According to Steam this $50 PC should run 2007's Crysis. But can it? Well let's find out! Test Specs: Intel Core 2 Duo E6550 Nvidia MSI 8600 GTS 2GB DDR2 667MHz Windows Vista Games Tested: Crysis Thanks for watching :)
you should have had a little better, I had a Sony Vaio with a intel centrino and a geforce 6400(mobile gpu) which was worse than the 6200 and I was able to get about 35 fps on low 800x600
@@virtualtools_3021 and that my friend is where people get confused with video cards and numbers lol.Its a mobile gpu which means it has lower clock speeds than a 6200.For instance a gt 640 is better than a gt 730
@@matsv201 Finished? No. I've played a LOT of FC games, but that one rubbed me the wrong way completely. Not to compare too harshly, but you can go ape with the jeeps in Crysis while in far cry 2 you can hit a small rock and bring your jeep to a dead stop or get it stuck.
@@rushnerd When you play past the midpoint of FC2 the game change quite a lot. if you have not played past this point, you really have no real grasp of how the grapics looks.
I was still running a PC from 2002, when Crysis came out. I finally upgraded to a PC with a Pentium E6300 (2.83 Ghz with 2MB L2 cache) and paired it with a BFG GTS 250 (512 MB). I was still using an IBM G62 (?) VGA monitor at the time and was only getting about 18 fps on near (1600x900) highest settings.
Yeah 1280x1024 was pretty high resolution back then, most people were still using 1024x768 or 800x600 true I ran this game on X800 Pro overclocked paired with AMD Athlon 64 3200+
Bruh. I had a 1280x1024 monitor back in 2004 and it wasn't something horrible outstanding. And you are talking about 2007-2008 when 720p was already a consolepeasant's lot. Don't be ridiculous, people weren't struggling with crysis THAT much. The game was mighty demanding only on ultra with dx10 features enabled, that's why it became a meme. Lots of people could play it at high tho
@@KeksimusMaximus of course they were struggling that much. Most people didn't even have something 8600gt tier. You needed something like a 8800gt later on to get decent settings at 720p 30fps.
@@KeksimusMaximus horrible outstanding? Lmao stop adding dramatic terminology wtf 1280x1024 is not low res even today pro CS players use 1024x768 Most people did not have GPUs capable of 1280x1024 in the newest games in 2006/2007 hahaha Quake III sure Btw 720p is lower res than 1280x1024 XD
I remember those days very fondly. I purchased an 8800GTS 320 MB Viotek GPU 300$ and Core 2 Duo E6600 I believe for around 60$. (back before Newegg went to shit). I had a co-worker at the time purchase two 8800 GT 512 in S.L.I. (thousands he spent). Crysis could be played but not at 60 f.p.s. at 1440x900 resolution which was the main panel those days and the one I had. Crysis was something a developer didn't do too often. It was more like a demo of course but a demo that every pc gamer could appreciate. The graphics were so "unreal" that it made me "cry" with it's "tek". I couldn't tell you how many hours I put in that game. The main thing the game needs to be remastered really is just the A.I. and it's lighting. The game still is a damn good looking game for today's standards.
@@amirpourghoureiyan1637 FEAR was a masterpiece in plenty of ways - especially the gameplay and the graphics. Have you played The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay? It had graphics similar to FEAR, even better (in some scenarios) and came out over a year prior (first on Xbox and then on PC). Riddick is a ridiculously good game all around and achieved better graphics than Doom 3 (which I also like).
So it seems like Crysis' recommended system requirements actually means 720p low 60fps or 720p medium 30fps... Goodness knows how it would run on a 2.8GHz Pentium 4 with 1GB RAM...
@@dvornikovalexei right and wrong. It runs at 720p but will drop down to 540p at high intense moments. In docked it drops from 900p to 720p. Let's also not forget that the switch screen isn't massive so that resolution playing games will look passable. When you consider I played Crysis in 1024x768 on a 17" LCD monitor originally.
