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You believe Nathan would say Crysis 2 on Xbox 360 looks worse Crysis on PC?



 

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Xoj said:
ameratsu said:
Silver-Tiger said:
What a load of nonsense. 

 

third.

back in the day it took 1800$ set, a 3 sli 8800 to max crysis.

even optimize 8800 it WAAAAAAAAAAAAAy more than 360/ps3 gpu.

Fourth.

What a crock of shit.



The main problem is both the PS3 and 360 are limited to 512MB of RAM.

No matter how much you optimise it, that's never going to be enough to run Crysis maxed out.



Does he mean Crysis when it first launched on standard PC specs at the time?



4 ≈ One

Congrats to Crytek for making the best looking game yeat and congrats to microsoft for making the console to run it without compromise.



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disolitude said:
hsrob said:
disolitude said:
All the joking aside, I think his point is clear. Crysis 1 was an unoptimized mess of a game which looked great but required skynet to run at max. With Crysis 2 they finally learned how to code an an optimized engine...

I don't think this is entirely fair. If it were true shouldn't we have seen many better-looking games by now given that PC graphics hardware is so much more powerful now than in 2007? All it would take is an engine decently optimised to take advantage of current hardware.

Not sure about you but I have seen no such game.

Metro2033, Battlefield BC2 (DX11) come close if not beat it in some areas.

All I know is that I can't run Crysis Warhead maxed out at 1080p with a GTX295 and overclocked AMD Phenom 940 and maintain constant 30 fps. All these other games that are almost as good looking I can run at almost 60 fps. It looks amazing but it really is badly optimized. You need a 1000 dollar video card in 2010...to run it flawlessly maxed out.

Here is a nice benchmark showing the performace you can expect with 3rd best video card on the market today.

http://www.pcgameshardware.com/aid,671298/Geforce-GTX-295-vs-Radeon-HD-4870-X2-Benchmarks-with-8x-anti-aliasing/Reviews/?page=4

And this is exactly why PC fans really need to stop referring to Crysis/Warhead as the be all end all of game graphics.

When a $500 video card doesn't play Crysis with "everything maxed out" which is invariably what PC Guy uses to compare graphics, it's a hard sell to claim that the best visuals ever seen in a game are on PC/Crysis when the reality is they are only seen on the best PC configuration almost nobody owns.

The problem with Crysis is that it simply has way too much stuff being rendered in the background that the player can't even see from his perspective, which is why it's such a resource hog. Dial in rendering distance settings like GTAIV (another game that will eat as many resources as you can throw at it) probably would have helped. Warhead played smoother, but had a lot more pop in textures which more or less shows this is partly how they optimized.

Anyway, assuming Crysis 2 takes advantage of DX11 on Windows, it should maintain the bar for PC graphics, but I expect simpler (to render) environments (not moving organic jungle foliage) due to the city setting, and possibly even smaller playing fields rather than free roam acces to an entire jungle island.

As for consoles, processing capabilities aside, it still boils down to available texture memory, which is well under 512MB on either console, which is just about the bare minimum VRAM found on any PC with discrete video. That alone will hobble any game not specifically designed around this handicap.



Visuals =/= graphical resource usage.

What he's talking about is how the game looks, aka visuals. All you people saying that can't be because Crysis @ max settings & 1080p native 60fps with 16xAA or whatever is out of the X360s capabilities, you're talking about graphical resources. To some people, a 720p 2xAA game can look better because of the art style or whatever. And this is still all in his opinion. You're all arguing about two different things.. It's like he's saying bananas are yellow and you say he's wrong because strawberries are red. It doesn't make any sense.. So.. Chill out. Let him have his opinion. Until you see the game, don't judge. And yeah, the 1080p 16xAA 60FPS argument can always be used, and it's logical that from a resource and graphical power perspective, it will never trump Crysis on PC with max settings at a higher resolution, but that alone still does not equal better visuals in all cases, especially for the average person out there.



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So he was playing it on a PC with a 360 controller hooked up?



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It's just PR though.



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No. Just no. Crytek PR sure has been shitty in the last few months.



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