Crysis - direct x 10?

[Ged]

Have any of you people been playing the crysis demo?

Some enterprising gamers have discovered that the "directx 10 only" features work quite well in windows XP.

http://arstechnica.com/journals/thumbs.ars/2007/10/29/easiest-mod-ever-enables-directx-10-features-in-the-crysis-demo-on-xp

the screenshots on this site: http://www.crysis-online.com/forum/index.php?topic=11837.0#msg203789

show there is basically almost no difference between XP and Vista visuals.

So was is all just more underhanded marketing for vista?

[Sordid23]

One Clear awnser: Yes! ok dx 10 has some different shaders but it is hardly noticeble. One thing though i think if you want to play it at full you need like sli nvidia 8800 gtx cards ore something, so in that perspective you need a DX10. :P

[Ged]

yeah you still need a really really powerful graphics card to play crysis!
but at least you dont need a whole new windows vista operating system.

[BuroKun]

I Have played the demo on my PC many times. It runs smooth at 1440 x 900 and everything else set to max.

Windows XP Media Center Edition
Pentium(R) D CPU 3.73 GHz 3.20 GHz
2.00 GB of RAM
NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX

[Flynny]

Honestly, since when had Microsoft not tried an underhand approach to selling ANYTHING?

But still I geuss Apple and many others can be accused of this, lets all go Linux ;)