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The newly released system requirements for Crytek and EA’s upcoming PC FPS Crysis are sure to please only a select group of PC gamers: those who strive to have the fastest system available no matter the cost or apparent need for such an obscenely powerful rig.
Those who have upgraded or bought a PC to play games over the last few years should be able to play Crysis with the minimum requirements being fairly steep but not uncommon.
Minimum System Requirements:
OS–Windows XP or Windows Vista
Processor–2.8GHz or faster (XP); 3.2GHz or faster (Vista)
Memory–1GB RAM or 1.5GB RAM (Vista)
Video Card–256MB – NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT + or similar
Hard Drive–12GB
Sound Card DirectX 9.0c compatible
It’s the recommended system requirements that really separate the men from the boys though, with a dual core processor and a NVIDIA 8800 needed to get the most from Crysis.
Recommended System Requirements:
OS–Windows XP / Vista
Processor–Intel Core 2 DUO @ 2.2GHz
Memory–2GB RAM
GPU–NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS/640 or similar
Speaking to GameSpot, Crytek CEO Cevat Yerli explained that gamers with the minimum requirements will get visuals on par with a game roughly three years old.
“The quality of Crysis running on [minimum spec hardware] does equal the shading and texture quality of games that are about three years old, but with polygonal detail that is bigger then games from that same generation. The scaling happens in various areas, such as shading-quality, texture-resolution, shadows. View distance and interactivity are close to Far Cry,” said Yerli.
Commenting on the high system requirements, specifically on whether or not this would hamper sales, Yerli noted: “We are not afraid, since we know by statistics from our partners like Nvidia and Intel and from PC manufactures the base to play our game is theoretically bigger than the consoles, plus we hope Crysis inspires people to play at very high configurations that–like in the past with top-tier titles–usually required you to upgrade your PC.“
Crysis is scheduled for release only on PC on November 16.
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