"Crysis Warhead - the nail in DirectX 10's coffin"
Gameplayer's PC guru has put both versions of the CryEngine 2 (one in Crysis, and the second in its recently released expansion Crysis: Warhead) and documented his findings in this article.
"Warhead suffers from the same 'gradual slowdown' as Crysis. It's worth saving, then quitting out of the game once an hour or so to clear it out. Presumably some sort of memory leak, it hits worst in the ice levels."
A Crysis VR mod is now available for download, allowing users to experience the first entry in the series in VR
No one cares. The whole can it run Crysis is old, dead and stupid. It's also irrelevant, considering only less than one percent of pc owners, own a high-end PC. Second, I believe Crysis wasn't even optimized properly.
Let's hope the modders can get the other Crysis games working in VR as they use the same Cryengine.
GF365: "There are some games with extraordinary visuals that impress us to this day. Here are old games with outstanding graphics."
Same as Killzone 2 and 3, uncharted 2 and 3, Infamous 2, Heavy Rain, Resistance 3
I wish this was entirely true, but you might want to load up Killzone 2 and Resistance 3 again.
@jason I watched some gameplay videos of KZ2 and R3 on my full screen. They are on par or succeed graphically to the first person shooters mentioned in the article that also launched on the seventh generation of consoles. Try the same and see what you think
Killzone 3 was super impressive! I could not believe the graphics back then as I was regularly pausing the game to stand in awe looking at the surroundings! Resistance however did not impress me that much. Heavy rain is also another amazing graphically speaking game. It almost felt next gen
I always thought the first 3 Gears of War games looked great and still hold up for today.
They did for their day. I recently played gears judgement with on the 360 and the draw distance was so blurry. The characters up close look great though
Far Cry 2 was awesome. In addition to having demonstrably better physics and AI than later games in the series, it had a lot of design decisions that, criticized at the time, have since been praised in games like BOTW and Dark Souls.
It might not be super amazing by today's standard but I thought Mgs3 looked really good
Digital Foundry: "When Alex Battaglia got his hands on a Steam Deck, this was inevitable, right? So can the Steam Deck really run Crysis? And if so, what type of optimised settings produce the best performance? What's the best balance of features and battery life... and what about 60fps?"
Originally Vista and DX10 were going to bring this whole new generation of PC gaming. I remember E3 a few years back an MS were just as proud of the games for windows line-up as they were of what was coming for Xbox.
Crysis was the flagship title, but it got delayed and delayed and then came out when gamers were sticking to XP and DX10 sucked anyway. What a disaster.
I like crysis but it's just no worth it anymore IMO to upgrade your PC. I agree with you charmers MS just doesn't care and I can't support them anymore. I bought a new comp last christmas with vista and it's been nothing but problems for me. I can't believe they charged me 200 bucks for vista and then turn around and give all the games they're making to only xbox360 users. Why can't pc have gears 2 or halo3? I spent more on vista alone than someone who buys the xbox arcade system. Then the games they do come out with like gears 1 needs a gold account just to get achievements. I wasted so much money on MS I think it's about time to say enough already. Everything they do now seems to be a money sucking not working failure. Live and learn I guess...
what outdated pc's these people test these games on. My Crysis Warhead runs as smooth as all my games 1920x1200 with all bells with my gtx 280. I'm on vista 64 and when i shut off Crysis it shuts completely down.
If you got a rig that can run this game, i would recommend getting this game. It is worth it, not for the graphics, not for the story, not for the gameplay, but again, for the immersion. The amount of detail put in this game is outstanding. A game that set the bar high, and will keep it there for years to come, much like Farcry did.
Now to the question at hand, there is only one reason to get Warhead, and that is Crysis Wars, Multiplayer was improved upon and is much much better then what is was. And there is a reason to keep DirectX 10 on when playing online. There are those few Dx10 servers that have daytime/nighttime battles which change the feel of combat in minutes.
Don't waste the money unless you know your rig can run it. And I def would not recommend getting it if you plan on playing it on a laptop.
This was the first review I've read that said the graphics in Warhead were not as good as Crysis. All the other dozen or so reviews I've read said the graphics were slightly better in Warhead.