Crysis runs smooth (no actual framerate measured) with everything high at 1280x1024 and 8xfaa. "very high" requires DX10 ergo something beyond XP.

I don't know if the game is using EAX, the menu doesn't mention it. It all sounded impressive and environmentally immersive. Edit: apparently that's software mode, I need to make a system.cfg with:

con_restricted = 0
s_reverbtype = 1
r_displayinfo = 1
r_VSync = 1
d3d9_TripleBuffering = 1

(I've added some extra fun stuff)

I'll try that.

This seems to be turning into the low budget xp rocket I was hoping (minus the omniflop thingy), and I still have a pile of stuff I can try to sell. Which will be a challenge.