Crysis full game

[Dictator]

Crysis director says it was so hard to run it became a meme because its highest settings were meant for future PCs: 'I wanted to make sure Crysis does not age'

Crysis director says it was so hard to run it became a meme because its highest settings were meant for future PCs: 'I wanted to make sure Crysis does not age'

"A lot of people tried to maximise Crysis immediately, and I'm like, 'Oh, that's not why we built the Ultra mode, or Very High.'"

www.pcgamer.com

I am happy to see the Cevat is still running strong and still great at running his mouth

 

[Albuquerque]

I have the original DVD version of both Crysis and Warhead somewhere in my collection, and I even have a USB DVD drive. Now if I can just find it...

 

[SlmDnk]

@Albuquerque

If you manage to find the DVDs in working condition and are having trouble running the games I highly suggest using https://github.com/ccomrade/c1-launcher/releases.

 

[Cyan]

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I decided to fire it up just to see what it looks like and 2 hours later I was still playing it

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hahahaha, now I understand where it comes the "PC from the NASA" meme.

Is the second image a true article?

 

[homerdog]

I have the original DVD version of both Crysis and Warhead somewhere in my collection, and I even have a USB DVD drive. Now if I can just find it...

Just went to look and my copy of Crysis is still in the shelf between Battlefield 3 and STALKER Shadow of Chernobyl. I had good taste

I also found an original copy of Conker's Bad Fur Day. WTF I don't even have an N64

 

[Davros]

Is the second image a true article?

Yes absolutely
ps: would you like to buy some magic beans

 

[Cyan]

The game looks far better on Very High than it does on High, but practically no computer of the time could run Very High with acceptable performance for a FPS. I loved not only playing the game and being astonished by the visuals, but tweaking my computer too squeeze out the most possible FPS out of my 8800GT/E6750. That was back when overclocking could really get you somewhere. You could take a Q6600 from 2.4GHz to 3.2GHz with very little effort, which is like a 30% boost

That said I understand why people would hold off on purchasing it until they had a computer that could run it, and since some of the most impactful rendering features (godrays, object motion blur etc.) were locked to Very High it seemed to me like that was the intended way to play the game. Not sure what they could/should have done differently. One of my favorite gaming experiences of all time. Probably the reason I joined this board.

P.S. since I brought up overclocking, I took my GeForce 6600 from 300MHz to 450MHz with nothing but the coolbits tweak and 5-10 minutes. Can you imagine taking 5 minutes for a +50% boost on a 4060?

is this the tweak you used?

https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/overclocking-a-geforce-6600-lol.847282/

I wonder, in retrospective, if the hardware felt faulty with that kind of overclocking or if it did heat up too much.

Those were different times for sure. I remember overclocking my GPUs with different apps to the point of watching artifacts. Luckily I quickly set it to default and increase the clock using more sane overclocking values. It felt fascinating.

I knew the meme because.., who didn't? But I didn't play the game when it came out. I was using laptops those days, and I had a semi-capable laptop but still not good. I managed to complete the original The Witcher 1 on it.

Playing the original The Witcher on a laptop was kinda sub par but given the camera and how the game worked it was a good experience for me and I completed the game on the laptop. Great fun.

Crysis..., I completed it like 12-13 years ago or so.

I am happy to see the Cevat is still running strong and still great at running his mouth

the bleeding edge of his mouth xD, Crysis is still so hard to run, I played it a year ago and it was difficult to go above 60fps. Btw the articles mentions two videos of yours.

 

[Cyan]

Crysis' magical Nanosuit was so convincing that a nanotech conference asked Crytek's boss to give a keynote speech: 'I said, excuse me, but this is all fake

Crytek went so overboard on the Crysis tech it created a whole blushing system, implemented nose shadows, and sent devs to photograph leaves in Haiti to get the translucency right: 'We went over bonkers on this one'

"The shader work that came out of this was mind-blowing at times."

 

[homerdog]

is this the tweak you used?

https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/overclocking-a-geforce-6600-lol.847282/

I wonder, in retrospective, if the hardware felt faulty with that kind of overclocking or if it did heat up too much.

Those were different times for sure. I remember overclocking my GPUs with different apps to the point of watching artifacts. Luckily I quickly set it to default and increase the clock using more sane overclocking values. It felt fascinating.

There was a registry change you could make that would unlock an overclocking feature in the driver called coolbits.

Coolbits - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

My memory is fuzzy but I think after the tweak you just went to the NVCP and adjusted the now visible clock sliders. There were no issues at all in taking the 6600 to 450MHz with no voltage or cooling modification. I chose 450MHz because it was slightly below the 500MHz of the 6600GT so I was pretty sure the card could handle it. I was right. I also OCed the memory but I don't recall by how much.

BTW I never tried to run Crysis on the 6600. By that time I had an 8800GTS 320MB which after a few weeks I traded up to an 8800GT with EVGA's Step Up program. I only had to pay $15 shipping and they traded the card for free. Keep in mind the 8800GT was within a few percent of the fastest card in the world (8800GTX) and cost $350. My how things have changed.

Edit now that I think about it I think there was an 8800 Ultra but it was a joke.