Crysis 3

Crysis 3 

Crysis 3 is a first-person shooter video game developed by the German game developer Crytek and is published by Electronic Arts (EA) for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360. It was released in North America on February 19, 2013.[3] Officially announced April 14, 2012, it is the third main installment of the Crysis series, a sequel to the 2011 video game Crysis 2, and runs on the CryEngine 3 game engine. Crysis 3 has won PC Gamer Most Valuable Game, Game Informer Best of Show and Electric Playground Best of E3 awards.[5]

Similar to other games in the series, Crysis 3 is a multi-platform futuristic video game set in New York City with realistic rendering of NYC and manipulation of special abilities. Players can choose a gameplay style based on direct confrontation, or a more discreet and stealthy approach in order to deal with enemies.

Hacking is one of the new features which can be used to hack security codes, weapon boxes, ceph technology, mines, lasers and even sentry turrets (can be used to kill enemies and ceph). Another new feature is the ceph's own weapons can now be used to kill enemies, including cephs.

Up to 16 players on the PC and 12 players on consoles are supported in each multiplayer match, which uses the Origin client and requires the user to have an existing user account or otherwise create a new one. It uses a client/server model to deliver multiplayer matches, as opposed to a peer-to-peer model. Except on console versions, which is still peer-to-peer. There are 8 different modes and 6 modifiers, each with 12 available maps.

Crysis 3 sees the return of Major Laurence "Prophet" Barnes to New York circa 2047, almost a quarter of a century after the events in Crysis 2. Stepping into Prophet's Nanosuit, you take on the role of battling the forces of CELL Corporation through a range of decaying urban environments overgrown with vegetation, using various high-tech weapons, including the new Predator Bow.

Since the first game in the series spawned the "Can it run Crysis?" meme, it's no surprise to see that Crysis 3 lives up to the series' reputation for advanced graphical prowess. Crysis 3 not only supports DirectX 11 right out of the box, it requires it: if your GPU and OS aren't DX11-capable, you won't be able to play the game. The latest iteration of Crytek's CryEngine, used to power Crysis 3, packs almost every form of eye candy possible in a modern PC game, and as a result, if you turn up the settings, the game will punish even the mightiest of systems.

The aim of this guide is to allow you to better understand and best utilize all of the configuration options available in Crysis 3, as well as giving you a range of advanced tweaks.

Before proceeding further, make sure you meet the game's minimum requirements as provided below, with the recommended requirements provided in brackets:

Processor: 2.4GHz Dual Core CPU (2.66GHz Quad Core CPU)

Memory: 2GB RAM/3GB RAM on Vista (4GB RAM)

Hard Drive: At least 20GB of free space

Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 or equivalent DirectX 11 GPU (NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560)

Sound Card: DirectX compatible

OS: Windows Vista, 7, 8

What follows are full descriptions for all of the settings available in the various options menus. Screenshot comparisons are provided where relevant to highlight the impact on image quality of changing these settings. Performance information is also provided for every setting, although the precise impact on your particular system depends on your specific hardware combination, and your other game and system-wide settings. The aim here is to give you enough information so that you can make an informed choice as to the settings you can enable or disable to obtain a balance of visual quality and performance acceptable to you.