can 8800gts play dx10 game at max settings?

The only current "Direct X10" title that's playable is Lost Planet, and it actually runs better under Direct X9 at the same graphics quality setting. We won't really know about Crysis until it comes out.

what resoloution did u hav it on?

1280x1024. that game made my 8800gts look like peice of garbage. but i used 158.18 drivers.

Makes you wonder what the 8600 (and below) series cards are much good for

there is somthing wrong with my PC i should try that again why i got so low framerates. i have Pentium D 3.00 GHZ. 3 GB Dual channel 667 MHZ memory. with EVGA 8800GTS 320 Superclocked with windows vista Ultimate

yep 1.5gb per channel. i have same sticks kingston 667MHZ 2x1GB and kingston 2x512MB and it's intel G965wh motherboard. i just added 2x512 stick 2 days ago. i ran lost planet test on 2 gb dual channel. i think i should run it again on 3 GB but i don't think it would help.

My GTS 640mb running maxed settings at 1920 x 1200 gets 20 - 25 fps just barely playable but runs it. Im thinking by the time Crysis comes I will need to use my one time step up program from Evga and get the GTX just to play it and a few other games, but for now everything else runs great.

yeah negative thing about stepup is the prices on EVGA website are just to high.

what i havent seen is the results from a GF8800Ultras that would be nice

If a 2007 $300+ dollar GPU can't play a 2007 release game acceptably then...

Well, I guess that would just suck.

If what everyone is saying (and writing) is true Crysis better be the Half Life of the 21st century.

You're so dumb..

In a word no.

We've seen some unomptimised Crysis benches where 2 x 8800GTX in SLI were at 16fps (allegedly).

Note the word unoptimised.

However, whilst the final game will have much better frame rates, and play on more lower spec cards at both DX10 and DX9, there are still effects in DX10 that take even the most powerful DX10 cards to the limit. eg. In Alan Wake, the tornados allegedly had to be left out becuase it took a quad core and 2 x 8800gtx in sli to render them - it was in one of the tech videos. In Crysis the developers have said more features will be added in the future hinting that not everything can be activated at release.

At the moment if buying a card buy the most pwoerful you can afford but be aware that you might not get maxxed.

If you can wait, wait for the next generation of DX10.1 shader model 5 cards which should be out later this year as a die shrink as well as a redesign may give more fps.

You are wrong about that. Those videos you speak of as I remember watching them was stated that it was being powered by a quad core and 2 7900GTX's in SLI running under DX9 when it rendered those tornadoes.