Can it run Crysis 3? Here's your answer: Crytek has detailed the target specifications for their upcoming PC melter, flagging the current top-of-the-line GeForce GTX 680 and Radeon HD7970 for maximum graphics, and setting the bar for entry at 1GB graphics cards with DirectX 11 support (thanks VG247):

Minimum System Operating Requirements for PC:

• Windows Vista, Windows 7 or Windows 8
  
• DirectX 11 graphics card with 1Gb Video RAM
  
• Dual core CPU
  
• 2GB Memory (3GB on Vista)
  
• Example 1 (Nvidia/Intel):
  
• Nvidia GTS 450
  
• Intel Core2 Duo 2.4 Ghz (E6600)
  
• Example 2 (AMD):
  
• AMD Radeon HD5770
  
• AMD Athlon64 X2 2.7 Ghz (5200+)

Recommended System Operating Requirements for PC:

• Windows Vista, Windows 7 or Windows 8
  
• DirectX 11 graphics card with 1GB Video RAM
  
• Quad core GPU
  
• 4GB Memory
  
• Example 1 (Nvidia/Intel):
  
• Nvidia GTX 560
  
• Intel Core i3-530
  
• Example 2 (AMD):
  
• AMD Radeon HD5870
  
• AMD Phenom II X2 565

Hi-Performance PC Specifications:

• Windows Vista, Windows 7 or Windows 8
  
• Latest DirectX 11 graphics card
  
• Latest quad core CPU
  
• 8GB Memory
  
• Example 1 (Nvidia/Intel):
  
• NVidia GTX 680
  
• Intel Core i7-2600k
  
• Example 2 (AMD):
  
• AMD Radeon HD7970
  
• AMD Bulldozer FX4150

Points of note are the confirmation of no Windows XP support, and DirectX 11 capability being mandatory --although whether this means the game won't have a DirectX 9 mode at all is not clarified.

Crysis 3 is due on PC, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3 in February 2013.

might seem like a silly question, but can any of the consoles run DX11?, if they can't it doesn't seem unreasonable to think there will be a DX 9 mode

I'm in between the recommended and high specs, but the multiplayer beta ran like utter shit at max settings on my PC. My CPU is pretty old though, that's probably a big part of it.

The latest Steam hardware survey had DX11 GPUs in 53.14% of systems, and XP was installed on less than 12% of systems. It's about time developers ditched DX9 and XP.

and it also showed very few people have amd's

lol my 580 feels crap now

my PC still can't handle crysis 1. It's just a shitty coded game.

nah, shit code

lol@ requirements.
"We dont know what the latest DX11 card is, but you need it for our game" They MIGHT want to specify it being a gamers wet dream card because I am sure the M variants are new and do DX11, if poorly.

lol@ requirements."We dont know what the latest DX11 card is, but you need it for our game" They MIGHT want to specify it being a gamers wet dream card because I am sure the M variants are new and do DX11, if poorly.

The fuck you talking about, did you even read all the words? They gave two examples of the kind of cards they were referring to at each of three different levels, that's more than you normally get for new games.

gtx670
i3770
16gig ram

I couldn't play the alpha smoothly maxed out. But close to and it looked great. I really couldn't see the difference between what I was running it and the max.



@copuis - no consoles can't do DX11. However earlier in the year the Crytek people were talking about how they've been doing a lot of custom coding to try and replicate DX11 looking effects on consoles and getting some good results. So I think the DX11 version is the main version, they're then trying to cheat that on consoles where they can.

@Whoop
There were some code issues with Crysis 1. Improved in Warhead, generally though it's because they were doing stuff so ahead of the time, no one had experience with doing it.

There's probably not that much dx11 stuff implemented in FC3 because of consoles.

I know in Crysis 1. You definitely could see a difference between Dx9 and DX10.

Crysis 2 with DX11 you really just saw features only in dx11 like tessellation.