Crysis: DX9, D3D10, and… Xbox 360?

The one great concern about gamers nervously looking over the shoulders of Crytek as they progress towards finally launching Crysis sometime this year is… will this thing run and make me drool even if I don’t have a DX10 (now we gotta call it D3D10 – for Direct3D 10) and a G80 plugging on a… quad-core? As Crytek’s Cervat Yerli tells Gamespot, you’re in luck. Yeah, we’ve seen the game run on D3D10 already, but screens earlier than that, Yeril says they’ve been running on the best DX9 platforms to date.

If you have a high-end DX9 card with an equal level of CPU and memory–basically today’s “gamer rig”–you will enjoy Crysis with close-to-D3D10 fidelity. Don’t forget that for a long time, we ran the game only on DX9 hardware, even though people thought it was D3D10. You can be sure your high-end gamer rig will satisfy your expectations–but with D3D10, you will surpass them.

Well, thank goodness. We could probably put off swapping out the vid cards (let alone the dual-core for a quad-core) for at least one more year. Of course, for those of us who want to be dehydrated by drool loss, D3D10 is still the best option, but it’s nice to know that “out of the box, Crysis does configure itself toward single-core, dual-core, quad-core, or multicore configurations alongside DX9, 10, XP, Vista, 32 bit, and 64 bit.”

Now to clear this Gamespot inty of one more thing before we call it a day. Xbox 360? Thought the consoles are out of the board for now? Maybe not, but thanks to the Games for Windows protocol, not its controller.

One particularly cool aspect we have been using recently is the unified input system, so you will be able to experience Crysis with the Xbox 360 controller on your living room TV attached to a high-end PC rig with D3D10. No console game will be able to stand in comparison against that.

The one great concern about gamers nervously looking over the shoulders of Crytek as they progress towards finally launching Crysis sometime this year is… will this thing run and make me drool even if I don’t have a DX10 (now we gotta call it D3D10 – for Direct3D 10) and a G80 plugging on a… quad-core? As Crytek’s Cervat Yerli tells Gamespot, you’re in luck. Yeah, we’ve seen the game run on D3D10 already, but screens earlier than that, Yeril says they’ve been running on the best DX9 platforms to date.

If you have a high-end DX9 card with an equal level of CPU and memory–basically today’s “gamer rig”–you will enjoy Crysis with close-to-D3D10 fidelity. Don’t forget that for a long time, we ran the game only on DX9 hardware, even though people thought it was D3D10. You can be sure your high-end gamer rig will satisfy your expectations–but with D3D10, you will surpass them.

Well, thank goodness. We could probably put off swapping out the vid cards (let alone the dual-core for a quad-core) for at least one more year. Of course, for those of us who want to be dehydrated by drool loss, D3D10 is still the best option, but it’s nice to know that “out of the box, Crysis does configure itself toward single-core, dual-core, quad-core, or multicore configurations alongside DX9, 10, XP, Vista, 32 bit, and 64 bit.”

Now to clear this Gamespot inty of one more thing before we call it a day. Xbox 360? Thought the consoles are out of the board for now? Maybe not, but thanks to the Games for Windows protocol, not its controller.

One particularly cool aspect we have been using recently is the unified input system, so you will be able to experience Crysis with the Xbox 360 controller on your living room TV attached to a high-end PC rig with D3D10. No console game will be able to stand in comparison against that.