The highest graphics setting in Crysis Remastered is described as a graphics mode "designed to demand every last drop of hardware at unlimited settings," a name derived from a meme. Yes, it's the "can you run Crysis?" graphics setting. Earlier today, Crytek released a series of 4k screenshots using the new graphics settings on the game's official Twitter account.

"Can it Run Crysis?" is a meme from 2007 about how tough the original game was on modern PC hardware." Can it run Crysis?" It was a staple in the comments section of everything from the release of new graphics cards to supercomputers being installed at CERN, and PC Gamer revisited the meme in 2017 and found it to still be, er, pretty honest a decade later We discovered.

The graphics in the new screenshot are impressive, but Twitter's compression doesn't work in favor of this shot. There is definitely very intensive ray tracing going on, and there appears to be very little LOD: so all details are visible at all rendering distances; the updated version to be released on September 19 does not appear to feature the infamous texture pops.

Crytek recently released the system requirements for Crysis Remastered, and they are surprisingly reasonable.

A kind netizen on Reddit was kind enough to take a screenshot of the original's Very High settings. We put them side-by-side with the original for comparison: [Crysis remastered will be released on the Epic Games store on September 19. This release comes after a leaked teaser for the game was completely and mercilessly criticized on social media and the game was delayed.