In theory if they multi-thread the remaster properly, it'll run great on most modern systems.
I presume they've basically just re-created the original in their modern CRYENGINE game engine, so yeah it should multi-core quite well.
EDIT: Actually yeah I just checked on Wikipedia, Crysis: Remastered is on CRYENGINE V, the latest one. It should fucking rip.
there might still be some issues with it being single-threaded CPU bound on the remaster, since I believe that the AI is still written using LUA scripts and that was one of the big resource issues in the original game
There was something special in the way Crysis played, and from our perspective, it was only let down by two factors: AI and performance - areas where we hope to see the remaster radically improve on the original. Enemy intelligence in the original game was limited to say the least and somewhat frustrating. The brilliant stealth mechanics were compromised owing to a kind of 'binary' AI that saw all enemies gain awareness of your position even if you were spotted by just one opponent. Meanwhile, the AI itself was based on Lua scripts - so not only was behaviour simplistic, it would also hammer the CPU.
It's impossible to run Crysis at 60fps from start to finish, even on today's hardware - but ironically, it's not the graphics side of the equation that is the problem but rather the CPU. The Ascension level (omitted from the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions) can run under 40fps, even if you try to power through with a Core i7 8700K overclocked to 5.0GHz. Meanwhile, encounters with a good amount of enraged enemy AI can likewise hammer frame-rate hard, something that has more impact on first and second generation Ryzen chips. Back in 2007, Crytek built a game designed to scale with single-threaded performance with only cursory support for more than one CPU core - and that's the key reason why a remaster is so welcome. Crysis can finally take advantage of modern processors in the way its sequels did so well.
Donovan PuppyfuckerA dagger in the dark isworth a thousand swords in the morningRegistered Userregular
I'm certainly no expert on game engine mechanics and game dev itself, but surely AI scripting in an engine designed to load-share over multi-core processors had to be re-designed compared to AI scripting in an engine designed for single-core processors? It would be an entirely different thing, both language-wise and mechanically (digitally), no?
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I'm certainly no expert on game engine mechanics and game dev itself, but surely AI scripting in an engine designed to load-share over multi-core processors had to be re-designed compared to AI scripting in an engine designed for single-core processors? It would be an entirely different thing, both language-wise and mechanically (digitally), no?
I'm not sure how modular it is - I know in UE you can import pathfinders from older versions without too much work, could be the same for cryengine, possibly they improved the way they're handling Lua scripts to defer them to additional cores
rebuilding the AI entirely seems tantamount to having to re-script the entire game, which seems like it would be a major undertaking and perhaps outside the scope for a remaster like this
there are some reports that the switch version of crysis does have enemy AI that behaves differently, which might be a concession to the limitations of the switch or some evidence that they did indeed toss out the old AI:
After powering it up, the first thing I did was attempt to uninstall the McAfee pre-loaded software.
It then crashed my computer and forced me to reformat the entire machine before I could get it started it again.
on the bright side, a clean reinstall of windows should get rid of all the pesky pre-installed worthless crap
Ahaha...
You would think, right?
So, I initially was able to get it all up and running with no issues after the first reformating of the machine. Then, that night, I restarted the machine and was instead met with a blue error screen reading "Recovery: It looks like Windows hasn't loaded correctly" What followed was two days of me reformatting my machine, both the quicker and far more extensive options. At one point I even attempted to use the official McAfee Removal Tool, which resulted in my machine ending up at the blue screen. I then performed a two hour diagnostic check on the computer which found no issue. I performed one last quick reformat (that would be my seventh) and shut the machine down.
A few hours later I turned it on and it was perfectly fine.
So, at this point I have decided to not delete anything else until my software engineer buddy can sit down with me and help me out in person.
The Invincible is a first-person Sci-Fi thriller set in a retro-future timeline. Waking up on a hostile planet, you embark on a mysterious mission to find the missing crew of your spaceship. Whilst trying to survive, terrifying secrets of the planet will unfold in front of you.
I kinda want to get an ssd and a newer platter drive to replace my aging old platter drives. (they are at least 5 years old each if not much older)
But I'm wondering what the process for installing windows or whatever would be? For the longest time my windows install has lived on the current c drive (it was a windows 8.1 install originally but I got the upgrade to ten for free... I'm not sure I remember the key though?)
