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Snarky comments in your Crysis system requirements.

The system requirements for Crysis over at Future Shop's website originally said this up until about 3:00AM Eastern this morning:

* Optical Drive: DVD-ROM
* CPU Speed: At least a 2.8GHz processor. Try something with Dual Cores - that should help. Maybe cut some speed holes in the case and add some fans. Ooh, and some of those neon lights. And stickers - they make it go faster.
* Disk Space: 1.0GB for local play. 6GB for play on the "tubes" (they're not like a truck, you can't just put things on them.)
* Display: Just buy a new video card. Seriously. (Oh, alright: At least an Nvidia 6600 or an ATI x1600 with Shader Model 2.0 - See, told you). It'll do some pretty stuff with DirectX 10 so you might want to upgrade to Vista and a DX10 video card while you're at it. Yes, we finance.
* Memory (RAM): A Hojillion GB (1GB should be good. You really can't have too much RAM though).
* Operating System Compatibility: Windows XP and Vista. Vista is required for all the DX10 prettiness. Not Mac Compatible (well, you could always get a new iMac and dual boot. It's not a bad choice.)

After the person who wrote that was either fired or at least yelled at, the system requirements were changed to the following:

*Optical Drive: 16X CD/DVD Drive
*CPU Type: Intel
*CPU Speed: 933MHz
*Disk Space: 2.0GB
*Display: AGP Video Card with 64MB or more of memory + NVIDIA GeForce 3 or greater or a ATI Radeon 8500 or greater
*Memory (RAM): 256MB
*Operating System Compatibility: Win98/ME/2000/XP, Not Mac Compatible

The minimum requirements that are generally accepted to be accurate by the Interweb community are:

*Optical Drive: DVD Drive
*CPU: Athlon 64 3000+/Intel 2.8ghz
*Disk Space: 6GB
*Display: Nvidia 6600 or ATI X1600 - Shader Model 2.0
*Memory (RAM): 1GB
*Operating System Compatibility: DX9 with Windows XP/Vista DX10 with Vista


12 Comments
Tuesday, September 25, 2007 4:31:41 PM
anonymous
guest
Neon lights for sure.
Tuesday, September 25, 2007 5:23:43 PM
lol
Tuesday, September 25, 2007 7:16:53 PM
anonymousP
guest
Sadly enough the guy who wrote the funny one was more accurate...

I'd love to see someone try to run it on a Geforce 3 with 256 MB RAM and a P3 933 MHz. Actually, it would likely be painful to watch... think they'd break the 2 fps mark?
Tuesday, September 25, 2007 9:30:29 PM
Those are the Far Cry minimum specs.. the 3rd list is the only one that is accurate.
Tuesday, September 25, 2007 10:45:40 PM
anonymous
guest
Yeah, I got the fastest computer here then, since its covered in barney stickers.
Wednesday, September 26, 2007 12:24:39 PM
anonymous
guest
lolllllllllllllllllllllll, agreed wiht anonymousP, the gunny guy is accurate
Wednesday, September 26, 2007 12:35:36 PM
anonymous
guest
On ATHLON XP 3000 game will be work? That's my main problem.
Wednesday, September 26, 2007 1:49:29 PM
anonymous
guest
hahahahhahaha
Wednesday, September 26, 2007 2:07:35 PM
Radiator
Senior Member
I doubt a PC that is at minimum requirements (not the joke ones , which by the way were funny LOL speed holes ! ) would run it at an acceptable framerate . Also , it'd look much worse than Far cry ( in far cry you could set a higher resolution with the same setup ) .
Thursday, September 27, 2007 6:22:18 AM
anonymous
guest
In LOST PLANET game does not work on ATHLON XP because there is no support SSE2... Support SSE2 in CRYSIS is necessary???? Here that me disturbs :-)
Thursday, September 27, 2007 10:42:47 AM
2000ghz Brainzz
guest
Did you get your XP compatible barney stickers from Newegg? :)
Friday, September 28, 2007 12:08:13 AM
anonymous
guest
@2000ghz brainzz, No, actually I lucked out and found some in this one dudes trash can. They were missing the body, so I simply took some he-man stickers and used the body off of them.
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