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When Crysis was released, it raised the bar for gaming graphics on a PC. Of course this also made it the tool which gamers used to measure their PC’s performance. I’d venture to guess that most gamers still can’t play the game on anything better than medium, which means that many people are wondering how Crysis Warhead will play.
As it turns out, the guys at Crytek are assuring us that even gamers on a budget PC will be able to play their upcoming title. They went as far as mentioning a system running around $620 should expect to be able to play at around 30-35fps.
I know that I can’t be the only excited to hear about this change of pace. I upgrade my PC fairly regularly with decent components, but it’s always disappointing when a new game hits the streets and I have to bump the settings down to medium or low just to make it play smooth.
[via Game|Life]
One Response to “Crysis Warhead to play well even on budget PCs”
J5 June 23, 2008
It’s true that the original Crysis is more demanding than most games but lets be honest…it’s not fair to say that most gamers can’t run the game at any higher than medium. That is just not true.
I have a single 8800 GTX and I run the game at VERY HIGH just fine at 1280×1024 resolution with a very playable frame rate. Both the 8800 GT and 8800 GTS have very similar performance results as well. For under $250, you can run Crysis at very impressive settings. This wasn’t the case when it was released, but the technology has since caught up to the game quite a bit.
The new mid level ATI and nVidia cards due out this month and next should have no problem running the game at High and Very High with a reasonable resolution setting.
It’d be much more fair to say that most gamers can’t run the game at max details and max resolution.
Now if you want to talk ludicrus settings of Very High at 2560×1600 with 16xAF/4xAA then yes you probably will need a Tri-SLI GTX280 system in the $4000+ price range.
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