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Crysis single player demo

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Originally posted by: Zenoth
I just used the default way, using the mouse wheel. You need to push it, maintain it pushed, and while you keep it pushed down you move the mouse very slightly to the direction corresponding to the ability you want to select, and once the pointer points at the desired ability on-screen you just remove your finger and it selects the ability.
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thanks, I'll give it another whirl tonight after work
 
Ok, installed Vista 64bit
Game ran poorly at 1680x1050 with all settings at very high.

So turned post processing to just high and all is well.


Vista 64 / Directx 10
768mb 8800GTX
e6600@ 3.6ghz
x-fi Xtreme music

All settings very high except post processing is only at high.
No AA
1680x1050
 
Originally posted by: MTDEW
Ok, installed Vista 64bit
Game ran poorly at 1680x1050 with all settings at very high.

So turned post processing to just high and all is well.


Vista 64 / Directx 10
768mb 8800GTX
e6600@ 3.6ghz
x-fi Xtreme music

All settings very high except post processing is only at high.
No AA
1680x1050
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NICE!
 
Originally posted by: MTDEW
Ok, installed Vista 64bit
Game ran poorly at 1680x1050 with all settings at very high.

So turned post processing to just high and all is well.


Vista 64 / Directx 10
768mb 8800GTX
e6600@ 3.6ghz
x-fi Xtreme music

All settings very high except post processing is only at high.
No AA
1680x1050
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What drivers are you using? I have almost the exact same system and post processing turned down even to low does nothing for my fps if my shaders are on very high. Shaders at very high just make the game an unbareable 15-20fps
 
I LOVE CRYSIS!!!

Played it through, gonna do so again.

Will post a bit more once I sort out 1 or 2 things.
 
163.69 drivers, the 169.01 "crysis nvidia drivers" dont work for me, all i get is a black screen when i start the game.
 
Just played the Crysis demo and can't get the game to run well over medium settings. My basic specs are: Opteron 170 OC @2.3, x1800xt 512, 2G ram. Seems it should run at least on high, and the game looks bad without high settings or DX10. I was looking foward all year for this. Anyone else having similar components and running it fine on high?
 
I'd expect an x1800xt 512MB to run well with all settings on medium except High Textures, Physics, and Water detail. Just a guess, though.
 
Another Crysis lover here. I think I've finally found the FPS that will keep me gaming.

My rig isn't all that great: 7900GT, Pentium D 805 2.66GHz/core, 4GB RAM, Vista x64.

I'm playing on a Soyo 24" monitor - 1920x1200. Obviously this resolution doesn't work too well for me. With everything on low, it's ok. 1600x1200 is a bit better and definitely playable with everything set to low. With everything on high except shaders, 1280x800 is ok. Shaders really kick my butt at any resolution.

Anyway, I'm a really big fan of stealth games mixed with a good deal of realism. Delta hard mode is wonderful because I'm so vulnerable. Maximum armor can absorb maybe 2 shots and then I'm close to death, which means I need to think things through and take it slow. There's no longer that mindless run and gun feel. I love the suppressors. I love the stealth mode. I love sneaking up on enemies and taking them out without a sound. I love using the knock-out darts to knock people out. This thing reminds me a lot of Splinter Cell where I used to headshot people with the sticky cam to knock them out, thus conserving ammo and avoiding bloodshed.

1. Shaders are crazy. They make the game unbelievably realistic looking with all the lighting effects and the bajillion pieces of foliage swaying in the wind. Unfortunately, it's absolutely un-runnable for me and takes more of a performance hit than anything else by far. The second most demanding graphics option is textures. Everything else like particle effects, shadows, sound quality, water effects, and physics don't seem to make much of a difference.

2. The suit modes are very intuitive and quick to change IMO. Simply click the middle mouse button and wave the mouse in the general direction of that mode. I can switch modes incredibly fast and on the run. Changing gun accessories is a different story, but this is infrequent.

3. The patrol boats have a totally unrealistic sense of sight. I had a patrol boat tracking me throughout the entire level, shooting at me in the forest from a mile away if I even poked up my head out without stealth mode. At this distance the red dot on my reflex sight is more than the size of three people on that boat. Not to mention it's still deadly accurate at that distance. The boat would even move with me along the level when I was cloaked. It wouldn't fire, but it would just chug along near the shore after me.

4. The audio isn't tied to the actual NPCs. I approached a group of three NKs talking to each other by a rock on the side of the road. I shot all three without detection with my knock out darts and the conversation audio kept on playing from out of thin air. Until I killed each one.

5. NPCs don't have realistic reactions to their teammates getting shot. In #4 above, when I shot the first guy with a dart, the other two didn't react. When I shot the second guy, the remaining soldier didn't react. They were originally standing a foot away from each other holding a conversation.

6. NPCs don't run away from barrels that catch on fire and are about to explode. They just stand there when they should be doing something like a frag grenade reaction where they run away.

7. NPCs don't get out of burning vehicles. When you shoot the gas tank on a car, the NPC just stays in the burning vehicle until it blows up.

8. Grabbing characters is cool. I once grabbed a character and then walked into the ocean to drown him. Unfortunately, you can't dive with the character. The game automatically chucks him into the water when you get to submerging depth.

9. You can't take over patrol boats that have enemies occupying them. I once swam under a patrol boat wanting to hop in and blow away everyone on board. Didn't work. Couldn't get on. Even right underneath the boat, the enemy "saw" me and started shooting.

10. The short draw distance kinda sucks with objects like rocks popping into view scarcely 25 feet away. I hope the final version has an option to increase the object view distance.

