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Crytek defends Crysis' high system requirements

Category: PC, Posted: 01/10/2008 at 07:49PM CST by Demetri Kouvalis, Features Editor

Crysis Crysis is one behemoth of a game. By far the most spectacular looking computer game on the market--something Crytek was successful in achieving. So why has it been getting so much flak from gamers?

Well because you need one behemoth of a computer to enjoy it in its full glory. Cevat Yerli, the boss over at Crytek however defends the system requirements that they put out for the game.

"I think an important distinction that many gamers overlooked was that we designed 'medium' settings to look and play great. Our 'medium' setting should run great on 70 percent of gaming PCs.

"I definitely think that we need to continue to educate gamers about our settings. As we've been saying all along, Crysis looks and runs great on medium and high settings on gaming rigs that are 2-3 years old. Our primary goal is to always make the best possible games, first and foremost", he explained.

He says (and I agree) that most gamers, when they get a new game for the PC, go straight for the settings and run it all on high. And as Yerli stated, with a game like Crysis, the "medium" setting is supposed to be the default for great looking graphics for PC's 2-3 years old. The "high" setting, for newer beefed up computers, and the "very high" for state of the art computers.

Do you think the high system requirements hindered the game's initial sales? Is it ok to make a game for a small PC demographic just to achieve the sense of "most realistic"?

[via computerandvideogames]

Posted by P-Thunder. on 01/10/2008 at 07:55PM

It all depends on what you class as medium PC.

Posted by Archem on 01/10/2008 at 09:42PM

I'm fine with what they've done. Sure, my computer can't really run it at anything above 15 FPS, but I guess that means the game's not for me and my by now obsolete graphics card.

Posted by Leonick on 01/10/2008 at 10:37PM

Now ok thats intresting... now could the explain why i now in the full game need to run on low to get the same frame rates i got on high in the demo?? my friend ran the demo on medium and can barely run the game

and seriously it isnt that good graphics... get close and its blurry, there good but other games look almost as good whit much less requierments, look at cod4 and ut3 i would say the dont take any system resources to run :p

though crysis bad performance could be related to that the console is always filled whit error and memory leak messages

Posted by Flarty on 01/11/2008 at 02:01AM

as time proceeds we shall be greeted with games that look jus as good or better and require less of a beast to run them. triple sli to run it on very high? that isnt state of the art, its ridiculous.

Posted by Kester on 01/11/2008 at 03:45AM

Another problem that people neglect to realise is that people insist on getting larger screens, resulting in a larger screen resolution.

You run the game on medium at 1024*768 with some anti-aliasing and it'll look just as good and get better fps than running it at higher resolutions with less anti-aliasing.

Although I don't follow that advice 1680*1050 all the way =]

Posted by brokenfridgehinge on 01/11/2008 at 08:54AM

I thought Very High was intended for future machines 2-3 ahead that will have no problems running everything maxed out, whereas high-medium settings are intended for present machines.