Rated: 90% (2 votes)
Loading ...If it wasn’t for Crysis, would you need a new graphics card?
Clive Webster
Even a £135 256MB Nvidia GeForce 8800 GT can play modern games at 1,920 x 1,200 without sacrificing any image quality. All bar Crysis that is, which struggles to be playable on this card even at relatively low resolutions with detail settings turned down. With Nvidia co-operating with Crytek (the makers of Crysis) from an early point - giving them access to early GeForce 8800 cards, helping optimise game code drivers, and so on.
So, with other games easily playable even at very high resolutions and maximum detail settings, wouldn’t Nvidia need a reason for you to buy a new GeForce graphics card? And hopefully to spend more than £135. Enter Crysis, which demands some kind of monster PC to run with Very High settings at a decent resolution and frame rate. ‘Want to play Crysis?’ Nvidia asks, ‘then get yourself a pair of GeForce 8800 GTS 512MB cards…’
Surely, given that Nvidia has been so involved with the development of Crysis, it should have a card capable of playing it? Granted, this isn’t a consipracy of David Icke proportions, but is far more believable. What do you think?
Rated: 68% (5 votes)
Loading ...CPC Benchmarks - nearly there!
Clive Webster
Well, the benchmarks are almost done. In fact the reference PC is running the tests as I write, and then it’ll just be a case of Spode putting these scores into the code, making a couple of interface tweaks and we’ll have something we can send out.
It’s been a tough week or two bug-testing the new benchmarks into the wee small hours, and debating what’s going on with the few anomalous scores we’ve been getting, but it’s definitely worth the effort. Read more