CryEngine 2 Screenies [56k warning]

PogMoThoin

A few screenies showing how far they've taken the CryEngine 2 graphics engine









Full article with more pics

These scream pre-rendered promotional shots to me, wonder what sort of specs it'd take to play at this detail at a decent rate

Ciaran500

Your images don't work. Don't hotlink from other sites, upload them yourself.

PogMoThoin

Fixed now, thing is I could see them Was tryin to save the bother of uploading them.

Kiith

I still dont even have a pc that can play Crysis, never mind the up and coming sequel. Looks amazing though.

Ciaran500

Its starting to suffer the same problem CGI had, as you approach reality all the little blemishes that were glossed over in the past stick out like a sore thumb.

PogMoThoin

Graphics rendering needs to move towards Ray Tracing, its the next step. But game developers will argue that Intel are forcing them in the wrong direction. Game developers wish there to be one or two highly clocked processor cores, while Intel are moving towards multi lower clocked cores. The problem is not multi-threading a game, its putting the pieces back together in real time is next to impossible. Although Intel did produce this demo:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blfxI1cVOzU

Cinema 2.0 is a step in the right direction, check out the reflections in this video. The character is purposely made this animated to show the contrast. Supposedly this was generated by a single HD4870
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWgQp_LL-Cg

Maximilian

That's pretty incredible. I know people bitch and moan about not being able to play their games at decent frame rates but you have to hand it to Crytek. They're just about the only developers pushing the boundaries graphics-wise at the moment.

Praetorian

PogMoThoin wrote: »

Graphics rendering needs to move towards Ray Tracing, its the next step. But game developers will argue that Intel are forcing them in the wrong direction. Game developers wish there to be one or two highly clocked processor cores, while Intel are moving towards multi lower clocked cores. The problem is not multi-threading a game, its putting the pieces back together in real time is next to impossible. Although Intel did produce this demo:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blfxI1cVOzU

Cinema 2.0 is a step in the right direction, check out the reflections in this video. The character is purposely made this animated to show the contrast. Supposedly this was generated by a single HD4870
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWgQp_LL-Cg

Like with any type of processor, there is only so high the mhz can be clocked up to. Multiple processing units is the only way they can go in reality.

PogMoThoin

Maximilian wrote: »

That's pretty incredible. I know people bitch and moan about not being able to play their games at decent frame rates but you have to hand it to Crytek. They're just about the only developers pushing the boundaries graphics-wise at the moment.

+1, totally agree with that. I don't see any other developer pushing boundaries, most have gone lazy and opted for the console market.

Praetorian wrote: »

Like with any type of processor, there is only so high the mhz can be clocked up to. Multiple processing units is the only way they can go in reality.

Yes but 8 or 16 cores? Thats what we're going to see next year, its in Intels plan. Very few programs use 2 cores, never mind 8. Course its possible to clock higher, the only thing stopping it is temperatures, it just means further die shrinking which requires a complete change to their fabrication setup. They have a monopoly ATM tho and they decide what direction we move in. If AMD started producing 4-5GHZ clocked duals and quads they'd sell like hotcakes. Whats keeping me from upgrading (and it used be a yearly thing) is the fact that I don't see the need for any more than 4 cores

Genghiz Cohen

We have reached (or very nearly reached) the limits of silicon chips.
Roll on Quantum Computing!

PogMoThoin

Genghiz Cohen wrote: »

We have reached (or very nearly reached) the limits of silicon chips.
Roll on Quantum Computing!

Maybe we are. Ever hear of Moore's Law, even Moore stated in an interview that the law cannot be sustained indefinitely: "It can't continue forever. The nature of exponentials is that you push them out and eventually disaster happens" and noted that transistors would eventually reach the limits of miniaturization at atomic levels.

Is 32nm we'll be seeing in the Core i7 in december atomic levels? I pretty much doubt it, I'd say thats years away

Creamy Goodness

looks nice, pity they can't make a decent storyline in a game.

kaimera

maybe this time crytek could add some gameplay to accompany the graphics engine.

Genghiz Cohen

PogMoThoin wrote: »

Maybe we are. Ever hear of Moore's Law, even Moore stated in an interview that the law cannot be sustained indefinitely: "It can't continue forever. The nature of exponentials is that you push them out and eventually disaster happens" and noted that transistors would eventually reach the limits of miniaturization at atomic levels.

If you look at Moore's law in the long term, from the industrial revolution we see computing power rising exponentially. By rhe year 2020 -2030 that graph will have reached infinity.
Something big is going to happen in our lifetimes gentlemen, something very big.
(In before cawk jokes)

PogMoThoin

Genghiz Cohen wrote: »

........have reached infinity.

:eek: couldn't resist

chamlis

Quantum computers would be awesome.

ctrl-alt-delete won't bring you to task manager though; it'll erase you out of existence :eek:

MooseJam

being a bit mean to crytek - crysis warfront was a great game

Sephiroth_dude

My god they look amazing

Fnz

Genghiz Cohen wrote: »

Something big is going to happen in our lifetimes gentlemen, something very big.

You, sir, owe me a new monocle. Your amazing, visionary insight has blown my mind and shocked me to my core.

Do you publish a newsletter? I would like to subscribe. :P

Genghiz Cohen

Well I used to have an article in the Washington Post, but over the years I found their editor to be frightfully ignorant of the technological developments ongoing in todays world.
I withdrew my support post haste when he make a jape at my moustache and walking cane.

Elessar

wowzers :O

Some of those shots look like pictures from a forest somewhere.

L31mr0d

I equally love and hate the CryEngine 2. Love because it is so freakin awesome, hate because I can't enjoy most other games because they don't come close to it. I was really hoping that once the CryEngine 2 got released that devs using the Unreal engine would move over to it. But I think it's just too ahead of its time. Game devs don't want to risk making a game to run on PC's that the majority still don't own, and the majority don't want to buy better PC's that no games are being developed for. It's a vicious circle.

Once your average bargain bucket DELL can play Crysis at gamer settings I'd say the engine will get used a lot more. So let's say 5 or 6 years

Here's some screenies (below) I took myself while playing through Crysis: Warhead. Since then the mod community have released higher quality textures and bump maps, making the game look even better.

It really is a great engine, if only game devs would use it

All of my screenshots: http://leimrod.com/crysis-warhead-screenshots/

John_Mc

Amazing stuff!