Crysis settings

thats normal.

I'm surprised you're 4850 can play with 8xAA. I would not expect a 4850 to ever play at very high. But you are playing at 1280*1024.

In regards to your graphical anomalies, perhaps your video card is overheating? I don't see why it being 64bit would make that happen. I play on vista64 and it looks great.

Isn't the 64bit version of Crysis glitchy? My PC crashed whenever I tried to load up 64bit, so I just used the 32bit version.

Well I have options for higher res, Im just not using them. I tried it at 1680x1050 and it was so laggy. My GPU is not overclocked and the highest it gets to is 65c while playing.

Im not sure what you mean. I have a widescreen monitor, whats that got to do with my choice of video card? Im running a Dell 20.1'' widescreen. Crysis looks beautiful on it when its working right.

See...i dont about other types of Monitors and TVs but if you dont use the native resolution of an LCD TV (native is highest resolution you monitor technically supports), then it will look horrible, especially in games if you lower your resolution, everything will be blurry, distorted, and overall bad looking, because the monitor has take the smaller resolution and stretch it to fit the screen meaning there will be more spaces between each pixel resulting in jagged lines and other ugly stuff. thats why when you buy a monitor, make sure you get a videocard thats able to play games on it on its maximum resolution otherwise, as a poster above said "it really will look like ass" Also...AA is what kills your card, I bet if you playing on full resolution you would have to turn AA completely off and you wont see a difference meaning you will get better performance.

It doesnt look distorted to me on 1280x1024, but I took the AA down to 2x and made it 1680x1050 and it lags a TINY bit but its mostly pretty good.

Agree with the others, keep to the monitors native resoloution, unlike the older CRT displays, LCD panels produce a terrible image when they run below it.
As a general rule for best performance I find it best to leave AA low or off and shadows can also cause a heavy performance hit if set high. Anyone remember FEAR and its softshadows option?

what is AA anyways i set it to 4x and i dont see what the difrence is it looks the same when its off so why bother with it?

First off...it was 1080p resolution, you wont notice AA if you dont pay really close attention.
Secondly...it wasn't me, as I mentioned it was a friend so I have nothing to worry about

If you do a print screen with it on or off you can easily tell a difference...and it of course can depend on the game as well...

i never did any AA when im playing crysis. a teeny bit of AA would dramatically hamper performance.

its best to keep up to the highest resolution @ optimal fps. then comes the detail settings, then the AA and AF. thats my hierarchy of graphical needs.

I thing that you try to convince yourself that you don’t need AA, because you don’t have a good graphic card.

Just my opinion.

Agreed, I always run with AA off or at the lowest setting quite simply because in a good FPS you are having to move around so much you shouldn't have the time to be focusing on the tiniest little jaggies, if you can then the game is not intense enough and I get bored.

Thats not a fact...thats why I said its my opinion and it depends which games...so stop thinking its fact