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Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
Have you considered the possibility that your computer is haunted
How unlucky would you have to be to get one of the few ghosts that is actually compute literate.
More likely it is cursed!
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
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edited September 2020
Last week, during that chaos, I called HP tech support and explained my problem.
HP Tech Support:"Your computer is broke, return it." Me: "What?" HP Tech Support:"Return your computer, get a new one." Me:"I'm sorry, is that your official technical response." HP Tech Support:"Yes." Me:"Want to run an alternative option for me?" HP Tech Support:"Return your computer."
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I kinda want to get an ssd and a newer platter drive to replace my aging old platter drives. (they are at least 5 years old each if not much older)
But I'm wondering what the process for installing windows or whatever would be? For the longest time my windows install has lived on the current c drive (it was a windows 8.1 install originally but I got the upgrade to ten for free... I'm not sure I remember the key though?)
After powering it up, the first thing I did was attempt to uninstall the McAfee pre-loaded software.
It then crashed my computer and forced me to reformat the entire machine before I could get it started it again.
on the bright side, a clean reinstall of windows should get rid of all the pesky pre-installed worthless crap
Ahaha...
You would think, right?
So, I initially was able to get it all up and running with no issues after the first reformating of the machine. Then, that night, I restarted the machine and was instead met with a blue error screen reading "Recovery: It looks like Windows hasn't loaded correctly" What followed was two days of me reformatting my machine, both the quicker and far more extensive options. At one point I even attempted to use the official McAfee Removal Tool, which resulted in my machine ending up at the blue screen. I then performed a two hour diagnostic check on the computer which found no issue. I performed one last quick reformat (that would be my seventh) and shut the machine down.
A few hours later I turned it on and it was perfectly fine.
So, at this point I have decided to not delete anything else until my software engineer buddy can sit down with me and help me out in person.
COMPUTERS, LOTS OF FUN
I'm no expert, but in your scenario I would use a different computer to download a windows ISO to a thumbdrive, deep format the HDD in BIOS, then do a clean windows install and set everything that even has the word McAfee on it on fire in a ritual cleansing.
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Donovan PuppyfuckerA dagger in the dark isworth a thousand swords in the morningRegistered Userregular
I kinda want to get an ssd and a newer platter drive to replace my aging old platter drives. (they are at least 5 years old each if not much older)
But I'm wondering what the process for installing windows or whatever would be? For the longest time my windows install has lived on the current c drive (it was a windows 8.1 install originally but I got the upgrade to ten for free... I'm not sure I remember the key though?)
I believe you can snoop the windows key out of the registry somehow if there's no windows sticker anywhere on the machine?
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Zonugal(He/Him) The Holiday ArmadilloI'm Santa's representative for all the southern states. And Mexico!Registered Userregular
on the bright side, a clean reinstall of windows should get rid of all the pesky pre-installed worthless crap
Ahaha...
You would think, right?
So, I initially was able to get it all up and running with no issues after the first reformating of the machine. Then, that night, I restarted the machine and was instead met with a blue error screen reading "Recovery: It looks like Windows hasn't loaded correctly" What followed was two days of me reformatting my machine, both the quicker and far more extensive options. At one point I even attempted to use the official McAfee Removal Tool, which resulted in my machine ending up at the blue screen. I then performed a two hour diagnostic check on the computer which found no issue. I performed one last quick reformat (that would be my seventh) and shut the machine down.
A few hours later I turned it on and it was perfectly fine.
So, at this point I have decided to not delete anything else until my software engineer buddy can sit down with me and help me out in person.
COMPUTERS, LOTS OF FUN
I'm no expert, but in your scenario I would use a different computer to download a windows ISO to a thumbdrive, deep format the HDD in BIOS, then do a clean windows install and set everything that even has the word McAfee on it on fire in a ritual cleansing.
Yeah, gonna wait for my buddy to help me with that.
I dare not combat this machine again without allies.
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I would locate your key just to be safe, but it's unlikely you'll need it since it they'll have a copy of the rest of your hardware signature on their activation servers
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Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
Last week, during that chaos, I called HP tech support and explained my problem.
HP Tech Support:"Your computer is broke, return it." Me: "What?" HP Tech Support:"Return your computer, get a new one." Me:"I'm sorry, is that your official technical response." HP Tech Support:"Yes." Me:"Want to run an alternative option for me." HP Tech Support:"Return your computer."
