Has anyone tried this :
http://www.strategyinformer.com/pc [...] 21700.html

it allows u to play Crysis on ULTRA HIGH in XP and i have seen many saying it improves the performance too
http://www.incrysis.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=18999

post the results here, mine will come soon

guys i cant believe it , i have used some of easy and old things like this before ( like the one that are some files that u have to copy them in your folder and the did made a difference) but this one is simply awesome, its alot better than them i have played a little ( i played the first level_the contact_ ) and it looks alot better than before

i tested with my current rig:
E6600 @ 3.2
8800GTX @ ULTRA
4GB RAM

1680x1050 with 0xAA
Min FPS : 18
Average: 20-25
MAX: 63

ran very smoothly

Yeah man I use it too. Problem is that for me at least I can see a circle around me where the shadows stop and arent drawn in. The shadows pop into view when I move forward

I also play at 1680x1050 with similar speeds but I think you are cutting it short, I would say average for most of the game is 28-35 fps, those 60s come indoors and it does have parts that are really slow for everybody like when there is that snow shader running

SLI obviously not working, but two GT's getting higher frame rates than a 'bigger' card. Using a slower CPU and a smaller PSU to boot.

well u r right , but why do u laugh?

Really, having to explain would detract from the humour don't you think?

Oh, and if you haven't done so already will you update your 'faq' to reflect the fact that two less powerful but cheaper gpu's can be better than one expensive 'better' card.

Crysis is just the worst game to benchmark anything around it performs inconsistently with different setups and different cards in SLI or single or Tri SLI even. I think it looks good and single player is pretty fun. But other than that, I feel it was a waste of my money. I like COD4 way more, i had a um... cracked copy to try out to see if I liked it and ordered last night on Amazon for $40 so i can play multiplayer online.

I too am of the opinion that Crysis is a badly coded game but not for the same reasons as yourself perhaps , I was having a little dig around its .cfg files and found out that it has a 'default' setting which is 'Ultra' and all other settings are changes to that 'base' setting, and it's a bit like engine tuning, a big carb might be good but have you got the sparks to go with that?, No, I still think the whole 'Ultra' only under DX10 and Fista BS, is just that, big smelly piles of doo doo that Microsux wants you to swallow and Crytek are only to happy to spoon feed to the masses. That said it's still a lovely looking game.

While it is true that some (maybe most) of the DX10 effects can be enabled under DX9, others can't. For example, object based motion blur (one of my favorite effects) is garbage under DX9. I have also found overall image quality to be slightly lacking under DX9 when compared to DX10. I can't put my finger on it, but DX10 just looks "cleaner." To bad it runs so slow

As for these custom configs, they're definitely a "use at your own risk" type thing. I get some serious shadow glitches with this config, and the dynamic wind effects seem to be totally disabled at the "level 4" setting. Not for me, but to each his or her own.

When is Far Cry 2 coming out? I think my misery is based on the fact that FarCry was so great and now we have this thing called Crysis that everyone disputes and argues about and has to crack config files to get higher settings and runs at low FPS but still looks OK doing it and needs an IBM Blue Gene supercomputer to run in DX10 at Ultra settings.

September is slated, but will it be worth the wait?
http://uk.pc.ign.com/articles/854/854275p1.html

I'm at work and it was blocked. Stupid Websense. haha. did you hear something yet? I saw the video with the sunset and the time laps when the tree regrows. I just hope the multiplayer is as fun as the first one. Mr. George Burns monkey man.