system requirements to run this mod? Suggestons?

[jackhadja]

O.K. I NOW know that this is just a mod for Crysis, so I gotta buy the game and then download the mod. My buddies are telling me the video card I just bought won't work. It's a BFG 9500gt, 1 gig of memory (ddr2) invida. Soooo, do I gotta upgrade my card? And they said it won't run on XP and that I might have to shell out the bucks for vista.
Thanks

[Seraph]

I suggest to use the Search function in this forum

http://www.mechlivinglegends.net/forum/index.php/topic,1367.0.html

Check there, maybe your question will already be answered

[jackhadja]

I allready did. They only give me the requirements for Quake.  Thank you very much.

[Cujo]

http://www.ea.com/crysis/home.jsp a game's system requirements are not difficult to find, there's a little tool EA has to evaluate your system, but I bet if you googled it you would find them without a problem.  google is an amazing resource.

[KorJax]

O.K. I NOW know that this is just a mod for Crysis, so I gotta buy the game and then download the mod. My buddies are telling me the video card I just bought won't work. It's a BFG 9500gt, 1 gig of memory (ddr2) invida. Soooo, do I gotta upgrade my card? And they said it won't run on XP and that I might have to shell out the bucks for vista.
Thanks

Uhm... that'll run it.  No video card requires vista, by the way... although you will need to run Vista in order to turn on special DX10 effects in some games (not Crysis, all the Dx10 effects in crysis run fine in DX9 [xp]). Maybe only on medium/low-ish settings, but trust us that even on those settings it'll still look good

I used to run Crysis on a X1900GT on medium-ish settings and did decent.   Does your video card have 1GB of memory?  Kind of a waste if so (as you only need max 512mb of video memory for games really, and any larger is a waste unless you have a HUGE monitor and run at a HUGE res).  If your COMPUTER only has 1GB of memory, then you probibly will need atleast 2-4GB of RAM in order to play comfortably.

Now, to be fair, MWLL will probibly require more memory to run than Crysis did to run at the same level of detail, simply because the maps are much larger.  However I can't say for sure as it really depends on alot of things and stuff like optimization IS NOT yet done completely.

[ToeBall]

Yes, MWLL REQUIRES more memory to run than Crysis. Our maps are 4 times as large by surface area and we have more code than  the stock game. To run on high I'd recommend nothing less than an 8800 GT or a 9600 GT 512MB. XP is ok. We will be releasing both a 32 and a 64 bit build so you can play either. I don't notice a very significant difference in performance. Personally I run an 8800 GT 512 MB overclocked 15% with a custom config but it's roughly around high settings, and mostly sit around 30 fps. I do drop into the 5 fps range near mechs going up though. I've got a Q6600 at the stock clock which holds about a 40% load in game across all 4 cores and 4GB of 1066DDR2. 1GB of video memory isn't a waste, there are a lot of objects and textures that need to be in there, but given a choice between going from 512mb to 1gb of video or a faster gpu, the gpu will make a BIG difference.

[Erkki]

Damn.. Guess I will have to update from my current IPIV dual 2,8GHz, 7600 GS 256 & 1565MB @ 333MHz! 

[Tiger842]

My twin 8800GTX's are still crushing games 2 years later

[TimoBlastem]

Stop listening to your friends.

[KorJax]

My twin 8800GTX's are still crushing games 2 years later

And your wallet too 

[(TLL)Calistarius]

I will have to make due with my SLI running two GeForce 8800 GTS 320mb cards. I could play Crysis on a medium setting (possibly even high on texture) with little problam (laggy at times) on a 1680x1050 res.

I wanted to play the game on high, but my computer could just not handle it when a lot of things where happening at the same time. The SLI it's self did not seem to make any real difference really. Maybe things could have been different if I lowered my resolution. But I never like to do that, because I want to play at the biggest res I can. But also because there are no smaller resolution that are compatible with 1680x1050, the screen gets squashed when I lower it. And in some game's that is very noticeable.

