Crysis Remastered PC Performance Review and Optimisation Guide

PC System Requirements & Graphics Options

The Crysis series has always been famed for its high hardware requirements, so much so that “Can it run Crysis?” is a term that’s still commonly used by PC gamers. That said, Crysis Remastered’s changed do a lot of increase the title’s hardware efficiency, allowing Crysis Remastered to run well across a variety of hardware configurations. 

If you have a quad-core processor and a relatively modern graphics card with 4GB of VRAM, your system is ready for Crysis, that said, this game’s highest settings will make your PC scream. 
 

Minimum 

OS: Windows 10 64-Bit
Processor: Intel Core i5-3450 or AMD Ryzen 3
Memory: 8GB
Storage: 20GB
DirectX: 11
Graphics: Nvidia Geforce GTX 1050 Ti or AMD Radeon RX 470
Graphics Memory: 4GB of Graphics Memory at 1080p

Recommended

OS: Windows 10 64-Bit
Processor: Intel Core i5-7600K or AMD Ryzen 5 or Higher
Memory: 12GB
Storage: 20GB
DirectX: DirectX 11
Graphics: Nvidia Geforce GTX 1660 Ti or AMD Radeon RX Vega 56
Graphics Memory: 8GB of Graphics Memory at 4K

  
Settings

Crysis Remastered’s settings menus are very similar to Crysis’ original PC release, offering PC gamers a wide range of resolution and AA options. Instead of MSAA, Crysis Remastered features SMAA, TAA and hybrid anti-aliasing solutions. Crysis Remastered also allows players to select their screen’s refresh rate, which is a handy option given the 23Hz bug that’s present within Crysis’ original PC version on modern systems. 

  
Crysis’ PC remaster features several presets, Low, Medium, High, Very High and “Can it Run Crysis?”. If we are honest, Medium settings are demanding enough for many modern PCs at appropriate resolutions, with High being overly punishing on systems which lack support for Hardware Accelerated Ray Tracing.