Crysis card + dx10.1

Hey guys, There are so many new games coming out soon, and I wanna play a few. So obviously I need a new video card. The 8800gt 512mb is promising, but nvidia has said nothing about being able to run dx10.1 on this card. I'm not really a fan of ATi cards solely because their drivers are a pain in the neck, but I want a card in the ~$300 range that can run Crysis with avg 60+fps and also support dx10.1 cos I dont want to get outdated even before I step out of the shop.

Thanks.

there are quite a few improvement to dx10.1 . So the 8-series and 2900 are not going to run dx10.1 code, however Can nvidia or ati provide driver supplements to their current cards to handle dx10.1 instructions. A wrapper of some sort to mimic dx10.1 instructions on the dx10 hardware?

if there is no such card? then what hardware do the EA people use during development? Seriously cos, If you designed something to run with a 100mhz cpu, you would need a 300mhz cpu to debug the code. So what the hell did the EA people use to build/debug/test crysis?

Dude... ONLY 38xx series from ATI support 10.1 if you want to max out crysis and get 60+ fps not gonna happen with 300 bucks. E6600 and 8800GTX with 2GB of ram here. Crysis maxxed out on 1280x1024 with hacked very high settings. 20-45fps only

well im still baffled at what would EA have used to debug/test crysis

Well then i guess that your not gonna get what your after with this generation of G/cards so you can either do what everybody else will have to do which is run it to the best of your systems capabilities or dont play it yet and see what the next gen of cards has to offer.
The 3870 is the best DX10.1 card available at the min so if its not going to cut it then thats that.
Mactronix

I have posted a similar question regarding this and while it is clear that developers have acess to differant generations of cards before us mere mortals. How far in advance i dont know.
I do recall seeing a post regarding a massive graphics block i think you would call it it was like 4 or 6 GTX cards all linked together but was an industry type thing so i guess if they can do that then they would get enough power to run Crysis.
I mean we are getting into heavy speculation here but it could be that they thought the tec would be more advanced by now?
Mactronix

i think if you could max out the gfx at 1024x768, and run with the 3870, you should have a good combo. especially for the sub $300 segment, descent performance and dx10.1 support.
Launch is friday i think

Check this one out, it may run crysis well.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6814133189
Some people are claiming to play crysis with over 800 fps maxed out.


http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6814133213
This ones ok too.

A mid range card that supports Direct X10.1 and can run Crysis with an average frame rate of 60+ won't likely exist until 2009.

No, cards currently can't even fill the bandwidth needed to saturate PCIE 1.0. Especially a mid-range card.

As for how they render games such as crysis, they're obviously using dedicated graphics workstations, not regular personal computer components. All the debugging was done using 8800's. I think it's great that they made a game that's too tough for the best available components, it's one surefire way to kickstart the hardware manufacturers. The game runs great for me @1280X1024 with my Q6600@3.6, 4GB RAM, and OC'd 8800GTX, you just have to tweak some of the shaders and postprocessing settings down a notch.

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=9656

10.1 should not be part of your decision

Here is a link to the white paper concerning what differances are in DX10.1 but rember its not 100% as a white paper is like a draft copy so some things could change but i recon its about 99% accurate.
http://www.teamati.com/DirectX%201 [...] 20v0.4.pdf
Mactronix

Who cares about dx10.1? It'll probably be months before Dx10.2 in announced or something.

PCI-E2 is irrelevant.

Whats important for Crysis atm is getting the nvidia drivers up to scratch and Crytek fixing SLI/QuadCore support in their game, because both are broken..

Apparantly they are releasing a patch next week.. sorry.. but getting fed up of everyone saying "omfg my £10000+ hardware cant run crysis ive been ripped off hey everyone else dont spend money omg!"

It really is pathetic.. just wait a while.

800fps lmao