Play Crysis at Very High settings under XP

Posted Oct 29, 2007 at 9:46AM by Karl B. Listed in: Guides, Tips, and Tricks, Titles, Genre Tags: Crytek, Windows XP
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fans running Windows XP should give this sweet configuration tweak that we came across on the Crysis forums. It basically gives XP users the chance to play the Crysis demo at Very High settings, which is normally disabled when the game is run under XP instead of Vista.

According to forums member LennyRhys, you can enable the Very High settings by copying and pasting the Very High settings found in the first paragraph in place of the High settings in the last paragraph in the configuration files in CVarGroups. The difference is reportedly quite noticeable. Check out the comparison pics above courtesy of Crysis forums member swebarb.

Mail4youtoo goes more in depth into the tweaking process, so check it out. Those interested can read the post by clicking on the Read link below. Crytek's Crysis will hit retail stores in North America and Europe on November 16.

Via Crysis-Online

 
 
 

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by Zocks2099 - 2007-10-29 10:02:41
why?

Why would they hide it? Hmm, My guess is they want People to believe that Directx10 has more dramatic changes in front of Directx9 as it really has, so let People to buy more Vista OS....
by neok182 - 2007-10-29 10:13:41
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almost all of the effects in 'very high' settings are DX10. there are a few such as higher textures and bumpmaps that can be done in DX9 but for the demo Crytek figured they'd just block out all of the very high instead of just certain ones.

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