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#1 12-01-2008 11:28:51
The Crysis Hardware Experiment by Crytek - with Videos!
The Crysis Hardware Experiment
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Greetings Community,
The Experiment
Over Christmas we took the time for a little in-house experiment. With only a limited budget of around US $900 we wanted to set up a brand new machine that can handle Crysis on High settings. We should note that Very High settings are reserved to keep Crysis future-proofed, just like Ultra was in Far Cry.
Together with EA we looked in shops around the world and bought the hardware parts to put together our machine starting from scratch. While we had a budget in mind, we wanted to still make sure this machine would have top-notch hardware such as a multicore processor or a DirectX10 graphics card.
The Videos
As you’ll see from the 8 minutes of video we recorded, Crysis looks absolute fabulous on High settings with this configuration and runs very smoothly on a 1280x720 resolution. They show different locations from the Crysis Singleplayer Campaign with everything set to High.
- Download – Video 1 (inCrysis mirror)
- Download – Video 2 (inCrysis mirror)
- Download – Video 3 (inCrysis mirror)
- Download – Video 4 (inCrysis mirror)
The Configuration
Below you find a rough list of parts we purchased so you can see and check for yourself about the total costs of such a high-end computer. The prices may vary from country to country, but overall the costs should be within the same range (shipping included).
CPU Intel Core2Duo E6750
GPU GeForce 8800GT 512MB
Motherboard NVIDIA nForce 650i Socket 775
PSU 600W ATX12V
RAM 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit
HDD SATA 250GB 7200RPM
DVD 20x DVD±R Burner
Case ATX Midi Tower Computer Case
OS Microsoft Windows XP Home with SP2
The Message
With this experiment we have shown that Crysis runs smoothly and provides and amazing, unparalleled performance on High settings and on an affordable machine that is readily available today.
We know most of you already have a great base to work with, so compare your current hardware with the setup mentioned above and consider an affordable upgrade – you do not have to purchase a new machine. Crysis is very scalable and looks great on Medium settings compared to current next-gen games.
Your Hardware?
Of course we would like to know what kind of hardware you are running the game on and how it is running. We encourage you to run a benchmark test in Crysis which you can share afterwards with the members of your favorite Crysis forum (which you can do by starting here).
Regards,
-Crysis Dev Team
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#2 12-01-2008 12:05:48
- -LinkinPark-
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Re: The Crysis Hardware Experiment by Crytek - with Videos!
lol 
.. show-off's !! j/k
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#3 12-01-2008 12:06:32
- deafgamer
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Re: The Crysis Hardware Experiment by Crytek - with Videos!
Ahem.... links don't work....
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#4 12-01-2008 12:10:20
- CrY51S
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Re: The Crysis Hardware Experiment by Crytek - with Videos!
they encourage us to post a bench? why didn't they post a benchmark?
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#5 12-01-2008 12:16:21
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yep some screens and benchmarks would be great i dont have the bandwith left to download the vids
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#7 12-01-2008 12:32:11
- diaz
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Re: The Crysis Hardware Experiment by Crytek - with Videos!
Yeah, dont work for me either...
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#8 12-01-2008 12:32:36
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Re: The Crysis Hardware Experiment by Crytek - with Videos!
My $600 computer plays it smoothly on medium so i figure getting it to run on high for $900 should be easy. Take that all you people who say crysis takes a fortune to run!
Im a PC fanboy and I know it!!!
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#9 12-01-2008 12:35:42
- CrY51S
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Re: The Crysis Hardware Experiment by Crytek - with Videos!
Mocib wrote:
deafgamer wrote:
Ahem.... links don't work....
Works for me.
inCrysis mirrors coming up. Total file size for the videos is 900MB.
Http/1.1 NS Internal Server Error 11
900 for them all? or per video( stupid question ,sleepy i never had a coffee yet this morn)
Last edited by CrY51S (12-01-2008 12:37:28)
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#11 12-01-2008 12:53:58
- CrY51S
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Re: The Crysis Hardware Experiment by Crytek - with Videos!
yeah just gives a 74 byte .mov
I wonder why they are being so adamant on stressing using high settings. plays fine on very high for me on my rig. the last few news post regarding them stressed using high settings. I just can't go to high knowing there is a better setting. lol
Last edited by CrY51S (12-01-2008 12:56:03)
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#12 12-01-2008 12:58:31
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Links working fine for me; I just can't download them because I have 56k lol....
