The biggest PC game to come along in a long time has finally hit shelves. Crysis is the 1st true DX10 game that actually pushes hardware to the max. The game is high tech and completely amazing. The Nanosuit gives you superhuman abilities and the games graphics are completely out of this world. The level of detail packed into every level is astounding especially if you are running a solid DX9 video card such as the Nvidia 7950 or ATI 1950. But if you are sporting DX10 hardware such as the Nvidia 8800 or ATI 2600/2900, you will experience some of the more advanced effects such as sun flares, motion blur and increased HDR (lighting is insane).

Unfortunately you must be running DX10 hardware under Vista to use the VERY HIGH setting to achieve some of the more advanced effects I just mentioned but with a hack you can run VERY HIGH settings under XP (XP only allows the HIGH setting) and achieve some of the DX10/Vista features. Below are some screenshots I took running the game under DX9/XP High setting and DX9/XP Very High setting (using hack) using my system (Opteron 1222 3.0 GHZ Dual Core, 2GB RAM and 8800 Ultra 768MB). I am not going to point out the differences as I will leave that to you.

DX9 - Windows XP - HIGH Setting

DX9 - Windows XP - VERY HIGH Settings

DX9 - Windows XP - HIGH Setting

DX9 - Windows XP - VERY HIGH Settings

DX9 - Windows XP - HIGH Setting

DX9 - Windows XP - VERY HIGH Settings

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