Crysis demo hacked to run DX10 in XP
October 30th, 2007
Gamers are industrious people - over-clocking, editing files and changing settings, all to get the most out of their game. Microsoft’s underestimation of this might cause them a bit of trouble, as a gamer has worked out an easy hack which allows the Crysis demo to run in DirectX 10 on Windows XP. Yes, that’s the same DirectX 10 that Microsoft have told us is only able to run in Vista.
If you have the prerequisite DX10 graphics card, it’s simple to apply the patch:
If you tweak the configuration files in \CVarGroups\ by copying and pasting the “very high” settings (1st paragraph) IN PLACE of the “high” settings (last paragraph) the game will load the highest possible settings even though the drop-down menus display “high.”
via Opposable Thumbs
