Crysis Demo Available for download
 

Cool. Downloading now. Looking forward to seeing this - hope my system can take it :P

My system took it on high settings, and it looks stunning. Also the suit adds some depth to the game. This is looking like a winner.

Very nice! The suit is cool and the claims of massive gameplay freedom don't seem to have been exaggerated at all. Looking forward to mid-Nov (as if I haven't been spoilt enough already in the last couple of months with Bioshock and the Orange Box :P).
What are your specs, Sdude? I ran it happily with all settings at Medium, but things are pretty choppy with all settings at High (and Very High pretty much brings my system to its knees, beats it into submission, and leaves it a whimpering mess in the corner).

I'm running in 1680x1050 on 64-bit Vista Premium with a factory oc'ed 8800GTS 640MB, 2gb RAM and a Core2Duo E6600 at stock settings.

I'd half expected my system to run this puppy a little more sweetly than it does. Not that it doesn't look gorgeous with Medium settings, but I'd love to squeeze a bit more out of it. Also, does anyone know if the demo has DX10 features enabled, or just DX9 (in which case, the final DX10 version will be even more taxing on my rig :frown: )?

I have an nVidia 8800 GTX 768 MB, 2 Gigs of Ram and Intel Core Duo 1.86 GHz. I t ran pretty smoothly on high settings, probably stuttered once or twice only, but I didn't dare put it on the very high settings. Don't want my machine to explode :D

Ah, I guess the GTX would help considerably. Might have to try my hand at a little overclocking before release date :D

Anyone else had a go at the demo yet? I thought the most impressive bits were the destructible environments and the water. Crytek have really gone all out with attention to detail again.

I may try and test it this evening. I'll be interested to see how it plays on my mere mortal's PC (Athlon 64 X2 3800+, 2Gb RAM, Geforce Go 7900, Windows Vista 32-bit)... ;)

The game's supposedly made to tax tomorrow's machines as well, so I wouldn't expect all that awesome performance on today's machines on some settings. Even if they cost you as much as a small car.

I'm reserving my judgement until I've actually played the game one day, but with all those other games out there I still utterly fail to see what's so rich about this that you'd need a machine like that. And in terms of visuals, there's apparently still objects popping up left and right. Maybe Crytek added mechanics, AI economy and a level of world simulation so deep you'd expect say maybe Looking Glass to implement if given today's technology, if they were still around that is. Ah, who am I kidding here? :D

What an insane size, just for a demo... 1813.9 MB :crazy:
Nobody in their right mind would download that much just to test a game, unless they are pretty sure they want it already.

Lol, apparently, many have downloaded this demo and it's worthwhile too.

The demo allows you to use the nanosuit in various objectives. One player's tactics will differ from another's, it all depends on how you decide to tackle the situation. I'm personally doing the stealth aspect of the game. The second ttime around, I'll be more aggressive and use the firepower I know I'm capable of creating with the surrounding environmental objects at my disposal.

The auto detect set my rig at HIGH so I went with that, no AA and gamed at a resolution of 1920x1200, XP 32-bit. The game ran smoothly and looked gorgeous ---almost photorealistic.

I've read about people trying DX10-mode with everything maxed, and it just doesn't work. under 20 FPS on 8800GTX'es (and [email protected], 4GB overclocked RAM etc. etc.).

I think I'll wait a couple of years until I have the money to buy a computer that has a chance (in hell) of running it like it's supposed to look. I'm sure the game is pretty damn solid though. Too bad I'm lagging in the technology-department as of late.

Eh, why not? I can spare my bandwidth for a couple of hours.

Farcry vs Crysis. *shrugs* Since the latter game can eat quad core CPUs and 500 bucks video cards for breakfast, I just.. dunno. Alas, maybe Crysis is really simulating amazing stuff like winds and nose hair moving accordingly. What the heck, I think I'm gonna give that demo a go. I mean, who DOESN'T want to know what the fuss is all about? :D

Well, the DX10 shots look very movie-like.

The demo is definitely an awful lot like Far Cry, even down to the hammy voice acting for the main character :D. Still, there was a significant amount of awesomeness in Far Cry, so similarities aren't unwelcome as far as I'm concerned.

