A valid reason to buy Vista...

[Karlos]

Has anybody checked out the CryTek2 engine videos yet? The fact that the engine is DirectX 10 only seems to be the most compelling reason to get Vista (and appropriate hardware) to date :lol:

IMNSHO, this is far and away the best 3D game engine ever produced.Screenshot here...

[X-ray]

Ja, that is droolworthy.

[Karlos]

You should see it moving. It's almost uncomfortably realistic. Absolutely everything looks, moves and interacts with startling realism.

There's a scene on the end of the video when something large explodes in the distance and the viewer is caught in the blast wave as it sweeps out. I've seen movies with less compelling visual effects.

[X-ray]

What are the hardware requirements?

[Karlos]

Not sure at the moment. I had to watch the videos sans audio at work.

Take the requirements for an "enjoyable" Vista experience and then augment those specs by the typical margin required by game fanatics.

So, I imagine a good core2 duo, as much ram as you can install and a fully DX10 compatible graphics card, again with as much ram as you can get, just for starters...

Bit of googling:

CPU: Dual-core CPU (Athlon X2/Pentium D)
Graphics: Nvidia 7800GTX/ATI X1800XT (SM 3.0) or DX10 equivalent
RAM: 1.5Gb
HDD: 6GB
Internet: 512k+ (128k+ upstream)
Optical Drive: DVD
Software: DX10 with Windows Vista

[X-ray]

It's a tall ask.
However, it looks damn fine. I wouldn't mind Grand Theft Auto or the next Time Crisis rendered like that.

[X-ray]

Oh, it's not so bad.

[Karlos]

The engine is up for lisencing now, according to the vid. I would expect a lot of game production companies will by lining  up to lisence it.

The people behind it are producing a game called Crysis which looks pretty similar to Far Cry (unsurprisingly, of course) - do a search for that and you'll see a lot more.

Regarding the spec, I get the impression that's the realistic minimum ;-)

[X-ray]

Ok I am checking it out...

[Speelgoedmannetje]

Well, this kind of game would be revolutionary if the game character wears the gun lefthanded, so to say :roll:

[X-ray]

Looks very good!

[PMC]

Damn.  That means a new processor, which will mean a new motherboard to support it.  Then I'll need new memory and a new GFX card as I might was well go PCI express.  

Ah, with more resources required, I'll need another new drive.

All of a sudden that lovely game engine looks expensive!

[X-ray]

Ja, for me the cost would be the OS and the GFX card. I have the dual core and the RAM already.

[Karlos]

For that I'd be inclined to go for a quad core :lol:

[Karlos]

Now that's what I call attention to detail :lol: