Crysis 2 will be initially released as a DX9 Title?

[TAViX]

The whole point of DX11 is not just improved graphics, but mostly improved performance. That's why everybody is fussing about why in 2011 we still have new games running on 9 years old APIs....

 

[1Kurgan1]

i will miss them who will put out good titles like farcry, crysis etc ?

Battfield 3, so hot.... want to touch the hiney

 

[Lionheart]

Fuk crytek and fuk crysis 2, motherfuken BATTLEFIELD 3 here we come BITCHES

 

[HalfAHertz]

The whole point of DX11 is not just improved graphics, but mostly improved performance. That's why everybody is fussing about why in 2011 we still have new games running on 9 years old APIs....

It's not 9 years old! Dx9c is only 7 years old (not that it makes it any better )
Don't forget that Dx9.0b was SM2.0 and 9.0c was SM3.0 That was a big improvement back then.

 

[LAN_deRf_HA]

I also remember after patch 1.2 they stopped patching Crysis (it could have used more work) to work on the next game (Warhead). Warhead didn't get much attention after release, or at least single player didn't as far as patches go. But I think if they are having issues in getting it done in time and are going to release anyway, they would need to drop the price. After playing today and it was an "ok demo", I was not too impressed. I have been a huge crysis fan and always love the single player sandboxing but i might just have to sit this one out.

No kidding it needed more patching. I just tried out the CCC mod the other day, literally made physics run 6 times faster while using half the processing power. 6 times, for half the processing power. Not only that, but the physics were more complete. When I set off a nuke on vanilla it would only chop off the tree tops (and at a crawl), with CCC it takes out the whole tree. Ragdolls execute faster, thrown objects no longer have latency in their physical interactions. Every single aspect of the physics execution was radically improved by some modder. Crytek should feel ashamed.

 

[the54thvoid]

http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=29330

Yeah, Hexus backs up that report. DX11 patch to follow.

Yawn.... DX9. I like the effects you get with DX11.

It's also more than cashing in on consoles, they're selling out to multiplayer. Ah well, Dragon Age 2 in a few more days...

 

[Frizz]

Sad to say, I like to call myself one of the biggest fans for Crysis... but sadly, after playing the demo I've lost all hope for this game.

Not surprised with this news they are obviously going to put console first from here on out. Crytek you have failed me

 

[2DividedbyZero]

if Crysis 2 is not released DX11 capable, i think this will be cryteks way of telling PC gamers, they are moving out of the PC gaming business.

 

[TAViX]

It's not 9 years old! Dx9c is only 7 years old (not that it makes it any better )
Don't forget that Dx9.0b was SM2.0 and 9.0c was SM3.0 That was a big improvement back then.

The thing is that Dx9 came with Windows XP in 2002 (OK, 2 months after the release of Windows XP...). Afterwards patches, updates, etc, are just details, details...

 

[Mussels]

The thing is that Dx9 came with Windows XP in 2002. Afterwards patches, updates, etc, are just details, details...

XP shipped with directX 8.1

 

[2DividedbyZero]

DX9 can look very good but if a large dev will not adopt present technologies and adapt to future tech, then they "in the pc gamers eyes" have already lost the war, small battles like crysis2 DX9 is just throwing salt into their war wounds

 

[RejZoR]

What this means that DX11 won't be nearly as impressive and that performance will be shit like.
It has been this way with every game that was initially anything else but the DX version they were advertising all along. Stupid consoles.

 

[Bundy]

most of the GPU market is DX10, at least according to steam. this is outdated too, so the numbers would be higher.

http://img.techpowerup.org/110301/Capture322.jpg


since DX10 hardware can run DX11 titles (with features like tesselation disabled) it actually makes sense for games to be made in DX10 or 11.

Given that Crytek did not release a DX11 game (nor will Dice for BF3), does that mean we have all fallen for the 'early adopter' fail? i.e. bought shit that can't be used?

 

[2DividedbyZero]

Given that Crytek did not release a DX11 game (nor will Dice for BF3), does that mean we have all fallen for the 'early adopter' fail? i.e. bought shit that can't be used?

short answer - yes

it can be used just not to the specification to which we bought it:shadedshu

 

[Frizz]

short answer - yes

it can be used just not to the specification to which we bought it:shadedshu

Especially since most of our GPU's shiny boxes boast of DX11 features

 

[2DividedbyZero]

pc gamers are in the biggest fail market in the world and the game devs are quietly laughing their fucking cocks off







- did i say quietly :shadedshu


i guess we can lay some blame on ourselves


DO NOT BUY THE LATEST GPU HARDWARE GUYS - THEN nVIDIA AND AMD WILL ALSO FAIL

they spend so much money on tech just to have it run 6 yrs old software - it's just shamefully embarrasing

 

[Frick]

At least your cards run those games well.

 

[erixx]

in fact the latest trend is to, not play BETTER, MORE DEMANDING GAMES, but to buy more and more and bigger MONITORS to show off our epeen power....

Yep, it is all wrong. Back to reading paper books and going down to the pub as main spare time occupations!!!!!

 

[2DividedbyZero]

At least your cards run those games well.

do you see formula 1 developing their cars into the millions $, just to have FIA limit the races to 10 miles? yes their cars are fking quick, but is it worth the dev cost?

the spectator "us" at such a race will pay good money to see the latest machines run at full speed "6970/580" for it to be over in less than 15 minutes. because thats exactly what is happening - and then FIA come back a few months later and say wait wait we have implemented a longer race "DX11" for our machines, come back and see the same race "game" again a second time with this implementation. boring.


- maybe a bad anology but it has the same impact

 

[TAViX]

do you see formula 1 developing their cars into the millions $, just to have FIA limit the races to 10 miles? yes their cars are fking quick, but is it worth the dev cost?

.....

- maybe a bad anology but it has the same impact

The F1 cars are tuned down in order to last longer. Now they are using 8 engines for 1 season and 1 gear box every 5 races.
Imagine that back then, they were using 1 engine and 1 gear box /race, hehe!

So if we are to continue the analogy, yeah, the new video cards are worh, since they consume less power, and you always can tune down the clocks and mems for old games in order to preserve the card and power bill. Also, you can add extra quality wit AA and such...

 

[Bundy]

in fact the latest trend is to, not play BETTER, MORE DEMANDING GAMES, but to buy more and more and bigger MONITORS to show off our epeen power....

Yep, it is all wrong. Back to reading paper books and going down to the pub as main spare time occupations!!!!!

lol , you have a good point there... *Bundy starts to look up bigger monitors*

 

[Frizz]

lol , you have a good point there... *Bundy starts to look up bigger monitors*

What's the point? the quality will just be as good on a 1080p 40" TV won't it... why bother with a bazillion monitors on your table and a significant performance hit.

 

[razaron]

Crysis 2 will probably sell alot. Maybe not as much to the PC as it did with Crysis but consoles will more than make up for it.

What's the point? the quality will just be as good on a 1080p 40" TV won't it... why bother with a bazillion monitors on your table and a significant performance hit.

Here's your answer.

epeen power

 

[n-ster]

What's the point? the quality will just be as good on a 1080p 40" TV won't it... why bother with a bazillion monitors on your table and a significant performance hit.

but much better on multiple monitors

 

[KainXS]

what could have happened is they discovered some problems with DX11 and just disabled it in the engine until its fixed.

a thing about DX9 though, even though its so old it still pumps out some really good visuals, I still don't think they have done all they could with it, DX11 just makes it easier to do harder things and adds a few things.