Crysis can only run on Windows Vista (and XP)

28 August 2006

Posted by:Ferry

Update January 10th 2007: Readers with keen eyes spotted an error in what Bernd Diemer, senior game designer of Crytek, said. He was quoted in our original newsitem as saying: only DirectX API, which will ship along with Windows Vista, allows the game to run as it was intended. Now it turns out, both Windows XP and Vista will be able to run the game, to explain here’s an overview.
Minimum Requirements Software: DirectX9.0c with Windows XP.
Recommended Requirements Software: DirectX10 with Windows Vista.

Bernd Diemer, senior game designer of Crytek, explained that next-generation consoles donâ€™t offer enough computational power to run Crysis.

Although Crysis will support both current and the next version of DirectX, the developer claims that only DirectX 10 allows the game to run as it was intended by the developers because the next-generation DirectX API, which will ship along Windows Vista, allows more effects and more objects to be drawn on the screen with a smaller computational cost for the hardware.

Diemer explained that â€œnext generation consoles like the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3 do not offer the sufficient powerâ€ to assure the quality of gameplay Crytek demand for Crysis. I was going to go with “Your next-gen consoles can’t handle our game Crysis!” as a headline, but if there’s money to be earned, well they might find a way once it’s released on PC after all. I hate to use the word downgrade, but if they want it you might get it. Via Teamxbox

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http://aaag.2ya.com Y.V.Reetesh

What?? X360s Tripel Core processor, and Ps3′s Cell processor(which is equivalent to many Supercomputers) cannot COMPUTE data, that Home Computers running at Max 5.8 Ghz can? Well, with this being only VISTA exclusive I think its just “MARKETING” thing. MS paid them $$ do this IMO
pfft

What a misleading headline.
They mentioned NOTHING about not being able to run on XP.

ONLY consoles are mentioned.
supadupagama

pfft, Crysis is one of the first DirectX 10 games. And DirectX 10 is ONLY available with Windows Vista.
David

It’s all quite funny really everyone is arguing about PS3 and 360s power and now this bombshell is gonna shut a lot of people up if it is true.

But looking at their site -
http://www.crytek.com/games/index.php?s=xsis

IS SAYS “GAME PLATFORM
PC “WindowsXP” and Windows VISTA)”

So who says no XP ?
supadupagama

David, it was Bernd Diemer, senior game designer of Crytek, who said that in a way, it was written very confusingly last year in an interview with him.

But you and pfft it turns out are right, since Windows XP will now have a modified version of DirectX called 9.0c, so that’s great news! Thanks you guys