You can still play crysis at "full settings" but just not in directx 10 mode.
No you can't. No different than playing an DX9 engine like source in DX8, you can crank the settings up as much as you want but high DX does not equal the same quality as high DX9
Not to beat dead horses, but this was a dude who constantly brought up the fact that a number of cards from a specific family did not include a shader instruction set and thereby sucked. DX9 is not capable of SM4, which means you are sacrificing:
-Depth of Field
-Motion Blur
-Geometry Shaders
-Unlimited number of objects capable of being rendered
That said, DX10 is supposedly roughly 8x as efficent as DX9 therefore "high" settings in DX9 would actually be more taxing than comparable rendering done through DX10 instructions
Also, isn't Crysis as we've seen it only using DX9 shaders? At E3, it was running on a single X1900XTX, and I dont believe that is a DX10 card.
As stated supposedly it was emulating the instruction sets, or in other words, it wasn't actually internally processing the instruction sets the way they were supposed to be. You want an example of how crap emulation works, look at Intel Titanium processors and IA-64
well, X1900XTX has 8 geometry shaders, making me think it may be DX10 ready, not sure about 7950 9700XXX or x1900xt
It lacks the necessary instruction sets though, if it was DX10 capable we would already know. While it is true that DX10 is actually using unified shaders much more extensively which is what the x1900 is all about, it doesn't support DX10 and never will, plain and simple
Point being, the dude blatantly stated that he wants high settings and won't settle for anything less. And the blunt truth is that in that scenario the 7950GTX becomes obsolete if you look at his request to both want high settings and want them with Crytek2. I won't even get into my own personal reasons as to why the 7950GTX sucks