How to make Crysis run

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Such has been the blasting of the hardware requirements to run Crysis, Crytek has set out to offer recommendations on required spec to handle the game on High settings.

Say hello to the "Crysis Hardware Experiment".

"Over Christmas we took the time for a little in-house experiment. With only a limited budget of around US $900 we wanted to set up a brand new machine that can handle Crysis on High settings. We should note that Very High settings are reserved to keep Crysis future-proofed, just like Ultra was in Far Cry", the developer's said.

In a nutshell, it went hardware shopping and built a PC from scratch, and wanted to ensure that the machine "would have top-notch hardware such as a multicore processor or a DirectX10 graphics card".

Here's what it ended up with:

CPU - Intel Core2Duo E6750
GPU - GeForce 8800GT 512MB
Motherboard - NVIDIA nForce 650i Socket 775
PSU - 600W ATX12V
RAM - 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit
HDD- SATA 250GB 7200RPM
DVD - 20x DVDR Burner
Case - ATX Midi Tower Computer Case
OS - Microsoft Windows XP Home with SP2

Crytek then went about capturing video of the game running on the resulting rig, saying "As you'll see... Crysis looks absolute fabulous on High settings with this configuration and runs very smoothly on a 1280x720 resolution."

We guess you'll want to see the videos then. Here are direct download links (potential spoilers ahead!):

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