NASA comes closer to running Crysis at maximum settings

[Ryder]

Scientists at NASA's John F. Kennedy Space Center have revealed that they are extremely close to accomplishing what experts once thought impossible: running EA's PC shooter Crysis at maximum settings. Using a custom built Cray XT3 Opteron supercomputer, NASA engineers, in partnership with a team of students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, claim they have actually run the game at full capacity for more than 10 minutes before a fatal system crash.

"It's been hard," comments NASA project lead James Ferguson, "but challenges like this are why we do what we do. Hearing everyone applaud in the control room when we got the first level up and running was a feeling I'll never forget. This has been a real journey for the whole team...even a few months ago we weren't able to put the sliders up past half before it crippled the system. Now we're playing for five, ten minutes at a time at full resolution with no demonstrative frame lag."

Although progress has been good, time is of the essence, as recent rumors have speculated that a rival team in China will be attempting a full run-through of the game within the next month. Still, Ferguson remains confident, "I believe in America's know-how and I guarantee we'll be the first country on Earth to run Crysis. Now if you'll excuse me I have to go sign off on a shipment of Red Bull. It's gonna be a late night."
















Haha this was a short little read in the April '08 Game Informer that I found hilarious...NASA struggling to run Crysis at max, hahaha....

[Berserk_Fury]

Er, does that mean that the makers of Crysis can't run it on max settings?

[VAMP]

This is hilarious, I thought it was an article from The Onion at first. lol

[Kernel Kev]

Originally Posted by Ryder

"I believe in America's know-how and I guarantee we'll be the first country on Earth to run Crysis."

HAHAHAHA, NASA are lowering their standars a bit arnt they? I mean, in the 1960's (1961 to be exact) they were the people who put man on the moon ( i dont believe this, im a conspirasist about the whole moon landing thing), and now they are, "we will be the first to play this PC game. LOL

As i think beserk said, how could the creators have developed the game without the computer they developed it on not be able to run it?



Kev

[psplayer]

Yeah and what would be the point in making it so if you play it at full your computer will crash unless you have a super computer...


I ask do you have a super computer??? lol

[Kernel Kev]

I have have in a few weeks!

Im sure there is a company out their that has computers WAY capable of doing it. I mean, Sony, IBM, Apple, surely...



Kev

[psplayer]

YEah i mean how do they test vista and stuff lol... But surely nasa would have

[Kernel Kev]

Im worried that there are Computers out their controlling our banks, air planes, defense systems, attack systems, phone coverage. And they havent got one that will run a PC game?... what the hell.



Kev

[bamhm182]

lol, seriously, that's a bit much, isn't it? If NASA can't run it, does anyone really have a chance?

If I had a job, I'd have a REALLY nice computer, but even than my budget wouldn't be 1/8 of what NASA's is...

[Kernel Kev]

1/8th....

LOL, bamhm, id say NASA's research and development costs are more than 8 times what your entire family earns in a year.



Kev