Originally posted by: Canai
Originally posted by: 40sTheme
Originally posted by: Piuc2020
Plus it's not like Crysis runs bad... it's just way ahead of it's time, the engine on Medium looks comparable to other engines (if not better) and runs just as well, high runs well too and looks absolutely stunning. Stop with the Crysis bitching.
Really? Medium looks barely passable by todays standards. TF2, Oblivion, etc all look better than Crysis on medium. The difference is, I can run TF2 with 3x3 Supersampling and Oblivion with 16xQ CSAA faster than Crysis on medium with no AA. Rig in sig.
You've got to be kidding... TF2 looks like crap compared to Crysis.
As for Oblivion, go into the forest in Oblivion, take a screen, then go into the forest in Crysis and take a screen. You'll see a huge difference. Now, if you were to take Oblivion at all max settings, and then find a config in Crysis that ran the same (roughly same average FPS), Crysis will put Oblivion to shame, no questions asked.
As far as you being able to run Oblivion and Source on max details, that's because they were designed around the DX9 era cards, eg. 8800/7900/x1900. Crysis is the next step. When some serious DX10 cards start coming out (I consider the 8800 series to be the pinnacle of DX9), then Crysis will finally be playable at very high settings.
The last point I want to make is that the Source engine is how many years old? Three, four? Oblivion engine is almost two years old, and the Crysis engine is just a few months old. Of course they're not going to run the same.