Crysis, dx 9 in Vista?

I'm sure somebody's talked about this on here before, but I couldn't find anything through a search.

I downloaded the Crysis demo yesterday and tried it out on my laptop. I have a Sager Np2090 so my card is an 8600 Gt 512 mb. I haven't really spent a ton of time screwing with different settings, but I clicked the "optimum settings" button and it put everything on high. With everything on high in dx 10 I got a good deal of lag in game. No clue what my fps was, but I'm sure it was really low. I checked around on the net to see if I could run it in directx 9 instead on Vista, since to be honest after looking at screens of both there's really not a huge difference between 9 and 10. A guy on another forum recommended creating a shortcut and putting -dx9 at the end of the target line. When I started the game up with that shortcut though, it still shows "Directx 10 Crysis" at the bottom of the screen when not running fullscreen. So, I'm not sure if it's actually running in dx 9 or not.

Anybody on here play Crysis with the same card as me? What do you have everything set at and how does it perform? Has anybody been able to run it in Directx 9?

 

Go to the Games folder, right click Crysis and select Play in Dx9 Mode.

 

Ahh I forgot all about that. Thanks

 

If you're going to play in DX9 mode, I would suggest using the very-high hack to enable alot of (not all) the IQ improvements normally only found for DX10.

It's far less performance impacting than runningin full DX10 mode , and does some good quality boosts;

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,2222414,00.asp

 

With that card, try 1024x768 or some resolution similar to that, with all settings on high except for shadows on low, shaders on medium and textures on medium. I find that runs pretty well for my 8600M GT, and if that's the case for you too, just tweak one or two settings up or down until you get the balance you're happy with.