I'm afraid of Crysis/Alan Wake

StinkyMojo

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Let's say I slap in a 8800/R600 in the rig in my sig.. most likely a 8800GTS 320mb playing at 1680x1050 noAA/AF. Do you think my system will get torn apart by these games regardless of the vid card upgrade? I'm kind of worried about my cpu.
Thanks in advance!

PS: 2.41GHz is the fastest I can go.. I tried everything...
 

Cheex

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Shouldn't be too bad. After all, I'm an Intel guy but I won't be biased. Core 2 Duo kicks that to the curb but that still isn't anything to go soft over.

You'll be fine.
 

ShOcKwAvE827

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you should be fine. Nowhere close to highest details, but it should look pretty good. Probably have to bump the resolution down for those games. I don't know if anything will play it at highest details very fast though :p
 

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Hell, I plan on playing Crysis on my X2 3800 2.4ghz, X850XT, and 2gb of DDR480. Low graphics or not, gameplay looks amazing.
 

Conky

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Originally posted by: wazzledoozle
Hell, I plan on playing Crysis on my X2 3800 2.4ghz, X850XT, and 2gb of DDR480. Low graphics or not, gameplay looks amazing.
Yep, it doesn't make a lot of sense to worry about a game not out and how it's gonna run on your rig.

It should run on most enthusiast's systems right now or it will not be a popular game.

I don't know why game company's have to keep pushing up the hardware requirements... if I ran a game publishing corporation I would make all the lazy programmers make that stuff run on old computers too, lol.

 

thilanliyan

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Originally posted by: Conky
I don't know why game company's have to keep pushing up the hardware requirements... if I ran a game publishing corporation I would make all the lazy programmers make that stuff run on old computers too, lol.

Like HL2 back in the day. Ran very well on my 9600XT.
 

f4phantom2500

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Originally posted by: thilan29
Originally posted by: Conky
I don't know why game company's have to keep pushing up the hardware requirements... if I ran a game publishing corporation I would make all the lazy programmers make that stuff run on old computers too, lol.

Like HL2 back in the day. Ran very well on my 9600XT.

I think they pretty much had to make it run well on a 9600XT since ATI was giving out those "Free HL2" coupons with the 9600 and 9800 XT's.
 

eojinlim

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I think Crysis is going to take a humungous step in terms of what kind of rig you need.
 

deadseasquirrel

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Originally posted by: StinkyMojo
Let's say I slap in a 8800/R600 in the rig in my sig.. most likely a 8800GTS 320mb playing at 1680x1050 noAA/AF. Do you think my system will get torn apart by these games regardless of the vid card upgrade? I'm kind of worried about my cpu.

These games don't even have solid release days set yet. I definitely wouldn't worry about something that might not be released in the next 9 months.

That being said, for gaming at 1680x1050, I'd put any extra you were thinking about spending in a CPU upgrade toward the GTX (or, by that time, 8900gtx or even ATI's high-end). I can't say much about Alan Wake as I don't have much to compare it to... but Crysis is still an FPS and at higher resolutions a CPU upgrade might net you 5-10% gain, while the move from a GTS320 to a GTX would be huge.

Again, I'd wait to worry until at least demo benchmarks arrive. After all, there were people wondering what to upgrade their machine to in order to play STALKER back in 2003.
 
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I agree it's pointless to worry about a game that is at least 4 months or more from shipping. I would be more worried about my video card then being CPU limited by a fast dual core cpu.
 

Griswold

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Considering that what we've seen of Crysis so far wasnt even D3D10 glory, just D3D9 stuff (read that in a paper zine interview with Crytek's CEO Cevat Yerli), it may not be too far fetched to assume that the video card (G80/R600) will be more limiting than your CPU if the game runs in all its D3D10 glory.

At any rate, worrying about crossing a bridge before you come to it is pointless.
 

Boyo

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Originally posted by: A554SS1N
Thread Hijack - is a 3800+ single core likely to be Ok?

It will be okay too, but maybe a bottleneck.
 

Munky

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I don't believe the cpu requirements will be anything as high as people suspect. I'd like to be proven wrong when the games come out so I can finally see some benefit in games from that second core I have, but I'm skeptical. If those games will require massive cpu power, they better have some massive improvement in physics modeling to justify those requirements.
 

kurt454

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Originally posted by: A554SS1N
Thread Hijack - is a 3800+ single core likely to be Ok?

Actually, the developers of Alan Wake say a dual core is required for their game. I doubt it will be released in 2007, though.
 

SolMiester

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Originally posted by: kurt454
Originally posted by: A554SS1N
Thread Hijack - is a 3800+ single core likely to be Ok?

Actually, the developers of Alan Wake say a dual core is required for their game. I doubt it will be released in 2007, though.

Didnt they demo some scenes using Quad core?
 

StinkyMojo

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Originally posted by: nyker96
dont make no sense to buy all that stuff just to play these 2 games.

Personally, I like to play my games at full settings. I want the full experience that the developer is aiming to give us.
 

kurt454

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Originally posted by: SolMiester
Originally posted by: kurt454
Originally posted by: A554SS1N
Thread Hijack - is a 3800+ single core likely to be Ok?

Actually, the developers of Alan Wake say a dual core is required for their game. I doubt it will be released in 2007, though.

Didnt they demo some scenes using Quad core?

Yes they did. Dual core is the minimum required. One core just for the physics.
 

thecoolnessrune

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Originally posted by: f4phantom2500
Originally posted by: thilan29
Originally posted by: Conky
I don't know why game company's have to keep pushing up the hardware requirements... if I ran a game publishing corporation I would make all the lazy programmers make that stuff run on old computers too, lol.

Like HL2 back in the day. Ran very well on my 9600XT.

I think they pretty much had to make it run well on a 9600XT since ATI was giving out those "Free HL2" coupons with the 9600 and 9800 XT's.

Heck even I was able to enjoy the HL2 experience with my GeForece 4 MX 420 :D. 40fps, 800x600 all low or off. Maybe not the prettiest, but it still looked darn good. And I bought the game for the gameplay anyways.
 

A554SS1N

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Originally posted by: kurt454
Originally posted by: SolMiester
Originally posted by: kurt454
Originally posted by: A554SS1N
Thread Hijack - is a 3800+ single core likely to be Ok?

Actually, the developers of Alan Wake say a dual core is required for their game. I doubt it will be released in 2007, though.

Didnt they demo some scenes using Quad core?

Yes they did. Dual core is the minimum required. One core just for the physics.

Damn, looks like i won't be playing it for another 4 years then - I'm not upgrading for just that game. They've lost a sale for now.
 

munisgtm

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keeping up with PC game requirements is very hard indeed , you just feel the need for the best thing...