The Crysis 2 PC Demo Gets A Spec List
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Anyone else remember that Penny Arcade comic where Tycho goes off to rebuild his PC in advance of Crysis’ release? Well, the necessary specs to run the Crysis 2 demo on PC have only recently emerged, and while you won’t be needing any “hyperconductive thinking aluminum” or “denimite mem-shards” like Tycho did, oddly enough, you won’t even be needing a particularly potent computer to run Crysis 2.
Here’s the rundown: you’ll be needing Windows XP, which pretty much everybody has by now and many even prefer, though it’ll also run on Vista and 7. You’ll need a Core 2 Duo processor minimum running at two GHz, or an AMD Athlon 64 x2 at the same speed.
Further, you’ll need two gig of RAM, as well as nine gigs of hard drive space, an 8x DVD drive, a DirectX 9.0c compatible audio system, and at least an Nvidia 8800GT or an ATI 3850HD, both with 512 meg.
See what I mean? It’s really not that egregious a hardware profile, which is determinedly odd given how the last time we saw Crysis it had die-hard geeks freaking out all over, even leading to the aforementioned Penny Arcade cartoon in which components from other dimensions were required.
Perhaps the folks out at EA actually learned from previous mistakes and toned down the hardware requirements so that monodimensional mortals like most of the population of Earth could actually play the thing. That would be great, if that were the case, and I choose to believe that’s just what happened. Either way, though, from the looks of it most anyone will be able to walk into the Crysis 2 demo and get started, and if you can’t, well, there are always good possibilities for new computers out there. Turning once again to Best Buy reveals several species of computer ready to do the job with a little boost in the graphics card department.
So if you’re ready for a chunk of new game, make sure your hardware is up to snuff and then get ready to go! This is, of course, why I console game. No one ever asks if your Xbox 360 has enough RAM to handle some game or another. But then, that’s me.
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These are the minimum specs required, ya’ll – and you’ll be interested to see they are virtually identical to those originally recommended by Crytek for the original.
The game looks better then crysis 1 and run better actually. No its not magic. The first crysis was almost just foliage, which is more complex and harder to render then nyc buildings. On a visual stand of point, building will look better and the city will have bigger depth then the jungle of crysis1. On the technical point rendering building is a joke so the technical simplicity of crysis 2 is whats helping alot.
Michael–what a difference a few years makes, huh? Back then a setup like this would’ve beggared people. Today it’s a Best Buy special.
Bob–I second that. I may be a console gamer by heart but I know sweet graphics when I see them.
Lol, they didn’t reduce the specs. They had no intention of developing it for a PC. They have developed it for consoles and are porting it to the pc.
Even thought they have dialed it down for consoles the 360 still can’t cope. Most PC’s nowadays are a far higher spec than the average console and should fly with this game.
Well, Crysis 2 will have better graphics than 1 and can do it with a less intese jump in need for graphics powet because of compression & efficiency software, CryEngine3 rocks.
Crysis 1 was a PC game, and the developers at Crytek knew that in order to make money, they had to adjust towards the console market. That said, Crysis 2 will still have the best gameplay. As for the computer graphics wars, everyone knows that’s coming to an end. Crysis 2 is almost photorealistic and, as the author stated, does not have highly demanding requirements.
Not to hate on you console guys, but my 6 gig RAM Asus will have far, far better quality than a 360.
The ONE technology that Crysis 2 is releasing that almost no one has is 3D, which is insane.
The gameplay will be undoubtably better than COD, players will actually think about what to equip, how to conserve energy, and what suit powers to use. Under barrel holograms and goggles that make enemies’ footprints glow? YES! I’m really glad that Crysis 2 will only have 6 player multiplayer though, they have found a way to do the impossible: make a balanced multiplayer that makes everyone feel like a god. I hope it all flows together!!!
I’m a graphics whore and i want my super sharp textures,Shadows and Models.
:D
Scalability is Crytek’s trademark but seems to good to be true that the dev’s could pull off the eye candy quality of the xbox 360 demo build for a humble PC. If it’s done, would be the technical achievement of the year.
Game runs beautifully on my midlow range setup on a gtx 260.
I was surpirsed running maxed out 30-60fps.
They toned down hardware reqs, because graphics were toned down too.
Crysis 2 doesnt have better graphics, they set it up on a city environment so that comparison was imposible, but the reality is a console would never be capable of processing the jungle a few of us were able to inmerse in.
Anything can handle the city. Buildings require a lot less processing power to render than jungle.