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Crysis Warhead: 4 gigabyte RAM required?

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PCGH played Crysis Warhead at the Games Convention. The prerelease version required up to 2190 megabyte RAM for the game alone.
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SIX-0-3 - 486 days 21 hours ago
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1 - Whaa
Holy crap. I am really sad, my PC won't run it and i don't care if it ever does.
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El_Colombiano - 486 days 18 hours ago
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Please, if anybody actually believes that Crysis will REQUIRE 4GB to run you obviously have never used a computer to play games on PC. 2GB is more than enough for the original Crysis, this game runs on the same engine but optimized, so if anything the game will require less.
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f789790 - 486 days 18 hours ago
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I can see you needing 4GB for the level editor though. Editing levels with 2GB in Crysis requires you to watch the amount of RAM used or end up crashing the program.
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AuToFiRE - 486 days 11 hours ago
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True, 2gigs is more than enough... except for vista
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Steven Colbert - 486 days 20 hours ago
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Good thing my Dreamcast 2 can handle it
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Steviek08 - 486 days 17 hours ago
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There is something wrong with you.
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Rich1631 - 486 days 19 hours ago
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Okay seriously...that is just poor engine optimization.
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TheIneffableBob - 486 days 13 hours ago
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Yup, it is.

"Since the version was a prerelease one, it could be that Crytek did not optimize it yet."
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Meus Renaissance - 486 days 19 hours ago
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Pointless.
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Surfman - 486 days 19 hours ago
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ridiculous, how they think they'll sell games?
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Fishy Fingers - 486 days 19 hours ago
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Pre release code is not a good indication of what the final specs will be.

I thought EA/Crytek already released their required specs and they were the same as Crysis.
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richierich - 486 days 19 hours ago
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I thought the game engine of Crysis Warhead was supposed to be a lot more optimised than the first Crysis game
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SaiyanFury - 486 days 19 hours ago
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Umm just something I'm wondering here; if the game requires 4GB of RAM, how will say, 85% of the Windows OS owning market play it? The mainstay OS is Windows XP and some also own Vista. But most of those people own a 32-bit version of their OS which will only recognize about 2.75GB of RAM instead of 4GB. Only a 64-bit OS will recognize anything above that. Either Crytek has it's head up it's a$$ or they just really don't care about sales.
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zslash - 486 days 19 hours ago
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*shrugs* EA sent them a prerelease version and knew what hardware they had. as the article points out, "In the graphics options we couldn't change anything and the menu "Advanced” could not be accessed. Therefore we don't know about the exact detail settings. " From the looks of it everything was on high.

Also, the fact that its using more than 2GB RAM doesn't say much.. sometimes if you have more RAM the game will use more. If I crank up all the settings in TF2 for example it can use over 1GB RAM.

To sum up, a very sensationalist article that is assuming way too many things.
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ravenguard88 - 486 days 14 hours ago
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8.2 - 2.75gb?
I don't know where you pulled that number from.

A 32-bit operating system can technically address ~4 Gigabytes of system-wide physical memory, where as a 64-bit system is technically able to address ~128 Gigabytes of physical memory.

It would vary from system to system, but if you include a 512 Megabyte video card, any 32-bit system can still make use of an additional 3.5 Gigabytes of system memory.
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SaiyanFury - 486 days 8 hours ago
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I pulled that number, as you say ravenguard, from my own system hardware. I have 4GB of RAM using Windows XP Pro 32-bit and the number I see listed for recognized RAM is 2.75GB, and that's with a 512MB video card. I don't know what else in my PC would bring the number below 3.5GB. At POST my PC shows 4GB, but once Windows comes up all I ever see is 2.75GB. That's where I pulled that number from. Using my own PC as a reference, which I put together myself, it seemed to be truthful. If you get different results than mine, then I openly admit that my results aren't typical.
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zerolinkgannon - 486 days 19 hours ago
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Dee-zam!! Calm down EA
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devilhunterx - 486 days 18 hours ago
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un-optimised gaming for the WIN
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xav0971 - 486 days 18 hours ago
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12 - For one thing
dx9 uses 1/3 more memory than dx10. Second I played the original Crysis and it never used up more than 2 gigs of ram for me and my max ram is 2 gigs on my computer. I highly doubt I'll have problems running warhead with just 2 gigs of ram. Third the more memory you have the more it uses perhaps.
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ViRaL- - 486 days 17 hours ago
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i have 4gb RAM but a gay graphics card :-(
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SilentShank - 486 days 13 hours ago
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13.1 - ?!
Your graphics card likes men?
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SCThor - 486 days 17 hours ago
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14 - I won't pimp my pc or buy a new one just for one game
oh wait, I bought a Xbox360 just for gears...I'm so sad :(
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FantasyStar - 486 days 17 hours ago
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15 - Holy **** crackers!
4 GB 800mhz is like what? $80?! I wipe my ass with $80 because I spent $80 on the MGS4 LE Edition.
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cpuchess - 486 days 16 hours ago
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I got 4GB RAM, too bad I am not interested in the game...
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anil - 486 days 16 hours ago
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i belive that a very very little amount of people on the world has 4gbs of ram, i think it wouldnt even be 2gb
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centrum2k - 486 days 14 hours ago
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just a better gpu people!! 4gbs of ram do not give you wing.
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Pixel_Addict - 486 days 13 hours ago
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19 - Craaaazy...
Oh well, suppose if you can afford a rig that can play Crysis period, an extra couple of gigs prob won't phase ya.
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SilentShank - 486 days 12 hours ago
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4 gigs is nice to have, but 2 gigs of fast ram can bet you by.
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SilentShank - 486 days 12 hours ago
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Is the Cry Engine finally optimized? NO!

Their showing off Warhead on a badass rig with Core 2 extreme, Geforce GTX 260 and 4 gigs of RAM! But Crytek had the game running at low resolution, in DX9 mode, with V-Sync OFF, no anti-aliasing...?!

Obviously something is to be said when your compensating all those options with such a powerful rig!

FYI, my rig has a Core 2 Duo Conroe E6850, GTS 8800 640mb, 2 gigs of super quick G-Skill. I can run Crysis with medium settings in 1080p,... or if I want a little more eye candy, I can run the the game at 720p with High settings. Both look good, both lag like ****.
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levy - 486 days 5 hours ago
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This article is strange. How can they even think it will require 4 gig of RAM, when the first one had 1 gig as minimum. Especially when Crytek said this game would be more optimized, I have a hard time to believe this. "Requires 4 gig RAM"..... lawl.
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