E3 expo is scheduled for the beginning of next month. Dates are June 7-9. Crytek is a First Look Exhibitor at the show. I wonder what they will be showcasing....... Anyone think they may reveal some crysis 2 DX11 clips? If not, what do you think they will be showing off?

http://www.e3expo.com/

Yeah I have a strong feeling that they will show Cry6sis 2 in DX11 on a demo SLi'd GTX 590 rig.

dx11 is not a big deal. and since when did e3 start having pc announcements? It gonna be the gimmicky codename kingdom game

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u mad bro?

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u mad bro?

dhmh so u think that a kinect enabled god of war clone is not a gimmick?

anyways i would love to insult you but the last person i insulted, apparently I hurt his feelings and he reported my post. so I dont want to hurt ur feelings

Cleon CryTek wants to sell their engine. Crysis 1 was known worldwide for it's graphics. Almost every game took ideas and features introduced in Crysis in their games.

If you think FrostBite 2 in Battlefield 3 looks great...go look at the feature list, besides DX 11 Compute Shader, every single feature looks like it was copy pasted right out of the CryEngine 3 list.

The problem? Crysis 2 doesn't nearly use all of CryEngine 3's features, and a nice way to make CryEngine 3 appealing to developers compared to FrostBite 2 and Unreal 3.8 is by showing the game that is supposed to present the engine in DirectX 11 with all of those features enabled.

I don't doubt that they will show the XBOX Kingdoms game, but I'm fairly confident there will be more on CryEngnie 3, or even the 3.3 revision revealed a month ago.

Crysis 2 is currently the best looking game on console. I'm sure CryTek doesn't want their PC title to end up looking inferior to Uncharted 3 this fall (which tpb looks breathtaking, better than most PC games in most aspects besides resolution). CryTek's actual gameplay and storyline development were never top notch by any stretch, in any game. Crysis 1's storyline was simply stupid...and Crysis 2's was more of a long chain of dramatic events fileld with cutscenes that tell you 10% of the storyline...that you have to read a book to fully find out about.

But they can not lose being known for the best company for making games look pretty. If they lose that recognition, they are gone forever.

Heck their Crysis 2 + CryEngine 3 handbook released after Crysis 2 was released says the PC version uses POM. But it isn't in the PC version. It's coming.

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iPwn's post is exactly like mine, only longer and better explained
I think about the same he does

Crytek MUST show something at the E3

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Crytek MUST show something at the E3

E3 Expo is the world's premier trade show for computer and video games and related products. They may not show anything related to crysis, but I too have a feeling they will. Being that it has been said how awesome dx11 looks by cry staff in recent posts, I would think they would want to show off their "masterpiece".

Holy cow. I' e trying to post the above comment when there where only 5 posts. Then when it finally does there are 2 pages. Nice write up IPwn, I agree.

Yeah. I have no idea but a few hours ago this website was completely dead. Crashing, reposting, not loading, being slow, etc.

actually engine showcase is usually reserved for GDC that is game development conference. Crytek is not doing a separate press conference.
They would most likely show codename kingdoms which is a kinect enabled hack-n-slash 3 person game like god of wars.

PC tech has never been a focus on E3 so it will most defiantly not crysis dx11 related.

actually engine showcase is usually reserved for GDC that is game development conference. Crytek is not doing a separate press conference.
They would most likely show codename kingdoms which is a kinect enabled hack-n-slash 3 person game like god of wars.

PC tech has never been a focus on E3 so it will most defiantly not crysis dx11 related.

Holy cow. I' e trying to post the above comment when there where only 5 posts. Then when it finally does there are 2 pages. Nice write up IPwn, I agree.

I agree, excellent post. Please keep us informed.

Well ofc they will show off crysis 2 in DX11... and its gonna be rendered on quad sli 590s and still it will have quite low fps on 1280x720 resolution.

Well ofc they will show off crysis 2 in DX11... and its gonna be rendered on quad sli 590s and still it will have quite low fps on 1280x720 resolution.
If the DX11 is done right, you should see an FPS increase. WoW for example, when you put it in DX11 mode some users gained a 25% performance boost.

I think they'll showcase "Warface", their free to paly shooter and also "Codname Kingdom", that Kinect game. It wouldn't make any sense to advertise Direcx11 for a game which was already released. At least I don't think so.
Crytek UK also has something they're woking on. So they have enough stuff to announce at E3, don't worry about that and I'm pretty sure it's not Dx11 for Crysis 2 or the SDK. But that's just my opinion.

Well ofc they will show off crysis 2 in DX11... and its gonna be rendered on quad sli 590s and still it will have quite low fps on 1280x720 resolution.
If the DX11 is done right, you should see an FPS increase. WoW for example, when you put it in DX11 mode some users gained a 25% performance boost.

No. You see a performance boost when DirectX 11 is done wrong. When done right, with tesseation, compute shader, volumatric lighting, etc, it raqes your performance.

No DX11 demo in my life ran better in DX11 over DX9. Not a single demo, game, or tech demo ever. All DX11 modes should reduce performance. The API is far more complex than DX9.

Well ofc they will show off crysis 2 in DX11... and its gonna be rendered on quad sli 590s and still it will have quite low fps on 1280x720 resolution.
If the DX11 is done right, you should see an FPS increase. WoW for example, when you put it in DX11 mode some users gained a 25% performance boost.

No. You see a performance boost when DirectX 11 is done wrong. When done right, with tesseation, compute shader, volumatric lighting, etc, it raqes your performance.
The way DirectX work is something like this simplified:

1) Game tells DirectX to draw something on screen
2) DirectX tries to make best guess if the current graphics card can draw something faster, or if the CPU would do it faster
3) Something is drawn into either graphics memory or main system memory, and copied over to screen memory for display

What the "something" that can be drawn on screen actually is, depends on the DirectX version. Again doing gross simplifying:

DX9 can draw dots
-> to make a circle, game sends hundred dots to DX9 and calculates in CPU where those dots should be, working both CPU and GPU

DX10 can draw lines
-> to make a circle, game first calculates in CPU ten lines that make up the circle, and then tells DX10 to draw bunch of lines. Part of the work is again done in CPU and part in GPU.

DX11 can draw circles
-> game tells DX11 the center point and radius, and gets a line with single command bypassing CPU completely.

If the instructions are written correctly, it SHOULD result in a net gain. In WoW the difference between DX9 and DX11 is mostly cosmetic, but it is there if you know where to look. One of the biggest advances in DirectX from 9 to 10 was in particle effects, in things like smoke and fire. How this affects WoW is that DX9 mode will draw simple and crude particle effects while DX10 and DX11 cards in DX11 mode will show more realistic smoke and fire. Whole another thing is that how many people will stop admiring the better fire while standing in one...

Dx11 is much quicker when running only the same features as dx9. When you add in stuff like tessellation (dx11 specific feature) then you will get a performance hit. Dx11 gives a lot more headroom to add things in before losing any performance.



Edit: like clockwork said in a nutshell

Dx11 is much quicker when running only the same features as dx9. When you add in stuff like tessellation (dx11 specific feature) then you will get a performance hit. Dx11 gives a lot more headroom to add things in before losing any performance.
This was my point, thanks for saying it better than I could