Crysis Demo

I was looking since many days for a way to find the limits of my system. Quake 4 and Doom 3 don't really seems to bring the system to its knees as the saying goes.

So I installed the Crysis Game demo version from this months PC world. It say its a DX10 game and is really kick ass. Lets see I said.

The demo itself is a big one . We used to have full games smaller than this just last year or so . The demo is 1.7 gigs. Somehow I cleared some space for the game and installed it. Currently I am running Vista and the Vista comes up with a question everytime something happens. Dumb OS. Game requires some hotfix to be installed before it can be played. MS came up with a substandard OS and doesn't like people cribbing about it. No wonder people don't want to move from XP which has matured with the old bugs addressed(and new ones added).

After the install i found there was no shortcut installed by it in the start menu. So I went to the installation directory and found it. There were some benchmarks in it so i tried them. Good for us lazy ppl who want to see some action without much input.

The bench mark scenes look extremely good and really nice detailed graphics are there.

The game looks good . Haven't played it yet. Should be fun.

The nice things about the benchmarks is that you can escape into the control panel of the game and change the video/game/audio setting for the game. This helps you come up with proper settings giving playable framerates for your machine.

In the scene where our guy is running around destroying things the details can be realy noticed once you start enableing various video options. AA seems to reduce the frame rate most. With AA turned off I got the scene to move at a animation like speed. With Max AA scene became a slideshow.

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