Yeah that’s what happens when they accidentally send out a cursed object, return it to the sealed room beneath the Vatican’s WiFi server.
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
Started Prey yesterday, really digging it so far. Just got the explodey laser thing.
I kind of ignored it when it came out because I was still annoyed about the cancelled Prey game we never got, and I kind of assumed it was a generic story shooter. Also I was probably very broke at the time I don't remember.
Anyway, turns out this one is pretty good!
I probably would have played it sooner if I realized it was a ding dang...
...System Shock with space-walks and mimics.
I don't think I so much as ever watched a trailer for it, so I had no idea what to expect.
It’s really funny that the crisis remaster has all these bells and whistles but when I watched that trailer my first thought was “those explosions sure look shit”
Last week, during that chaos, I called HP tech support and explained my problem.
HP Tech Support:"Your computer is broke, return it." Me: "What?" HP Tech Support:"Return your computer, get a new one." Me:"I'm sorry, is that your official technical response." HP Tech Support:"Yes." Me:"Want to run an alternative option for me?" HP Tech Support:"Return your computer."
HP , "We can't fix our shit and are honestly surprised when it works in the first place"
On a different note how’s the crash bandicoot remake trilogy? Would someone who never played the originals but likes that style of game enjoy them? Anything bad about the remakes?
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Zonugal(He/Him) The Holiday ArmadilloI'm Santa's representative for all the southern states. And Mexico!Registered Userregular
On a different note how’s the crash bandicoot remake trilogy? Would someone who never played the originals but likes that style of game enjoy them? Anything bad about the remakes?
The first game is rather difficult.
But if you like a very solid challenge, its very rewarding when you succeed at a hard level.
Yeah I’m going in knowing they’re old school games with old school difficulty, but it’s on sale at the moment on Xbox and looking to bundle with it crash team racing which I actually did play back in the day
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Ginger MijangoDon't you open thatTrap Door!Registered Userregular
Bullets Per Minute, i like the concept, but i had enough of it around the 2 hour mark and requested a refund.
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Fallout 4 update: I arrived in Nuka-World. My character, as played thus far, would hate this place. I was despairing on most of the conversation choices and where the aim of the plot seemed to be going.
Went back to my base, thought about finally taking the game to what seems to be the end - I'm guessing, but the quest title isn't pulling punches - and then realized that 7.62 ammo can only be picked up from the park (go to hell, Bethesda). Okay then, packed up my gear, went to the park with the intention of just buying ammo and heading back to wrap things up and then randomly talked to the doctor in the market.
Fallout 4 update: I arrived in Nuka-World. My character, as played thus far, would hate this place. I was despairing on most of the conversation choices and where the aim of the plot seemed to be going.
Went back to my base, thought about finally taking the game to what seems to be the end - I'm guessing, but the quest title isn't pulling punches - and then realized that 7.62 ammo can only be picked up from the park (go to hell, Bethesda). Okay then, packed up my gear, went to the park with the intention of just buying ammo and heading back to wrap things up and then randomly talked to the doctor in the market.
As crappy as the stories often are in the Bethesda-era Fallouts, they do keep the option of just-kill-em-all open for most quests.
With a few frustrating exceptions. But yes Nuka World is not one of those.
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JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
To this day, I have no idea who Nuka World was written for. I guess it's technically more narratively complete if you've played all these games wishing that you could be one of the cannibal murder rapists infesting the wasteland, but most games have the sense not to write and sell an entire DLC based on that.
I dunno playing a bad guy, especially like to play as pure evil raider, seems pretty popular in the game industry, and was likely something specifically requested by fans in fallout 4 for dlc
Also from the advertising it wasn't really clear that you're shoehorned into being the bad guy
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JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
edited September 2020
Unless it was extremely well-hidden, your choices were to either conquer Nuka-World by backing two of three evil factions and then use it to raid the Commonwealth, or mindlessly destroy every living person in the park. If you were a good-aligned character, there was no narrative ending and no real content for you.
