"Invisible" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message
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> Has anybody here played either Far Cry or Crysis?

Far cry was fun. Very difficult, but fun. My rather old machine handled it
just fine.

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"Invisible" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message 
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> Warp wrote:
>>   Crysis *can* use DX10, but it can also be run on DX9, without the
>> DX10-specific features (although, as has been demonstrated, many of
>> the alleged "DX10-specific" features used by the game are actually
>> supported by DX9 after all).
>
> ...so what you're saying is, Crysis can use DirectX 9 or DirectX 10, 
> whichever is available. (?)

    Yep, that's it in one.

     ~Steve~


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Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> ...so what you're saying is, Crysis can use DirectX 9 or DirectX 10, 
> whichever is available. (?)

  Yes. Why is that a surprise?

  Granted, I don't know many specifics about the DirectX API, but AFAIK
it has been designed to be quite flexible so that programs can actually
ask the API if some feature is supported (by hardware or at all) or not,
and act accordingly.

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>> ...so what you're saying is, Crysis can use DirectX 9 or DirectX 10, 
>> whichever is available. (?)
> 
>   Yes. Why is that a surprise?

No, I'm just checking I understand correctly.

(Obviously the "simplest" thing to do would be to assume one level of 
DirectX and fail if any other level is present. It also seems likely 
that it wouldn't be that hard to check and use until available features 
- I was just checking whether that is what they actually did.)

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"Gail Shaw" <initialsurname@sentech sa dot com> wrote in message 
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> "Invisible" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message
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>> Has anybody here played either Far Cry or Crysis?
>
> Far cry was fun. Very difficult, but fun. My rather old machine handled it
> just fine.
>

And I thought you weren't into first person shooters!

Far Cry has excellent graphics considering when it came out and the systems 
it will run on. And quite difficult as well...

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Invisible wrote:
> Has anybody here played either Far Cry or Crysis?
> 
> Are they any good? Would you recommend them? Do you need a small Cray to 
> play them?

I tried the demo for Crysis on my few-months-old quad core 2, 3 GB RAM, 
GeForce 7350 LE...average FPS: around 1.  Maximum FPS: 4.  Can we say 
"if you want to play Crysis, get a decent graphics card"?

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> I tried the demo for Crysis on my few-months-old quad core 2, 3 GB RAM, 
> GeForce 7350 LE...average FPS: around 1.  Maximum FPS: 4.  Can we say 
> "if you want to play Crysis, get a decent graphics card"?

Wow. o_O

So I guess this is going to have to wait another 5 years or so until I 
upgrade mine...

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>> Far cry was fun. Very difficult, but fun. My rather old machine handled it
>> just fine.
>>
> 
> And I thought you weren't into first person shooters!
> 
> Far Cry has excellent graphics considering when it came out and the systems 
> it will run on. And quite difficult as well...

Hmm. Almost everybody has commented that "it's very hard". Given that I 
*still* haven't completed HL2:EP2 yet because it's too hard, perhaps 
getting this game would just be a waste of time...

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"Nekar Xenos" <nek### [at] gmailcom> wrote in message
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> And I thought you weren't into first person shooters!

I'm not often. I sometimes use them to blow off stream (metaphorically, of
course)

I found a second hand copy at a computer shop in Randburg. R60. For that...

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"Orchid XP v7" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message 
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>> I tried the demo for Crysis on my few-months-old quad core 2, 3 GB RAM, 
>> GeForce 7350 LE...average FPS: around 1.  Maximum FPS: 4.  Can we say "if 
>> you want to play Crysis, get a decent graphics card"?
>
> Wow. o_O
>
> So I guess this is going to have to wait another 5 years or so until I 
> upgrade mine...

    <sigh>

     Just download the demo and try it - it's free. The demo is the first 
mission, it's good, and if you can run that, you can run the rest with your 
system.

     Last word on this.

      ~Steve~



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