Crysis SP Demo

Crysis can be run in either DX10 or DX9 mode in the Games Explorer in Vista. We selected DX10 for the first run and collected the results. What is interesting here is the MSI NX8600GT is keeping pace with the much more expensive 8800GTX. Despite the higher max on the 8800GT, both cards "felt" the same during the actual gameplay. The MSI NX8800GT handled Crysis very well at 1680x1050 resolution and looks especially impressive in the very high settings.

Crysis DX10 vs DX9 on MSI NX8800 GT

Crysis was tested in both DX10 and DX9 in this second test. Executing the game in DX10 mode, we configured the the settings to very high quality. DX9 was set to high quality. From a performance standpoint, the gameplay experience in terms of framerate felt very similar. The DX10 quality settings are quite a bit better though as shown below.

Crysis - Image Quality

DX10	DX9

The main differences in DX10 and DX9 as applied to Crysis is the level of detail in some of the world objects. There are some documented issues with AA though where AA can only be enabled at high settings and up. Naturally this is going to be very hard on the video card, especially at high resolutions. We did have to drop down to 1280 to smooth out the performance when we enabled the motion blur. Also, some of the sequences when you're getting peppered with gun fire and the fish bowl effect in the game caused some of the dips shown in the graphs above, but those drops were only momentary.

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