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goforgold on 26 March 2011
disolitude said:

Its because the Cryengine 3 behind it is truly a masterful piece of work.

The game runs maxed out with very minimal hardware requirements. On the PC it pretty much doubled the frame rate over Crysis 1 on same hardware while looking the same (or better). 

I can max out the game and it runs at over 40 frames per second at all times with a single GTX470. IT runs butter smooth on 3 monitors and with 2 overclocked GTX470s in SLI at 5760x1080 resolution. For comparison sake, I cant even max out Need for Speed Shift 1 on 3 monitors at that resolution and have to disable AA or lower resolution or detail level to make it playable.

So even if this is the best looking console game, it really isnt because they are finding some newly found processing power in the 360 or because they are optimizing PS3s untapped potential or some other BS. It is because the guys at Crytek made a killer engine that produces amazing results with minimal hardware requirements on all platforms.

All the arguing over this should stop as its meaningless and doesnt prove one console is more powerful than the other. They could probably port this game to the Wii and it wouldnt look half bad...

yeah it would look half good lolz



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raygun on 26 March 2011

It is a great engine graphics wise, but the AI? That's part of the engine also, and it sucks compared to other PS3 games i've played lately. 



disolitude on 26 March 2011
mjk45 said:
disolitude said:
mjk45 said:

so you ran it on the same hardware that was around when crysis 1 came out or are you just making an estimate.


I have both games installed right now and did some benchmarks...

I am getting 20-30 frames per second on Crysis 1 enthusiast, everything maxed out with a single GTX470 (1920x1080), and 40-50 on Crysis 2 on hardcore.

Crysis 1 has a shitload more options to play with but I am only looking at maxed out values for both games.

sounds like they took the high requirement criticism from crysis 1  on board ,do you think developing engine(s) tailored for consoles helped in them making the engine optimization better for PC , still i would love to see it run on a 3 year old PC.

Here are the recommended system requirements(not Minimum):

CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo 2.66Ghz, AMD Athlon 64 x2 2.66Ghz or better
GPU: NVidia GTX280 1GB, ATI 4870 1GB or better
RAM: 3GB
DX: 9
Shader: 3.0
OS: Windows XP
Frame Rate Target: 30fps@1650x1080

All those components are 3 years old or older



Zkuq on 26 March 2011
raygun said:

It is a great engine graphics wise, but the AI? That's part of the engine also, and it sucks compared to other PS3 games i've played lately. 

Personally I thought the AI in the first game was pretty good, apart from some glitches, so I wonder how they can have gone so wrong this time...



smartbro on 27 March 2011

enough enough Crysis 2 On Consoles Is Same As Lowest PC Spec it is officially admited,

Proof:

http://gamenyusu.com/component/content/article/8-all-news/89-crysis-2-on-consoles-is-same-as-lowest-pc-spec.html

Crysis never good on console by all means if anyone want to get a full experince buy a pc version.



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mjk45 on 27 March 2011
disolitude said:
mjk45 said:
disolitude said:
mjk45 said:

so you ran it on the same hardware that was around when crysis 1 came out or are you just making an estimate.


I have both games installed right now and did some benchmarks...

I am getting 20-30 frames per second on Crysis 1 enthusiast, everything maxed out with a single GTX470 (1920x1080), and 40-50 on Crysis 2 on hardcore.

Crysis 1 has a shitload more options to play with but I am only looking at maxed out values for both games.

sounds like they took the high requirement criticism from crysis 1  on board ,do you think developing engine(s) tailored for consoles helped in them making the engine optimization better for PC , still i would love to see it run on a 3 year old PC.

Here are the recommended system requirements(not Minimum):

CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo 2.66Ghz, AMD Athlon 64 x2 2.66Ghz or better
GPU: NVidia GTX280 1GB, ATI 4870 1GB or better
RAM: 3GB
DX: 9
Shader: 3.0
OS: Windows XP
Frame Rate Target: 30fps@1650x1080

All those components are 3 years old or older

that's pretty good if i remember correctly crysis was out and about at the time of 8800 gt cards and the like, but with those specs it looks to me  even with an old 8/ 9 series or Ati equivalent  512 mb card you would expect at least 50% improvement not shabby at all.



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PullusPardus on 27 March 2011
disolitude said

I can max out the game and it runs at over 40 frames per second at all times with a single GTX470. IT runs butter smooth on 3 monitors and with 2 overclocked GTX470s in SLI at 5760x1080 resolution. For comparison sake, I cant even max out Need for Speed Shift 1 on 3 monitors at that resolution and have to disable AA or lower resolution or detail level to make it playable.

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disolitude on 27 March 2011
PullusPardus said:
disolitude said

I can max out the game and it runs at over 40 frames per second at all times with a single GTX470. IT runs butter smooth on 3 monitors and with 2 overclocked GTX470s in SLI at 5760x1080 resolution. For comparison sake, I cant even max out Need for Speed Shift 1 on 3 monitors at that resolution and have to disable AA or lower resolution or detail level to make it playable.

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Cool Story Bro.

now here is a picture of my E-Penis

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lol.

I can't tell if you are taking issue with me having 3 monitors and gtx470 or the fact that the game runs smooth on my setup



mjk45 on 27 March 2011

just ran it  on my comp, Dual core E8400  3 gig cpu - 4 gig ddr2 ram - 2x 9800 GTX plus sli  at 1920 x 1080  v synch off and got consistent low mid 30's most times, dipping to mid 20's and up to high 40's



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disolitude on 27 March 2011
mjk45 said:

just ran it  on my comp, Dual core E8400 cpu - 4 gig ddr2 ram - 2x 9800 GTX plus sli  at 1920 x 1080  v synch off and got consistent mid 30's most times dipping to mid 20's and up to high 40's


On highest setting? Thats pretty good no?

I mean 9800 GTX is very similar to the GTS250 which I used to have 2 years ago. That card was about ~40-50% of the performance of my current GTX470 in most games like Gears of War and RE5. So with 2 of them in SLI, logical thinking would indicate that you should be getting 70-80% performance compared to what I got...