What I had to do to get Crysis running was to use the 64 Bit EXE from Crysis Warhead because the 32 Bit EXE from the Steam Version from Crysis *WILL NOT RUN* on Windows 10. The Origin Version has the 64 Bit Version though. The Second thing I had to do was to create a empty Save file with the Crysis Benchmarking tool, because the 64 Bit Crysis Warhead EXE wouldn't create a working savegame / campaign. Yikes
@@Ediranii well on top of that, I had to contact the EA support (english only) twice to reset the activation counter because I couldn't even start the game because I had installed Crysis on too many PCs ... and english isn't my first language so that was a fun experience too :)
Your videos are the most relaxing videos I've ever watched, always enjoying them, maybe because of your relaxing voice. Also I'd love to see a "Minecraft server hosting dedicated PC with recommended specs" and testing it with hosting a server while a few players are in.
I had the exact same case back in 2006! I convinced my parents to splash out on a new PC for college work. It had a Nvidia 7600GT from Leadtek (RIP) and some Athlon 64 CPU
I didn't get to play this till 2008 when I built my first relatively high end PC, Core 2 Quad Q9300, 8GB DDR2, and a 512MB Geforce 9800 GTX and Vista Home Premium
Considering some consoles/games still run at 30fps (cough cough, nintendo switch cough cough), as long as the game has decent graphics and at least 30fps, I can consider it playable.
Wow, that just made me realise, that I really had a pretty High End machine back in 2007, with a Core2Quad Q6600 and a Geforce 8800GTX 😅 So that's why I never really had troubles running Crysis 😅
Same here I had Core2Quad and geforce 9600gt and I think I remember playing it on max settings. It was my first pc and it cost 800€ including monitor keyboard mouse and a scanner/ printer and 2 months free internet. Good days!
I had a Pentium D 820 at 2.8GHz and a GeForce 7600 GS with 2GB of system memory. Ran the game like a champ on windows XP (DX9 features only) Cranked those graphics as high as it would let me, played at like 20 FPS but I remember enjoying the cramp out of it :)
The question in 2008 for every gaming PC was 'will it run Crysis'? The 8800 GT was the first mid range GPU that could run Crysis and look good. It was the GPU that made me give away my Xbox 360 and become a PC gamer in 2010. I'd got a GTX 260 core 216 by the time I bought Crysis in 2011.
My fondest memory of an 8600 GTS is me and my friend both bought X1950 XT's at the same time, and where I had a 520W Corsair PSU, my friend had a no name 600W PSU. After a few months when his games started to crash I told him it was probably his PSU not giving the card enough juice, but he just wouldn't have it because it had appeared fine for months. I tried explaining about PSU strain but he still wouldn't have it. He took the card back and asked me what I would recommend he get, so because I knew the store would find no fault with the card, and because an 8600 GTS required a lot less power I told him to get that. Because the 8600 GTS is a fair bit weaker than an X1950 XT the store had no problem changing it, and my friend plugged it in and all was fine. If we ever talk about this, to this day my friend still thinks his X1950 XT was faulty, so I just smile and let him carry on.
Crisis blew me away as a kid and got me into PC gaming. It brought alot of satisfaction to play with high setting with my prebuilt dell with a pentium D and an ATI 4670
I used to play it on 1600x1200 res with medium settings with a C2D E6750@3.2Ghz, 8Gb of ddr2 800mhz and a 8600GT oc'ed close to 8600Gts at ~40-45fps on average. But I finished it on my Athlon x2 4800+@3Ghz, 4Gb of ddr2 800mhz and a 7300GT at 1024x768 res with all settings on low at around 25-35fps on average.
Back in the day video settings in game really changed how game looks. Compared to this day games it is really hard to see the difference between med-high or even low (in some instances) settings.
