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Far Cry Tech Demo 42

Posted by Zonk from the who-new-islands-were-so-processor-intensive? dept.
Ant writes "Blue's News mentions a Far Cry Tech Demo/ATI & Crytek Tech Demo. I just watched it on my Athlon 64 3200+ system with 1 GB of RAM and an ATI Radeon 9800 Pro AIW (128 MB) video card. Wow. I had to disable FSAA to keep the FPS up at 1152x864 screen resolution. There is also a video file format available for those who don't have a powerful system and/or video card."
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  • Amazing! (Score:3, Funny)

    by AresTheImpaler ( 570208 ) on Friday December 03, 2004 @12:17PM (#10987097)
    Wow! Amazing! When is this game coming out? oh wait..... :D
    • I definitely do not have the hardware to run the actual demo (Athlon 2400+, Radeon 9100, 768 PC2700), so I watched the video. Does the actual tech demo look better than the video clip? If not, then I'm really not impressed. The water, explosion, and facial animation effects were terrible! The animation was forced and clearly artificial. Did anyone else notice the rings left by the jetski? Is that supposed to look like waves and or the wake? Not impressed.
      • Athlon 2400+, Radeon 9100, 768 PC2700)

        (OT)
        Does the CPU really affect game performance ? I am gettuing ready to build a system, I thought a midrange processor on a good MB, a high end card and 1 gig of ram would suffice. Does the CPU really matter ? If yes , P4 ? AMD64 ? Where to spend my hard earned christmas bonus ?? Thanks

        • Yes, the CPU does affect game performance although not nearly as much as does the GPU. One of the reviews I read of Half Life 2 contained performance testing results on various CPU/GPU combinations. Unfortunately, I don't remember where I read the review (Google should "remember"). I know it's not FarCry, but the results did show that outdoor levels in HL2 put quite a strain on the CPU, much more so than they did on the GPU. Also, whenever I run any 3D game on my PC, the CPU temp. rises by about 5 degre
        • I'd say that a high end CPU is more important in some ways.

          A CPU will be almost equally strained by any of a game's graphical settings.

          If your video card isn't fast enough, you can always lower the graphics quality to get better performance.

          I'm thinking of getting an Athlon 64 3000+ and a geForce 6600gt. AMD CPUs are generally better for games.
          • That being said, the performance difference between a $150 and $500 CPU is much smaller than the performance difference between a $150 and $500 video card.

            A $500 Athlon64 3700+ is only ~25% more powerful than a $150 Athlon 3000+.

            A $500 video Radeon X800 XT can be more than 200% more powerful than a $200 GeForce 6600GT (if the cpu is fast enough)

            A fast video card won't compensate for a weak CPU though. And the 200% will only be noticed at 1600*1200 with all the graphics options at max.
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  • Anyone else having firefox crash when you try to open the link?
  • People load up the newest games like Half-Life 2 or Doom 3, and are usually blown away. But show it to a non-gamer, and you usually don't get a wow. Why? They are used to things that you see in this Far Cry video, but the only way to get graphics like that is to design specifically for hardware like the x800. Half-Life 2 looks nice, but it would look twice as nice if they didn't have to worry about supporting people that don't have 256 megabyte graphics cards. Of course, nobody will ever make games like tha
    • "Of course, nobody will ever make games like that because you would never sell any except to crazy rich people with expensive gaming systems."

      Or gaming consoles.
      • But gaming consoles are only state of the art for a few months after they come out. The X-Box is 733MHz, and it has 64 megs of memory. It's graphics chip is 233MHz fast. The X-Box is a DINOSAUR compared to the average computer that you can buy from Dell or something for 600 bucks.
    • Half-Life 2 looks nice, but it would look twice as nice if they didn't have to worry about supporting people that don't have 256 megabyte graphics cards. Of course, nobody will ever make games like that ...

      So are you saying HL2 takes cheap systems into account, or doesn't? You make no sense. Games will always have to span a band of qualities.

      Frankly this demo is tailored to distinct hardware. Just like Intel's specialized thread model or MS's DirectX API, you pick your market. If FarCry only runs thi
      • Sorry, my language was vague. I was saying Half-Life 2, like all games, has to run on as much hardware as they can get it to run on. This isn't bad, that's just how business works. If Half-Life 2 were to only run on 3000+'s with a gig of Corsair dual channel RAM, an x800, and identical everything else, it would look crazy awesome. The less you reduce the similarity of the systems, the less potential you have for power. We do see amazing graphics when it is tailor made for only the 3d card, though, as in the
    • But show it to a non-gamer, and you usually don't get a wow. Why? They are used to things that you see in this Far Cry video

      come again? non-gamers are used to seeing incredible photorealistic computer graphics? do you mean as in real life, or a Pixar movie, or... what?
      • Stuff like the Pixar and Dreamworks movies, or even stuff like special effects in other movies like The Lord of the Rings. Sure, they're totally different fields, but people have a train of thought that goes "I saw cool stuff in a movie. That was made with computers. If I play computer games, why can't they look as good?"

  • Kills my computer :/ (Score:3, Funny)

    by Lord Bitman ( 95493 ) on Friday December 03, 2004 @01:15PM (#10987882)
    nice to see something besides Halfe Life 2 make my system freeze..
  • I was impressed with the rendition of objects, such as the trees and the chairs and instruments. The people however, leave a lot to be desired. There's simply not enough polygons to render a human convincingly, especially if they have complex clothing or hair. It's a Far Cry from Final Fantasy.

    Also, why bother doing this in an engine, when you still have to texture, rig, and animate the characters? Save for render time, I don't see any benefit.

    • Also, why bother doing this in an engine, when you still have to texture, rig, and animate the characters? Save for render time, I don't see any benefit.

      To help show that this is really what the game would look like, and not some pre-rendered video.

      I've seen clips that have looked amazing, but impossible to have in real-time on even the fastest PC of the era.

      Face it, the game isn't anywhere near complete. They could say "we're not done yet, but here's what it's going to look like" and show some video.

  • ...that doesn't care what this guy's system specs are or what resolution he watched it at?

    Didn't we just have a nice article about game reviews? Where is the "meat" of this story?

    Wouldn't it be much better to read something like this, instead:

    Ant [aqfl.net] writes "Blue's News [bluesnews.com] mentions a Far Cry Tech Demo/ATI & Crytek Tech Demo [ati.com] the showcases the capabilities of the amazing Crytek engine used to power the award-winning game, Far Cry [farcry-thegame.com]. The tech demo is presented as a movie, called "The Project". The story is re

  • Video on the site was compressed foolishly (Score:4, Informative)

    by NeMon'ess ( 160583 ) <flinxmid&yahoo,com> on Friday December 03, 2004 @11:11PM (#10994206) Homepage Journal
    It's a 60MB, 5 minute video at 320x160. Video codec is wmv3 at 459kbps. The Audio however, is uncompressed pcm at 1411kbps! Yep, 50 megs of it is the AUDIO! Perhaps eventually someone at ATI will notice and save themselves 45MB per download.
  • The visuals might be approaching Hollywood quality, but the scriptwriting wouldn't stand up in even the most hackneyed action flick. "No! I vant it alive!"

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