All in all though, the stealth aspect is going to keep me coming back. Throughout the entire level I probably shot 30 bullets. I'm not that great at full auto reflex run and gun, and prefer to hide and shoot. That's why I hate it when enemies see me when they shouldn't (#3). But I have a feeling that the aliens have heat vision and that is going to make my life horrible.
 
This thing is crawling and unplayable on my rig: X1800XL 256mb, 2gig mem, X2 5000+, Win XP. 1280x960, all settings medium. Am I supposed to have the latest ATi drivers to play this? I'm gussing I am getting about 12-15fps max.
 
Played the demo again - this time I decided to try and kill everyone with thrown objects. Man is it fun to throw a trashcan in the middle of a camp, go into stealth mode, watch everyone investigate, go into strength mode, then throw another trashcan to roll them over like bowling pins.. 🙂

Hrm..I didn't know about the darts... I'll have to play it again...and again..and again... 🙂
 
Not sure I like the heal system. Obviously a rip off from cod2/cod4 (which I did not like) but at least in this game they make it logical.

overall the ai seemed weak (per fuzzywuzzy post) but the cut in videos were smooth. I wonder how long the sp campaign is - it was fairly long in farcry. Hopefully the ai will be a bit crisper in hte final version but doubt it given how close we are to release date.
 
Originally posted by: secretanchitman
just got the demo and i ran it on my opteron/8800GTS system. WOW it looks AWESOME at 1920x1200 everything medium.
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You running in Vista (dx10)? Try everything on high and turn the shadows and postprocessing to medium. Runs great for me (I use very high at 1280x1024).
 
My rig is in my sig....

And it runs everything on "High", no AA, no AF @ 1280x960 quite smoothly.
Average framerate is about 30. Ranges from about 20 up to 45.

I had experienced a few anomalies, such as insane artifacting on one of the black vans but i realized that my video card fan was running low. My GPU temperature went up to 80C. To fix that, I set RivaTuner to fix the fan speed at 85%. I'm all good to go now.

I love this demo. I can't wait for the full version!!
 
Originally posted by: you2
Not sure I like the heal system. Obviously a rip off from cod2/cod4 (which I did not like) but at least in this game they make it logical.

overall the ai seemed weak (per fuzzywuzzy post) but the cut in videos were smooth. I wonder how long the sp campaign is - it was fairly long in farcry. Hopefully the ai will be a bit crisper in hte final version but doubt it given how close we are to release date.
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I read somewhere that said the full single player campaign will be about 10-12 hours long.
 
It can't be a universal time anyway, heck it took me three hours to just explore the Demo and I'm sure I haven't gone everywhere I could. It's all relative to everyone's playing style. I prefer to take my time, slowly move around and explore, even if there's nothing much to find, but others will prefer to just ignore the Stealth mode and run and shoot and move to the next mission right away.
 
10 hours for the average game was what I read not long ago (source: http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2...s_release_announced/1).

I just played through it without firing a single bullet. I had this great moment at the check point that Prophet tells you to blow up with grenades.

I snuck up right to the check point barbed wire with cloaking enabled and then recharged behind a rock on the right side. I then crawled right through the front opening, but one of the guards half-detected me (it's cool how they still indirectly sense you if you're too brash or careless with cloaking enabled) and I froze. The guard would not give up and holster his weapon so I stood up, decloaked into speed mode, and ran like hell.

Good times.

I have really come to appreciate the cloak mode. It has the highest utility when you've been detected and you need to hide in plain sight and get the NKs off of your trail. If you sit still you can remain cloaked for a long time. I just wish there were a more effective melee weapon to sneak up on people with for the kill.
 
Very High shaders makes the most visual difference in the game but also hits fps pretty hard 🙁
I want my palm tree leaves to be individually rendered damnit!
 
Originally posted by: jack bauer
Just played the Crysis demo and can't get the game to run well over medium settings. My basic specs are: Opteron 170 OC @2.3, x1800xt 512, 2G ram. Seems it should run at least on high, and the game looks bad without high settings or DX10. I was looking foward all year for this. Anyone else having similar components and running it fine on high?
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I have a similar rig and it's unplayable on High, although beautiful. In fact, it's barely playable on Medium for me.
 
Originally posted by: RZaakir
10 hours for the average game was what I read not long ago (source: http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2...s_release_announced/1).

I just played through it without firing a single bullet. I had this great moment at the check point that Prophet tells you to blow up with grenades.

I snuck up right to the check point barbed wire with cloaking enabled and then recharged behind a rock on the right side. I then crawled right through the front opening, but one of the guards half-detected me (it's cool how they still indirectly sense you if you're too brash or careless with cloaking enabled) and I froze. The guard would not give up and holster his weapon so I stood up, decloaked into speed mode, and ran like hell.

Good times.

I have really come to appreciate the cloak mode. It has the highest utility when you've been detected and you need to hide in plain sight and get the NKs off of your trail. If you sit still you can remain cloaked for a long time. I just wish there were a more effective melee weapon to sneak up on people with for the kill.
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I ran through the game using my fists 😛

Stealth + Grabbing the Character (F key) + throw or melee (T key) = fun.
Also using Strength and just owning people in the face is great.

Things that would just make this game perfect:

1. Ability to use a person as a human shield. Not sure if this is actually possible already - just aim whatever person you're holding up in the direction of gunfire?

2. Ability to question enemies you're holding - would make for great dialogue.

3. Ability to whistle or make noise to get enemies to come to you.

Isn't your team leader voiced by the same guy who voices Lambert in the Splinter Cell series?
 
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