Crysis

[^Lele^]

The game demo, allright, it's stunning and you can read up and find screenshots and/or videos around already.
What's leaving me entirely shocked and speechless is the sandbox (its editor).
Hullo max 2008.
Volumetric clouds, soft shadows, reflections and refractions, characters moving about, morph-expression editor, zillions of trees and vegetation, all shadow casting and receiving, all editable, all realtime.
Change the time, and the equator-pole location, and see it all update in realtime (yes, animated soft shadows included), sun sinking low, moon coming up, lighting changing, all with a beautiful editor to change the behavior of sun, sky etc. over time (Vlado: nudge nudge ).
Grab a chunk of rock from a mountainside, drag it around, see it drop shadows on the objects below, sink a ship, see the water update the shorelines around it in realtime.
It's completely nuts, I won't get much sleep tonight.

[glorybound]

Hullo max 2008

I have been talking to a guy over at AUGI about this. I sent me a link to the beta. I'll check it out.

[RErender]

I wish max would switch into gameplay mode like sandbox does

[Shimakaze]

Wow insane! I didn't realize it came with an editor. Could spend all day just looking at this thing

[DaForce]

what the... somehow i missed the editor.. touche` Lele touche`

Fantastic game too... editor looks stunning from the videos I saw on it awhile back. The farcry editor was abit like that as well.. pretty sweet.

[^Lele^]

Lol Leith!
I should mention it was DaForce telling me the demo was out.
I should also mention it's downloadable at high speed from nZone, along with the beta drivers especially released for it (ran fine with the release ones here, but for that fps or two, get them)

[DaForce]

oi... since f**king when are you getting the jump on me with computer related nerdery? hmmm
**goes off to download new beta drivers now**

**mumbles**

[percydaman]

so just the demo comes with the editor? cool.

[palibebeh]

I get killed too often.... *shrugs*

...but the game is sooo beautiful and realistic, makes you wonder why such things are possible in realtime, but take many minutes/hours to render with max.

btw - this is yet another game that I bought gfx for
the first one was q3 and tnt2, second - hl2 and r9800.

great game!

[DaForce]

hehe be sure to play on Delta mode... its the way its meant to be played

[palibebeh]

hehe be sure to play on Delta mode... its the way its meant to be played

are chickens still chickens in Delta mode or - let's say - tigers?

or laser guided polar bears

[DaForce]

mmmm no LGPBs that I have seen yet. haha

Will let you know if i stumble across any

[Shimakaze]

I'm soooooo glad I bought that 8800GTX... This game actually makes me seriously concider going over to Vista as well. What do you guys use/think? Vista 64bit stable enough by now?

[^Lele^]

Wouldn't know about stable, surely it's a memory hog.
You'll have to turn off most bells and whistles to have it run below the 400 megs mark.
Surely though, all those volumetric effects and stuff in crysis are well worth it

[DaForce]

Hmmm while yes it may be alot more stable than it was.. games do run slower on it. And the added strain of the DX10 features means it wont really run close to what it does on xp.

At 2560x1600, with a Q6600 and a 8800GTX with all settings on max NO AA, i get around 15-20fps.. so that would be basically unplayable on vista.. it essentially is on xp.
I had to drop down to 1920x1200 to get 25-30fps which is then totally playable.

So just keep that in mind.

Would be good to see some dx9 and dx10 screen shot comparission as well to see if its even worth going to vista just yet.