By Michael Santo
Executive Editor, RealTechNews
Crysis, perhaps the most anticipated first-person shooter in recent memory, has just gone gold. With that, Electronic Arts and Crytek say that the game will ship on time, on its already announced release date of 11/16.
Crysis is also a game which will demand a DirectX 10 card in order to see it in all its glory. While other games have already been released which support DirectX 10, Crysis is the one gamers have been looking to for a reason to upgrade their hardware (although Gears of War will release on November 10th and will also support DirectX 10).
We Say: And just a reminder that Microsoft may be happy also, as we all know that Windows Vista is the only version of Windows to support DirectX 10 (sigh).
I don’t guess you people know what news is. This is a last week article. DX10 is a joke.
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And since DX10 only works with Vista, and since Vista is a pig, and since a new card is required to use DX10…. get my point? You really have to be addicted to games to go through all that rigamarole. I, for one, will pass.
That is, unless someone in the Crysis Forums figures out how to make the game Xp compatible via a simple cut and paste:
http://www.crysis-online.com/forum/index.php?topic=11837.0
As killjoy42 posted, you can get the “DX10 only” features/look on DX9 by changing the settings in the config files. It is not enabling DX10 on XP, just showing that the save visuals can be produced on DX9.
It amounts to about the same thing. Forcing the adoption of Vista to get high end “DX10″ visuals is only marketing.
crysis is out !
http://diensa.blogspot.com/