how to buy crysis

[OhYou_]

I just want the regular 2007 version of crysis and not have to buy a dvd and have it in to play it and all that.
Can I just buy the steam game (not the remastered), download it on one pc, and then copy the files to a different pc that doesnt run steam anymore and play it there? Or is there some kind of drm

[Hinjima]

10 minutes ago, OhYou_ said:

I just want the regular 2007 version of crysis and not have to buy a dvd and have it in to play it and all that.
Can I just buy the steam game (not the remastered), download it on one pc, and then copy the files to a different pc that doesnt run steam anymore and play it there? Or is there some kind of drm

You would have to install steam on that the PC that you will be running Crysis on if you buy it on steam.

You can go through family share but you still need steam.

 

The Original game is also availible on GOG:

https://www.gog.com/en/game/crysis

[Eigenvektor]

Afaik the only version still available for sale on Steam is the remastered version. Not quite sure why you'd need to copy it to another PC first to play it?

 

Could buy it on GOG though? https://www.gog.com/en/game/crysis

[OhYou_]

4 minutes ago, Hinjima said:

The Original game is also availible on GOG:

https://www.gog.com/en/game/crysis

oh fug, and it doesnt require any launchers or anything?
 

 

3 minutes ago, Eigenvektor said:

Not quite sure why you'd need to copy it to another PC first to play it?

steam does not install on any version of windows that is not windows 11 or 10 now

[Hinjima]

1 minute ago, OhYou_ said:

oh fug, and it doesnt require any launchers or anything?
 

 

steam does not install on any version of windows that is not windows 11 or 10 now

According to GOG themselves you dont need GOG launcher to play any game

GOG Is owned by The Witcher developers so its a safe website to purchase games.

https://support.gog.com/hc/en-us/articles/212554329-Do-I-need-some-launcher-application-to-play-my-GOG-games?product=gog

[OhYou_]

1 minute ago, Hinjima said:

According to GOG themselves you dont need GOG launcher to play any game

GOG Is owned by The Witcher developers so its a safe website to purchase games.

https://support.gog.com/hc/en-us/articles/212554329-Do-I-need-some-launcher-application-to-play-my-GOG-games?product=gog

well that was easy, I bought it and now get to watch it download for the next 4 hours

 

[Skipple]

1 minute ago, Hinjima said:

According to GOG themselves you dont need GOG launcher to play any game

GOG Is owned by The Witcher developers so its a safe website to purchase games.

https://support.gog.com/hc/en-us/articles/212554329-Do-I-need-some-launcher-application-to-play-my-GOG-games?product=gog

How did I never know GOG was owned by CD Projekt. I guess you learn something new everyday. 

[Eigenvektor]

5 minutes ago, OhYou_ said:

oh fug, and it doesnt require any launchers or anything?

It shouldn't, no. And stuff on GOG is generally DRM free to boot.

[Skipple]

1 minute ago, Eigenvektor said:

And stuff on GOG is generally DRM free to boot.

This is correct. GOG is known as the DRM-free platform. 

[voyager_]

18 minutes ago, OhYou_ said:

well that was easy, I bought it and now get to watch it download for the next 4 hours

 

Ouch.... 4 hours? I bought a copy through GOG too. No issues with it. But I also downloaded it in the time it takes to get a hot pocket. Fiber for the win! Enjoy the game, it's still a fun one

[da na]

Could get an ISO from archive.org...

[Mark Kaine]

12 minutes ago, da na said:

Could get an ISO from archive.org...

no, he said "buy"...

[OhYou_]

14 minutes ago, voyager_ said:

Ouch.... 4 hours? I bought a copy through GOG too. No issues with it. But I also downloaded it in the time it takes to get a hot pocket. Fiber for the win! Enjoy the game, it's still a fun one

Oh I've played through it before, using a pirated copy, I just cant trust that stuff anymore since cryptolocker went big. Like I dont want to have to think about it when putting the box on a network. My time is worth more than $5 to verify that there is no malware and still without original code to compare against, and a 7GB game, nah

[da na]

5 minutes ago, Mark Kaine said:

no, he said "buy"...

Well the CD key would then be obtainable by whatever means OP wishes but getting the game wouldn't be a problem.

[Mark Kaine]

2 minutes ago, da na said:

Well the CD key would then be obtainable by whatever means OP wishes but getting the game wouldn't be a problem.

i wonder if that would even work though, many old drm methods don't really work on win 10 so typically keys don't work either. 

 

seems gog is pretty much the only way to play it legally.

[Mark Kaine]

45 minutes ago, Skipple said:

This is correct. GOG is known as the DRM-free platform. 

https://www.gog.com/forum/general/drm_on_gog_list_of_singleplayer_games_with_drm/page1

 

 

 

[OhYou_]

9 minutes ago, da na said:

Well the CD key would then be obtainable by whatever means OP wishes but getting the game wouldn't be a problem.

afaik crysis predates keys and drm. the game simply verifies the cd is in the drive to play it.
there are cracks to do no cd but still the problem is now im downloading off archive.org blindly and just trusting it isnt malware

[da na]

10 minutes ago, OhYou_ said:

afaik crysis predates keys and drm. the game simply verifies the cd is in the drive to play it.
there are cracks to do no cd but still the problem is now im downloading off archive.org blindly and just trusting it isnt malware

You'd need the key to install it IIRC... I have a disk copy.

Regardless, seems like you have it figured out.

[OhYou_]

This game is whack wtf. Period ish hardware barely gets me 20fps at 720p high. Radeon 4670 GPU, strong 2008 midrange card, 20fps 

 

[Attilavsq]

23 hours ago, OhYou_ said:

afaik crysis predates keys and drm. the game simply verifies the cd is in the drive to play it.
there are cracks to do no cd but still the problem is now im downloading off archive.org blindly and just trusting it isnt malware

Maybe there is no DRM on it. Not even sure of that.

But what i know is that DRM was a thing back in the 80's lol

[demonix00]

On 3/27/2024 at 1:07 AM, OhYou_ said:

This game is whack wtf. Period ish hardware barely gets me 20fps at 720p high. Radeon 4670 GPU, strong 2008 midrange card, 20fps 

 

Welcome to "can it run crysis".

[thrasher_565]

i still have not finished crysis... as there a spot were a helicopter is sapos to come but dosent... but i want to beat the first before moving on to the over games...

 

crysis is the game to betchmark and it gets confusing to what will run it. i for get what a good gpu is for it...

 

8800 for 60 low and a gtx 3060ti for hi settings...

 

 

 

Edited March 30 by thrasher_565

[Mark Kaine]

On 3/27/2024 at 2:07 AM, OhYou_ said:

This game is whack wtf. Period ish hardware barely gets me 20fps at 720p high. Radeon 4670 GPU, strong 2008 midrange card, 20fps 

 

why would you run crysis on era adequate hardware?  the whole point of living in the future is that you can run it all cranked up at like 300fps!!!

[OhYou_]

1 hour ago, Mark Kaine said:

why would you run crysis on era adequate hardware?  the whole point of living in the future is that you can run it all cranked up at like 300fps!!!

no fun in that. I already have done that. if I'm going to replay a game, I want to do it on period hardware now just because its half the fun