Crysis windows xp directx 10

As far as we can tell, the difference between very high quality in Windows XP and Windows Vista is quite subtle. We noticed some extra shadowing on the rocks in the Vista version, and while there are differences between the hacked XP shots and the Vista shots, we can't really say that one looks better. Developers have gotten very good at working around hardware limitations to fake great graphics, so we wouldn't be surprised if the DX9 effects were good enough to simulate the results of a more "accurate" DX10 shader.

Crysis will most definitely join our stable of benchmarks for a long time to come. Frame rate performance kept doubling once we lowered the quality settings to high, medium, and low. The Vista version performed slightly slower than Windows XP at the same settings, but the difference was within three to five percent at the high and medium settings. The hacked very high quality settings under Windows XP were almost 20 percent faster than the Vista frame rates, but comparing frame rates between the two is pointless because it isn't an apples-to-apples comparison.

The image differences between the two versions indicate that they don't have an identical workload. The demo isn't a final release of the game, and as such might not represent all the features that Crysis has to offer. It may not display this or other websites correctly. You should upgrade or use an alternative browser. How to run Crysis in DX10 mode?

General bit DX10 Gaming questions. Thread starter RyanH Start date Aug 10, RyanH Limp Gawd. Joined Feb 22, Messages I see in my crysis folder that there are a bin32 and bin64 folder. In the bin32 folder there is 1 executable but in the bin64 one there are 2 executables: Crysis64 and Crysis laun64 tool for SecuRom.

I'm trying to figure out which executable runs in DX9 mode and which runs in DX10 mode. Also, I presume that running the executables in the bin64 folder runs the game in bit mode?

Also, does running Crysis in DX10 mode automatically mean I'm running in bit mode? How is bit and DX10 related if at all? Also, Vista separates programs into the Program Files and Program Files x86 folders when you install programs, but then why didnt Crysis get a folder in the Program Files folder too since it can run in 64 bit mode too right?. Can you run bit programs from the PF x86 folder and vice versa? We have seen Vista-only games made to run under XP before but I've never seen anything like this enabled so easily.

If you tweak the configuration files in CVarGroups by copying and pasting the "very high" settings 1st paragraph IN PLACE of the "high" settings last paragraph the game will load the highest possible settings even though the drop-down menus display "high.

Note to Microsoft and Crytek: When gamers find out that all that stands between them and DirectX 10 quality gaming on XP is a simple modification to a config file, your whole "Vista can do gaming things that XP can't" line sounds pretty manufactured—please stop jerking us around, kthx.