I haven't played it for years, but I just bought Crysis. The old meme 'but yeah, can it run Crysis?', it's funny cause I have a Dell Latitude with an N100 and 4GB RAM and Intel integrated graphics. I was surprised that it's quite a little performer. It can play Homeworld 1 Remastered brilliantly, and that came out in 2015. Crysis is old, and I'm anxious to see how well it will run on this little computer. I think it should run fine.

Now if only GOG could (and would) release Crysis 2.

p.s. I just so happened to see a live action movie that was incredibly reminiscent of Crysis. Many years ago. Even had the same alien sounds. Does anyone know the name? I don't know if hollywood ripped off Crysis, or if Crysis ripped off hollywood, but it was a fairly decent sci-fi movie. From the early 2000's I think. Anyone know?

I don't know the name of that film, but it's possible that both projects sourced their sounds from the same source coincidentally. As an example, RollerCoaster Tycoon and Mission: Impossible 2 both source their 'ambient background' noise from the same stock.

I'm sure GOG would (like to) - if only EA could agree to it.

Skyline (2010], maybe? (Inside the alien spaceship)

OMG that's it! Thanks, dude, you made my day! I'm going to buy the dvd if it's available.. I'm currently looking around. Thanks man!

Or... Super Soldier was it? Dolph Lundgren i think, and Van Damme

Cheers - make sure to grab the correct one, and not one of the sequels (from 2017 and 2020) by accident.
They're utter shite.

I'll keep that in mind. Thanks.

I've been playing Crysis for an hour now. It's smooth as silk. On a 6 watt Intel N100 4 core processor with Intel integrated graphics and 4GB RAM. Settings are all maxed, and it's smooth as butter.

This was an interesting experiment, cause it proves you really don't need dedicated graphics to play games, if you just wait a few years.

For example, the latest Intel Arc graphics (the new Core Ultra processors) can run Cyberpunk maxed out at 30 fps. In just a couple more iterations I bet it gets faster.

I'm playing Crysis on an 11.6 inch netbook that's 6 months old. It's a fanless system. It's slow by today's standards, but that I can play Crysis on Ultra settings and it's smooth as butter, really says something. Lol.

Don't buy into the hype that you need the latest and greatest. It's a farce. This little 6 watt intel system is quite the retro gamer.

It didn't even got hot. So yes, it can play Crysis. Brilliantly.

So my advice to you is... and I'll end this thread with this. I'm a gamer. I was a hardcore gamer in the 90s and early 2000's. I built my own desktops for 15 years.

My first build was in 1998. It had Windows 98, an Amd K6-2 350 and an 8MB (yes, megabytes) Voodoo 2. I tried to play Unreal and it was choppy. So I bought a second Voodoo 2 card, and it almost doubled my frame rates and it was finally playable.

My advice to you gamers is, just wait a couple years. Intel and AMD are constantly innovating due to competition. My little netbook is far faster than I could have ever imagined in 2000. Just be patient and wait a couple years, you don't need to buy a $2,000 graphics card to play Robocop Rogue City. Just wait a couple years. Yeah, that the latest and greatest Nvidia card costs almost $3,000 is RIDICULOUS. They're taking you for a ride. Just wait.

That my netbook can play Crysis in ultimate settings smooth as butter says something. Just be patient. F*ck Nvidia, they're criminals. Just wait a tiny bit. That's my advice to you all. This was a fun experiment, I didn't realize Crysis would play so well on this system. It proves a point.

I'd like to add one point here though:

Games back then used to have engines built from the ground up for the specific game its company would develop.
This has changed after Unreal Engine 2 and Unity took the market, both for Indie games and "Triple A" titles from big companies.

What I mean with this is that probably in 5 years an Integrated Graphics card, be it from AMD or Intel, will still not be able to play a game from 2020 developed using Unreal Engine 4 because said development engines are in no way optimized - or better, let me correct myself, developers are not being trained, prepared or have no incentives to optmize their games anymore.

This happens because indie devs have too little time and money to waste it optimizing games too much on said engines and big companies simply do not care about optimization because they, nowadays, can simply make the Requirements beefy because they know gamers will spend the extra money to have the 'latest Nvidia gpu' on the market.

Coupled with influencers reviewing 'the latest 32gb gpu, with ray tracing, XYZ teraflops (lol)' or whatever a gpu nowadays says it have, companies spent a lot on propaganda and people just fall for it.

A good example of this is Monster Hunter Wilds, the recently released game from Capcom (one of my fav game series by the way). Theres no way an Intel GPU will be able to play Wilds in 5 to 10 years, even though it runs on an in-house engine, the game was clearly not developed for PCs, yet, for PS5 Pro's and Xbox Series X's.

Even people with beefy PCs today can't play the thing.
Sure, gamers are addicted to the useless vanity of "4K 144 FPS Ultra Wide" which requires a lot of processing power anyway, but even on smaller resolutions games like Wilds will struggle to play.

@ .Keys, you're right and I agree with you, except for just one thing. If you want to spend $2,000 or $3,000 dollars on a video card (or laptop) just to play the latest games -- that is your choice and I don't care. But you're throwing your money away. If you'd just be a ltttle bit patient, and a little more smart, you coud save a lot of money. That was my point. But you're right. It's your money not mine. I don't care how you spend it. But I was just trying to give some advice and perspective. If you want to wait just two years, you'd save a lot of money.

I never said I was the type of person you described, nor was I defending said mentality. :)

Snarky teenager #2. Anyone else wanna chime in? I was trying to help you people, and you're sh*tting on me. I gave my opinion. If you want to waste your money, I couldn't care less. Go ahead and do it. Waste your paren't money cause you need the latest laptop with 5080 or 5090 nvidia graphics and con your parents that it's a need. Go ahead.

But don't be a snarky @ss.

I'll call you number two, for what I dump into my toillet at least three times a week. You've earned it.