said "cover me", and then another guy started to crouch behind him and they both "explored" the place slowly, crouched, searching for me. It was an amazing moment for A.I in FPS I think.

Overall, I can't think of anything else to say right now, other than perhaps that the story seems better than I first thought. It has some horror feeling to it, after the Demo's ending. It feels like the Alien threat is more serious than it looks to be at first glance. I just can't wait to play the final game, and even more importantly I can't wait to create my own levels with the amazing tools CryTek developed for it.

Personally, I give the Demo a 9.7 / 10 score. It's just almost perfect, almost, because nothing is ever actually perfect, I can't give it a perfect score. And who knows, perhaps later in the game something disappointing will occur, but I honestly doubt it. Right now I can look at my other FPS games on my desk, and now I look at them all very differently thinking "you guys are now inferior, sorry".

CryTek, you guys are genius, seriously.

How do you select the different abilities once your in the suit menu? I know the default key is the (hold) mouse3 button but then how do you select the abilities? I've tried rolling the mouse wheel, left side, and right side, nothing. I just started the demo last night so still in the early stages.

Thanks for answering my stupid question.

 

[Zenoth]

I just used the default way, using the mouse wheel. You need to push it, maintain it pushed, and while you keep it pushed down you move the mouse very slightly to the direction corresponding to the ability you want to select, and once the pointer points at the desired ability on-screen you just remove your finger and it selects the ability.

 

[MarcVenice]

Indeed, it works pretty fast once you get a bit used to it. Just played through the demo btw, and it looked stunning, shooting koreans was cool, but performance was pretty apalling I'm running at 1680*1050 with a 8800gts 320mb and a x2 3800+ @ 2.6ghz though, so I guess that was to be expected. One thing I couldn't quite get the hang of was running with maximum speed, then quickly jumped with maximum strength, didn't feel like I was jumping all that far, high yes, not far though. And it's rather easy to outflank the AI, and just walk up to them from behind, grap them and throw them away. Sometimes when it said grab enemy though, I couldn't actually grab him, kinda weird.

 

[AzN]

Originally posted by: cmdrdredd

Originally posted by: Azn
Jesus they even have the correct accent for North Koreans. If you aren't Korean it's pretty hard to tell the difference.

Nice graphics but it feels like you are playing farcry with some stuff added to it. I tried very high settings and see my frame rate craw to 4 fps. LOL. It still looked pretty at medium settings but still only 25fps on my 8600gts. Too freaking slow...

I wasn't too fund of it. The vehicles drive same as farcry and did I mention it runs really slow.

It runs on in DX9. Try it.

I did and it looks just about the same to my eyes, maybe a few minor things like trees not falling apart and such are gone.

Cool thanks. It wasn't too slow. Was definitely playable on medium settings.

 

[imported_Flimflam]

I think my problem was AA was turned on. That's the only setting I changed and it ran fine after that.

 

[cmdrdredd]

Originally posted by: MarcVenice
Hmz upon installing this game it told me a crucial Windows update was missing. I looked it over in a few seconds and it had something to do with virtual memory and resource allocation of the gpu and it's memory. Dunno how this affects things, have to reboot now, but it might solve some issues for some people? Update name was: Update for Windows Vista for x64-based Systems (KBKB940105)

And how do I run it in dx9 mode, in Vista? Can't find the option, and upon installing it didn't make a folder 'games' like cmdrdredd mentioned. Rightclicking the Crysis Icon also does not display an option to run in dx9 ?

You have a games browser by default in vista (I never created it).

Click your "start button" and where it says documents, pictures, music, and the next option is games. Click that. You get the browser. Right click the Crysis SP Demo and tell it to run in DX9.

here is the path to the games explorer C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Game

If you do a search in vista for Games it will come up too.

 

[MarcVenice]

Ah wait, I actually remember it from my first Vista install, when shadowrun and halo 2 popped up in that folder, I just never use the right hand side of the start menu, mainly because in the beginning I usede the classic start menu. Thanks though, this made things a lot easier for me

 

[shortylickens]

First impressions: Not impressed.
The big disappointment I hoped it wouldnt be.

1 - Performance: Either you guys are lying or I've got serious driver problems. I have 2 gigs of RAM, a dual-core A64 and a 7900GTX. Even at medium settings and 1024x768 the frame rate is horrid, and it seems like it plays for 10-12 seconds and then freezes for 5 -6 seconds.
Not good at all considering the medium settings arent even that pretty.

2 - Controls: From my viewpoint it seems this game was clearly designed for consoles from the ground up. The special abilities access is REALLY annoying, and the default keys for most things are poorly placed. I will have to figure out something better on my own.

3 - Gameplay: Suprisingly lacking. I seriously hope I dont have to buy the full thing just to find the halfway decent levels in the middle of the game.
Again, since it seems it was desinged for consoles first, I shouldnt be totally amazed that graphics came first and everything else was an afterthought.


