Crytek: New Engine in 2012!

[Armoured]

Speaking at Games Convention Developers Conference 2008 in Leipzig, Germany, Crytek CEO and President Cevat Yerli said the studio's next engine should be ready for sometime in 2012. As of right now, he says, the degree to which graphics can represent real-life is bottlenecked by a lack of new hardware. He says GPU and CPU technology are converging, evident in the new technologies in development at Nvidia and ATI, as well as what Intel's doing with Larrabee. Until the growing trend of CPU and GPU convergence is more defined, developers will have to focus on increased graphical stylization as well as more advanced physics and AI programming.

Crytek's previous engines include the CryEngine 1, which powered the first-person shooter Far Cry in 2004, and CryEngine 2, which was used for Crysis as well as the upcoming Crysis Warhead. Yerli believes this engine technology will be more than sufficient in powering games through 2012, when he expects Microsoft and Sony to release their new consoles.

Development in the future will require studios to more effectively streamline their production processes, both on the technical and office workflow side of things. In five years, Yerli seemed confident that real-time gaming graphics will match current CGI offline rendering. As of right now, Crytek is still working to increase efficiency with its CryEngine 2 for PC, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3 platforms. Yerli mentioned that the PlayStation 3 required an extra degree of work, but the company is convinced it's worth the effort to get the engine running properly on Sony's platform.

In the latter part of 2009 is when Yerli expects Crytek to begin full production in its next engine, which will be tailored for development across multiple platforms. Until then, he's excited by the gameplay possibilities that may become possible as developers focus on technical aspects aside from graphical realism, though he didn't go into many specific examples of what was possible.

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Kinda sux...I thought it will be earlier. I blaim nvidia and ATI taking forever to release new graphics cards.

Can't wait for CGI graphics!!

[Blablah]

10 bucks says Crysis 3 will be CryEngine3's tech demo!

[|Rob|]

sounds cool.
im pretty sure the engine can last to 2012... we havnt seen all it has to offer yet

[Armoured]

10 bucks says Crysis 3 will be CryEngine3's tech demo!

hmm...maybe not.

Crysis 2 - 2009
Crysis 3 - 2011
Brand new non-PC exclusive game/franchise - 2012/13

I reckon they're holding off CryEngine3 till the next round of consoles.

[Reyde Viscerous]

10 bucks says Crysis 3 will be CryEngine3's tech demo!

hmm...maybe not.

Crysis 2 - 2009
Crysis 3 - 2011
Brand new non-PC exclusive game/franchise - 2012/13

I reckon they're holding off CryEngine3 till the next round of consoles.

Yeah, I'm with Armoured. They're probably gonna finish the Crysis franchise first. Since they usually use most of the resources to work on one game at a time. Then, since Crysis is a PC exclusive, they could bring an engine that's optimized a bit better for consoles.

[L!nkin-]

cool

[Smartino]

10 bucks says Crysis 3 will be CryEngine3's tech demo!

20 bucks says Crysis 2000 will be CryEngine50's tech demo!

But very cool indeed.

[James-Headcrab]

$50 says CryEngine 3 will look like CGI rendered movies.
(The Dark Knight, Die Hard 4, ect. all the explosions and stunts and **** that can't be filmed in RL)

[Armoured]

10 bucks says Crysis 3 will be CryEngine3's tech demo!

hmm...maybe not.

Crysis 2 - 2009
Crysis 3 - 2011
Brand new non-PC exclusive game/franchise - 2012/13

I reckon they're holding off CryEngine3 till the next round of consoles.

Yeah, I'm with Armoured. They're probably gonna finish the Crysis franchise first. Since they usually use most of the resources to work on one game at a time. Then, since Crysis is a PC exclusive, they could bring an engine that's optimized a bit better for consoles.

Exactly!

$50 says CryEngine 3 will look like CGI rendered movies.
(The Dark Knight, Die Hard 4, ect. all the explosions and stunts and **** that can't be filmed in RL)

Well it did say in the article that Yerli seemed confident that real-time gaming graphics will match current CGI offline rendering

Not exactly sure what they mean by 'offline' though...

[Argoon]

Offline = non realtime rendering using tools like Yafray or others.

[Soul_Harvester]

meh by the time that comes around i wont care as ill be watching the Olympics again.

[UltimaRage]

meh by the time that comes around i wont care as ill be watching the Olympics again.

Yes, you will.

[Soul_Harvester]

meh by the time that comes around i wont care as ill be watching the Olympics again.

Yes, you will.

ok so maybe i will. hopefully i'll have a good PC then too but honestly who didn't know they would make a new engine by 2012. they can't keep using the same 1 for 4 years straight

[SkyHunter00013]

here we go again....Crysis 3: Buy A Supercomputer

[HitmanJustin]

here we go again....Crysis 3: Buy A Supercomputer

haha gonna need on of those 8 core CPUs and a video card with its own power supply

[Soul_Harvester]

here we go again....Crysis 3: Buy A Supercomputer

haha gonna need on of those 8 core CPUs and a video card with its own power supply

don't forget that MetaRAM 160 GB of RAM

[Smartino]

here we go again....Crysis 3: Buy A Supercomputer

haha gonna need on of those 8 core CPUs and a video card with its own power supply

don't forget that MetaRAM 160 GB of RAM

I beg your pardon, 10 TeraRam you mean 10.000GB of RAM

[Soul_Harvester]

here we go again....Crysis 3: Buy A Supercomputer

haha gonna need on of those 8 core CPUs and a video card with its own power supply

don't forget that MetaRAM 160 GB of RAM

I beg your pardon, 10 TeraRam you mean 10.000GB of RAM

No i mean "MetaRAM" omg search is sooooo slow

http://www.crysis-online.com/forum/index.php/topic,30458.msg435155.html#msg435155
http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/39006/135/

[SkyHunter00013]

The only known computers that will be able to run Crysis 3 are Cabal, Skynet, Stephen Hawking, and Hal 9000

[Alpha]

Hopefully they optimize the engine better than CE2 when it's released. I wonder if they even aim to achieve the best graphics with it again?