Back in 2007, I remember seeing a lot of people with 1024x768 and 1280x1024 resolution monitors. Still have both with my 1024x768 CRT in storage from my original prebuilt back in the day and my first flatscreen Dell 1280x1024 monitor.
miss the early 2000s im old lol. I played crysis with high settings and a resolution of 1024×768 Back in 2008 my xps 420 which i still own, had a 8800GTS, 4gb ram ddr2 667mhz, core 2 duo E6550 and i think i had a seagate 320gb HHD. AS to the framrate who knows, lol i did not know much about fps back then. Oh and i had Vista 32bit installed. Love your channel keep it up bro!!
I remember finishing it with a C2D E4300 @ 3GHz, 2GB DDR2-900 & GF 6800 GS overclocked to the max. Good times.. edit: I played the last level at 800x600 low, otherwise 1024x768 low (w/ effects at high).
@@RuruFIN for a bit of fun I’m throwing together a core 2 E6300 with a 9800gt. I want to see how far you could go with the slowest clocked launch duo of the day
That is the machine I have (had)! I had a Core2Duo at 3.2 overclock and a Radeon 8500 in mine with 4GB of ram at that time, the display was a beast of a iiyama 22" CRT monitor. I turned down shadows, no AA and ran Crysis at 1600x1200, it was glorious n very capable then. The machine then got 8GB of fastest DDR2 OCZ ram and a GTS250 gpu (rebadged GTX8800) together with a Core2Quad (@3.3) and went on to play S.T.A.L.K.E.R very well as well. Just recently the old box (still that Coolermaster Mirage) got an x470 MSI board, 32GB of DDR4, SSD, Antec 550watt power supply, Ryzen 5 3600 and an old GTX960, and runs Nioh/GTA/Dark Souls very well on tweaked high settings. It's going to get a "pre loved" 10 series GPU at the end of the year to keep it capable. I am amazed that the generic power supply lasted as long as it did and I still quite like the old case it's in but mine has a Windows XP code sticker on top (I bypassed Vista). Thanks for reading and thanks OP for triggering my Nostlagia 👍😊
I remember "back in the days" I played this game on a Pentium D, 8800GTS 320MB on the lowest preset and I think 1024x768 resolution. It was still glorious.
Is it just me or am i the only one that realize why people dislikes your videos. Theres no reason to dislike other than jealousy. Good video keep it up!
I played Crysis in 2008 with Win XP mostly high settings at 1280x1024 on a 17" 4:3 monitor. The PC was a Core 2 Duo E8200@3.6GHz, 2GB 1066 ddr2, Asus P35 board and an AMD HD 3870 512MB. This machine lasted until 2016 with a few upgrades like 8GB ram, AMD HD 5850 (a beast of a card) and a 120GB SSD when they became more affordable.
I was playing Crysis on a 256MB 6800GT, it was okay on Low @ 1024*768 with a Pentium 4 3.0GHz HT, 1GB RAM. Later upgraded to a 9600GT 256MB, Core 2 Duo E6420 2.13GHz and 2GB of RAM. That was a sad realization that I had to play on Low again to avoid the big frame drops. But I was able to walk around on High just to see the graphical magic of this game not being able to play it with these settings of course. Sorry, I was too long. xD Great video!
The trick was to have everything on low except for object quality medium (which did enable the proper lighting if i remember correctly), post processing/effects on medium and enable ssao and edgeaa via the console. It ran ok and lokked better than anything else. Also vram helped with textures.
me, catching a glimpse of the title aka ''gaming pc'' *also me, prepearing to write ''But can it run Crysis?''* *again me, reading the whole title: Hooh, so you were ready before I knew it*
me: ....... also me:....... again me:........ Quite an original comment! P.S.lately every ytb video has every 2nd comment like this,kinda not funny anymore!? Enjoy,peace
Ran it pretty comfortably on a Geforce 7800GTX around the time. Did pretty well at high detail and iirc ran comfortably at 1024x768, but that was using DirectX9 on XP. At release, running it on Vista was a nightmare due to how horribly it utilised system resource pre-SP1
in 2007 a c2d with 4gb ram would have been a dream pc for many of us.back then the max I could afford was a lowly pentium d with 1 gb ram and even that was too expensive.
