Comments on: Crysis Warhead PC explained: pic, specs, price (updated)

By: Disapproval

Disapproval — Sun, 31 May 2009 19:39:18 +0000

I’ve been playing PC games since Doom and this by far is the TOP pieces offfffffffffffffffffffffffffffff SHIT ive ever played and they don’t want me To PIRATE this,, you gotta be kidding me i would take this flakey piece offffff SHIT back to
store tomorrow and i think that. that north Korean fucking nut bar should
start nuking EA GAMES instead of wasting them into the ocean …

Ps fuck offf ea games this is the worst piece off shit i have ever seen…did i mention fuck offf!!!!

By: will

will — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 20:15:19 +0000

Sorry, but even with that moderately spec’ed PC you’ll still have to play the game with a res of 1024×768 all medium to get decent FPS (25-32 average). It needs a 4870 or GTX260 to keep average frame rates in excess of 30 with some settings at high (still no AA).

By: Dolphin

Dolphin — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 19:43:00 +0000

[...]Raiden says:
I think it is pathetic that they are using a micro ATX motherboard. The video card is from a mostly discontinued series, the processor is the E7300, which is about the same price as the E8200 now (price drops, remember), the RAM specs aren’t listed, but I bet it’ll be Kingston Value Ram or something of that sort.. the video card’s GPU will probably be from a chipset maker that is little-known, which offers a bad warranty (not lifetime = bad, doesn’t cover overclocking = bad), and will probably run hot.[...]

If that’s the Warehead PC, then that would be incredible. Meaning that quite alot of us with Good PCs can actually run Crysis on high or very high, even with some AA :P

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By: Raiden

Raiden — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 23:26:58 +0000

I think it is pathetic that they are using a micro ATX motherboard. The video card is from a mostly discontinued series, the processor is the E7300, which is about the same price as the E8200 now (price drops, remember), the RAM specs aren’t listed, but I bet it’ll be Kingston Value Ram or something of that sort.. the video card’s GPU will probably be from a chipset maker that is little-known, which offers a bad warranty (not lifetime = bad, doesn’t cover overclocking = bad), and will probably run hot.

Beyond those things, what OS will this thing be running out of the box? Will it even have an OS? Will it even have.. a box? O.O

On the non-pessimistic side of things, this is a neat idea. I just wish there were a few more details in the case which would appeal to the eye, or be easily customizable (a small window perhaps, or some decaling.. or a window with etching/decaling.. or even ‘custom’ fan grills with the crysis or EA logo or something).

By: J5

J5 — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 18:23:05 +0000

I bet I could build a Crysis “High” capable PC for less than that. You can buy 8800GTs now for $130 and that card was more than acceptable for getting “High” settings on the original Crysis.

I ran my year old 8800GTX at Very High from start to finish with no problems and a very playable framerate of around 30 FPS at 1280×1024. That game played VERY well at that framerate. I still don’t get what all the indignation is about over that game and the system requirements. Yeah, it takes more juice than most games but it is very playable even on contemporary $150 graphics cards. Do you want games that are scalable or do you want games that are maxed out the day you buy them?

I also take issue with the idea that the game isn’t optimized. On exactly what basis are you saying that the code isn’t optimized? Given the amount of detail that they attempted with that game I don’t see how it is a big suprise that it is going to be a little resource needy. The draw distances and level of detail are incredibly ambitious. Of course they can and will improve, but I supsect that most performance increases in Warhead will simply be by reducing scene complexity in the least intrusive ways possible.