Crysis - Official System Requirements

    http://www.ea.com/crysis/news.jsp?id=rigready

    perfect for me, will work perfect on my pc, and i dont download illegal movies and games so i have a lot of space free on my HD .

    Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!

    The HDD sounds reasonable but what the f*ck did you thought who could play this? Look at the orangebox which can be played at full details with your minimum requirements... Someone forgot to have a look at the targetgroup before making that specs?

    Yeah, I think I'm gonna have to pass on this game. As much as I want to play it, I've got no intention of upgrading my PC anytime soon. I already had to turn Bioshock down to medium just to get it to run at a decent FPS, so I know this thing'll barely run on low. Booo for retardedly high requirements.

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    12gb? are you fucking kidding me.

    Considering you can get a 320 GB HDD for $100 or less, it's not really that big of an issue.

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    GS: Crysis requires a minimum of 256MB of video card memory, which is pretty unprecedented for a PC game. Are you afraid that a lot of PC gamers won't have powerful-enough hardware to run the game? Is there no way around that?CY: The 256 MB 6800 was [available] in 2004 as the high-end card, so hence we picked this. Further compromises were possible but quality and frame rate would have suffered more. 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.

    Rest of the interview with C. Yerli about the specs, here:

    http://www.gamespot.com/news/6180628.html

    Quote from e-freak

    The HDD sounds reasonable but what the f*ck did you thought who could play this? Look at the orangebox which can be played at full details with your minimum requirements... Someone forgot to have a look at the targetgroup before making that specs?

    Truth. I won't be playing Crysis for a few years D:

    wait, are you people serious? given, the requirement for the game is quite high, but as the guy in the interview said, there've been 256 mb cards since 2004. i myself dont know anyone that is a gamer that has less than a 256 mb gfx

    I've got 256 MB but it is the minimum - sick if you ask me. That's one of the points I love Steam for:

    http://www.steampowered.com/status/survey.html

    This Data is collected by every Steam-User (volutneer) and is the data valve develops at. Not Intel or NVidia who cry out "Let's get more highend sellings".

    Crysis Minimum: Percentage of Steam Users who are just Minimum or even lower

    Processor - 2.8 GHz or faster (XP) :Around 70% of Steam Users can not play Crysis because of theyr CPUs on a higher setting than Low or not at all.

    Memory - 1.0 GB RAM (XP) : ~70% of Steam Users can not play Crysis because of too less Ram on a higher setting than Low or not at all.

    Video Card -256 MB** : ~30 % have less than 256 MB Vram, ~40% have at least 256 MB Vram (that allows them - I say it again: Minimum Specs)

    Hard Drive - 12GB : Around 80% of the Users have at least 10 or more Gigabyte free. - OK

    So Crytek basically shuts the door for around 70% of the gamers? Assuming that of those left 30% 75% are FPS Gamers who are potential Crysis buyers you have 22,5% of Gamers left as a Targetgroup. I don't know - Izuno may know better - but I assume that of a potential Targetgroup around 10% will buy a game if it sells good. That is 2,25% who would buy this game (but I assume this is still much too high)

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    newsflash:There are gamers/consumers out there who do not use Steam.

    Yeah, the ones who don't have a PC... come on, almost every gamer has played HL2, CS, DOD or TF and as such has steam installed. If Crytek was smarter they could have used Steam statistics to get a better target group.

    I'm kind of disappointed with this specs, although it seems that i can run the game without any trouble, but it won't be any fun if there isn't anyone to play with.

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    newsflash:There are gamers/consumers out there who do not use Steam.

    i agree. just because one company sets one standard doesnt mean the whole industry should follow. besides, if you're an avid gamer, you'd best upgrade your machine either how as i really cant see how requirements are going to get lower. source is an exception but it's also a three year old engine, and a low requirement one at that.

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    Yeah, the ones who don't have a PC... come on, almost every gamer has played HL2, CS, DOD or TF and as such has steam installed. If Crytek was smarter they could have used Steam statistics to get a better target group.

    I'm kind of disappointed with this specs, although it seems that i can run the game without any trouble, but it won't be any fun if there isn't anyone to play with.

    You seriously think Crytek has never looked at the Steam stats? Think again.

    But this is not the philosophy of Crytek. It's not about looking at the clientbase of the competition and build a game optimized for their PCs, this is about setting a new benchmark in FPS gaming (and a new franchise), in the footsteps of FarCry (which was quite hardware demanding back in the days as well). You create a great game and people will buy the equipment to run it, or enjoy it on a smaller scale or a few months later. And it's not like you're going to buy the rig for "just for Crysis", equally demanding games will follow its release sooner or later, but somebody has to give it a head start otherwise everybody is just treading on the same spot!

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    newsflash:

    There are gamers/consumers out there who do not use Steam.

    Yep, there are gamers/consumers worldwide who do not use Steam. Vavle's survey sample size is 1,092,762. 9 million WoW players worldwide suggest that there are more than ~ 1million PC gamers. So what % of the total pc gamer market does the Valve # represent?

    10%? 50% 90%?

    Whatever it is....would you expect the average gamer on Steam to have higher general system specs than non-Steam gamers? Lower? About the same?

    This is what you really need to know quantitatively. Qualitatively, is Crysis going to entice people to upgrade their systems? Does that even need to happen for Crysis to hit their sales goals? And what are their sales goals?

    Any truly insightful discussion on this topic would require more of that information.

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