New texture mod for Crysis - is Crysis 2 going to look like that?

Pictures of an unofficial Crysis mod show improvements especially in the texture details, saturation and contrast of the game scenery. As Crytek intends to make a texture update some time in 2008, is this a hint how a possible Crysis add-on or even Crysis 2 will look like?

[Fishy Fingers]

The best looking game in the world just got a whole lot prettier!

... and probably a whole lot more demanding :(

[Violater]

Whats sense does it make if I need a $4,000 computer to run it?

[Scrooge]

It wouldn't be a Crysis thread unless a console boy pointed out the over-exaggerated price of a pc just to make him feel better about the short-comings of his console. Do some research and stop being ignorant.

[PR0F3TA]

and it wouldn't really be a Crysis thread without a PC fanboy telling us how exactly PC pawns consoles, even though statistics show that PC gaming has fallen to console gaming in the last year.

its a fair trade

[kewlkat007]

...

[Lotto]

$4,000? before the trend was to say $2,000 and now suddenly it have rose 100%? Even tho hardware have become cheaper and more powerful /boggle

[xsteinbachx]

You've obviously have never built a computer before.

[m9105826]

I'm gonna have to agree with 1.1, I just built (built, not bought) a $3000 PC a little over a year and a half ago. Core 2 Extreme OCd to 3.4ghz, 3 gigs of RAM, and a 7950GX2. It brings my rig to it's knees at 1280x1024 all on high. There's no way the average person can fully enjoy this game.

[N4g_null]

No seriously
8gigs pf ram is $200-300
http://www.pricewatch.com/s...
cpu is easy around $170 yet if you really want to pay for 10 more frames then you can spend $1000 no one will stop you.
http://www.pricewatch.com/m...
an 8800 around $200
http://www.pricewatch.com/v...
MB vary but really those main parts are around $600. hell if your Hdtv is good enough you can just run crysis on that! Now those parts are way more powerful than a PS3 or xbox 360 and you could run cycsis pretty well at that price. Actually a box like this is over kill for some thing like UT3. Unlike crysis there are developers who make good games that don't rely on all of the crysis effects. You can look them up and yes they out sold those guys by a lot.

Also too learning how to build your own PC is priceless man. If you wanted to pay me $4000 I would make like $2000 dollars off of you easy. Also all of those pirated games and porn and even adware slow your box way down.

[DanB91]

strange my $500 computer can run crysis on high @ 1360 x 768 fine.....

newegg.com. thats all im gonna say.

i love how people think u have to sell ur car to play crysis or something.

[Bacon]

Holy god..

[xplosneer]

I like the left side better lol, the right may have it a bit better in saturation level but it's too shiny and sharp, it hurts my eyes.
Some of them are pretty good though, like the wall. Just that first one hurts a lot.

[Adamalicious]

Yeah - I don't really care for the mod from an aesthetic standpoint.

[Alcohog]

"inofficial" lol

[pwnsause]

i will never be able to play this game on very high mode until i get a new comp, and thats 3 years from now. i cant spend on a new rig ever again rofl.

[Boom]

Now that looks sexy!

[Timesplitter14]

Good lord!

[Whoooop]

To tell you the truth, the mud in the first image looked better and more real in the left.

My opinion of course.

Still it looks stunning.

[SL1M DADDY]

The screen of the rock cliff is amazingly better.

[Bolts]

Crysis is at it's best when rendering urban enviroments instead of jungle joilage. Thats when the game's high res texture can really pop. This texture over load is what set the console and the PC apart...well other than native resolutions that is. Only the PC can handle the huge RAM requirements necessary for the kind of texture work.

[Alexander Roy]

It's nice that everybody tries to make it improve, but seriously, CryTek needs to optimize the engine. How many people on earth can run it at playable speeds on the highest settings (even without AA and AF)?

[ISA_Scum]

Maybe they could improve the gameplay too? All looks no depth.

[Jonelo]

The shot of the new not is real , this is the diference

http://www.abload.de/img/no...

http://www.abload.de/img/ne...

[mesh1]

looks like a comparison for 360 and ps3 tbh the right side is the 360 the left side is the ps3 the right image has better texture will the left side is a bit washed out

[liquidsnake]

Wake me up when the torturebox can pull out those graphics.

