Minimum PC system requirements revealed for Crysis 2

Yeah BUT....it seems that modern expectations of a great game have become a Zen paradigm, where the baby and the bathwater are all one.

If that metaphor is too obtuse, I dare you to tell me so, since I'll be forced to elaborate....:rolleyes:

IMO Metro 2033 does have more effects, but it doesn't look better. It looks too generic to me actually. The character models all look the same, the guns shoots like ***, and overall it's a boring game.

I think you forgot to salt the wounds by mentioning that "Metro 2033", actually may have higher hardware requirements than "Crysis".

...Why.... what an insanely obtuse metaphor! ....and 3,2,1...

It does..much higher. The recommended req's are a i7 920 and a GTX 480.

well that's a subjective matter, but there is not anything in Crysis that looks like this
http://www.techspot.com/gallery/member-galleries/p3900-metro-2033.html
http://www.techspot.com/gallery/member-galleries/p4007-requested-metro-2033-screens.html

OH...KAY... then... the "game content" is the baby, and the "game graphics", are the bathwater. I sincerely hope we've clarified that to the further betterment of this thread in general.

well i have a 9500gt.what say!?!
perhaps i should buy a ps3

Crysis has better texture quality than any other game i tried (it has 1GB of texture data!!), what does it mean? ok if you look at any objects (weapons, vehicles, trees etc.) in the game much closer then you will see more detailed fine, sharp pixels instead of boxy and blurred pixels that you usually see in most of the games out there with few exceptions. So the minimum req is a pinch of salt and should not be taken so serious because these morons never going to mention the resolution tested in which quality settings while maintaining the minimum playable 30 fps or an average obtained?

My guess is: (overall medium settings with 2x AA, guaranteed min 30 fps or above)

1024*768 (HD 4670/9600 GT or higher)
1280*960, 1360*768 & 1440*900 (HD4850/9800GT/X or higher)
1600*900 (GTX 260/275/HD 4870/90 or higher)

i didn't mention any new generation gfx for above resolution just replace with relevant new cards and they do better with some upped image quality settings.

(Overall high quality settings with 2xAA, guaranteed min 30 fps or above)

1920*1080/1200 (GTX 560Ti/ HD 6870 or higher) (OCed can play at Enthusiastic settings)
2560*1600 (GTX 580/HD 6970/5970 or SLI/CF of GTX 560/HD 6870 or higher) (dual gfx config can able to play Enthu settings)

this is how it gonna work.

Yes nothing in Crysis looks like those Metro 2033 screenshots... because it looks literally miles better. In Metro, there are a lot of closed corridors and small linear paths, but Crysis is an open world feast filled with lighting, water, tons and tons of vegetation and even animals. Coupled that with insanely high res character models, I'm sorry Metro doesn't compare.

Now of course I did say Metro has more "effects" such as HDR, Tessellation, DoF, etc. etc. but the overall look TO ME doesn't look that great.

http://www.pcgameshardware.com/screenshots/original/2009/07/Crysis_Downsampling_6400x4000___2560.jpg
http://www.pcgameshardware.com/screenshots/original/2009/07/Crysis_Downsampling_6400x4000_8.jpg

Nice fail links there :|

SNGX1275 said:

There were, one of my favorites was a game called 'Amber' it used graduating stills, First person point and click, much live Riven/Myst did.

I have a question, mi hardware is a C64 (1 Mhz clock) with a 1541 diskette drive 5 1/4" and a 14" TV, can i play with a reasonable FPS???

Oh goody, another drive by comedy attack......

No sorry, these games under discussion, (Crysis and Metro 2033), have only been ported to the Atari 800.

Yeah I know, damn it.

Dude, crysis was not runnable on 2007 pc hardware, not because it WAS SOO GREAT... it was because of **** **** **** optimisation..


honestly have you ever tried out the cfg and full settings.ini hacks and mods???

With them, under DX9using cfg hack and some careful tweaking of settings.ini(like edge aa, it's wonderful, put to 4x and disable in-game aa otherwise) the game looked a lot lot lot i repeat LOT better than under DX10 maxed out settings.

The difference being one game better frame rate and even betetr visuals, the other showed shoddy coding.

Wrong. I played through Crysis and Warhead with a 3850 AGP GPU and an Athlon x2 CPU on medium-high tweaked settings. (20-25 FPS @ 1024x768)

Those specs will be fine for MINIMUM requirements in Crysis 2

Actually, I have a system weaker than the min req. for Crysis 2, and it played Crysis 1 on medium settings. And you definitely can rely on the minimum specs to enjoy them... College kids across the US are playing StarCraft 2 on their $500 laptops. And loving every minute of it. And some people just don't care about 3d. So that extra money isn't worth it to many. I'd be willing to bet that even though I have a system weaker than the minimum required, I will be playing Crysis 2 on all low settings. I might not be getting everything out of it the game, but I'll still play it and have fun.

I will be the first to admit that I would not know bad coding if it bit me on the ***, but I am not so sure bout that. Now that I have the hardware it runs smoothly way over 60+ FPS at 1920 x 1080, It could be that it was true when they said that 'very high' and 'enthusiast' was written for future hardware.

If you are speaking of the same tweaks that I am familiar with, they modify things like blur,max shooters, DOF, view range etc, in effect lowering the settings., not 'fixing the code'.

I would like to hear from someone who knows if in fact which is true, poorly coded...or ahead of its time.

The minimum requirements look pretty low, lol wonder what the recommend specs will be. quad core @4ghz with 8gb ram and a GTX 580+