Crysis 2 Minimum Requirements "Not Official or Final"

[Andy Chalk]

Crysis 2 Minimum Requirements "Not Official or Final"

The Crysis 2 [http://www.amazon.com/dp/B002BS47YE] minimum system requirements were revealed yesterday but now Crytek says they're neither official nor final.

Word of the Crysis 2 minimum system requirements (for the PC, obviously) Crytek [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/107496-Crysis-2-Will-Be-Kind-to-Your-PC-Plus-a-New-Trailer] games: dual core CPU, Nvidia 8800 GT or higher, two GB of RAM and so forth. Fairly middle-of-the-road stuff.

But Crytek now says that those specs aren't necessarily the bottom line at all. "These minimum specs are not official or final, we'll have an announcement about this soon," Community Manager Tom Ebsworth wrote on the the MyCrysis forums [http://www.mycrysis.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=110701#p110701]. "Please note if you didn't hear it from me/see it on MyCrysis, then it's not official "

It's quite possible, perhaps even likely, that this "not official" business is akin to BioWare's stance on the wrote [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/107491-Dragon-Age-2-Demo-Comes-Early-for-GameStop-Employees-UPDATED], "This is definitely not minimum. If consoles can run Crysis 2, but weren't able to run the original Crysis, then why would the system requirements be higher?"

Still, the minimum specs posted on the German Facebook page [http://www.facebook.com/crysis.de#!/crysis.de/posts/148754431849850] are still there, so who knows? We'll find out soon enough either way: Crysis 2 comes out on March 22 for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and appropriately-equipped PCs.


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[Wolfram23]

Seriously tho, you could play original Crysis with those specs too. You can play ANY game with those specs. Minimum means minimum. The game will look like Minecraft, sure, but you can play it.

Even with a far worse graphics card you could still play it with low resolution.

What we need is Recommended specs which usually target medium/high settings. And ideally they'll include at what resolution they're talking about since 1280x1024 and 1920x1080 are completely different (as in 1080p has twice as many pixels at just over 2 million).

 

[Slanzinger]

'Course, it could simply be that they rack up the power of everything specifically for the PC version, while leaving the console version at a lower level. Certainly for a long time PC games have had settings that have allowed them to surpass the detail level seen on their console counterparts (though of course they normally have settings that go lower as well, so...)

And if it's on the official German Facebook page, surely the info is official to some extent - just not final? (and those could perhaps be "recommended" system requirements rather than "minimum", though I don't know for sure how that kind of technical jargon normally translates over to German)

 

[Who Dares Wins]

Seriously tho, you could play original Crysis with those specs too. You can play ANY game with those specs. Minimum means minimum. The game will look like Minecraft, sure, but you can play it.

Even with a far worse graphics card you could still play it with low resolution.

What we need is Recommended specs which usually target medium/high settings. And ideally they'll include at what resolution they're talking about since 1280x1024 and 1920x1080 are completely different (as in 1080p has twice as many pixels at just over 2 million).

This is so true, but even recommended are wrong sometimes, I meet them 85% of the time and I still have to play with low resolution and settings.

 

[Woodsey]

""This is definitely not minimum. If consoles can run Crysis 2, but weren't able to run the original Crysis, then why would the system requirements be higher?""

So is he saying they're likely to be lower or higher?

They were lower than the first's already (apart from the dual core).

 

[Fooz]

i should be able to run it at higher settings so im not worried, doubt the actual highest but almost. whoever can run it at max settings is a lucky fella. or lady

 

[Rack]

"This is definitely not minimum. If consoles can run Crysis 2, but weren't able to run the original Crysis, then why would the system requirements be higher?"

Lazy, shoddy programming coupled with the fact that you can count on news sites to report them as being lower than the original when it's blatantly not true?

 

[Rack]

""This is definitely not minimum. If consoles can run Crysis 2, but weren't able to run the original Crysis, then why would the system requirements be higher?""

So is he saying they're likely to be lower or higher?

They were lower than the first's already (apart from the dual core).

And the RAM and the graphics card. Still they had the err same OS so I guess that means it's lower?

 

[Danpascooch]

Whoopsie, did we say you can play on an integrated graphics card?

What we ACTUALLY meant is you need the power of all of South Korea's computers working together.

Our bad.