It also depends on what people think is Max settings to. There are a number of videos out that have Crysis Demo running in DX 10 Max everything @ 30-40+ FPS. However, most of them are running 1024 or 1280 Res max.
Personally, I hate having to scale down to 1680 res from 1920, and even then my shaders have to be set to low. However, it still looks and play great, and I find myself playing the demo over and over (ok and editing in extra weapons / items and flying around blowing up the map with a helicopter).
There is also the new GTS just around the corner too, and given that it is expected to be faster than the current GTX, along with 1GB of memory, the higher resolutions could start to become playable before the end of the year.
And then there will be the GTX replacement series, would be great to think that they would have the grunt to run Crysis @ max settings on a 30" with its default res, that would really be something to behold.
So while it may be for future tech, I don’t think that it’s too far off at all. Also, the full version is expected support multi-core CPU’s as well, something that is not really working with the Demo.
The single worst thing I feel thou, will be seperate servers for DX 9 and DX 10. Again, time will see how that unfolds thou.
`Tal / Sal / O
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