...I can make a 260 to get BF2 to drop below 60 with those settings. If you said 1980x1600 and 4xAA with an average framerate of above 60, then I would say three generations of cards (about 2.5 years). For that resolution, I would say 5 years or longer, simply because of the work that would be needed for that particular resolution.

that's a stupid question, I doubt there are any games from the last year that can run at 60FPS on 26X16, 60 is also a too high barrier one more thing is that at 25X16 you barely need AA of more than 2X or 4X at max.
and by that time there will be a more demanding engine and no one will care about crysis (ie: doom 3).

umm... I think a quantum computer could get pretty close.

uhm the 7900s/x1900s sort of put the first farcry to its knees so im guessing the hd5870/gtx380 would probably do the job assuming a new architecture from both companies will surface or when crytek finally crank up the software optimization once the 3rd crysis game (probably about prophet) comes out, you know make use of additional memory bandwidth of the new corei7, further improve multicore/multigpu performance (rumors has it that ati is planning MCM-GPU).

but its more like either a new architecture or 32nm gpu's would crack crysis. but then again we'll probably tinkering with carmack's rage by that time and probably have dumped crysis already.

By run do you mean you can see a pretty slide show.

lol. 2x AA can already impact the fps on crysis, now you're telling us a single core + 3870, which btw, is slower than a 9600gt/gso, and was plagued by AA problems, allowed you to play it on good frame rates? care to run fraps while playing?

Iam not joking. I was wondering what is FRAPS what does it do.

I found out what fraps was so i downloaded it.
It showed at the top right hand corner numbers iam guessing that would be the frame rate

While i was playing cyrsis it was from 15-20 frames per second average the highest i got was 34 frames per second the lowest was like 5-8 frames. usually it was around 15-20 frames per second.

Settings were:

1280x1024

AA 4x

Everything on high excpet for Water it was on Meduim and Sound was on Low.

Min frame Rate was 6 fps

Max Frame rate was 32 fps

Average Frame Rate was 15.9 fps almost 16fps

Iam no expert but i think its pretty good for a single core computer.

So Far i tried with AA off i got good fps by just turning off AA.
Settings:

1280x1024

AA off

Everything on High
Water: Medium
Sound:low

Average Frame Rate: 24 fps

Max Frame Rate: 52 fps

Min Frame Rate: 7 fps

Ill try turning off the sound thanks.

I was wondering why some dual cores have low clock speeds

eg. AMD 64 Athlon 2.2ghz

eg. AMD 64x2 1.90ghz Dual core

Which one would be faster, why does the dual core have a lower clock speed.