Much to the dismay of the wallets of many a gamer whose PCs teeter on the edges of obsolescence, developer Crytek has released the official system requirements and recommended specs for its upcoming PC graphical powerhouse shooter Crysis (check out our recent single-player and multiplayer coverage).
At the bare minimum, gamers must sport an Intel Pentium 4 at 2.8GHz, an Intel Core at 2.0GHz, or an AMD Athlon 2800+--with the clock speeds upped to 3.2GHz, 2.2GHz, and 3200+ respectively for Vista users--and 1GB of RAM, or 1.5GB for Vista. Video cards must have 256MB of memory and be at least of the NVidia GeForce 6800 GT or ATI Radeon 9800 Pro chipsets, with Vista-owning ATI users requiring at least a Radeon X800 Pro. Finally, Crysis will consume 12GB of hard drive space.
Those who have played the Crysis multiplayer beta may find their minds boggled by the claims made by the above requirements; though admittedly not final software, the beta suggests that the listed requirements are, to say the least, impractical for playing Crysis.
As far as what Crytek recommends: an Intel Core 2 DUO at 2.2GHz or AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+, 2GB of RAM, and an NVidia GeForce 8800 GTS/640; as Crytek is a technology partner with NVidia, no ATI equivalent was explicitly stated.
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At the bare minimum, gamers must sport an Intel Pentium 4 at 2.8GHz, an Intel Core at 2.0GHz, or an AMD Athlon 2800+--with the clock speeds upped to 3.2GHz, 2.2GHz, and 3200+ respectively for Vista users--and 1GB of RAM, or 1.5GB for Vista. Video cards must have 256MB of memory and be at least of the NVidia GeForce 6800 GT or ATI Radeon 9800 Pro chipsets, with Vista-owning ATI users requiring at least a Radeon X800 Pro. Finally, Crysis will consume 12GB of hard drive space.
Those who have played the Crysis multiplayer beta may find their minds boggled by the claims made by the above requirements; though admittedly not final software, the beta suggests that the listed requirements are, to say the least, impractical for playing Crysis.
As far as what Crytek recommends: an Intel Core 2 DUO at 2.2GHz or AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+, 2GB of RAM, and an NVidia GeForce 8800 GTS/640; as Crytek is a technology partner with NVidia, no ATI equivalent was explicitly stated.
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