I built my computer 2 years ago; and it was quite good at the time; near top of the line. I only spent $650 on it at the time aswell. I used one of those ugly tan monitors for awhile aswell as a tan ball mouse and keyboard from an old PII machine I had. I had bought things every now and then; such as a Zalman VGA cooler, G5 Logitech mouse, Sound blaster Audigy II Platinum Pro, Logitech 5.1 Surround Sound, and a 19" Hanns-G Widescreen LCD monitor, with no ghosting whatsoever. 
Upgraded my CPU, GPU, and RAM, totaling about $270 for all three.
I run Crysis at 1440x900 High with Very High tweaks, with an average of 30 FPS. Best FPS I've gotten so far.
This patch is a beautiful thing.
I've also invested in a Thermalright Ultra-90 CPU cooler; which was $25 not including the fan.
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#13 12-01-2008 13:04:01
- Doomlord52
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Re: The Crysis Hardware Experiment by Crytek - with Videos!
cant dowload any of them... the link just says "connecting..." i let it sit for 30min, and i was still on the IC page, with the TAB at the top saying "connecting..."
THe IC MIRROR doesnt work, it gives me some "page not found" error.,
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#14 12-01-2008 13:23:29
- CrY51S
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Re: The Crysis Hardware Experiment by Crytek - with Videos!
UltimaRage wrote:
Links working fine for me; I just can't download them because I have 56k lol....
I built my computer 2 years ago; and it was quite good at the time; near top of the line. I only spent $650 on it at the time aswell. I used one of those ugly tan monitors for awhile aswell as a tan ball mouse and keyboard from an old PII machine I had. I had bought things every now and then; such as a Zalman VGA cooler, G5 Logitech mouse, Sound blaster Audigy II Platinum Pro, Logitech 5.1 Surround Sound, and a 19" Hanns-G Widescreen LCD monitor, with no ghosting whatsoever.
Upgraded my CPU, GPU, and RAM, totaling about $270 for all three.
I run Crysis at 1440x900 High with Very High tweaks, with an average of 30 FPS. Best FPS I've gotten so far.
This patch is a beautiful thing.
I've also invested in a Thermalright Ultra-90 CPU cooler; which was $25 not including the fan.
it really saves money if you build your self and are smart about what parts and where you buy. the rig in my sig that I built this week cost me 570 bucks Canadian. not including my 22 inch monitor. playing Crysis everything very high 1280x 1024 with 41 fps average. patch 1.1 forceware 169.25, on Vista SP1 RC....... on 1600x 1200 i can still get 28 to 30 FPS
Last edited by CrY51S (12-01-2008 13:27:03)
CPU:AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ OC'ed to 2.8 Ghz cooled by a Zalman CNPS9500 GPU: XFX 8800 GT 512 mb XT Alpha Dog Edition. MOBO: Gigabyte GA-MA69GM-S2H. Ram: Mushkin HP DDR2-800 4GB. OS: Vista Ultimate
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#15 12-01-2008 13:26:04
Re: The Crysis Hardware Experiment by Crytek - with Videos!
Doomlord52 wrote:
THe IC MIRROR doesnt work, it gives me some "page not found" error.,
That's weird. I have now finished uploading two of the videos to the iC server and both of the links work fine.
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#16 12-01-2008 13:31:43
- CrY51S
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Re: The Crysis Hardware Experiment by Crytek - with Videos!
The mirror is working for me now. thanks Mocib
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#17 12-01-2008 13:42:30
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Re: The Crysis Hardware Experiment by Crytek - with Videos!
the incrysis mirrors work fine, but I think we killed the EA servers 
are there mirrors coming for the first 2 files?
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#18 12-01-2008 13:47:53
Re: The Crysis Hardware Experiment by Crytek - with Videos!
jay wrote:
are there mirrors coming for the first 2 files?
Um... sure. I drag 'n dropped the 4 files to FileZilla and it decided to upload them in another order.
Video #1 is 89% done.
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#19 12-01-2008 14:05:35
- thatoneguy24
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Re: The Crysis Hardware Experiment by Crytek - with Videos!
yeah none of the links work for me... however, all the IC mirrors worked so its all good!
the videos look very impressive... it def doesnt help me in trying to resist the 8800gt. any chance we could get some benchmarks of the experiment system?
thanks mocib!
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#20 12-01-2008 14:51:16
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Re: The Crysis Hardware Experiment by Crytek - with Videos!
Just wondering, how do you record game videos without affecting performance and fps at all?
Anyone? Maybe a dongle between the DVI/VGA-out and the monitor? that is then connected to another PC to do live recording?
If anyone knows, please let me know,
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