Gaming Crysis on very high

[stormwolf18]

Kinda off-topic but:


Asus Striker II Formula, nForce-780i SLI
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4GHz
Corsair TWIN2X 6400C5DHX DDR2, 4096MB (Kit w/two CL5 2GB Dimm's, E.P.P and DHX)
EVGA GeForce 8800GTS 512MB GDDR3,
2x Samsung SpinPoint T166 500GB SATA2
Creative SB X-Fi Gamer, Bulk
Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate 64bit.

Will I be able to play Crysis with the "High" settings?

Yes!!! It will run pretty fast at 1680x1050.

 

[xcalibur]

Side note, the reason you go quad is because of needing just about 1 core per key game element IE:
1 for AI
1 for graphic rendering
1 for physics
1 for your damn OS running in the background with all other processes.

Oh yeah and I'd say an AGEIA PhysX card would be nice for getting those frames.

Crysis aint coded that way, you have no idea what you are talking about.

That was a load of bull. Most programs and games can barely take full advantage of 2 cores.
Also, most of that stuff is done by the GPU.

Most programs and games are not written for high-end hardware.

Games now have to be made for the high end hardware, because that is all that will run them. And I doubt you will find any new game that doesn't use at least 2 cores. Also

"Nvidia has stated that their translation of Ageia's physics engine to CUDA is almost complete. To showcase the capabilities of the new tech Nvidia ran a particle demonstration similar to Intel's Nehalem demo, at ten times the speed.
"While Intel's Nehalem demo had 50,000-60,000 particles and ran at 15-20 fps (without a GPU), the particle demo on a GeForce 9800 card resulted in 300 fps. In the very likely event that Nvidia's next-gen parts (G100: GT100/200) will double their shader units, this number could top 600 fps"

Expect future games to use this, because it is built in.

That would mean that newer games will be further from regular peoples reach

 

[fischju]

Without development of PC graphics cards, we wouldn't have anything to put into consoles

 

[stormwolf18]

Nvidia has bought PhysX, and have perfected the system for use with their graphics card. If the cryengine is updated with this, expect to see much better performance for the 9000 series cards, which will also greatly reduce CPU usage for those effects.

Cuda is also available for the geforce 8 series.

 

[fischju]

To make people upgrade to the 9000 series, they will probably pull a "Creative" and not allow it to be used on 8000 series cards.

 

[stormwolf18]

Lol, yeah probably.