I played this on a Pentium 4 with a Radeon X800 XT back in the day! The game looks really good for the time, even at low settings. Most us didnt even have a 720p monitor back then either!
10 years ago I finished Crysis on an integrated Radeon HD 3300. Low settings at 640x480. Looked like a PS2 game. Fun game though. I revisited it when I got my GTX 970. Haven't upgraded yet, so it seems that my 970 will be taking another beating when the Crysis remaster gets here.
I finished Crysis with an 8500 GT, Pentium E2140 and 2GBs of RAM, with the game running at 10-15fps. Probably my proudest moment in gaming. I knew fuck all about resolutions and graphics settings, so I just stuck with what the game defaulted to. Still one of my favourite FPS games of all time.
Hey I played it back then with exactly (almost, because it was an MSI 8600 but a slightly different model, an oc edition!!) this video card! It bring me so many memories, but I remember playing it at high details at the very first, then lowering to medium for the most part of the game, then lowering to the very bottom at last, because it became too laggy... a very good game, truly magnificient!!! I still have that card I was about to take it out from its box and take it apart and clean it, just to have it well and functional if the need to use it arise!!
I remember back then when i bought Crysis. One of the most beautiful game in 2007. I played this game with Nvidia 7800GTX 256MB vram, didn't support DirectX 10. Someone i know bought 8800GTX with 768MB vram later, the first DirectX 10 card and i got a bit jealous how nice those graphics were.
I first played Crysis on a $300 gateway laptop. I managed to squeeze around 20FPS out of it by running it on the lowest settings, in 640x480 windowed mode, after killing Windows Explorer in task manager. Best the whole campaign like this. 100% worth it.
I played Crysis back in the day with a core 2 duo E8400 (at 3.00 Ghz) with 8800 GS and 4 gb of DDR2 Ran and it ran between 25 to 30 FPS at 720p at high settings and it was pretty playable
I beat the game at the time at high settings at 1440x900 on a HD4850 and a Q6600 with 3 GB RAM... fps ranged from 20 to 40, with 30 as an average... At the time i found this very playable, but i doubt if i would consider that playable today.
Back then I was playing this on a 2.4GHz Celeron, 256MB Radeon 9600PRO and 768MB RAM. It was capable of running the game with a consistent 11fps on the lowest settings in 1024x768 resolution.
It launched mid 2007 with an MSRP of $200. The 8800GTS 320 was already out with an MSRP of $250 and blew it out of the water. 96 cuda cores and 20 ROPs vs 32 and 8.
low settings = looks like your gpu is dying and displaying only graphical bugs medium = far cry 1 high = actually starts looking like crysis lowering the resolution and going for higher settings instead was the way to go in crysis for sure. ideally you still had a crt at that time anyway and they made the most of it.
People often forget that 4:3 CRT monitors scale cleanly to any resolution. 640x480 is just as sharp as 1600x1200, the only difference is how much detail is being resolved. LCDs unfortunately blur the image and have scaling lag at anything but native res. If you can source a 1280x960 CRT play around with it, suddenly the bargain between resolution, quality and performance becomes much more easy to achieve. Not to mention lower resolutions will often yield higher refresh rates, so you won't be at a dinky 1024x768 @60hz, but 1024x768 @100hz.
When this was released I played it on my brand new core 2 duo 6400 with geforce 8800gts320. Never been so disappointed in performance for the money invested - that geforce was supposed to be the mutts nuts but I should have waited for something better (or at least got the 640 version, what a cheapskate!) My PSU also went up in smoke during a Crysis session and that was despite having to have the case side panel off and an office fan blowing in there!
