I made a thread before that said not to worry about the min specs for Crysis2. If you can run Crysis 1 you can run crysis 2.

This undoubtedly stands true.

I said you ahve to take min specs with a grain of salt, because there is no set standard and any dev can say what ever they want for min spec depending on their opinion of what is minimum gameplay.

I believe Crytek just decided to change what they felt was minimum gameplay and I think that claim is validated in this quote from Cevat yerli.


Likewise, the minimum-spec experience will be of a far higher quality than Crysis was.



I believe that minimum specs systems will be running easily around medium of Crysis 1. But for all we know in Crysis 2 the could have dropped Crysis1 low, and replaced low with medium.


Once again, don't worry about the min specs......this game will be running better than Crysis1. Unless you are running at ultra setting because at the highest settings it sounds like there will be new effects, probably tesselation for DX11. So similar minimum settings, higher maximum.

I hope Crysis2 wont make my GTX 460 heat up to 85C like Crysis1 did. C1 was choppy in some areas on all minimum settings. :/ Anyone wanna buy my Crysis Maximum Edition?

Keep in mind that Crysis 2 is set in a much less demanding environment and so generally youre going to either have better performance or better visuals (on the same system) because of that.

Foliage is a very resource demanding bit of eyecandy.

Also if you keep in mind the time exchange for both games, Crysis 2 really does have less minimum requirements. At the time Crysis came out, the 6800GT was the minimum (barely ran it too), and that was 2 generations behind the new 8800GT at the time. Now that Crysis 2 is coming out the minimum is an 8800GTS, which is 4 generations behind the flagship gtx 580.

Just some food for thought. Relative to time, the min specs for Crysis 2 are actually lower.

If Crysis 2 has tessalation, i sure hope theres an option for it xD

At least, some of us will be ahead this time...

Keep in mind that Crysis 2 is set in a much less demanding environment and so generally youre going to either have better performance or better visuals (on the same system) because of that.

Foliage is a very resource demanding bit of eyecandy.

This is very true. I mentioned this as reasoning to substantiate my claim that Crysis2 should run better, and many many noobs flamed me for it.

On another note, I believe very strongly that Crytek specifically added tesselation ability as per their multi million dollar deal with Nvidia.

So those sporting fancy gtx 580 and 6970's are sure to be in for a treat.