Crysis Warhead won't make your PC cry

10 Comments by Randy Nelson Jun 20th 2008 3:15AM
Filed under: PC, First Person Shooters

It's always a little ... awkward explaining to guests that the "modern art" in our living rooms are actually PCs melted by playing Crysis on its highest settings. Thankfully, Crytek has heard our whimpering and is working to make Cysis: Warhead play more nicely with mid-range gaming rigs.

Voodoo Extreme was kind enough to translate an article on German gaming site PCGamers.de which states that the PC-exclusive Crysis folllow-up is being designed to run at a locked 30fps on a roughly $600 system. Now, compare that to the original game, which was sluggish even on a PC costing three times that much and ... you have happier PC gamers. If Crytek's programmers can actually pull off such a formidable feat, we sense a stalling in the PC upgrade market come the game's release.

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Cool.  I wondered what the fuss was about for the first one, and I'll probably pick this up

Just a correction: The Crytek developer said the game would run on High Settings in a €400 PC, which in market terms means it will also run High on a $400 PC.

That $600 figure was taken from a direct conversion from euros to dollars, which is wrong because the real market value of a €400 PC in Europe is a $400 PC in the US.

So Crytek developer said a $400 PC will run Crysis Warhead on High Settings.

Also, Better Graphics + Lower Requirements = Awesomace!!

Awesome! I'll hopefully have built my new computer by then as well and maybe I'll be able to run it on Ultra High settings!

I ran the original with just fine framerate though on my current (but old) computer so I can't wait to see how this runs.

I ran Crysis on 1680x1050 and medium/high settings with a very good framerate, so this should run equally well I assume.

probs because the engine he is going to use this time has not got a lot of bottleneck

Rufly $400 for a Crisis PC? Thats like nuffin.

LOL, believe it when I see it.

it seems they chose the safer way and make this game sell better

They've probably had a good amount of time to optimize their code since the first game's release, which would ease up on the processors, and PC parts have (as always) taken a dive in price. In the PC world what is top of the line one day is pretty much the standard a year later and aging another year after that. Throw in the locked 30fps and it's really no accomplishment whatsoever on their part.