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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. Graphics Are Already Here... by TychoCelchuuu · · Score: 2, Interesting

    People load up the newest games like Half-Life 2 or Doom 3, and are usually blown away. But show it to a non-gamer, and you usually don't get a wow. Why? They are used to things that you see in this Far Cry video, but the only way to get graphics like that is to design specifically for hardware like the x800. 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 because you would never sell any except to crazy rich people with expensive gaming systems. Remember next time you look at a next gen game running in real time and say "That doesn't look photorealistic!": It can, but nobody can run it.

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