Crysis: Full System Requirements Revealed

Crytek gunning for the future

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Crysis: Full System Requirements Revealed
Following a fair amount of speculation regarding just what the system requirements for Electronic Arts' upcoming shooter, Crysis, will be, the publisher has come clean.

Back when SPOnG had a chat with Alex Werner, designer of Crysis, he told us of the then-undisclosed system requirements, “We are still optimising the game, and any specifications we would give now will be obsolete later. But we can tell you that a gamer’s PC you would buy now will be enough to handle the game. Our motto for benchmarking always has been that we will benchmark against any great game on the same PC to stay cutting-edge.”

The message seems to have changed a mite, however, with Cevat Yerli, CEO of Crysis developer Crytek, putting emphasis on future PC capabilities. Yerli commented, “... while these specs affect how Crysis will perform now, we have also optimized Crysis so that the game scales forward 1-2 years --we want to make sure that Crysis' gameplay, visuals and performance improves as technology does."

That said, Yerli reckons Crytek has done a pretty good job of making Crysis accessible now. “Like putting the proverbial quart into a pint pot, scaling this back through optimization to our stated goal of rigs 2-3 years old has been a huge challenge, but we are very happy with the results so far and specific tweaks are still happening as I type”, he said. “Our recommended and minimum specs have been released today, so we hope this finally puts people at ease about what hardware they will need to get the most out of the game on November 16th."

Cast your eye over the full specs below and let us know what you think in the Forum.

Minimum System Requirements

OS - Windows XP or Windows Vista
Processor - 2.8 GHz or faster (XP) or 3.2 GHz or faster* (Vista)
Memory - 1.0 GB RAM (XP) or 1.5 GB RAM (Vista)
Video Card -256 MB**
Hard Drive - 12GB
Sound Card - DirectX 9.0c compatible

* Supported Processors: Intel Pentium 4 2.8 GHz (3.2 GHz for Vista) or faster, Intel Core 2.0 GHz (2.2 GHz for Vista) or faster, AMD Athlon 2800+ (3200+ for Vista) or faster.

** Supported chipsets: NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT or greater; ATI Radeon 9800 Pro (Radeon X800 Pro for Vista) or greater. Laptop versions of these chipsets may work but are not supported. Integrated chipsets are not supported. Updates to your video and sound card drivers may be required.

Recommended System Requirements

OS - Windows XP / Vista
Processor - Intel Core 2 DUO @ 2.2GHz or AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+
Memory - 2.0 GB RAM
GPU - NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS/640 or similar


You can catch SPOnG's in-depth chat with Alex Werner here.
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SuperSaiyan4 10 Oct 2007 10:23
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I am rather surprised with the specs, because of my graphcis card being a 6600GT 128mb I fail the minimum specs.

However looking at the recommended specs they dont seem to be right, surely this game being the mighty graphical wonder it is supposed to be would need a much more powerful rig.

However I think both specs are for entry level folk who do not have high end rigs.

A TRUE recommended spec would be much higher of course.

Also not forgetting Windows Vista 32bit recommends 2gb of ram, I am running 64bit Premium and have 2gb - but 4gb is whats apparently recommended!

Before I went into console gaming I would have probably upgraded to play such a game but weighing the costs and pros and cons of PC gaming for me the right thing to do is forget PC gaming and concentrate on console gaming.
deleted 10 Oct 2007 13:42
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Playing the beta at the mo and im it looks absolutley ace and runs very smooth, my specs are

Vista HP
AMD Athlon 64x2 4200+
2gb DDR2 Ram
ATI X1950 Pro (256)
500gb Sata HDD

Windows Expereince index is 5.9





RIPRAW 10 Oct 2007 16:06
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I agree SuperSaiyan4

It's weird that in the recommended specs they say XP is acceptible, when XP doesn't support DirectX 10. They look more like the medium specs.
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