[(TLL)KitLightning]

I wanted to play the game on high, but my computer could just not handle it when a lot of things where happening at the same time.

Crysis is a bugger when peps begins to go on their nuke spree.

But also because there are no smaller resolution that are compatible with 1680x1050, the screen gets squashed when I lower it. And in some game's that is very noticeable.

Canīt you set the screen size individually when in a game? controlling its W/H manually. You will get a black bar on the top and bottom but better that, than having a sqeezed/squashed screen to look at.

[ToeBall]

I will have to make due with my SLI running two GeForce 8800 GTS 320mb cards. I could play Crysis on a medium setting (possibly even high on texture) with little problam (laggy at times) on a 1680x1050 res.

I wanted to play the game on high, but my computer could just not handle it when a lot of things where happening at the same time. The SLI it's self did not seem to make any real difference really. Maybe things could have been different if I lowered my resolution. But I never like to do that, because I want to play at the biggest res I can. But also because there are no smaller resolution that are compatible with 1680x1050, the screen gets squashed when I lower it. And in some game's that is very noticeable.

Sounds to me like you have too much GPU for your CPU. You're not keeping your video system fed and that's limiting performance.

[Cujo]

quad cores are ftw!

[(TLL)Calistarius]

Canīt you set the screen size individually when in a game? controlling its W/H manually. You will get a black bar on the top and bottom but better that, than having a sqeezed/squashed screen to look at.

Honestly don't know how you controle the res manually for games to get the black bars. When I change the res in the game the image is always stretched out over the full screen. A note is that I don't like to play games in windowed mode either. Hmm... if I knew how to manually custom res in games I could play my old games without them being stretched out. 4:3 res'ed Mechs looks really weired in 16:10 res. XD

My screen is built is a 16:10 screen. I get a feeling that the 1680x1050 res I use, is sort of a custom res that either my screen or gpu supplies my computer with. Because the res's available to me in games and desktop is: 1680x1050 (16:10), 1600x900 (16:9), 1280x1024 (a weired 5:4), and then the rest are the normal 4:3's - 1280x960, 1152x864, 1024x768 and 800x600. So I only get one 16:10 res option to fit my screen. The "natural" lower res size for 1680x1050 would be 1280x800 I think.

Sounds to me like you have too much GPU for your CPU. You're not keeping your video system fed and that's limiting performance.

That could be a possability, because of the original idea of the computers build. I got this computer just over a year ago to replace my old agp computer which I bought back in spring 2003. The agp was not able to keep up with most games anymore.

Being on a limited budget I asked the shop to build one for me (my first custom built computer). The build of it was based on the main idea that it was going to be a very upgradable system, that would perform well in any game both before and after the need for upgrades. Last me at least 2+2 years befor having to think about getting a new computer. The first 2 with original build, and the extra 2 with upgrades. That is more or less what I got, and I am very happy with the build. It does perform very well. When it is not, is when I had decide to up the graphic levels a bit to much.

But yeah, as you said it could be that my cpu is not able to keep up with 2 gpu's, I don't know, I am not very knowledgeable in those exact things yet. It is just in the last year that I have started to understand and learn about the basic bit of computer parts and building, what things to use and all that. I am not at the clocker part yet. So I don't mind if you would give me a few pointers about the cpu and gpu relationship

The build:
Motherboard: MSI P6N SLI PLATINUM, 650I SLI ATX, Socket 775 (support for Dual-core and quad-core, so I could up to quad if I kept the mobo)
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E6550 2,33GHz S775 FSB1333 4MB Cache Boxad with fan.
Ram: Corsair XMS2 Xtreme 2048MB (2x1024) DDR2 XMS2-6400, 2x128Mx64,Heat Spr.
Graphics card: Gainward GeForce 8800GTS 320MB GDDR3, PCI-Express. Can support DirectX 10. (Obviously I got 2 of these now. The DX10 was so I could go over to Vista when the game torch is passed to them from XP)
Power: Antec Truepower Trio 650Watt.