EA’s Crysis is one of the first DirectX 10 games to be available in the market. This game boosts superior graphics. The screenshots are absolutely stunning. You can see them here. The ultra-realistic graphics will be the next generation of games, where the looks and feels are important. You have seen the screenshots and there is a shocking news for this game, its system requirements.
The requirements are as follow:
Minimum (Pls take note that this is MINIMUM)
- CPU: AMD Athlon64 3000+ or Intel Pentium IV 2.8 Ghz
- Graphics: nVidia GeForce 6200 or ATi Radeon X1300 (At least models that support Shader Model 2.0)
- RAM: 768Mb for Windows XP and 1GB for Windows Vista
- HDD: 6GB
- Internet: 256k+
- Optical Drive: DVD
- Software: DirectX 9.0c with Windows XP
Recommended
- CPU: AMD Athlon64 X2 or Intel Pentium D
- Graphics: nVidia GeForce 7600GT or ATi Radeon X1800GTO (Models that support Shader Model 3.0
- RAM: At least 1.5GB
- HDD: 6GB
- Internet: 512k – 128kbps upstream
- Optical Drive: DVD
- Software: DirectX 9.0c with Windows XP
Well, do you have the recommended specs for this game? The era of single core CPU will be over soon, Dual-core and Qual-Core will take over the job and here come realism.
Crysis will be able to run on both DirectX 9.0 and 10. So Windows XP users are able to play this game, however you are unable to experience the power of the DirectX 10. Will Crysis be the benchmark for next-gen games?
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