Nvidia Launching New Hardware to Coincide with Crysis Release

[Plasma]

Not to sure how true this is, but its still crysis related :)
The second quote is a little worrying.


During his speech, Nvidia’s senior vice president Dan Vivoli let slip that Nvidia intended to “launch new hardware to coincide with Crysis’ launch.” Vivoli didn’t elaborate, but the rumor mill has been predicting that Nvidia would ship a new top-end GPU right before the holiday shopping season, just as they did with the GeForce 8800 last year.



Crytek’s CEO told me he thought they’d “shown too much of the game too early,” and that they had “built up people’s expectations.” But Yerli quickly returned to form and began boasting of the game’s visual flair

http://www.maximumpc.com/article/nvidia_launching_new_hardware_to_coincide_with_cry sis_release

[SirGrimNZ]

wow what a suprise,there trying to squeeze the last bit of $ out of the 8 series.considering early next year the 9's will come,give or take.
anyways,i bet it will be called on of two thing. 8850 or 8900gtx am i right? i bet i am :)

[Spigalau]

CAN'T GET THERE FROM HERE?

I also didn’t encounter game characters that exhibited the amazing level of detail of those images released very early in the game’s development. As Crytek has begun the final push to get the game out the door, I think they’ve begun to realize just how much visual fidelity they’ll need to sacrifice in order to ship a game that’s playable on mainstream hardware.

I didn’t get to play enough of the single-player campaign to render judgment as to whether I think the game will be fun (again, that wouldn’t be fair based on an unfinished game). There also wasn’t much to the level we were given to play. Our objective was to secure an alien crash site before the AI-controlled North Koreans got to it. But for as much as has been made about Crysis in the umpteen million previews we’ve seen, I didn’t see much during my time with the game that will significantly advance the first-person genre. The graphics were pretty, but they weren’t nearly as sumptuous as all the early screenshots have been.

Got BF2 Special Forces - Iron Gator ?
http://www.maximumpc.com/sites/future.p2technology.com/files/imce-images/Crysis6.jpg

Fingers crossed that they don't have to much work ahead of them and that they don't have to tone it down too much.

[x93355]

interesting reading that dx10 players on a dx9 server will have better graphics still...

Yerli told me that players with DirectX 10 videocards will be able to join either DX9 or DX10 servers, but those with DX9 hardware will only be able to play on DX9 servers. “DX9 servers will not have day/night cycles,” he said, “but those DX10 players who do play on DX9 servers will still have better visual quality than players with DX9 cards.”