| HappySqurriel said: Yes, but that is a 2 year old low end graphics card, and the point of bringing that up was that the assumption that Crysis needs a "monster PC" to run is not true at all anymore. The high end graphics cards from 2009 played Crysis at the highest detail levels at 1080p or above and saw framerates of above 60fps; and people with the top of the line systems today can run a game like Crysis at over 120 frames a second at far above 1080p ... |
The whole point of this thread was how much further PC has progressed relative to consoles, the OP being that they are "a generation" ahead.
First, acknowledge there's a difference between being able to just play the game and being able to play the game with everything set to max, even at 1920x1080 with all settings on "ultra" or even "enthusiast" which is where you need to be to see those big visual differences.
When Crysis came out in 2007, there weren't any VGA cards that could play the game at max settings at non-slideshow framerates. Key word being "max" because there's little point in claiming how advanced the visuals are when no one actually gets to see them on their own PC. "Playable" isn't even the issue, as with any game, you dial down the visuals enough to keep playable frame rates on a non optimized PC and just about any game starts to look pretty bad.
I haven't seen any top of the line systems that can run Crysis over 120 fps at 1920x1080. GTX580 SLI gave 93.6 fps at 1920x1200 (reducing that to 1920x1080 will not give you an extra 26 fps) at Gamer quality with Enthusiast shaders and 4xAA. The HD5970 from last year gave 65.7fps, same settings.
So I'm not sure where this "120 fps at far above 1080p is coming from."
http://www.anandtech.com/show/4008/nvidias-geforce-gtx-580/6
"Even 2 years since the release of the original Crysis, “but can it run Crysis?” is still an important question, and the answer continues to be “no.” One of these years we’ll actually be able to run it with full Enthusiast settings…"
