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Old November 4, 2007, 03:08 PM
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Too bad you are not on Vista. I love seeing Crysis DX10 eating cards alive and believe it or not, I think the differences between the DX9 and DX10 versions of Crysis are very apparent.
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Old November 4, 2007, 03:12 PM
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Too bad you are not on Vista. I love seeing Crysis DX10 eating cards alive and believe it or not, I think the differences between the DX9 and DX10 versions of Crysis are very apparent.
Heh I personally hate Vista and won't be purchasing it due to the fact that until SP1 proves itself I will stick with XP.

I know it sucks as people would probably like to see DX10 results but ... not this time.
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Old November 4, 2007, 05:21 PM
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Well, since the topic is on the table... what is the best OS with the 8800GT?

Seems like benchmarks show the 8800GT as one of the first affordable cards that run DX10 acceptably -- but I'd like to know which operating system to load up? I have XP and Vista 32 bit available to me.

BTW, thanks to both of you for your reviews.
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Old November 4, 2007, 06:21 PM
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Well, since the topic is on the table... what is the best OS with the 8800GT?

Seems like benchmarks show the 8800GT as one of the first affordable cards that run DX10 acceptably -- but I'd like to know which operating system to load up? I have XP and Vista 32 bit available to me.

BTW, thanks to both of you for your reviews.
I'm currently running XP 64bit to take advantage of the 4gb of memory I have.
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Old November 4, 2007, 07:34 PM
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Does Crysis really look that different on high in DX10 at 1280*1024?
Im not sure enaberifs pics really did the game justice (no offence meant) as it seems difficult to get a feel for the depth and movement in this game from screenshots.
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Old November 4, 2007, 07:50 PM
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It really does to me. The water looks STUNNING and I find the general ambience is alot more fitting due to more realistic shadows. On the other hand....good luck finding a graphics card / CPU combination that can power the demo above 25FPS in DX10 mode.

I have played it in both DX10 and DX9 modes so I have a pretty good perspective of what they both look like.
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Old November 5, 2007, 01:05 AM
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I agree....I run Vista Ultimate and XP( I switch)....The game in DX10 looks just amazing...so much more 'alive' then other games. Honestly though, from what I've read in other reviews.....That superiority will only become apparent at/on super high/super fly machines....LOL
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Old November 5, 2007, 09:43 PM
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I have played it in both DX10 and DX9 modes so I have a pretty good perspective of what they both look like.
have you played it in XP with the 'very high' settings "hack"? Does it look much different than natural DX10?
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Old November 6, 2007, 07:22 AM
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How do you set the very high settings in XP for Crysis?

Anyidea if you can do that for COH/bioshock/HL2EP2 too?
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