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there might still be some issues with it being single-threaded CPU bound on the remaster, since I believe that the AI is still written using LUA scripts and that was one of the big resource issues in the original game
https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2020-crysis-remastered-reveal-analysis
i'm unclear as to whether the AI was re-written or not, maybe they found a way to make the scripting less cpu-intensive
I'm not sure how modular it is - I know in UE you can import pathfinders from older versions without too much work, could be the same for cryengine, possibly they improved the way they're handling Lua scripts to defer them to additional cores
rebuilding the AI entirely seems tantamount to having to re-script the entire game, which seems like it would be a major undertaking and perhaps outside the scope for a remaster like this
there are some reports that the switch version of crysis does have enemy AI that behaves differently, which might be a concession to the limitations of the switch or some evidence that they did indeed toss out the old AI:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Crysis/comments/hwrcat/switch_remaster_does_the_ai_seem_off_to_anyone/
Its October Somewhere...
Ahaha...
You would think, right?
So, I initially was able to get it all up and running with no issues after the first reformating of the machine. Then, that night, I restarted the machine and was instead met with a blue error screen reading "Recovery: It looks like Windows hasn't loaded correctly" What followed was two days of me reformatting my machine, both the quicker and far more extensive options. At one point I even attempted to use the official McAfee Removal Tool, which resulted in my machine ending up at the blue screen. I then performed a two hour diagnostic check on the computer which found no issue. I performed one last quick reformat (that would be my seventh) and shut the machine down.
A few hours later I turned it on and it was perfectly fine.
So, at this point I have decided to not delete anything else until my software engineer buddy can sit down with me and help me out in person.
COMPUTERS, LOTS OF FUN
I didn't know they've made four of these
This will be here until I receive an apology or Weedlordvegeta get any consequences for being a bully
I am digging this aesthetic. Like, with a big old spade.
yep and they're obscure as fuck!
But I'm wondering what the process for installing windows or whatever would be? For the longest time my windows install has lived on the current c drive (it was a windows 8.1 install originally but I got the upgrade to ten for free... I'm not sure I remember the key though?)
How unlucky would you have to be to get one of the few ghosts that is actually compute literate.
More likely it is cursed!
you can look up the key and export it / transfer it
https://www.groovypost.com/howto/find-your-windows-10-product-key/
i believe if you have an old windows install on a computer you can install to a new drive and it will recognize the old install and move settings over
really? i had all of them.
I'm no expert, but in your scenario I would use a different computer to download a windows ISO to a thumbdrive, deep format the HDD in BIOS, then do a clean windows install and set everything that even has the word McAfee on it on fire in a ritual cleansing.
I believe you can snoop the windows key out of the registry somehow if there's no windows sticker anywhere on the machine?
Yeah, gonna wait for my buddy to help me with that.
I dare not combat this machine again without allies.
Yeah that’s what happens when they accidentally send out a cursed object, return it to the sealed room beneath the Vatican’s WiFi server.
I had never even heard of them until like, dark souls
Even the first one that never came to America? As far as I know only the second, third, and fourth made it over here (relabeled as 1, 2, and 3)
not the first one but i did have that weird ps1 spin off one (Shadow Tower) plus 2, 3 and 4
edit: Oh and of course Eternal Ring which were remarkable similar
I kind of ignored it when it came out because I was still annoyed about the cancelled Prey game we never got, and I kind of assumed it was a generic story shooter. Also I was probably very broke at the time I don't remember.
Anyway, turns out this one is pretty good!
I probably would have played it sooner if I realized it was a ding dang...
This whole thing is my jam and I am a fool.
HP , "We can't fix our shit and are honestly surprised when it works in the first place"
All the vincible stuff keeps getting busted. The invincible stuff sticks around. Simple math.
The first game is rather difficult.
But if you like a very solid challenge, its very rewarding when you succeed at a hard level.
The sequels are less daunting.
Overall, I would recommend it.
Went back to my base, thought about finally taking the game to what seems to be the end - I'm guessing, but the quest title isn't pulling punches - and then realized that 7.62 ammo can only be picked up from the park (go to hell, Bethesda). Okay then, packed up my gear, went to the park with the intention of just buying ammo and heading back to wrap things up and then randomly talked to the doctor in the market.
Oh.
Ohhhhhh.
why do they call it invincible when you in vince the cold food out vince hot eat the food
As crappy as the stories often are in the Bethesda-era Fallouts, they do keep the option of just-kill-em-all open for most quests.
With a few frustrating exceptions. But yes Nuka World is not one of those.
Also from the advertising it wasn't really clear that you're shoehorned into being the bad guy