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Far Cry Tech Demo

Posted by Zonk on from the who-new-islands-were-so-processor-intensive? dept.

Ant writes "Blue's News mentions a Far Cry Tech Demo/ATI & Crytek Tech Demo. I just watched it on my Athlon 64 3200+ system with 1 GB of RAM and an ATI Radeon 9800 Pro AIW (128 MB) video card. Wow. I had to disable FSAA to keep the FPS up at 1152x864 screen resolution. There is also a video file format available for those who don't have a powerful system and/or video card."

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  1. Re:Graphics Are Already Here... by mugnyte · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Half-Life 2 looks nice, but it would look twice as nice if they didn't have to worry about supporting people that don't have 256 megabyte graphics cards. Of course, nobody will ever make games like that ...

    So are you saying HL2 takes cheap systems into account, or doesn't? You make no sense. Games will always have to span a band of qualities.

    Frankly this demo is tailored to distinct hardware. Just like Intel's specialized thread model or MS's DirectX API, you pick your market. If FarCry only runs this well on ATI 800X then they're actually selling 2 things: the card and the game.

    I wouldn't be surprised if the 800X card series eventually started shipping with this game. Start the Hype Machine now.

    Market history proves, though, that these endeavors may push the competition to support new concepts (designed in this case by ATI) and is a Good Thing, but one cannot raise the bar indefinitely. Eventually, they catch up. OpenGL 2.0 comes along, AMD creates spiffy chips, etc.

    Then the premium you paid for such name-brand performance starts to look artificial. May I introduce my first piece of evidence: The Intel Pentium 4