GRANDIZER
Shared on Thu, 11/15/2007 - 09:58I picked up Crysis last night and played it for like 15 minutes, and most of that time was spent tweaking the settings trying to figure out what resolution I could play it at and still have a reasonable framerate.
Even with all the hardware I have in my system I think I need to get more RAM. HA!
I have a Vista Ultimate 64 Bit OS with an NVIDIA Geforce 8800 GTX Video card that sports 768 MB of RAM. An Intel Core 2 Duo 2.67Ghz CPU and 4 GB of system RAM. Needless to say, I should be able to run this MoFo at it's highest resolution with all the settings maxed.
Well, I can run the game there is no question about that; I can even run it at it's highest resolution with all the settings maxed out, but I can not do so and actually play the game, which leads me to the question; What system were they designing the game for in the first place? I mean, if I can't run it with the settings maxed on my system then who can? Did the developers ever try it out with the settings maxed?
Anyways, maybe the problem is that the game was designed for the 32 bit version of Vista and not for the 64 bit version. I would think a patch or a retail version for the 64 bit version of Vista would be on the way if that were the case.
In any event, I can run the game fine at lower resolutions, I just mention it because I am in awe at how much hardware processing power the game needs in order to function. Sheesh! What a hog. I could always pump my system up to 8 GB of RAM but still, what does it take? I have above and beyond the "Recommended" hardware specs for the game.
This is just more fodder for the "Console over PC game" argument. PC games are just nothing but hassles, great though they maybe. I will have to turn off a bunch of services on Vista like Windows Media Center and Aero Desktop in order to verify that the CPU isn't being hogged by the game. Of course that means that I can't record or watch TV while I play Crysis. (not such a big deal) BUT I will have to turn on/off these services all the time which is just annoying. Oh well...what can you do.
Even with all the hardware I have in my system I think I need to get more RAM. HA!
I have a Vista Ultimate 64 Bit OS with an NVIDIA Geforce 8800 GTX Video card that sports 768 MB of RAM. An Intel Core 2 Duo 2.67Ghz CPU and 4 GB of system RAM. Needless to say, I should be able to run this MoFo at it's highest resolution with all the settings maxed.
Well, I can run the game there is no question about that; I can even run it at it's highest resolution with all the settings maxed out, but I can not do so and actually play the game, which leads me to the question; What system were they designing the game for in the first place? I mean, if I can't run it with the settings maxed on my system then who can? Did the developers ever try it out with the settings maxed?
Anyways, maybe the problem is that the game was designed for the 32 bit version of Vista and not for the 64 bit version. I would think a patch or a retail version for the 64 bit version of Vista would be on the way if that were the case.
In any event, I can run the game fine at lower resolutions, I just mention it because I am in awe at how much hardware processing power the game needs in order to function. Sheesh! What a hog. I could always pump my system up to 8 GB of RAM but still, what does it take? I have above and beyond the "Recommended" hardware specs for the game.
This is just more fodder for the "Console over PC game" argument. PC games are just nothing but hassles, great though they maybe. I will have to turn off a bunch of services on Vista like Windows Media Center and Aero Desktop in order to verify that the CPU isn't being hogged by the game. Of course that means that I can't record or watch TV while I play Crysis. (not such a big deal) BUT I will have to turn on/off these services all the time which is just annoying. Oh well...what can you do.
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