Crysis 2 PC Visuals

[Grooveriding]

Alrighty, looks like some turd has leaked a beta of Crysis 2. Don't want to discuss that, but seeing as this is expected to be the next big graphics champ, thought some screenshots would be okay. There are some others about, will try to add some more before I go to bed.

Looks no better than Crysis imo, but I'm sure there may be more to see come March when the rest of us can play the game

Actually as an edit, this is in DX9. So, impressive. Perhaps DX11 will be an actual improvement, maybe some DX11 screens will pop up hopefully.

 

[OILFIELDTRASH]

Got one Gtx 580 and will add another if necessary. I don't know why but it would be awesome to turn all the graphics up and watch my 580 slideshow at 1080p. If it can do that I'll be impressed.

Btw I doubt you can gather how it's really going to end up by screenshots

 

[toyota]

Got one Gtx 580 and will add another if necessary. I don't know why but it would be awesome to turn all the graphics up and watch my 580 slideshow at 1080p. If it can do that I'll be impressed.

so you are impressed just by the fact that it will make your pc crawl? I am much more impressed when a game looks good and runs well on hardware most people actually own.

 

[OILFIELDTRASH]

so you are impressed just by the fact that it will make your pc crawl? I am much more impressed when a game looks good and runs well on hardware most people actually own.

Well of course I want it to take pc gaming graphics to the next level at the same time.

 

[toyota]

and forgot to say the pic does not look impressive IMO.

 

[happy medium]

Got one Gtx 580 and will add another if necessary. I don't know why but it would be awesome to turn all the graphics up and watch my 580 slideshow at 1080p. If it can do that I'll be impressed.

Btw I doubt you can gather how it's really going to end up by screenshots

There are video's on you tube allready and its a 9gb download if you wanna just try it.



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[OILFIELDTRASH]

There are video's on you tube allready and its a 9gb download if you wanna just try it.

That's okay. I'm not interested in beta versions. It would ruin the experience for when the real deal comes out. I've been waiting a long time for this game.

 

[dust]

TBH it looks about the same as the Warhead, but this is supposed to be DX11 :shrug

 

[toyota]

TBH it looks about the same as the Warhead, but this is supposed to be DX11 :shrug

DX11 does not magically make something look better. it normally just gives you the option to run things like tessellation.

 

[BFG10K]

The vegetation looks like it might have less shader aliasing than the orginal’s.

I am much more impressed when a game looks good and runs well on hardware most people actually own.

Yeah, like Far Cry 2. I think that engine is amazing. Outstanding visuals that run fast on anything, a DX10 path that actually runs faster than DX9 while looking better, and a physics implementation that adds meaningful changes to gameplay without bogging down the CPU or needing hardware acceleration.

 

[4ghz]

TBH it looks about the same as the Warhead, but this is supposed to be DX11 :shrug

The screen shot is DX9. The leaked beta doesn't support dx 11.

 

[Jacky60]

Having talked to the developers I was left in little doubt not to expect any real graphic improvement over the original crysis. I was told 'gameplay' would be what it was about although it looked like a generic run and gun fps when I played it.
I think the screenshot is rather unimpressive as was the game when I saw it. It was running on a PS3 mind you BUT I was told not to expect much more from the pc version.

 

[BD231]

I thought it was scaled down for consoles thus not graphically surprising.

 

[FalseChristian]

I guess the new question now is: "Will it run Crysis 2"?

 

[Darkrage]

I guess the new question now is: "Will it run Crysis 2"?

I bet my PS3 can run it.....

 

[imaheadcase]

Actually quite a bit missing from the game. dx11. Mod tools are visable, models incomplete, etc.

 

[sxr7171]

So its true. PC gaming is dead. Let me pull out my 5 year old PS3 to play the latest games.

 

[ArchAngel777]

so you are impressed just by the fact that it will make your pc crawl? I am much more impressed when a game looks good and runs well on hardware most people actually own.

The difference is, though, that Crytek does NOT have an ineficient game engine. They are just doing things that no other game does. Lets take Metro 2033 for example. I don't think it looks as good as Crysis even, but it seems to run just as poor, if not worse. Should I deduce that Metro 2033 or any game that cannot play smoothly on top-end hardware is poorly coded? I don't think that is very fair.

That is why we have things called settings in games. If Metro 2033 doesn't run butterly smooth on my 280 GTX, then I can turn down the settings and it will play butterly smooth. Giving me the option to run higher is great, limiting me that option does nothing to advance gaming, it only makes me feel better about my graphics card (which I couldn't care less).

Anyway, this is NOT directed at you! I just seen the post and wanted to respond to it. I do agree, though, that optimization is important, but being able to crank a game up to the full settings and expect to play it smoothly is not called optimization. Optimization IMO is attempting to utilitize rendering tricks that do not compromise the overall image quality of the game. for instance, do use more geometry at this, or a higher resolution texture? What should we have the draw distance set at? Is there other tricks we can use to reduce poly count and replace it with texture count, or vice versa. And they have to do this for basically every single graphical option in the game, which makes this such a major chore to do it correctly. Doing this for 3-4 presets would be no big deal, but Crytek doesn't just have one single slider of "Min, Med, Max" they have hundreds of variables to optimize for, which I am sure some of them are skipped, overlooked, etc...

Again, they could artifically limit your options, so that they have less variables to optimize for, but... They don't do that. I commend them for allowing these ridiculous high graphical settings in their games.

 

[Arkadrel]

Is it just me or does that screenshot look less impressive than most Crysis 1 screenshots?

I guess this means Crysis 2 will be easier to run than Crysis1 was?

 

[-Slacker-]

^See ninja edit by op; Says it's dx9 (the finished game will be dx11)

 

[nyker96]

Got one Gtx 580 and will add another if necessary. I don't know why but it would be awesome to turn all the graphics up and watch my 580 slideshow at 1080p. If it can do that I'll be impressed.

Btw I doubt you can gather how it's really going to end up by screenshots

lol, right, if this game doesn't make a 4x580 super SLI slide show at max setting, I won't buy it!

 

[tommo123]

if this is a beta, fairly complete by the sounds of things and this doesnt have dx11 - doesnt that suggest that it will be a simple and quick (possibly lame) attempt to add it very late on?

essentially, just to tick the 'dx11' box off?

 

[Grooveriding]

if this is a beta, fairly complete by the sounds of things and this doesnt have dx11 - doesnt that suggest that it will be a simple and quick (possibly lame) attempt to add it very late on?

essentially, just to tick the 'dx11' box off?

It will in all likelihood essentially be the usual DX11 we get. Tick the DX11 box and get 'tessellation' that requires still frame screenshots to notice.

Hope I am wrong, but I already figured that they would not take graphics to another level the way they did with Crysis.

It's just sad a four year old game is still the penultimate example of gaming graphics today. Even newer games released on a new DX still are no comparison.

 

[wuliheron]

so you are impressed just by the fact that it will make your pc crawl? I am much more impressed when a game looks good and runs well on hardware most people actually own.

Even more impressive is when it does all the above: Looks good on ordinary hardware, better on expensive hardware, and can bring almost any system to its knees. I can't wait to see the ID tech 5 engine in action.

 

[toyota]

Even more impressive is when it does all the above: Looks good on ordinary hardware, better on expensive hardware, and can bring almost any system to its knees. I can't wait to see the ID tech 5 engine in action.

well thats the case with Metro 2033. the game looks good even on low and at that setting will run fine even an on 8600gt at low res. my gtx260 can play it on DX10 high settings just fine at 1920x1080. at the same time if you run DX11 very high and use 4x AA, tessellation, and dof it will make even a gtx580 crap itself.