An In-depth Analysis of Crysis Warhead Graphics
We know that Crysis Warhead has some oddities for the graphic settings, but how well do these graphics actually performed. After all the complaints about the original game’s outrageous system requirements, developer Crytek promised that this story would be tweaked a bit to run well on a much more affordable computer, but did they deliver? The guys at TechSpot have gone in-depth to analyze the game’s performance, providing benchmarks for 14 different video cards at each of the game’s three quality levels, and the results aren’t too spectacular. Below is the quote from the TechSpot:
Roughly this time last year Crytek released the highly anticipated first-person shooter Crysis exclusively for the PC. Since then the game has been used as the prime benchmark for high-end graphics cards, with only a handful of them being able to conquer the title, delivering great frame rates using high quality settings.
Amazingly, even the latest generation AMD and Nvidia graphics cards still struggle in Crysis, and require a great deal of tweaking to get the perfect balance of quality and performance. Result of these insane hardware requirements to play Crysis in all its glory, many gamers have stayed away from this amazing title, which truly is a shame.
That said, we understand just how disheartening it can be to spend big dollars on a new gaming system and have it struggle with a game.
In the meantime, Crytek has been working hard on a successor of the title called “Crysis Warhead”. This new version of the game updates and refines the gameplay through a parallel story that follows Sergeant Michael “Psycho” Sykes. Psycho is presented with his own challenges on the other side of the island during the same time period of the first game. Crysis Warhead features new fully customizable weapons, vehicles, and enemies, along with new multiplayer content.
Our take on this article will be all about hardware performance considering it is based on an enhanced version of the CryEngine 2. While many gamers were outraged by the lack of optimizations in the original Crysis, we simply felt it was too far ahead of its time.
Crytek claims this optimized version allows for enhanced performance. A headline that caught our attention earlier this year read “Crysis Warhead to run smoothly on a $600 PC?”. Crytek’s CEO stated at the time that a PC valued at just over $600 could run the title with high settings enabled at 30 to 35 frames per second.
This got us wondering just how well Crysis Warhead had been optimized and why these “optimizations” had not been applied to the original. Then again, the developer cleverly missed from mentioning at what resolution gamers could expect this kind of performance (when making the 30 fps claim).
And so today we plan to find out exactly how Crysis Warhead performs using a range of previous and current generation graphics cards. Crysis has renamed their quality presets from Very High, High, and Medium, to Enthusiast, Gamer, and Mainstream, while there is also a Minimum setting.
Our testing covers the Enthusiast, Gamer, and Mainstream quality settings at 1440×900, 1680×1050, and 1920×1200 resolutions.
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Crysis Warhead Activation De-Authorisation Tool
EA’s readying an activation de-authorisation tool for release for both Spore and Crysis Warhead:
EA is expediting development of a system that will allow consumers to de-authorize machines and move authorizations to new machines. This system will effectively give you direct control to manage your authorizations between an unlimited number of different machines without having to contact EA customer service.
Please keep in mind that we cannot commit to a specific time frame or give you a date on when this will be available, but it is definitely being worked on.
We hope that this will really keep you guys happy and that you can understand that we have been listening to your concerns and are trying to make as much progress as possible to help you all out as best we can.
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Crysis Warhead Now in Digital Download
The next installment in the award-winning Crysis franchise, Crysis Warhead is now available as a digital download on Direct2Drive.
Also available only on Direct2Drive is a special 10% off discount when you download the Crysis bundle (Crysis+Crysis Warhead). -A $7.00 value
Crysis Warhead takes place alongside the events of last year’s critical hit, with players experiencing the explosive battles against waves of challenging enemies on the other side of the island through the eyes and nanosuit of the bold and aggressive Sergeant “Psycho” Sykes. Crysis Wars features 21 maps and three diverse multiplayer modes, including InstantAction, frenetic deathmatch enhanced by the power of the nanosuit, PowerStruggle, a hardcore team-based mode and introducing TeamInstantAction, a mix of fast-paced action in a team-based environment. Both are built on Crytek’s award-winning CryENGINE 2, optimized now to deliver the high-fidelity graphics Crytek is known for with an improvement in performance across a wide range of PCs.
Crysis Warhead has been rated ‘M’ for Mature by the ESRB and ‘16+’ by PEGI. For more information about the game, please visit www.crysiswarhead.com or www.mycrysis.com.
About Direct2Drive
Direct2Drive (D2D) is IGN Entertainment’s digital download store (http://www.direct2drive.com). Launched in October 2004, D2D allows consumers to conveniently purchase and download the latest premium PC games, comics and anime titles directly from the Web to their desktops. D2D’s AAA roster of leading game publishers includes Atari, Activision, Blizzard Entertainment, Electronic Arts, NCsoft, Rockstar Games, SEGA, Sony Online Entertainment, THQ, 2K Games, Ubisoft and Vivendi Universal Games.
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Crysis, Warhead to Join Steam
Crytek’s PC shooter game Crysis and its follow-up game Crysis Warhead will both join Valve’s Steam as downloadable titles later this week.
Both titles will be available in North America on Wednesday with a worldwide release set for the following day. The original Crysis is priced at $40, with a cheaper Warhead at $30.
Crysis Warhead parallels the timeline of the original title by putting you in control of sergeant Michael “Psycho” Sykes — who appeared in the first game — and includes Crysis Wars, a multiplayer-specific add-on. The retail version hits North American stores tomorrow.
Crytek arms 699 USD Warhead PC
Almost everyone balked on the impudent claim and finally Crytek disclosed that the game could be executed well on computer which costs merely about 600 USD. During the time of report, the game correspondent Mr. Chris Remo stated that EA, Nvidia, Crytek have joined together to formulate Warhead PC, which is a kind of prebuilt machine type. This machine will be kept for sale featuring an easy access in the market, besides Crysis Warhead via UltraPC in the coming week. Though the specifications are not disclosed in detail, Chris Remo has given a clue that the machine is designed with Intel Core2 Duo e7300 processor along with 2 GB RAM and Nividia 9800 GT Graphic Chip.
While giving a try to play Warhead, the performance and functioning was considered as a major issue. The work is still on progress and it helps people as like having hard cap.
