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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?
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"Invisible" <voi### [at] dev null> wrote
> Are they any good? Would you recommend them? Do you need a small Cray to
> play them?
Don't know for FarCry, but I think for Crysis, you may need a *big* Cray.
Just out of curiosity, I googled for a demo: 1.7GB!?! Have people gone
totally nuts?
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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've played Far Cry; it's fun, but *extremely* difficult. Especially
considering they don't let you save anywhere by default (you have to
hack it to let you).
I tried the demo for Crysis, but a large portion of the game utilizes
the middle mouse button. Not the wheel; you have to press the button
and drag. Unfortunately, my mouse didn't work with that, so I was
unable to perform those actions >95% of the time. And there's no way to
remap it (that I could find).
Add to that the fact that I had the graphics settings rather low, and it
still ran like a snail, and a review I read recently which stated that
some of the later levels run only 1/4 the speed of the earlier ones, and
you start to realize just how much you need that Cray...
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www.pacificwebguy.com
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Chambers wrote:
> Add to that the fact that I had the graphics settings rather low, and it
> still ran like a snail, and a review I read recently which stated that
> some of the later levels run only 1/4 the speed of the earlier ones, and
> you start to realize just how much you need that Cray...
http://www.bash.org/?835178 So it's true then?
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On Fri, 01 Feb 2008 10:25:20 +0000, Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
I have played Far Cry. It was/is worthy of a replay or two.
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"Invisible" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message
news:47a308ea$1@news.povray.org...
> Chambers wrote:
>
>> Add to that the fact that I had the graphics settings rather low, and it
>> still ran like a snail, and a review I read recently which stated that
>> some of the later levels run only 1/4 the speed of the earlier ones, and
>> you start to realize just how much you need that Cray...
>
> http://www.bash.org/?835178 So it's true then?
Yes, but only if you try to run it on medium to high settings on a mid
spec machine (like mine), It'll drag then, but on low settings it's fine,
and looks pretty good too.
FarCry, Crysis - great games! :)
~Steve~
>
> --
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> http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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>> http://www.bash.org/?835178 So it's true then?
>
> Yes, but only if you try to run it on medium to high settings on a mid
> spec machine (like mine), It'll drag then, but on low settings it's fine,
> and looks pretty good too.
>
> FarCry, Crysis - great games! :)
I only have a lowly 2.2 GHz dual-core AMD Athlon X2 4200+ with 3 GB
DDR-400 RAM and an nVidia GeForce 7900GTX 512 MB. It'll probably not run
at all...
BTW, I'm a little confused here. Benny seems to think that DirectX 10 is
available for WinXP, while I was under the impression that it's for
Vista only. [Part of of the M$ plan to force everybody to upgrade.]
However, Wikipedia at least seems to suggest that Crysis works on XP,
despite using DirectX 10... so... er... wuh?
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"Invisible" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message
news:47a31a72@news.povray.org...
>>> http://www.bash.org/?835178 So it's true then?
>>
>> Yes, but only if you try to run it on medium to high settings on a
>> mid spec machine (like mine), It'll drag then, but on low settings it's
>> fine, and looks pretty good too.
>>
>> FarCry, Crysis - great games! :)
>
> I only have a lowly 2.2 GHz dual-core AMD Athlon X2 4200+ with 3 GB
> DDR-400 RAM and an nVidia GeForce 7900GTX 512 MB. It'll probably not run
> at all...
I wish I had that! :( It'll probably run fine on high with those specs,
and if it doesn't, medium settings will probably get you 35-45 FPS, which is
damn fast.
Here's my system:
XP Home SP2
AMD Sempron Processor 2800+
nVidia 6600 GT
1 Gig RAM
I've been playing Crysis this morning, it really is good. :)
> BTW, I'm a little confused here. Benny seems to think that DirectX 10 is
> available for WinXP, while I was under the impression that it's for Vista
> only. [Part of of the M$ plan to force everybody to upgrade.] However,
> Wikipedia at least seems to suggest that Crysis works on XP, despite using
> DirectX 10... so... er... wuh?
No, DX10 isn't available for XP. What happened was one guy managed to
simply edit a config file so that XP DX9 gives the same 'very high' settings
as DX10. I tried it. Now, that nearly killed my machine! Easy enough to swap
back though, which I did.
If you get Crysis, and want to tweak the config file yourself, here it
is:
http://www.crymod.com/thread.php?threadid=16487&threadview=0&hilight=+hp+&hilightuser=0&page=1
~Steve~
>
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Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> BTW, I'm a little confused here. Benny seems to think that DirectX 10 is
> available for WinXP, while I was under the impression that it's for
> Vista only. [Part of of the M$ plan to force everybody to upgrade.]
DirectX 10 is Vista only because it's a complete rewrite of the entire
system and depends on the complete rewrite of certain parts of the OS
they did for Vista. It just can't work in XP because XP doesn't have
the architecture necessary to run DX10.
> However, Wikipedia at least seems to suggest that Crysis works on XP,
> despite using DirectX 10... so... er... wuh?
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).
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Warp wrote:
> Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>> BTW, I'm a little confused here. Benny seems to think that DirectX 10 is
>> available for WinXP, while I was under the impression that it's for
>> Vista only. [Part of of the M$ plan to force everybody to upgrade.]
>
> DirectX 10 is Vista only because it's a complete rewrite of the entire
> system and depends on the complete rewrite of certain parts of the OS
> they did for Vista. It just can't work in XP because XP doesn't have
> the architecture necessary to run DX10.
Right. That makes sense.
>> However, Wikipedia at least seems to suggest that Crysis works on XP,
>> despite using DirectX 10... so... er... wuh?
>
> 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. (?)
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