[iiprotocolii]

Now THAT is ridiculous looking. Kinda scares me to think what next-gen systems will be able to do... I pray to God it's nothing that will cause heart attacks.

[Assassin Nawabi]

thats freakin stunning

[highdro]

we know crysis graphics are great,......blablabla.....now can u people at crysi plssss try and find a way to bring it to console, ...damn i so want to play it but i hate playing games on my pc, i hate using the mouse or key bords, even tho they is some kind of pad for the game i still prefer to play it on my ps3.

[ryuyasho]

everybody forgets Killzone 2...

EDIT: Mii like more organic looking textures and colors than plastic shining textures. Left side for me ;).

[highdro]

we did not 4get about killzone 2!!! i am sure ps3 can achive crysis graphics but we all know we are not going to see it now,...i am sure killzone 3 will put crysis to bed.

[bootsielon]

I do not doubt that PS3 and 360 will come close when their endtimes are reached. I can not wait to know how next-gen games will look

[Dierus]

my friend, it's not possible on the consoles because of the memory limits, if you look at the goodlooking titles on 360/ps3 they all have low res textures, look at kz2, mgs4, bioshock,gow
sorry to ruin your day, but the high end pcs today are way more powerful the ps3/360

[Qdog]

While I respect your comment as being your opinion, I cannot take it as fact, because.... a texture memory constraint, is mostly set by how optimized the shader code is, hence if a texture branch set is optimized to terminate(or complete) in less clock cycles( which is the advantage of having extra spus, and parallel programming)the need for memory is by far reduced, and that frees up more memory for other textures in the set more efficiently. I think that as the programming and compilers as a whole become more mature, you will see more procedures implemented, that make the lack of memory less existent. Again, as programmers come to terms with parallel processing, you will see consoles (with the cell BE especially) become extremely more efficient with memory, and you will see games that you thought were NOT possible due to memory problems being done on said console(s). Parallel programming is relatively new, and not as explored as conventional processing. So the door is open for improvements, and only time will tell if the programmers will choose to adopt and optimize code, and programming for said platform.

[ip-student]

You have to expect that with Moore's observartion and the increased amount of memory a PC with two 512 MB cards could have nicer textures than a console with 256 MB card (running at a slower rate, I might add). In the end, textures are based on the number of triangles and there is no easy substitute for memory when you want to increase the number of triangles.

But as said many times in this thread - the cost isn't worth it. I personally hope the next gen of consoles include an asic chip for ray tracing that can output 60 fps for the intended resolution for highly complex geometry (2-5 million triangles) with shadows and such - based on what I have read it seem completely possible. Such a design would end the need to create art - everything could be procedurally generated and rendered in real time. Time to reduce the cost of making games - IMHO.

[Qdog]

First off, I respect your post as being your take on things. Second the standard memory configuration for current gen consoles, is 512 MB, X360 has a unified module 512MB DDR3 running at 800MHZ, with a 10MB EDRAM, while the PS3 has one module of 256MB DDR3 @800MHZ, and one module of 256MB XDR @3.2GHZ.I dont know of the current PC standard for DDR2 DDR3 etc, but I am relatively sure (without overclocking) that it hasnt reached 3.2GHZ. About the memory and capabilities, as I stated in another post, the buzzword is parallel processing, normal textures and specular etc. can be processed at an alarmingly low amount of clock cycles, getting the same return or greater with less compared to dual or quad-core standards, but more efficiently, this also applies to the number of complex geometry and polygons. Think in streams my friend, and not in conventional packets. Such is the nature of the Cell BE. Please if you have any other input, enlighten me my friend, because I'm always willing to observe, and consequently ...learn.As far as I know, optimized code right now for the PS3 has been relatively simple, but has shown the accuracy of theoretical(predicted) returns aka Folding @ Home. You see until the code is optimized on more complicated alghorythims (Game code, shader code etc.) It's hard to benchmark the current state of consoles as the technology(in the PS3) is still a little ahead of it's time, by conventional standards. As I am sure Sony is well aware.

[sloth4urluv]

dosnt matter how optimised your code and shaders are, if you dont have enough memory to store all the textures its not going to help you any, you have to resize the textures to make them a smaller resolution, or compress them to some format that the graphics processor can handle natively.

