Crysis

I finally finished Crysis this past week. I never played it on my old rig, but once I got the new hardware, it practically begged to be beat. I played through at normal difficulty with little trouble.

I let it auto pick the quality settings; it chose a medium-high to high setting for everything with my monitor native resolution of 1680x1050. Enabling diagnostic output during gameplay revealed a consistent frame rate of +30 through out the game. That would probably drop in multi-player networked games, but the drop could be compensated for by scaling back on some of the quality settings.

Overall, I'm reasonably pleased with the new rig and video card considering the card was budget priced, compared to my previous one, and the CPU is ostensibly 900MHz slower than the previous one. Obviously both the new video card and the new CPU are actually superior to their predecessors, but on paper, in a certain light, one might be fooled into a hasty judgement otherwise.