>>       FarCry, Crysis - great games!  :)

I played FarCry 3 or 4 times now through to the finish.  If you play it on 
easy and have even an ounce of FPS experience you'll be fine.  The only 
problem for me was the very last level in that circular arena place - took 
several tries to get through that one alive.

> I only have a lowly 2.2 GHz dual-core AMD Athlon X2 4200+ with 3 GB 
> DDR-400 RAM and an nVidia GeForce 7900GTX 512 MB. It'll probably not run 
> at all...

FarCry will run fine - Crysis will struggle sometimes even at mid graphics 
options.  I have a pretty similar rig to you (except Intel Core2Duo and only 
2GB RAM) and it was certainly playable.

> BTW, I'm a little confused here. Benny seems to think that DirectX 10 is 
> available for WinXP, while I was under the impression that it's for Vista 
> only. [Part of of the M$ plan to force everybody to upgrade.] However, 
> Wikipedia at least seems to suggest that Crysis works on XP, despite using 
> DirectX 10... so... er... wuh?

DX10 will only run on Vista, the Vista display driver model is totally 
different to XP so there is now way it will ever work on XP.

Games can be written to use DX9 or DX10 if they want...

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