And if you want to talk about procedural textures, those still need to be stored in memory after they are calculated, to be able to calculate these textures on the fly would be quite difficult. think about it to be able to calculate and draw a high resolution high detail texture from a set of commands 60 times a second is rather impressive, but to do that with multiple textures then overlay them apply them to geometry and perform shaders and post processing effects.
I dont think that can be done on any current hardware.

[Qdog]

Thank you for contributing to my post. About texture sizes..with the addition of more processors(non-scalar) comes the ability to handle more code in parallel, and while I agree that with the current programming standard, memory is a huge issue, but think parallel, in streams, meaning more information handled with way less clock cycles, giving the memory room for more textures, yes they would have to be compressed natively, but seeing as how there is no background OS(ie Vista/XP, less resources are taken and more code(optimized/compressed) can be run natively. I have to be honest, it's not being done yet, but I find it facinating, how Sony left the doors open for it to be done. New frontiers in computer programming are being explored, and unknown avenues of approach are possible. So just like the PS3, you have to think unconventionally to kind of understand the capabilities, of the current generation consoles, and more so where programming efficiencey is going. As always thank you for your reply friend.

[sloth4urluv]

Thanks for being awsome about it qdog. Most of the time if I coment on something I get like 15 disagrees. +bubble

[Qdog]

If you cannot give a valid reason for a disagree with a perfectly logical statement. Then dont disagree, that button is for people with enough intelligence to have a preference disagreeable to mine. Because you disagree without cause, you only validate the fact that you are an opinionless tool, and every disagree after that only further proves my point about you.

[M_Prime]

i think if they weren't anal and had to have it on highest graphics they could easily optimize this for 360 or Ps3 but it would look like ass compared to the PC version. We know it can be done since HL2 came out for the XBOX and PS2.. and they didn't look as good as the PC game but they did just fine..

as to anyone who likes playing FPS with a controller, your crazy.. KEYBOARd and MOUSe is the the best way to do it.. easiest too.. next is the wiimote.. personally i hate aiming with analog sticks. and AIM ASSIST or AUTO AIM is not as fun as manual aim.

and the sand picture(with teh tracks in the middle), the one on the left looks more real to me.. the one on the right is just over the top. never seen sand that jaggy.

This is a great looking game.. but i'm sure it has a 10 year plan like the ps3..

[Matpan]

Most of the BEST things don´t come cheap...

[Nytr8]

come on xbox 720, PS4
I want games that look like that!!!
But im not gonna remorgage my house just to uprgade my pc to play this.

Ill just wait for the next batch of consoles to come out.

[condorstrike]

play at that level on a console......lol...lol...lol, please stop fooling yourselfs...
(consoles) = no upgrades; so to play this either buy a new revision "which i doubt" will ever happen and if it does won't be much of a difference.

or wait for the next gen consoles... and even then.

better yet get an upgradable pc...:)

[Nytr8]

You have seen the graphical improvements on consoles from one generation to the next right? Or are you the PC ftw type?

When the new Sony and MS consoles come out you seriously believe that they wont be able to pump textures like that? Especially when you consider that they wont be out for another 2-3 years?

I do believe they can and will.
The PS3 and 360 are no laughing matter, they were actually for the first time in history ahead of the mainstream PC in technology upon launch.
And in order to improve on what consoles offer you had and have to spend a far larger chunk of cash on your pc upgrades to make them better.

I understand PC very well, I build them for my friends and family to save them money and I always buy oem components to keep costs down. But even with that saving its still a higher cost compared to consoles.

Ive got nothing against PC gaming and I used to enjoy it a fair bit, I just prefer the fact that I know that every game I buy will look like it does on the back of the box, not to find out that I need another £400 graphics card to get abit more bump mapping and a smoother framerate

[radical_pi]

this game does look amazing, but like a lot of people i dont want to put in the $$ to get a pc that will play it properly. it runs on mine, but even on low settings it can turn into a slideshow. and the b!tch of it all is that if i do upgrade my pc, it will be obsolete in a year and i wont be able to play the newer, more powerful games. i think ill stick to my consoles for now, because i really shouldnt have to worry about RAM upgrades and running video cards in SLI and 4xAA, etc; i just want to play the damn games. im not a software engineer, im a gamer.

