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  • Amazing Crysis Case Mod Looks Like Bomb

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    Or a nuclear reactor, though I can’t say I’ve seen one up close. Radiation and all that jazz. Apparently this unusually-shaped monstrosity (the pretty kind, of course) is the prize of a competition held by Crysis fan site inCrysis. The competition demanded entrants guess the final system requirements for EA’s recently released shooter. The beast…

  • Virtualisation, 3D Gaming And You

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    When is a Mac not a Mac? When it’s pretending to be a PC, of course. Trying to game on an Apple Mac has always been a case of rubbing the side of the monitor like a genie’s lamp and wishing for the best. Or praying for your favourite developer to make a Mac port.…

  • Tweaking Crysis

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    That Crysis certainly is a resource hog, ain’t it? Bet you’ve seen asthmatic oxen pull more weight than your aging PC. Stupid D3D 10 not being all D3D 10. The nerve! Consider, then, this tweaking tutorial from the folks over at TweakGuides, as an inhaler full of soothing meds. Spray it, suck it down, and…

  • Crysis Can Totally Fake Direct3D 10 In Windows XP

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    From what I can see from this post over at Crysis-Online.com, you don’t need Windows Vista and Direct3D 10 to get all those gorgeous effects that are supposed to be “exclusive” to the new API. Windows XP and Direct3D 9 appear to cope with it fine, and even boast better performance. My home PC is…