GamersCrib
06-30-2008, 11:28 AM
According to a new write up review over at ComputerandVideogames.com (http://computerandvideogames.com) someone did after playing Crysis Warhead (http://crysisthegame.com) for the first time, it would seem the game is very well Optimized for play. Lets check it out:
I'd spent half-an-hour back in the frosted glades of Korean-patrolled paradise when the Wizard of Oz's curtain was pulled back on the PC I was using.
Despite the fact that I was playing Crysis Warhead on high settings with a smooth frame rate and barely an ounce of pop up, the guys from Crytek dropped the information that I was playing on a machine they'd bought for the Euro equivalent of £380 pounds.
You see, over the past year they've tamed the beast that is the CryEngine 2 and now I was apparently getting high settings from 2GB of RAM, an Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 processor and an NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT video card.
Sure, it's a fairly decent rig, but aspiration-wise it's a hell of a lot more realistic for the average gamer.
Crytek are dead set on taking their game away from the PC elite and turning it into the people's plaything. Viva la Revolution!
"When we started doing Crysis, being the tech-happy company we are, we started working with the latest and greatest in technology that we could get our hands on," explains senior game designer Bernd Diemer.
"I mean we had the first DirectX 10-capable card on the planet in the office, it was fantastic, but it also caused us a lot of pain.
"We were trying to get our minds around this new technology and we focussed on the ultra high-end part of the spectrum, the enthusiast part, the guys who really want the latest and greatest.
"This was our focus, and this is where the system specs came from, which were pretty steep at the time of release.
"Now the technology has matured a bit and we know how to use it better and how to optimise it - we've taken the high setting, which is still one of the best-looking games on the market and given it to our Budapest team with a games PC that cost about €480: we just said that was the machine it had to run on.
The article is very long so please visit the original source here. (http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=191873)
I'd spent half-an-hour back in the frosted glades of Korean-patrolled paradise when the Wizard of Oz's curtain was pulled back on the PC I was using.
Despite the fact that I was playing Crysis Warhead on high settings with a smooth frame rate and barely an ounce of pop up, the guys from Crytek dropped the information that I was playing on a machine they'd bought for the Euro equivalent of £380 pounds.
You see, over the past year they've tamed the beast that is the CryEngine 2 and now I was apparently getting high settings from 2GB of RAM, an Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 processor and an NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT video card.
Sure, it's a fairly decent rig, but aspiration-wise it's a hell of a lot more realistic for the average gamer.
Crytek are dead set on taking their game away from the PC elite and turning it into the people's plaything. Viva la Revolution!
"When we started doing Crysis, being the tech-happy company we are, we started working with the latest and greatest in technology that we could get our hands on," explains senior game designer Bernd Diemer.
"I mean we had the first DirectX 10-capable card on the planet in the office, it was fantastic, but it also caused us a lot of pain.
"We were trying to get our minds around this new technology and we focussed on the ultra high-end part of the spectrum, the enthusiast part, the guys who really want the latest and greatest.
"This was our focus, and this is where the system specs came from, which were pretty steep at the time of release.
"Now the technology has matured a bit and we know how to use it better and how to optimise it - we've taken the high setting, which is still one of the best-looking games on the market and given it to our Budapest team with a games PC that cost about €480: we just said that was the machine it had to run on.
The article is very long so please visit the original source here. (http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=191873)