A question for people who have played Crysis (on PC )

Although I do have Crysis on Steam (and I love it!), I never used the mod tools/editor, so I can't be of any help - and I don't have the game installed now, so I can't test it. What I can say is that, from a quick look online, this is not true: it's not restricted to the x64 versions and is compatible with newer versions of Windows (7, 8, 10). But then, I'm reading mixed reports about its compatibility: for some people, it works flawlessly; for other people, it may need a fix (which may be very simple). For reference, here is a thread about the editor not working and a very simple workaround:

Steam discussion on Crysis

I remember playing the game (not the editor) on Windows 10 x64 with no problems, but, as it's an older game, a few compatibility issues are not uncommon. If you buy the game and get any of them, just try the fixes listed here:

Crysis on PC Gaming Wiki (PC Gaming Wiki is the go-to site if you ever have any problem with a pc game)

Also, keep in mind you can easily get a refund on Steam nowadays: if you have played the game for less than 2 hours and have it for less than 14 days, you don't need any reason to get a refund. So, if you're in doubt, you can buy it, see if it works and, if it doesn't, request a refund.

By the way, Crysis is a really good game. My recommendation, if you get it, is that you play it on the "Delta" difficulty: it's not really a harder mode, but a "realistic" one: you die faster, but so do the enemies. The greatest advantage of this mode is that the enemies are smarter: on normal, they just run towards you and, if you become invisible, they instantly forget where you were; on Delta, they'll try to flank you, coming from multiple sides and looking for cover, throw a few grenades to make you quit your position and, if you turn invisible, they'll fire their guns at your last position anyway. It's not exactly harder, but you'll need to be more careful and think about your tactics. This should've been the standard difficulty in the game, it's much more intense and combines better the action/stealth gameplay.

Let me start off by saying I've played both Far Cry 1 and Crysis. As for your question about Crysis's optimization, I've had my doubts about it myself over the years, but it's actually performed well on every machine I've run it on in recent years (even laptops). It's still not going to run on toasters or anything, and I'd go as far as saying that you'd be doing yourself a disservice by gimping the graphics or physics settings just to get it to run. Do you know the specs of your computer?

As for Far Cry 1, it's alot like a precursor to Crysis in terms of both level design and how the game progresses. It's also like Crysis in the sense that if you try and bum rush a group of enemies without caution or planning you're going to get destroyed. Without trying to spoil too much, they both also undergo some pretty significant changes later in their respective games (although I'd say Crysis handles this better). I think getting FC1 was a good idea and can serve as pretty good indicator on whether or not you'll like Crysis.

MeleeMonk - MSI is only the manufacturer; they produce both nVidia and AMD cards. To better know which one you have (the name of the card), you can type dxdiag in the search box in your Windows 10 taskbar. The first page shows your cpu and RAM, the second page shows your graphics card. Tell us which card you have! Keep in mind Crysis a 2007 game, so you're almost certainly good to go.

winnersdontusedrugs is right, Crysis is a very optimized game, it's just so detailed that, at the time, it needed a very powerful card to run at high settings. It was definitely not an optimization problem, as I had a very weak card (GeForce 220GT) that could run it at medium settings (with some options on high) with no problem at all, and even on medium it was the most beautiful game I had seen until then. It still looks great.

About the two games, Crysis is definitely the better one, but Far Cry is no slouch either and you'll have a lot of fun with it. Just one recommendation: for Far Cry, play on normal. I played it on hard and it seemed manageable, but the last levels become absurdly unfair, so much that I could only complete the last encounter by exploiting a glitch and it was still very frustrating, not fun at all.

EDIT: Although I do use mods in some games, I never use the editors myself, so I haven't used the Far Cry editor either.

Cervantes winnersdontusedrugs

MY SPECS:

Graphics: Nvidia GeForce GT 730
Processor: AMD Quad Core processor 3.8 GHz
RAM: 4 GB

Can I run Crysis?

MeleeMonk
lol your cpu is probably better than mine. The only thing that might hold you back in the future is the ram, but you should be able to run Crysis fine at least.
Do you know what resolution you usually run games at (or your native desktop resolution)?