Crysis

[Anonymous]

I saw that everyone was talking about Home Front on another topic. Just throwing it out there but we might also look at the Crysis games. There are actually 3 out and depending on system requirements we might be able to get those going. They also have support for the games and more available maps, weapons & options similar to JO. While it doesn’t offer you the ability to build maps it does give my physics based play. Fubar and I played Crysis when it came out and we both enjoyed it a lot.

I know a lot of you are going to say your graphic cards can’t handle it. NVIDIA just released a new card that is supposed to bridge the gap and allow more games to be played. It is also priced right for most of us. It’s not some $500 card. I am not sure if anyone has looked lately but graphic cards are coming way down now. Might be the time to start checking out the cards and games.

The card is the GeForce GTX 550 Ti. It runs about $100 – $150. It is DX11 ready and SLI 2.0 (also backwards compatible to 1.0), has 1GB of ram.

New Egg has it for $130 after rebate. There are other manufactures of the same card for better price points. Just showing an example.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814134130&nm_mc=OTC-Froogle&cm_mmc=OTC-Froogle-_-Video+Cards-_-ECS+(EliteGroup)-_-14134130

Here is an article on the 550 card and some info on cards in general and their new price points.
http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=1093
Here are the specs for each. Again like I said just throwing it out there.

Crysis (Original)
http://eastore.ea.com/DRHM/store?Action=DisplayProductDetailsPage&SiteID=ea&Locale=en_US&Env=BASE&productID=77033800
OS – Windows XP or Windows Vista
Processor – 2.8 GHz or faster (XP) or 3.2 GHz or faster* (Vista)
Memory – 1.0 GB RAM (XP) or 1.5 GB RAM (Vista)
Video Card –256 MB**
Hard Drive – 12GB
Sound Card – DirectX 9.0c compatible

* Supported Processors: Intel Pentium 4 2.8 GHz (3.2 GHz for Vista) or faster, Intel Core 2.0 GHz (2.2 GHz for Vista) or faster, AMD Athlon 2800+ (3200+ for Vista) or faster.

** Supported chipsets: NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT or greater; ATI Radeon 9800 Pro (Radeon X800 Pro for Vista) or greater. Laptop versions of these chipsets may work but are not supported. Integrated chipsets are not supported. Updates to your video and sound card drivers may be required.

Recommended System Requirements
OS – Windows XP / Vista
Processor – Intel Core 2 DUO @ 2.2GHz or AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+
Memory – 2.0 GB RAM
GPU – NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS/640 or similar

Crysis Warhead (includes “Warhead” multiplayer)
http://eastore.ea.com/DRHM/store?Action=DisplayProductDetailsPage&SiteID=ea&Locale=en_US&Env=BASE&productID=105905500
Windows XP:
Windows XP with Service Pack 2 installed.
Intel P4 2.8 GHz / AMD Athlon 2800+ / Intel Core 2 Duo 2.0 GHz or higher
1.0 GB RAM
12 GB or more of free hard drive space
NVIDIA 6800 GT 256 MB / ATI 9800 Pro 256 MB or better
DirectX 9.0c compatible sound card

Crysis 2
http://eastore.ea.com/DRHM/store?Action=DisplayProductDetailsPage&SiteID=ea&Locale=en_US&Env=BASE&productID=225985400
Operating system: Windows 7 / Windows Vista (Service Pack 2) / Windows XP (Service Pack 3)

Processor: 2Hz Intel Core 2 Duo or AMD Athlon 64 X2 or better

Memory: 2 GB or more; 3 GB for Windows Vista (SP1)

Disc Drive: 8X or faster

Hard Disk Space: At least 9 GB of free space

Video: DirectX 9.0c compatible video card 512 MB*
* NVidia 8800GT with 512 MB RAM, ATI 3850HD with 512 MB RAM, or better.

Sound: DirectX 9.0c compatible sound card

[Anonymous]

Just a heads up to everyone. I have a coupon from EA for 30% off.

Both Crysis & Crysis:Warhead (Warhead inculudes the game multi player Crysis:Wars) are on sale this weekend.

I picked up an extra copy of Crysis:Warhead and used the coupon. It was $8.38 total after discount. Its a digital download so you don’t have to wait for the disk, just have to download which took me about an hour with Time Warner.

I think Crisis is $17.97 ($12.58 after discount).

Here is the code if anyone wants to get it. FYI the sale ends tonight.

DISCOUNT CODE: 76x2nonqje
Exp: 04/15, good for all EA Games & Titles available for digital download only.

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