Beginner level specialisation tutorial

After much research and from endlessly exploring the Crysis folders I have managed to play around with the video files that run when the game is launched. I have tried manipulating and replacing these with other video files but they don't seem to be recognised and result in a black screen. Although this has not been successful I have managed to successfully rename all the launch video files so that when the game starts it skips straight to the game menu. So I have created my beginner level tutorial on this. It is very basic and can be executed quite quickly. Hopefully I will be able to find some more information and figure out how to replace the video files with my own custom ones. The tutorial is given below:

Beginner level PACKAGING / SKINNING tutorial:

To remove the video advertisements that run when the Crysis game is launched you can either delete them or rename them which is what I did.

The advertisements are video files which are located in the Crysis install directory on your hardrive. By renaming the files you are essentially hiding them and thus allowing the game to skip straight to the game menu.

Follow the instructions below to do this:

Navigate to your Crysis installation folder which on a Windows system would typically be:

C:\Program Files\Electronic Arts\Crytek\Crysis

From there, enter the following folders to locate the video files:

C:\Program Files\Electronic Arts\Crytek\Crysis\Game\Localized\Video

The videos are saved as .sfd files. You simply need to rename the files listed below, not all of them.

Rename the following files:

• Trailer_EA.sfd (EA Logo)
• Trailer_Crytek.sfd (Crytek logo)
• Trailer_Nvidia.sfd (Nvidia logo)
• Trailer_Intel.sfd (Intel logo)
• Trailer_CrytekC.sfd (Crytek Crysis text)

The easiest way to do this is by appending any character to the end of the file name. Anything that will be recognised by your operating system will work but it is probably better and less harmful to choose something simple such as "1." which is what I have used in this example.

You will also need to rename the video file which is located in the following folder:

C:\Program Files\Electronic Arts\Crytek\Crysis\Game\Localized\Video\English

The file name is listed below:

• Trailer_Rating.sfd (Rating text)

After renaming all the video files they should look like this if you chose to append "1." to the end of the file name:

• Trailer_EA1.sfd (EA Logo)
• Trailer_Crytek1.sfd (Crytek logo)
• Trailer_Nvidia1.sfd (Nvidia logo)
• Trailer_Intel1.sfd (Intel logo)
• Trailer_CrytekC1.sfd (Crytek Crysis text)
• Trailer_Rating1.sfd (Rating text)

Once this is done upon launching the game it should automatically skip straight to the game menu instead of playing all these advertising video files.

If you want the videos back, just revert all the files back to the original filenames.

Thats the end of the tutorial!