This was it folks, this was the one. If Crysis sucked ass I was going to give up games for good and get a wife and a kid and a white picket fence and a fucking minivan.
I have the good sense to wait until the full retail comes out and maybe even one patch. If it still looks like a classic "form over function" (the new standard in video games) I will be done for good.

I first posted a while ago when I started downloading and havent read all 143 posts yet, hopefully I didnt start a flame war with a crapload of people.


Well, I hope I dont meet Zenoth in a dark alley, I'm pretty sure he wouldnt let me out alive.
I got the special nVidia drivers, we'll see if they help. Will run Driver Cleaner first.

 

[cmdrdredd]

Originally posted by: shortylickens
First impressions: Not impressed.
The big disappointment I hoped it wouldnt be.

1 - Performance: Either you guys are lying or I've got serious driver problems. I have 2 gigs of RAM, a dual-core A64 and a 7900GTX. Even at medium settings and 1024x768 the frame rate is horrid, and it seems like it plays for 10-12 seconds and then freezes for 5 -6 seconds.
Not good at all considering the medium settings arent even that pretty.

2 - Controls: From my viewpoint it seems this game was clearly designed for consoles from the ground up. The special abilities access is REALLY annoying, and the default keys for most things are poorly placed. I will have to figure out something better on my own.

3 - Gameplay: Suprisingly lacking. I seriously hope I dont have to buy the full thing just to find the halfway decent levels in the middle of the game.
Again, since it seems it was desinged for consoles first, I shouldnt be totally amazed that graphics came first and everything else was an afterthought.


This was it folks, this was the one. If Crysis sucked ass I was going to give up games for good and get a wife and a kid and a white picket fence and a fucking minivan.
I have the good sense to wait until the full retail comes out and maybe even one patch. If it still looks like a classic "form over function" (the new standard in video games) I will be done for good.

I first posted a while ago when I started downloading and havent read all 143 posts yet, hopefully I didnt start a flame war with a crapload of people.

Crysis is not a console game so your arguments hold no value.

 

[MarcVenice]

Meh, it's hyped to be the best looking game out there, and whilst it does look good, no hardware can really put forth framerates that make the game really playable, under high/very high settings, at resolutions of 1680*1050 at least. Even at 1280*768 and everything on high I had to many slowdowns. The game is good, looks good, but you need a SERIOUS rig to play this game. As for the AI, I did notice sometimes they act kind of weird, and sometimes they suddenly act really smart. Not consistend enough. One thing I did notice were oilbarrels, heh those were fun. If you shoot it at the top, oil will poor out for a few seconds, if you shoot it a little below that, more oil will come pooring out. Then, if you pick it up and flip it over, even more oil will come pooring out, hehe. I started tossing those barrels in the air with maximum strenght, then shot at them, was pretty funny

I just wish the maximum speed would last a TAD bit longer, and would mix into maximum strenght a little better, for high and far jumps. I think gamers have gotten spoiled though, pretty much everything has been done before, and the focus right now seems to be on sqaudbased gameplay, or on graphics, like in Crysis. There's nothing really new under the sun, but how could there be? We've been watching the same movies over and over for decades. Just with different names and characters. I think the same apply's to games. BioShock had a nice little touch to it, but it's really hard to find even that little touch that feels like something new.

 

[RZaakir]

For me under DX9 it is very playable at 1920x1200 with high settings and 4xAA so I'm not sure what you're talking about. Also, I'm sure that Crytek/EA didn't expect ATI to totally screw the pooch on this release cycle and leave the GeForce 8800GTX as the reigning king for basically a year giving nVidia no reason to step up performance.

 

[MarcVenice]

At 1280*768 you'd think I could have playable framerates too, with everything on high, with a 8800gts 320mb, no ? Maybe it's my cpu holding me down, I wonder. Most of the time it does play okay, but when shit gets intense, I experience drops in framerates, and this is all without any AA.

 

[Noema]

Game runs better than I expected, playing at 1680x1050 with med-high settings (no AA though), and framerates in the mid 30's never dropping under 30 for the most part.

This is on my E6400 (OC'ed to 3GHz); 4GB of RAM and a slightly OC'ed 8800GTS 640MB, all on Vista 64-bit (DX9 of course).

 

[cmdrdredd]

Originally posted by: RZaakir
For me under DX9 it is very playable at 1920x1200 with high settings and 4xAA so I'm not sure what you're talking about. Also, I'm sure that Crytek/EA didn't expect ATI to totally screw the pooch on this release cycle and leave the GeForce 8800GTX as the reigning king for basically a year giving nVidia no reason to step up performance.

Try DX10 which is the showcase for this game

One thing I tried was setting shadows and post processing to medium and everything else to very high. Shadows look pretty good still, the blur effect isn't as stressful and the game runs at around 30fps in DX10 this way.