We're interested in upcoming shooter Crysisbased on our time playing, but we're not yet sold on the graphic hype the game has been gathering. Today's video pick from GameTrailers shows off footage from the game the game engine, mostly highlighting plants and their shadows. We held on to our skeptic streak through the video, but the movement of the plants and the intricate shadows chipped away at our cynical shells; the engine looks good. But we'll have to wait for the Crysis release to decide how much praise -- and hype -- the game warrants.
See the lovely leaves after the break.
[Update 1: Thanks to the commentors who pointed out that the video is a tech demo and not directly from the game.]
I'm not saying this game won't be playable on a 8800. In fact, i've already bet £350 on the fact that it will. I'm saying that it won't be playable on max settings with a single card.
I'd just spent about £400 on a 7800 when oblivion came out, it was a top of the range, bleeding edge card at the time. I got about 20fps on max settings.
If this game runs above that with the gfx on full i'll be very suprised.
That would be "leaves", as in "see the lovely LEAVES after the break". Not leafs.
And I'm not convinced of the graphics either. We're all expecting near-life-like graphics here, and I don't think it can live up to that no matter how hard it tries.
Hey; big z # 48 you are very wrong, the ATI x2800xtx2 will be a Direcxt 10 video card it`s the new chip ATI R600 visit the www.theinquirer.com for more information....
Yeap the new ATI chip R600: X2800XTX2 is two video cards in one Directx 10 baby, this is one of the biggest surprise that ATI/AMD will bring to the table that means Quad Crossfire........
The Inquirer:Top Story "ATI X2800XTX2 IT`S QUAD FOR ONLY $600.00"
WE FINALLY managed to find out the commercial name behind cards based on a pair of ATI R600 chips. The top-of-the-line card will be known as the Radeon X2800XTX2 and will be the same concept as Nvidia's GX2 card. So you can expect two R600 chips on a card. We don't know how AMD/ATI plans to implement this, as we may be talking about two PCBs or maybe just one. Nvidia went for two PCBs last year with its Geforce 7950GX2 and our money is on ATI following a similar route.
We also have the rest of the specs, although final clocks may still change slightly. Both chips should end up clocked at 575MHz core and 2000MHz GDDR4 memory. This version has the 256-bit memory controller probably because of technical difficulties to make two chips work at 512-bit memory controller speed. The card is equipped with 2x512MB memory, a total of 1GB, and has two times 96-Shader units. It is made using a 80 nanometre process.
The best of all is that it will cost $600. This was ATI's best-kept secret so far but Nvidia is also doing some dual G80 card to compete this one.
The single R600 called Radeon X2800XTX will be clocked at higher speeds with better specs. Stay tuned. Oh yes, this is how Quad Crossfire is actually going to work. Just plug two of these cards.