[pow3r of t3h c3ll]

When crysis is ported to the PS3 it is going to look so freakin sweet. Pity it wont be on the flopbox due to its archaic hardware.

xflop FTL!
PStriple FTW!

[xsteinbachx]

Crysis, Now with more Un-playabilty

[levy]

This is a really childish view that (unfortunately) a lot of people have. You don't "HAVE" to play on max settings, it's still the most beautiful game even without the game on max (not on low/med duh). And the game is still the same even if you play on low (except if you have physics on low).

And this brings us to one of the more common complaints about this game, and that is: "Buu, it's all graphics and a beautiful presentation. The GAMEPLAY is the most important part in a game."

fair enough, I buy that, since it's true.

Edit: Crysis has an Avg Ratio of 91%. And I don't think it got that from only it's graphics.
BUT! Why in the name of the almighty and ever loving GOD does the same people complain that the game is WAY too demanding to play on MAX!? Why do they bother, since they themselves said that GAMEPLAY is the most important thing!?

I'll say, stop whining, lower the settings and have fun. Because,I think the game is actually very fun, (but I don't want anyone to whine about that it's not, since people have different opinions)and I know a lot of people who does, as well as the reviewers. It has a pretty decent average score.

That's all from me.... *shrugs*

[xsteinbachx]

Why would I get a mod that Ups the textures, if I can't even enjoy the them Maxed. No one said nothing about gameplay. It's about New Textures. Read the title of the article, and come back when you're on topic.

[levy]

In one way, I am off topic. But I'm also right when I say that it doesn't really matter. It wont affect you if you're not completely stupid and choosing the new "Ultra" option on textures when you know your computer can't handle it. And then complaining about it. The game won't get any more Un-playable because of this, but the MAX settings will be.

And I must say that you really can't blame the game for being too advanced for your computer, especially since you can choose lower settings. Crytek said that they indeed maxed it out over the top so it would last longer and so people that had the option could play it with marvelous graphics, but that doesn't mean that the "normal" setting is ugly.

[LinuxGuru]

OOOOOOOH higher-res textures.....

What about the GAME itself?

[ropelli90]

those pictures make the original crysis look bad, now i'm not able to play it anymore without the mod... well or with it because my computer isn't able to run the god damn game with over 20fps (at low settings) anyway...

@22: i agree with you big time...

[xTHRASHx]

i really dont see a diff. in most of those pics, like 2 have a significant change... i would hope that Crysis 2 would make more improvements. but then again they are close to the limit

[wangdiddy82]

uncharted had some beautiful textures, lighting, and shadows..

anyway did anyone in here play crysis????? Is it any good?

[Sanhlami]

This game is ahead of its time, too much for most people's wallet unless its doable on a console then I give them all the props in whos line is it anyways.

[Tyrael]

The harder the demands are on our GPU developers, the better our graphics capabilities are at a sooner rate.

[bob1234567]

Im tired of people hating on this game (Console Owners and Cheap PC gamers) The most common arguement is that its all visuals no substance. Who ever that maybe you seriously did not play the game. I could put a hands down and say that the story mode hands down was way better than COD4 including gameplay. After playin cod4 thats all i would need considering it was pretty awsome.

I guess thats what happens when people cant buy something and hate on it like they experianced it. This game is a marvel sure it requires a powerful computer but the pay off is truly rewarding. If you want to talk abuot value. The engine or SandboxEditor bye its self is werth over 500$ check out the modding comunity. There pumping out amazing things through this game.

To console gamers. I 2 am a console gamer i esp bought a PS3 for MGS4 and some other titles. But seriously Ive had freinds come over to my house and check out my pc (quadcore and 8800GT) and after witnessing they would defintly trade in there console for it. Its a whole diffreint type of gaming. Playing online is much much better, for example when i play games i jump on xfire join a COD4 server chat with people on tehre pc in game, get on ventrilo chat with people in a custom server and from ther they can hop into the server im in. OR i could help somebody out just bye Alt+tabbing and pulling up mozilla firefox and quickly get it done and get back in game. PC gaming is so well streamlined and fun its just a whole new experiance.

my suggestion stop hating seroiusly and pc gamers need to stop baggin on consoles its just our own way of gaming.