A couple of days ago I've built my Pentium 4 "dream machine". I've used a P4 3.6GHz LGA775 cpu, a very solid i955x mobo (p5wd2 premium by ASUS), 4GB DDR2 RAM, although I've paired them with a 8800GTS 640MB which is a bit newer part compared to the rest. It ran games from that era (Doom 3, HL2, FarCry, FEAR) on the highest settings with minimal effort (I was CPU bound in some of the games though), and so, I thought, why not try and run Crysis. Turned out it ran pretty... decent for a P4 build on 720p med with ~30ish fps on avg, with intense scenes like "First Light" dropping towards the
You won't believe my only pc still have a very old Intel pentium (I don't know the name) , no gpu, 500gb hdd and only 1.25 gb ram. OS- windows xp I downloaded and played crysis (completed it today) on it, on default resolution and nearly minimum settings. Fps rarely went to 25 lol, normally the Fps were between 15-20 with 98%-99% cpu performance. And on final levels the Fps dropped to 7 Fps, with all low settings I was getting 13 Fps maximum. And it crashed every time I progress to next level I had to restart it every time
Back in the day, I owned a Q6600 and a radeon hd 3870. Installed crysis just to see those impressive visuals, as it's never exactly been my cup of tea. I don't particularly notice dips to 30fps, so maybe I'm just easy to please, but under windows xp, 1680x1050, I had a great experience. There was a program back in the day, I can't find it today, that messed with ini settings. It actually looked a bit better on high, while running a bit better as well. Hell, it even provided ultra, which needed vista.
I played Crysis back when it came out on a C2D 6400 and an 8800 GTX and if I recall correctly I got frame rates in the 40-60 range with a mix of medium/high settings. And you're completely right, I hung on to that processor all the way to 2012. Too bad I don't have the card still, had to RMA it due to overheating and got a GTX 295 as a replacement.
I built a retro gaming PC a few years ago with an Athlon 64 x2 4600 and an HD3850, and Crysis achieved a blazing 27FPS with medium settings @ 1400x900.
When I upgraded my first Emachine (yeah really) I bought a launch week ($650) GTX 280 and E6600. MASSIVELY better card than this, but even at 1440X900 it was not running the game amazingly well. A lot better than the stock Pentium 4 I upgrade from though, 24 fps there.
I have 2×4GB and 2×2GB It's fairly outdated, but still quite capable. My old college threw out a bunch of old PCs So I bought one for £65 with 4GB, i3 3220 and a GT 620, and am upgrading it slowly. It's currently running 12GB, i5 3570 and RX 570. Want a 1080Ti, but need a bigger power supply first.
Rather than using presets, back in the day, i'd turn objects and shadows to medium as especially for a card with low vram, shadows made a difference, and for weaker low clock CPU's, lowering object quality helped.
I used to play Crysis on a 512M memory and x600 laptop, it was barely playable. My friend had 1G memory and x700, the game was pretty smooth. It was a good time.
I recently built a XP gaming rig to play games like crisis fear and doom 3. The specs are a core 2 duo E8600 overclocked to 4.0 ghz. 4 gig of 800mhz DDR2 (only 3gb due to 32bit XP) 2x 300gb WD raptor drives in Raid 0. 2x 9800 gt in SLI. NO REGRETS. Anybody thinking about building a retro pc I say GO FOR IT!
lol I’ve got a 512mb 8800 GT just knocking around in a cupboard somewhere 🤣, as well as a Radeon HD 4870, which I used to play Crysis on 10 odd years ago 👍🏻
I used almost the same configuration from 2008 to 2012 (except the CPU was E6750). In terms of gaming it was... usable, I guess. At least for multiplayer games and something like Starcraft 2.
I am planning on building a computer based off of the ryzen 5 3400g apu, and I am pretty stoked to play COD black ops 2. I heard they were also making a remastered, so that will be nice.
Played this babe at 1024x768 res, mix of low and medium settings, at roughly 20fps average, back in the days. Didn't bother me one bit, as I mostly played sneakily and slow. I bet that with a smart mix of lows and mediums, the 720p gameplay could look much nicer and run almost identical to the all-lows. Speaking of the 768p, I still vividly recall how some professional gaming journo channels were crying about not being able to run the game at the full 1280x1024 res at the time, having to descend down to the humble normies' 1024x768.