And I reckon the water alone is worth the price of admission - I'd be happy to doggy paddle around those bays for hours just admiring the water effects. :9~

I have been researching Far Cry and Crytek's work for a while now, and really like FC. They have worked all out with major commitment of assets on Crysis, and have pushed the envelope in lots of ways I hear. They talkes about a virtually infiinite game world, so that you could fly a plane around the world in the game...dont know if that came off in the end but it was fun to hear about. I have an older system than most mentioned here, so dont expect to see a lot of the top effects but it is good to see this major effort finally coming to us soon.

Heh, downloading this beast right now as I write this.

I'm expecting good framerate with the lowest possible settings. Tomorrow evening I'll test this and give you my thoughts about it.

I'm downloading this this evening (yay for fast university connections), but I won't get to play it for a while :frown:.

HOLY SH.... :crazy: I'm taking a lot of what I said back. Like right now. At first I wasn't super impressed, although the foliage sure looked spiffy. It is true however, you can make out polygons still easily, especially on rocks, objects DO pop up left and right, and the texture detail could use some work as well. The game suggested I should run the game with everything set to medium, and so I do. Anyway, I thought it looked good, like I expecte it to. That was BEFORE sunrise. And then I saw:


Bushes and foliage that actually BENDS once you touch it?
Animals that react to you accordingly? I tried to chase a bunch of weird birds into the water, but they refused to do that. Although scared silly by me running after them, they must be even more afraid to get wet. Weird birdies. :D
The outline of shadows that break accordingly on grass, every surface, etc.?
Logs of woods you can push down the hills, and dozens of objects you can interact with which in general just behave like you'd imagine they would? I threw a dead chicken into the sea close to the shore and its body actually moved back and forth with the tide!
An island that is like friggin' huge and just feels like a real place instead of some map with "END OF LEVEL" signs and invisible walls everywhere?
It's all quite amazing.

And then I really like the open approach to gameplay, always did. It's like the exact opposite of Half Life. Admittedly I spent like hours just walking the island, it's like holiday, and apparently game makers are scaringly fast approaching something that indeed looks like photo-realism. I think I'd buy an entire game that has you just walking a dozen finely crafted islands like that. :D The best part though, is that although the intro sequence seemed to struggle every once in a while, the game runs quite FINE on my cheapo 8600GT card (overclocked to 620/800) in 1024x768 pixels.

Hey simps, I found out that setting the texture quality to high doesn't seem to have any significant impact on my performance at all, and I'm running a 256 megs card.. sweet, that. You should be able to do that as well. What seems to have the biggest impact is the "shader quality" setting... With everything set to low the game looks far worse than Farcry while still demanding a far more powerful computer to run.

I'll download the latest ForceWare driver (169.01) Nvidia released for this demo just to see what's cookin'. :)

Thanks, man. Yeah, I played around with the settings after my last post and and managed to get most things running on High at 1680x1050, so I was pretty happy with it. Like you say, Shaders Quality, Shadows, and Volumetric Effects seem to be the ones that most significantly affect framerates.

Forceware driver 169.01 supposedly gives quite a performance boost - people are reporting framerate jumps from mid-30s to mid-40s once the new driver is installed. Unfortunately, I'm one of the growing crowd of people for whom Crysis just won't run under x64 with the 169.01 driver (the DirectX 9 mode works fine, but it just isn't the same :P), so I've had to roll back my driver to the previous version. I assume it'll all be sorted out by the time the release date comes around.

