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Crysis originally hit the market back on November 13, 2007, just about a year after the notorious Windows Vista plagued PCs around the world
The game still looks gorgeous after all these years, managing to look like it belongs in this console generation
But it still needs to be remastered
Luckily Crysis Remastered is on the way.For anyone that doesn't know, Crysis was essentially the spiritual successor to the original Far
Cry, after Ubisoft bought the rights to the franchise
When Crysis came out, it was notorious for being extremely difficult to run
The game wasn't just demanding for the sake of it, though
this day, whenever I get a new graphics card for my personal use, I go through all three Crysis games just to see how much better the GPU is
basically since Windows 10 hit the market, this has become a lot harder to do, as Crysis doesn't play nice with a 64-bit operating
saw that Crysis Remastered was basically confirmed by a leaked website (before being officially announced just an hour later), I immediately
jumped up and installed the original game on my PC.I realized that, well, it doesn't work right out of the gate
to launch because of course it does
I'm lucky enough to have access to a ton of hardware, so I just moved to my test bench, which is attached to a 16:9 4K monitor to see if
PC gaming!I then tried to set launch options in Steam to get the game to run in DirectX 9 mode, rather than the default DirectX 10
Going to the forums next, I saw some people suggest trying compatibility mode for Windows XP and Vista, and neither of those worked.Finally,
I had to hit the '~' key to open up the control console and type in "con_restricted 0", hit Enter, then type "map island" and hit Enter
And even after all of that, running the game on modern hardware remains a buggy experience, with visual glitches in all the cutscenes and
sending shrapnel everywhere (Image credit: EA; Crytek)Crysis is still gorgeous and a blast to playOnce all the setup and bugs were sorted, I
was reminded just how much I adore Crysis
Not only does it still stand up visually, which it absolutely does, but the gameplay somehow doesn't feel dated 13 years after its initial
that I didn't just give up after the 5th time it crashed at a checkpoint
Don't think that just because this game is 13 years old it's suddenly easy to run
Because of the constant crashes I couldn't get my benchmark software to play nicely, but I was observing around 60-70 fps at 4K with maxed
going to hit graphics cards
But with features like software-based ray tracing, state-of-the-art Depth of Field and other pretty-but-demanding graphics settings, don't
with that generation of hardware (Image credit: EA; Crytek)Why Crysis Remastered is so importantCrysis has never sold particularly well,
which is probably a major reason why we haven't heard from the franchise in almost seven years
excellent game and better than either of the sequels
Not a lot of people were able to jump into the game when it originally came out because of the restrictive hardware requirements
Remastered coming out on PS4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch is going to open up this classic to thousands of people who were never able to
If nothing else, at least I won't have to spend an hour of my precious time trying to get the game to run on a modern operating system
Even without the shiny graphics bells and whistles being added onto the game, being able to get the new version running by just hitting the
