Crytek optimise CE2, will MA?

[Egg90]

Crytek are currently working on another Crysis game Crysis Warhead set for a winter 2008 release and have managed to slash the optimal system requirements for CE2 drastically.

From a PC games magazine:

Despite the fact that I was playing Crysis Warhead on high settings with a smooth frame rate & barely an ounce of pop up, the guys from Crytek dropped the information that I was playing on a machine they'd bought for the Euro equivalent of £380.
You see over the past year they've tamed the beast that is CryEngine 2 and now I was apparently getting high settings from 2Gb RAM, a Core2Duo E6750 processor and a GeForce 8800GT videocard. Sure it's a fairly decent rig, but aspiration-wise it's a hell of a lot more realistic for the average gamer.

So will MindArk be able to squeeze similar performance from CE2 on non uber PC's? And will any decrease in system requirements for high settings also be reflected in medium & low settings?
I dont know how how their license for CE2 works. Maybe Crytek will share some of their new knowledge on the engine or even let MA use some of the modifyed code.
If not I guess it's down to the MA team to figure it out themselves, but with all the other ongoing EU updates to work on, is this just wishful thinking?

A lot of concern has been raised about the performance of CE2 powered EU on players existing systems. Hopefully this news will ease fears slightly, knowing that their performance in Crysis is unlikely to reflect future EU performance. Plus as time goes on we should be able to crank the details up as MA refine the engine more.

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[Wistrel]

It always ran nicely on the 8800gt's

I saw it myself

[Egg90]

Originally Posted by Wistrel

It always ran nicely on the 8800gt's

I saw it myself

Seeing as the reporter seemed very impressed with it (from a mag I trust alot) I guess this was in high resolution (1200x1600) with at least 4x AA.

[Unified]

I just bought a new entry level dell.. Althon X2 4400+; ATI 2600 XT 256MB; 3GB of RAM, for a grand total of €313 + vat (I reclaimed the vat )

I tried the crysis demo on medium settings and is better than my old xp3000+ 256MB fx5600, and 1GB ram was on entropia, so I'm crytropia ready on basic settings, I think.

[Wistrel]

Originally Posted by Egg90

Seeing as the reporter seemed very impressed with it (from a mag I trust alot) I guess this was in high resolution (1200x1600) with at least 4x AA.

ah fair doos then

[Tosi]

Considering that it took MA up until recently to fix nasty memoryleaks in Gamebryo I wouldn't hold my breath on seeing optimizations with CE2.

[ACEwoK]

Originally Posted by Tosi

Considering that it took MA up until recently to fix nasty memoryleaks in Gamebryo I wouldn't hold my breath on seeing optimizations with CE2.

hate to say it but i agree, MA isn't exactly the fastest when it comes to support issues. Look at the lag for no better example.

Just my

[master---chief]

Im guessing they also want to sort out the lag issues when they change engine...

[T3h_plonker]

interesting indeed. hope this means i'll be able to run it on my laptop insted of forking out for a desctop

pc zone btw ?