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Easiest mod ever enables DirectX 10 features in the Crysis
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Spend enough time reading or writing gaming news and you'll quicklylearn that PC gamers on the Internet have an irrepressible capacity todig through, tweak, and just outright hack every nook and cranny ofpopular video games. While most of us scratch our heads and wonder why DirectX 10 is still exclusive to Vista—one industrious soul has found a way to enable DirectX 10 features and quality settings in the Crysis demo on Windows XP.
We have seen Vista-only games made to run under XP before but I've never seen anything like this enabled so easily.
     
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If you tweak the configuration files in \CVarGroups\by copying and pasting the "very high" settings (1st paragraph) INPLACE of the "high" settings (last paragraph) the game will load thehighest possible settings even though the drop-down menus display"high."


Note to Microsoft and Crytek: When gamers find out that all that standsbetween them and DirectX 10 quality gaming on XP is a simplemodification to a config file, your whole "Vista can do gaming thingsthat XP can't" line sounds pretty manufactured—please stop jerking usaround, kthx.
There is pretty much zero danger with this mod so I recommend you giveit a try. Just make back up copies of any config files you plan toedit. If you get this working, be sure to let us know in the comments!

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