Thanks very much Jeremy and Per! And thanks especially to Per for letting me add one more (final?) game to my collection. I'm a Linux convert and refuse to buy another MS O/S for gaming so my opportunities for new games are dwindling fast. Here's hoping the game developers wake up and smell the coffee. I just ran the COD4 demo and found another game I won't be buying unless Per has worked his magic there too. ;-)
Thanks again guys!
Chris

Per:

Downloaded the retail Crysis rar fix file and installed on my Win 2K system per directions. I've updated to the latest video drivers AND loaded the latest DirectX runtime as you suggest. Still getting the 'CryInput.dll could not be loaded" error-just a gray screen where you would expect to be seeing intro menu stuff.

Any ideas?

stumped01; Sorry, not much I can help you with then

Make sure you replaced the files properly

Per:

Uninstalled and reinstalled the game. Installed your retail fix rar files. And....

IT WORKS!!!!!!!!!!!

The earlier install(s) were done using an external disk drive. Now I've got a good working internal dvd drive, used that this time.

Was just starting to think I'd bought a very expensive coaster. Many, many thanks for putting this together for people like me.

Glad to hear it worked our for ya

I also had to do everything twice, install, overwrite with the dll's,
uninstall, reboot, second time it worked. Also want to try
Bioshock demo, but I'm not sure a BFG 6600 256MB agp
has shader 3 support. Anyhoo, thanks! Don't think I'll buy the
game though, looks like Quake 2 all over again, only got the demo to study the graphic design,
the foliage is nice.

Ran across this one, looks interesting, used to play Elite on
a TV screen in the 80's: go to sharoma-dot-com-slash-frontierverse-dot-htm

hike1; It's nothing like Quake2

With a computer like yours I'd recommend you to buy Far Cry instead, the full version is even available for free, it just has advertising ingame...

http://www.fileplanet.com/180410/180...d-Supported%5D

I can't post links yet, but this is what some guy at my game engine forum said.

Crysis, it looks beautiful, end of story. That being said, I don't see a whole lot that can't be done anywhere else with some clever programming. Basically, from what I've seen, the high pc specs are placed specifically due to a huge amount of physics code being tossed around. You can play on a lower end system, with a good video card and see the same wonderful eye candy as everyone else. However, you wont get the same physics interaction as you would on a higher end system. I tested it on two different systems (Medium level PC and low end PC) and both played equally well.

Last REALLY good non-twitch game I played was Thief Deadly Shadows. Battlefield 2 is
my designated twitch game, don't need 2.
Crysis runs fast on my 1.5 GHZ machine.

This win2k fix also works for the crysis 1.1 patch on the retail version.

I patched a clean Crysis install, but it should work if you replace the modified cryinput.dll and crysystem.dll with backups before you patch

After running the patch, edit CryInput.dll and and CrySystem.dll as mentioned by Per Hansson, with the exeption that the new offset in CrySystem.dll is 0x59E23

btw,
many thanks for the fix

My friend says thanks.

Anthor; thnx for the heads up about the patch!

I have now also added a new set of files for the v1.1 version of the game, both CryInput.dll and CrySystem.dll where modified by the patch, so you probably need to restore those two files from backups you made prior to paching (just as Anthor said)

Is it possible to play crysis multiplayer games with the win2k fix?

I do have an official special edition retail version, but i always get the invalid cd-key error when i try to join or create a multiplayer server.
Could this be related to the altered files?

I tried the work arounds but they didn't help, neither did the 1.1 ptach

Guess not, I have not tried it myself...

A previous poster asked on the official forums but he got no reply from Crytek I think...

I' have tested some more XP games under Win2k Windows 2000 like Blacksite,The Witcher,Jericho,Dark Messiah: Might and Magic,Lost Planet (DEMO) and most of them worked just fine: Blacksite / Jericho / Bioshock Windows 2000 fixes

greets

Tested on Win2k:
El Matador
Blacksite
Dark Messiah: Might and Magic
Jericho
The Witcher
Infernal
Enemy Territory Quake Wars
Hellgate London
Lost Planet (DEMO)

I do not know if modified dlls affect playing online, but I have a fix that does not modify the crysis dlls. I only have the demo so can't verify if this will work or not for retail or MP.
h**p://win2kgaming.site90.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=9

Little more complicated to install then this fix but it's purpose is to not modify crysis dlls and be update safe.

Cheers

QUOTE:With a computer like yours I'd recommend you to buy Far Cry UNQUOTE

I finally had to go into God mode to finish the Crysis demo, it was a slide
show on my 1.5 GHZ machine with more than 1 bad guy. It was fun, a couple years from now maybe it'll be $10 and I'll have a machine that can actually run it.

First, another BIG THANK YOU to Per Hansson for doing such a great job providing the files to play on Windows 2000 ... really well done!

Win2K users also need to get the latest nVidia drivers if you want the game to run well ... and there is a trick to getting the most recent drivers.
To get the latest drivers version 169.21, you need to go to nVidia's site and download drivers for XP (they work on Win2K and even say they are for Win2K when you install).
I downloaded - 169.21_forceware_winxp_32bit_english_whql.exe

Crysis ran much better on these drivers.

Remember the best way to update the nVidia drivers is to UNINSTALL* your old drivers first and reboot, don't freak out about the strange look of your screen when you reboot, select Cancel when Windows tries to install new hardware (your video card), and then double click on the new driver download and install it.

(*To uninstall the old drivers go to Control Panel / Add Remove Programs ... OR Control Panel / System ... go to Hardware tab, click on Device Manager ... expand Display Adapters and right click on your video card and choose Uninstall)

Thanks again Per!

Posted Win2K fix for game version 1.2.1 (ingame 1.1.1.6156)

See first post in this thread for download link and notes

Posted Win2K fix for Crysis Warhead

See first post in this thread for download link and notes

To get rid of the trailers see my blog post here;
http://www.techspot.com/blog/179/cry...-no-intro-fix/

Hey all.

How are you guys getting the game to even install? I tried to install it but it says I have to upgrade and then the installation kicks out back to desktop.

korg