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CEO Cevat Yerli gearing up for the next big step in technology.

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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ENTERPRISE

Im not sure why but this man really annoys me lol.

Anyway I look forward to there new Engine. I just hope that they will make it ALOT more scaleable compared to there current one which is not very flexible at all.

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TnB= Gir

Because he's a lying sack of crap.

Mmansueto

Wow. You heard it here first people. I agree, something about him annoys me. I think the engine can produce the best visuals out there, but it is not very adaptable to different hardware configurations.

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Flatliner

what exactly did he lie about? he said Crysis would run on older systems (which it does, you just need to play on all low). and that some of the most powerful rigs could have a hard time with it.

he did also say that the graphics in Crysis are more advanced than their time, meaning when GPU's can support certain aspects of the game, Crytek will release a patch enabling those aspects.

god, enough of this "lets bash Crysis/Crytek/Cevat" BS. its getting old.

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TnB= Gir

I am not bashing crysis or crytek. Just Cevat.

His claims of quad cores running 15% faster per core over a dual core, along with 64 bit operating systems running somewhere between 10-20% faster. He has lied many times. Not a bash on the game, but on Cevat.

Flatliner

i wouldnt go as far as to say lie. how about misjudgement. i seriously don't believe that he just said those things just because; moreso, that he said them because he believed Crysis would run better...and if you think about it, most people believe that 4 cores > 2 cores, whereas the other people know that its quite the opposite for most games.

he is the president/ceo, not a programmer telling straight up lies about how the engine will run even though he knows its false.

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mth91

Let's define lie. A false statement made with deliberate intent to deceive; an intentional untruth; a falsehood.

Now there's a pretty good chance he was lying, because he would have seen the performance for the original Crysis, and yet he still said that it would run on anything.

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ENTERPRISE

Yes that was something that annoyed me. If Crysis was unable to utilize a Quad or 64bit platform properly then he should not have said anything. Granted he is no programmer...but a CEO still needs to know whats going on with his products. Just because he is not developing it hands on does not give him any excuse in my mind.

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Flatliner

as far as im concerned, in north america one is innocent until proven guilty and a "pretty good chance" won't quite cut it.

who says it was deliberate?

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