@ your service. :D You know all these people who don't have the money to go on holidays each weekend? I see a possible market gap here. I mean, I find the whole thing just pretty convincing as is on my card. A couple of more months down the road every household will have a PC like that. Think of the money one could make off this virtual holiday simulator! Crysis:Honolulu, Crysis:Crete, Crysis:Monkey Island... This was supposed to be fun, but only half-way. I'm spending way too much time just shuffling around whenever I fire this up. :crazy:

My fav spot is when you reach the first Korean encampent (when the sun goes up) and you walk left instead of right where the road leads to the middle of the island, you keep on walking and reach a dead end. Turning in its direction, you get a pretty sweet view on the bay, you can make out some smallish islands and the opposite site of the island a few kilometres away. And upon turning around again and seeing the trees and bushes and grass behind you, you're almost convinced you are right there.. on that island somewhere far, far away. Ahem. :D

So how are you guys liking the demo? I not too much into the "sneak around, hide and shoot" FPS game like COD, Rainbow Six (I'm more of a Jericho, UT, Quake type of guy :) ) but Crysis seems to be really cool. Not sure about the alien setting but it seems like fun.

I tried the start of the demo and it was breathtaking, I had everything on low details, but it ran like a dream on my PC.

Still this seems way too technological, to fully enjoy a product like this, you need to buy a powerhouse of a pc.

Finally got around to running this.

If I run everything on low settings (apart from Medium textures and couple of other slight enhancements), I can get it playable. Which is really silly, and yet it means that this is probably going on my Christmas list...

This game just didn't do it for me. Maybe it was the stupid American VS the Other - in this case, North Koreans, typical of a game like this to make money from all the hysteria regarding such a country.
It also seemed like a souped up version of Far Cry. Ah, hell, just seemed like another 'better graphics, remotely better AI' FPS.
Unfortunately the demo is sneaky in not allowing me to play the game with the ultimate settings. But from what I got from the second highest option available, it didn't seem anything less than Quake 4.

I think I'll go for Bioshock instead.

Try at least to set the shader settings to medium, everything lower and you could go as well with Farcry (which looks much better then). I found that if I set the "object detail" setting to low the issue with objects popping up gets worse, and some details seem to disappear completely, but then I can run the demo on shader quality set to high. Visually, the shader settings make by far the biggest difference... Reports have it that the full is much more demanding than the demo occasionally.


You haven't played it already? :pan: Good game. Has absolutely nothing in common with Crysis, though. Well, except that you're carrying a gun every once in a while. Still, from what I filtered through the Crysis demo, at least in terms of gameplay and depth to it I actually like that better.

Also, the world in Crysis is much more believable, that is, in how far it goes to really pull you in. Bioshock is full of invisible stop signs everywhere. It doesn't even allow me to step into water once there seems to be an opportunity to do so. It pulls off the cheapest of tricks possible to prevent me to: Invisible walls that restrict me to jump over railings, etc. And that in a game set below the sea. The PC version doesn't even allow you to WALK. Seeing what school of awesomeness Irrational did graduate at, that was a little weird to see. Now I start comparing myself, what crap, really. By all means, go out and buy it now! :D

What? I spent some time walking in water in Bioshock.

I don't mind how it looks, but then I'm not actually that interested in Crysis for the graphics (if I was, I'd be after a new PC now). Something about the gameplay feels much better in this than it did in Far Cry. Possibly helped by a) the existence of an easy mode that's actually pretty straightforward and b) quick saves.

I played the demo. I was about to buy it but found out the PC version has adware. I'm waiting for the price to go right down and find out if there's a way of playing this without all the adware installed.

Game was ok. Reminded me of Psychonauts for some reason. Seemed a lil different to a lot of FPSs. But the constant darkness was a nuisance more than heightening the experience.

:crazy: Adware??

What are you talking about Terramax? It surely has no Adware.

It was some sort of extra program that tracks the sites you go on, allows the company to hack into your cpu, etc, just in the same way EA's War 2095 or whatever it was called did.

I remember a few internet sites and amazon reviews saying stuff about it.

Bioshock has a fairly strict copy protection system (SecuRom, not StarForce), but definitely no adware.

OK, it doesn't have adware. I looked it up, and there's the reports offcloacked RootKits, Drive-Blockers, temperamental installations ...none of which is clearly marked on the product description!!

Another tells that there's no exe. programme on the disc, so technically the disc doesn't include the game.

Then there's the story that you only have 5 'credits' - 5 times to install the game. If you uninstall, you're supposed to get a credit back, but this isn't always the case.

And then there's the fear of whether authentication servers are still being run in years time.

Actually, on second thought, I think I'll buy neither.