New Crysis Movies

DX10 gets you grenades.

Didn't Steam just release a hardware survey saying something like 5% of the responding people were DX10 capable so basically they have no market for the dx10 version whatsoever? And they seriously want me to believe they can't handle rain in the dx9 version? I'd like some of whatever Crytek is smoking cause apparently it's some good shit.

I guess DX10 is nicer for the most part , but have we really seen everything dx9 has to offer? PC folks are always shootin themselves in the foot. Nothing ever get used to it's full potential. Look at AGP, we never saw the full speed of AGP and then all of the sudden its all PCI-E up the ying yang. Look at some of the effects in STALKER with lighting and BF2 with map sizes. There is soo much still to get from DX9 and these computers we spend so much fucking money on for only a couple of years , then we need new. Sad kinda.

Pretty gorgeous stuff, I just wish the hardware requirements weren't so insane. Somewhat surprised EA's publishing a game that is so decidedly hardcore PC gamer.

No rain in Dx9?..
They take gamers (their customers) for complete assholes.
That's either marketing bullshit at its best from MS or total lazyness from Crytek.
Not sure which one is worst..

I wonder how much of the difference is due just to DX10, and how much is different in-game settings/play-throughs? Don't get me wrong, I think the game looks great! (In both modes.)

Honestly though, I saw lots of stuff in the 'DX10' segments that could also be done in DX9. Good looking smoke? COD 2 had that. Nice rain? Several recent games have rain that looks as nice as what I saw in the clip. The atmospheric lighting (shafts of light) in the Jungle Fight could certainly be done in DX9, as could the 'extra' particle effects. Even the fire effects don't look too different, though there're more of them in the DX10 segment-

The deformation of the smoke and fire is very cool, however! (though I do wonder if it's precalculated...)

What does really impress me though is the difference in quality of the lighting models. In the Alien Hunter clip, the lighting on the hunter is just much, much nicer, and the self-shadowing on objects is awesome, as is the shadowing in general. In the Jungle Fight clip I see the same things: better lighting, and better shadowing.

I'd love to see a clip with the exact same demo run in both modes- then we could really see what's different between the two API's.

Man, in the hunter video I can see a difference with the smoke. In the jungle fight video I can't really see a difference. *shrugs*

Perhaps the videos are illustrating the difference between dx9 and dx10 on the same video card at the same framerate?

Like, hey look at all this extra stuff we can do in dx10 at no cost?

So will the version of 360 look inferior to the one on PC using DX10?

Feels like a M$ PR stunt.
Why should dx9 be able to render that rain? bah!

DX9 withou rain. Hah, funny. Crytek is very close to MS, so it's probably not there from marketing reasons.

is there any way we can find out the specs of the machine they were playing on?

i would probably like to mimic their setup exactly ... i want that performance.

shackhype, dont fail me now!
time get a new video card

The near total lack of shadowing on the ground in DX9 was a little painful (especially on the second play through).

A lot less noticable in the jungle one, thanks to the foliage offering some variation in tone and color.

Here's Senior Game Designer Bernd Diemer's answer to what DX10 brings to the table in Crysis.

inCrysis: What are some of the sort of exclusive things we will be able to see in Crysis in DX10?

Bernd Diemer: It mainly is around particles, light effects and interaction with the environment. DirectX 10 is very good at if you have a lot of stuff going on on the screen, it handles that really well, like a lot of particles, a lot of physical interaction between objects and you can have a lot more stuff on the screen with DirectX 10, with better performance... that's about what you can say. As to exclusive DirectX 10 features per se... we won't have something related to gameplay which is DirectX 10 exclusive, so it's not that you will get a different experience from the gameplay perspective when you play on a DirectX 9 card but what you will get is a much more intense experience on DirectX 10. It makes the world come more... alive.

Source: http://incrysis.com/crysis/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=325

Thoose are not new, ive seen them like one or two weeks ago.

Wow, this looks really impressive.

I hate this teasing.
I refuse to watch any footage of this game until it comes out. I'm in fear it will become an endless story.

No guns in DX8 and in DX7 you only get to play snake.EA ftw! + M$ will lick your balls if you buy Vista.

I hate how the screenshots of this first person shooter game all seem to be from a 3rd person perspective. Show in game shots, not just in engine FFS.

wow.

i think i might upgrade then for this game.

looks awesome -- i can't wait for this game. i haven't played a decent single player FPS since PREY and im sick of waiting for another good one.

this looks like an awesome blend of far cry and soldier of fortune 2 ... that jungle fight looked awesome, especially in dx10

Don't pay attention to Chris, everyone knows hes a huge Apple fanboy. He modded his AppleTV and games on that.

All I have to say is the DX10 versions (even if a year old) look damn sweet. Must... have... this... game...

Obviously the dx10 version is awesome, but I was kind of surprised at what they were able to squeeze out of dx9 as well.

Good and important thing to note about these videos is that the gameplay footage is over a year old. The vids were released during E3 2006.

People had commented previously on these about how the dx9 and dx10 differences weren't much, but looking again now, they're massive, particularly in the hunter one. No rain, most of the particle explosion stuff is completely gone... major difference in the overall immersive ability.