Crysis Demo is out!!

[z3r010]

Just downloading now :D

Crysis by Electronic Arts

Be warned its 1.77GB, so my take upto 15mins to download

 

[coolchris]

Nice one. Downloading now...

 

[z3r010]

Just installing, it takes longer to install than download lol

Oh its just finished...lets hope the baby stays asleep long enough for me to have a game.

 

[Brink]

Great News !

Downloading Crysis now to, but it is estimating 1hr 19min @ 388KB/Sec.

Damn slow cable. (LOL)

Shawn

 

[z3r010]

Graphics are fantastic, I was impressed by UT3 the other day but this is something else. its a little jumpy on my 8600 so it looks like I might have to have another crack at getting the SLI going.

One thing I did notice on my system is that no shortcut were created, I had to go and start it from the bin64 folder in the game directory.

 

[z3r010]

I have just installed the latest 169.01 Nvidia drivers and the jumpyness has almost gone, SLI is now working in my system for everything but Crysis which just hangs while loading in SLI mode

 

[z3r010]

After a little more playing I can start the game with SLi enabled but only via the 32bit exe

 

[coolchris]

Yer, cannot get this to work in 64bit and its the only OS Ive got. The multiplayer worked fine. Damn!

 

[z3r010]

did you try the exe from the bin32 directory?

 

[coolchris]

Done it. What i did was use DX9 in the right click options in the Game Directory. Just played a bit of it and I like it. Will play a little more after Dinner..

 

[Asky]

^coolchris hows the 8600GTS Handling Crysis ?
I hope it runs fine on my X1900GT

 

[Brink]

Asky,

It's running fine on my puny integrated ATI Radeon X200. Even though it runs in Low quality mode, the graphics still look great and smooth.

Shawn

 

[Asky]

hmm guess itll run fine (Low~Mediu Quality on mine then).
Now,the biiger headache - downloading the 1.77GB installation

 

[Snake3yes]

Just installed but having problems running it. It crashes in 32bit mode when i get to the game and it locks up at the "Dont do naughty things" screen on 64bit mode.

The settings automatically went to "VERY HIGH" just need to get the damn thing running now!

 

[Asky]

i think it may be due to the Broken SLI in Vista.
(Not sure if Nvidia has fixed the SLI issue with a recent driver,I may be wrong here) but just a thought.

Hope it works out for ya!

 

[Snake3yes]

Ok utterly bizzare. I decided to turn the game to medium settings, ran the 32bit app (the 64bit wont work at all). A couple of things ive found out.

1) Antialiasing doenst work at all.
2) Starting the game on medium settings works fine
3) Turning settings to very high one by one also works fine
4) Starting the game on very high cause it to crash
5) SLi works fine

Bloomin wierd if you ask me! But my god it looks good in very high mode and plays beautifully. I love the fact theyve made a realistic head movement at last so you cant just spin and shoot accurately.

 

[Choogster]

have you tried Jericho yet? thats some seriously nice graphical wizardry.

 

[vladsky]

Ok utterly bizzare. I decided to turn the game to medium settings, ran the 32bit app (the 64bit wont work at all). A couple of things ive found out.

1) Antialiasing doenst work at all.
2) Starting the game on medium settings works fine
3) Turning settings to very high one by one also works fine
4) Starting the game on very high cause it to crash
5) SLi works fine

Bloomin wierd if you ask me! But my god it looks good in very high mode and plays beautifully. I love the fact theyve made a realistic head movement at last so you cant just spin and shoot accurately.

To run the 64-bit executable (in the Bin64 folder) I had to do this:
1) run the 32 bit, go in options and uncheck the "Full Screen" option, save and exit;
2) load the 64-bit executable "Crysis.exe" file, the game will open, though not in full screen, but once the actual game starts, pause, go to options, check full screen... voilà;
3) just make sure that you uncheck the full screen option before quitting the game... doh

It's just a demo, with demo-flaws...

vladsky

 

[coolchris]

^coolchris hows the 8600GTS Handling Crysis ?
I hope it runs fine on my X1900GT

Well it went to Medium settings automatically, which is fine by me. Since using DX9 mode it runs great.

 

[z3r010]

It looks like the demo is being ripped to bits!!

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Gonna try it later if I get chance