Re: 2007 Game of the Year?

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Jessie Smarchten wrote:
I vote for Crysis for game of the year 2012 when PCs can run it
properly.
I agree completely. How about voting for games the majority of
users can actually properly *run* on their current machines right
now?
Then the vote would be dominated by poor people. Their opinions
don't count and never have - unless they riot and kill the rich
people.

You may be joking, but seriously, my current mobo &CPU are barely 2
years old at the time of typing this, and this years' games specs
(and I do mean games from early this year) would require me to get
a new system altogether!

Playing with everything on medium but shaders on high at 1152x864.
Looks like the screenshots to me.

Now nearing the end I think and there is so much going on I've had
to drop it to 1024x768 because I want to keep the high shaders. Plays
fine.
This is on a Core 2 Duo, 2gig 667 ram and a lowly 7900GT. What
exactly are your specs?

I'm still single-core! AMD Athlon 64 3500+, almost 2 years old now,
and 2.5 GB of DDR RAM. Earlier this year I got me a ATI X1650XT
video card.


Ouch. Crysis makes use of more than one core if you have it so
that's a definite help. Plus that graphics card of yours is
definitely low-end - sorry.

From what I've gathered, yes, Crysis will have to wait until I get a better
system.

Indeed, my current machine is hardly cutting edge. Still, I was very happy
when I found it could still run Bioshock pretty well!

Depends on the size of your screen but you can allegedly get decent
framerates with everything at high on the new GTS at 1680 and below
(according to posters in various forums at least)

OK.

I'll definitely be upgrading next year; 2 years is about how long I
usually use a particular configuration before moving on.

Crysis will not play on highest settings until the high end NVidia
9xxx series cards hit next year and I'm guessing £400 plus for those
which are beyond my means. I'm upgrading the graphics card shortly
and I'll be happy to play it at 'high' which I've tried and it looks
fantastic.
Luckily its not just a graphics engine demo - there's a pretty good
game there too

Cool!

Where does the madness end?

Hopefully never. Always been the case that you have to upgrade. I
remember explosions in Quake 2 brought my PC to its knees until I
got my Voodoo2. I remember Far Cry looking crap for a long, long
time until I got the money together for a 9800Pro.

I see what you mean.

I think the biggest issue most have currently is the size of screens
nowadays. When we all gamed at 17" we saw big increases when we
swapped our graphics cards and our games were 'Wow' all over again. Now
22" and over screens are more affordable and not only do graphics
cards have to keep up with new games but they have to do it at higher
rez's. I've seen friends upgrade graphics cards just to play at the
same quality settings but at the higher resolutions of their new
screens. They haven't seen much graphical improvement for a lot of
money. That's why I'm happy to drop the rez of mine for some games. I'd
rather 'up' the shaders in Crysis than play at native rez. Some
folk are quite the opposite and claim their screens look terrible at
lower rez but my Sammy looks fine (obviously every other app such as
Word and Excel etc runs at native)

Ah, there's another upgrade for the future - bigger monitor!

If you don't like upgrading you need a console.

Well, I'm accustomed to upgrading regularly, but that doesn't mean I
have to like it! :-)

Lol. So true. My wife *certainly* doesn't like it!! ;-)



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