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Old May 17th, 2008, 11:50 AM   #4941
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^ I don't know, probably has something to do with the fact that I play standing a foot away from a 42" monitor... everything looks grainy this up close.

Is there a way to unlock very high settings? Or are you just talking about the highest in-game settings?

Edit: Okay, I found the very high settings. But if I have it on very high and 8x anti-aliasing it will lag to the point of disabling me to play. Very high looks better I guess. How do you take screenshots of games?

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It looks good, but honestly not much better than HL2.
There is a patch availale to make Crysis look even better.
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Edit: Okay, I found the very high settings. But if I have it on very high and 8x anti-aliasing it will lag to the point of disabling me to play. Very high looks better I guess. How do you take screenshots of games?
I don't bother using AA. At such high resolutions (1600x1200, 1920x1080, and 1920x1200), you can easily live without it.

And I believe there's a screenshot key (look in the controls). If not, Print Screen -> Alt + Tab -> paste in Photoshop.
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^ When I take a screen shot, it comes out as just my desktop and a small black window of the game. Do I have to do something to my video card settings to be able to take actual shots? images/smilies/wacko.gif
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^ F12 doesn't work for me, this is the best I could do:

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Heck it looks amazing, but i guess that's cos you have the highest end and it's on DX10
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After using my "new" pc for a few months on a 17" CRT monitor I thought it was time to upgrade images/smilies/biggrin.gif

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