Well, what do you mean when you say max settings and max Res.. max settings can be achieved and played on very well.. but at WHAT MAX RES is the question. If I use my 19 inch Dell, my GTX260 plays it amazingly well.. but I never ever use the 19 for games. I play on my 22inch Widescreen. and on that size, and ANYTHING above it, it's pretty safe to say that nothing plays crysis on max and max above 60... thats about the MAX. nothing gets crysis on max settings to 100.
Crysis was a great game, but it was rushed. and was NOT optimized at all. the New Crysis Warhead will play much much better and will run like a charm. but the original just doesn't. No matter what system you use.
So there's a few answers to your question, but a true answer. Where the TRUE res for the game to play at it's prime and best state. is 2560x1600
and at that res, on a 30 inch LCD. no card at the moment can get "Crysis" to play with everything max, but most all other games do decent. Crysis just wasn't very well made in that area. the new Crysis will look slightly better than the original, but run very very well on much weaker systems.
So my GTX260 will run the new one like a Charm.. and I can't wait.
If you haven't seen about it. Check this out.
Crysis Warhead IGN: Crysis Warhead
Looks good, and today they released the date it's coming.
September 16th baby. I'm exited to shoot some peeps!