Results tagged “Crysis” from Birmingham Mail - Technobabble

The new computer-killer on PC, as many gamers have discovered to their cost is Crysis.
Many people used to mega-high frames per second rates on their huge widescreen flatscreens were horrified as the latest title was reduced to a slideshow at high detail levels.
People who lashed out massive wads of cash on their rig realised a crucial fact which has been covered up by the graphics card manufacturers - DirectX 10 does not work very well on their equipment.
So all those people who spend half their lives running synthetic benchmarks, while overclocking their components, have realised they have got obsolescent kit - and they can't buy their way out of it.
A friend of mine recently lashed out an eye-watering amount on a PC which included an Intel QX9650 cpu, and two 9800x2 graphics cards in SLI.
He installed Crysis and, not unreasonably, expected it to sing and dance on his 2560x1600 screen with at least 60fps rates. Er, sadly not and the most he could eke out was 40fps at medium settings, which is reasonable, but not that fast.
So with a cpu retailing for £630 and two just released graphics cards at £375 EACH, the newest DX10 games struggle a bit. Don't forget in the Hexus review I linked to above the 9800X2 absolutely batters every other card on the market into submission.
I wait to see what, if any, changes in terms of new hardware are on the horizon - but this certainly shows that flinging money at an 'enthusiast' system is not necessarily the right solution to the current problem.
It actually puts me in mind of the last real 'computer killer' - Far Cry. That wouldn't just work slowly on lower end systems - it wouldn't work at all. And it inspired me to build my first computer - a system based around the hot at the time Athlon 64 4000 and 6800GT graphics card.