Getting very high settings in crysis with HD4870?

Hi guys,

Im abit of a noob so be patient.

I just put a gigabyte HD4870 in my machine (abit of an upgrade from my 9500gt)

The deal that my factory o/c 9500gt ran crysis on high settings, was a little jumpy, but pretty good.

I was looking for a massive improvement with the HD4870, and i seems to play smoother and cut scenes bettter, but i cant get the settiings onto 'very high'?

Do i need to o/c my card or is there some other way to achieve this??

Not to keen on overclocking untill i get more confident with it

Cheers

I would overclock your cpu if you can and yes definetely overclock your video card also. I dont know if you will the acheive highest setting with just one card you probably would have with two of them but there will be some improvments.

I know what you mean but thats a tough getting them high settings on that crysis game. You have a decent card. Will that e5300 cpu even clock that high it may not.

You are using vista or win 7 aren't you?

Maybe I have read it wrong but it sounds like you are on xp where you are limited(without out faking very high) to plain old high.

Yes, very high is dx10 only which xp does not have.

You have no need to overclock or change anything, it is your OS that is wrong.

It is possible to use the 'very high' setting on XP but you will have to make a couple of changes to a config file, Google it.