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Revision as of 23:44, 19 September 2014

Crysis Warhead
Cover image missing, please upload it
Developers
Crytek
Publishers
Electronic Arts
Engines
CryEngine 2
Release dates
Windows September 17, 2008
Crysis Warhead on Wikipedia

Warnings

GameSpy online services have been shut down (see Network for solutions).
Crysis
Crysis 2007
Crysis Warhead 2008
Crysis 2 2011
Crysis 3 2013
Crysis Remastered 2020
Crysis 2 Remastered 2021
Crysis 3 Remastered 2021
Crysis 4 TBA

Key points

Crysis Wars is the multiplayer section of the game, Crysis: Warhead is the single player campaign.
Great for benchmarking graphics cards
Comes bundled with modding tools
Very taxing even on some modern computers
GameSpy online server browser stopped working on May 31, 2014 due to GameSpy services being shut down.[1]

General information

Crysis Website
MyCrysis Forums
Crysis Wiki - A wiki for everything Crysis related
Steam Community Discussions
Steam Users' Forums for game series

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
GamersGate
Requires online activation
Single player mode has SecuROM DRM.[2]
Error: key type '{{{5}}}' not recognised
Error: OS parameter cannot be empty
Steam
Icon overlay.png
SecuROM DRM
Error: key type '{{{5}}}' not recognised
Error: OS parameter cannot be empty
Origin
Origin
DRM unknown
Error: key type '{{{5}}}' not recognised
Error: OS parameter cannot be empty
Amazon.com
DRM details are not known
DRM unknown
Error: key type '{{{5}}}' not recognised
Error: OS parameter cannot be empty
Retail
DRM details are not known
Error: key type '{{{5}}}' not recognised
Error: OS parameter cannot be empty

Essential improvements

Patches

Latest version for Warhead is 1.1. Latest versions for Wars is 1.5. Patch can be found here.

Skip intro videos

Instructions

Game data

In-game general settings.

Configuration file(s) location

Template:Game data/row
System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/17330/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

Template:Game data/row
System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/17330/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Origin
Steam Cloud

Video settings

File:Crysis Warhead General Graphics.png
In-game general graphics settings.
File:Crysis Warhead Advanced Graphics.png
In-game advanced graphics settings.

Template:Video settings

Field of view (FOV)

Instructions

Anisotropic filtering (AF)

Instructions

Input settings

In-game key map settings.
In-game gamepad settings.

Template:Input settings

Mouse acceleration

Instructions

Audio settings

In-game audio settings.

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Czech
French
German
Hungarian
Italian
Polish
Russian
Spanish

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
LAN play
32
Online play
32 GameSpy services have been shut down;[3] see GameSpy for workarounds.

Connection types

Type Native Notes
Matchmaking
Peer-to-peer
Dedicated
Self-hosting
Dedicated server software is available for Windows and Linux.
Direct IP

Ports

Protocol Port(s) and/or port range(s)
TCP 80, 443, 6667, 28910, 29900-29901
UDP 27900-27901, 29910, 64087
Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) support status is unknown.

Issues fixed

TweakGuides has created a comprehensive guide for fixing issues in this game. It can be found here.

Hangs on startup

Instructions
Instructions

Remapping dual wielding secondary fire to other keys

By default, mouse2 (mouse right click) is permanently mapped to the dual wielding secondary fire command, regardless of what mouse2 is actually mapped to in-game. The only way to remap the command is to manually edit the profile key map file.

Instructions

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP SP2, Vista
Processor (CPU) 2.8 GHz (XP)
3.2 GHz (Vista)
System memory (RAM) 1.0 GB (XP)
1.5 GB (Vista)
Hard disk drive (HDD) 15 GB
Video card (GPU) 256 MB of VRAM
Supported Processors: Intel Pentium 4 2.8 GHz (3.2 GHz for Vista) or faster, Intel Core 2.0 GHz (2.2 GHz for Vista) or faster, AMD Athlon 2800+ (3200+ for Vista) or faster.
Supported chipsets: NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT or greater; ATI Radeon 9800 Pro (Radeon X800 Pro for Vista) or greater. Laptop versions of these chipsets may work but are not supported. Integrated chipsets are not supported. Updates to your video and sound card drivers may be required.

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:

References