Crysis 3

[gameranand]

Don't know that much about this but with retailers I guess publishers get lesser profits as distributor has to take care of media+packaging+shop maintenance and all and they want some profit too.

 

[Skud]

System requirements announced, and they are demanding, with DX11 class graphics card as a must:-

Crysis 3's hefty system requirements revealed - PC Games - Game - News - Atomic MPC

Minimum

Windows Vista, Windows 7 or Windows 8
DirectX 11 graphics card with 1Gb Video RAM
Dual core CPU
2GB Memory (3GB on Vista)

Example 1 (Nvidia/Intel):
• Nvidia GTS 450
• Intel Core2 Duo 2.4 Ghz (E6600)

Example 2 (AMD):
• AMD Radeon HD5770
• AMD Athlon64 X2 2.7 Ghz (5200+)

Recommended

Windows Vista, Windows 7 or Windows 8
DirectX 11 graphics card with 1GB Video RAM
Quad core GPU
4GB Memory

Example 1 (Nvidia/Intel):
• Nvidia GTX 560
• Intel Core i3-530

Example 2 (AMD):
• AMD Radeon HD5870
• AMD Phenom II X2 565


Hi-Performance

Windows Vista, Windows 7 or Windows 8
Latest DirectX 11 graphics card
Latest quad core CPU
8GB Memory

Example 1 (Nvidia/Intel):

• NVidia GTX 680
• Intel Core i7-2600k

Example 2 (AMD):

• AMD Radeon HD7970
• AMD Bulldozer FX4150

 

[cyborg47]

I'd be happy with the medium settings, screw the whiners!

 

[d3p]

Walkthrough of latest Crytek Cry Engine 3.

[youtube]nMwk2Zi0c3o[/youtube]

Just WoW !....

 

[Skud]

Was going through RPS and the system requirements have something to laugh at:-

Recommended

Windows Vista, Windows 7 or Windows 8
DirectX 11 graphics card with 1GB Video RAM
Quad core GPU
4GB Memory

Example 1 (Nvidia/Intel):
• Nvidia GTX 560
• Intel Core i3-530

Example 2 (AMD):
• AMD Radeon HD5870
• AMD Phenom II X2 565

If quad core CPUs are recommended, are those CPUs even quad core, particularly the PII X2 which is a 2-core, 2-thread CPU?

I'd be happy with the medium settings, screw the whiners!

It might very well be EA trying to woo back miffed PC gamers. Why on earth a game running DX9 on consoles, absolutely requires DX11 on PC is beyond me.

 

[cyborg47]

It might very well be EA trying to woo back miffed PC gamers. Why on earth a game running DX9 on consoles, absolutely requires DX11 on PC is beyond me.

Not sure what you mean, but DX11 is only on very high settings, low-med-high are all DX9 right? And I think Crytek would definitely bring back all the advanced graphics settings after the C2 backlash.

 

[Skud]

Was it that tough? This is a DX11 exclusive title, low-med-high, no DX9/10/10.1, only DX11. You need DX11 compatible GPU/OS.

 

[kapilove77]

My PC is ready for this easily!

 

[vickybat]

It might very well be EA trying to woo back miffed PC gamers. Why on earth a game running DX9 on consoles, absolutely requires DX11 on PC is beyond me.

Maybe the game engine is heavily modified for pc to strictly use dx11 api and ignore dx 9 . We can call this a dx11 title from groundup.
Remember ps3 is always an exception because it does not use any form of directx but open-gl based custom api's.

If a directx game can be modified and ported into an open-gl based framework, ignoring dx9 completely for pc doesn't surprise that much.

@d3p

Holy cow! Jaw dropping graphics especially with adaptive tessellation, particle shadowing and character tessellation.
Man crysis 3 will really be something and might bring back the iconic catchphrase " can it play crysis " all over again.

 

[Skud]

Things are getting better (at least too some extent):-

Crysis 3 graphics settings revealed, high-resolution textures confirmed at at launch


*i.imgur.com/ArcFL.jpg?1

Crysis 3 will already ship with hi-res textures, advanced graphics settings, tessellation and DX11 support. Additional tech areas that have been enhanced since Crysis 2 are: AI navigation system, animation system, water, fog volumes, cloud shadows, POM, AA, cloths, vegetation, particles, lens flares and grass.

For Crysis 3, the past year has involved a lot of performance and memory optimization work on many areas and for all platforms, as well as work on the rendering side. One of our big goals was to improve image quality, and a lot of work went into developing several DX11 based anti-aliasing techniques for PC, which means gamers will now be able to pick their favorite—this is relatively involved on a deferred-based engine, since it involves selecting every technique and accessing multi-sampled buffers, versus the usual “flip the switch” approach. On top of an improved tessellation system we’ve also introduced character/vegetation tessellation—and since tessellation performance was still not optimal for the level of detail we wanted to achieve, we also did research into different areas and introduced what we called “Pixel Accurate Displacement Mapping” for macro details with nice real-time self-shadowing.

but then this...

On Crysis 2, a decision was made to focus on console, launching the title on all platforms simultaneously and bringing the same console UI menu experience to PC, but with a plan to release a dedicated DX11 PC version right after launch of the multiplatform version.

So finally they are admitting, C2 was in reality a shitty console port. And UI hasn't changed much in this version too.

Still no FOV slider, may be that's under standard settings.

 

[thetechfreak]

just came across requirements and feeling sad because my GPU is below the minimum specified. Oh well

C2 ran perfect for me though.

 

[Skud]

which card do you have?

 

[cyborg47]

Was it that tough? This is a DX11 exclusive title, low-med-high, no DX9/10/10.1, only DX11. You need DX11 compatible GPU/OS.

Is it mentioned/confirmed anywhere that the game lacks DX9 support?

Edit- Nevermind, googled about it.

 

[Skud]

Check this:-

Crydev.net • View topic - Crysis 3 Discussion

You assume that maintaining a PC DX9 render is the same as maintaining an XBOX render. You assume incorrectly.

Quote:
Currently there is no reason to buy DX11 GPU because of no good DX11 only games. It will be a waste of money.

You've made your point, you're not going to buy Crysis 3 because you don't have a DX11 GPU/OS, stop spamming the thread with the same thing over and over again please.

Also, no support for XP points to that.

 

[iittopper]

Can somebody tell them that i need better gameplay not beast graphics ...

 

[Skud]

Can somebody tell them that i need better gameplay not beast graphics ...

When on earth Crytek made games which were about gameplay (apart from Far Cry to some extent, but that was pre-EA days)?

 

[vickybat]

I don't think my card can run this game on medium even in 1600x900. A mix of low and medium settings hopefully should pull off decent framerates on my system.

 

[Jripper]

The crysis 3 multiplayer alpha struggled at max settings on my gpu -_- got some 15-16 fps.
Runs okay at high though and smooth at medium. (all at 1080p).

 

[iittopper]

When on earth Crytek made games which were about gameplay (apart from Far Cry to some extent, but that was pre-EA days)?

True , But still this "directx 11 must gpu crap" will make the game less available to customers ...

 

[cyborg47]

Can somebody tell them that i need better gameplay not beast graphics ...

Care to elaborate a little on that 'gameplay' you're expecting?

True , But still this "directx 11 must gpu crap" will make the game less available to customers ...

Graphics is what they specialize in, they did drop the ball with Crysis 2 on graphics and limit(streamline) the gameplay, and look what happened, huge backlash on them, and now that they're going back, people will still complain