Crysis advisor.

[liambl]

I remember a while back I got an email from nVidia (I think) giving a link to a webpage that would have an animated character from Crysis scan your PC and tell you if you can run the game. I can't seem to find this anywhere, does anyone know where I can find it?

[David M]

I could not find what you described but perhaps the Crysis benchmark will help?

http://downloads.guru3d.com/HardwareOC-Crysis-Benchmark-v1.1.1.0-download-1885.html#download This is guaranteed to bring even the fastest rigs to their knees. I think though that this benchmark will give you a much better idea than you have now. It's certainly better than a yes or no answer given what some minimum requirements are: "Yeah right...Vista will run on that small an amount of RAM and that slow of a CPU"

Whether or not a computer will work with Crysis is a little subjective. It depends on what kind of frame rates you consider tolerable, screen resolution you prefer and how much eye candy you prefer.

Personally, I think the minimum speed graphics card would be a single 512 8800GT. I have tried with less and the frame rates are just ridiculously slow, even with the eye candy turned all the way down at 1024X768. That is just my opinion of course...some people are able to tolerate slower frame rates than I. I was down to 15 FPS at times in the part of the game where there is no gravity, with my rig. It was necessary to drop the screen resolution way down in order to get through that part. This is one of those games though that has so much elaborate detail that you don't want to have to play it at Super Mario Bros resolutions.

Here is an idea of the cards that are faster and slower than the 512 8800GT http://www23.tomshardware.com/graphics_2007.html

[Captn]

Well my 2 8800GTS(G92) 512's should be here on Friday with 2 copies of Crysis...hehe. I hope it runs the game at a playable framerate. What is the avg you're getting?

[Jimmy0]

This might not be exactly it, but is something similar.

http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/referrer/srtest

[David M]

Well my 2 8800GTS(G92) 512's should be here on Friday with 2 copies of Crysis...hehe. I hope it runs the game at a playable framerate. What is the avg you're getting?

Right now mine is limited by my cheapo CPU...yours should do much better. We will have the same graphics cards. Yours will be much more than barely playable.

[liambl]

I kinda really want the animated thing because it was quite funny when I ran it on my laptop. He said "Damn... integrated graphics !?!?. There is no way in hell you are going to run this game on that sad excuse of a graphics card." I'm interested to see what he would say about my 9600GT and my friend wants to see what he'd say about his 2600XT. The animation itself was very complicated and took a good minute to load on a 4M connection. The graphics were much like Crysis on high. I wonder where it went.

[glc]

I built a machine for my grandkids for Christmas with a E2180, 2 gigs ram, XP, and a X1650GT. My son in law tells me that it will in fact play Crysis. No, I don't know how WELL it plays it, but he didn't seem to be complaining.

[hitchface]

Crysis is quite similar to FSX in this regard. I know the demo is rarely the same as the full version, but I played the demo on my rig, all settings on high save shaders, and got about 20 fps. I run a 7600GS, 2 gigs of RAM and an X2 4200+ CPU. It isn't a great system by today's gaming standards, but it outplays other, more expensive rigs in both Crysis and FSX. Take a look on THW for the video card charts. A 7600GS whoops the tail off of something like an HD3870 in FSX, and the performance gained by having an 8800GT or similar is negligible. This is all under DX9, by the way.

[liambl]

Oh well, it looks like the site has gone. Its not like I need it, I own a copy of Crysis and can run it even on my laptop (DX9, 800x600, everything low except physics on high and model and water detail on medium) and I get about 25fps in a firefight, not bad I guess. My desktop can run it on high at 1280x1024 (DX9) fine. I wonder what FPS a 2600XT would get. It probably could run it on medium fine.