Vista - Crysis Warhead on Vista x64

I recently installed vista x64. The OS itself flies, no lag and its very smooth. I installed Crysis Warhead and bumped up the settings to enthusiastic and the gameplay is very slow and lags. I put it on gamer and its fine. I had the game installed on xp x86 on enthusiastic settings and it would fly. Can someone explain why it lags on vista x64? I have the latest nvidia drivers, direct x 9.0c. Below are my PC specs. Thanks.


Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 Kentsfield 2.4GHz
CORSAIR 6GB DDR2 800 (PC2 6400)
BFG Tech GeForce 8800GTS (G92) 512MB

Because it will use DX10 on Vista, which is a lot more demanding, and as good of a card the 8800GTS is, Crysis Warhead on full settings might be pushing it a bit with DX10.

Yeah, it's the graphics card, stick another one and SLi it and you'll get less lag. I have a friend who runs it with two 8800's and it's pro.

For now you could try lowering your resoloution?

I have found on my machine that sometimes it will start in windowed mode, even though full screen is checked in the options. So I have to uncheck full screen and apply and then check full screen and apply.

Just press alt+enter as soon as you see it's in windowed mode and it will go to full screen.

Unfortunately, it doesn't show a window, alt+enter doesn't work, and full screen is not checked. But it lags bad until I check full screen. Weird problem.

thanks for the help and replies everyone! I figured out the problem. I was running anti aliasing at x16. I set it to 0 and the game flies again. Thanks!

Doooh!!

Hello friends!

New to the forum, new to Vista. I reluctantly upgraded from a custom XP Pro 32 bit setup to Vista Ultimate x64 yesterday. I couldn't pass up the deal I got on an OEM copy. I must say, I am extremely pleased! I don't know why all the hating on Vista, this OS flies! I really feel like I am taking advantage of my hardware now.

Anyway, on the topic of Crysis Wars and x64, I am having some issues myself. I figured out the alt-enter to get rid of the window, but I can't alt-tab out of the game when I have to do something else. Does anyone else have this trouble? Or a solution? Additionally, when trying to launch the game with xfire, I get get the following error;

"CmdLineExtInstallerExe.exe - Unable to Locate Component

This application has failed to start because WSOCK32.dll was not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem."

Now, I know this is an xfire issue, and apparently they are working on it. But I thought I would toss it out here to see if anyone else has had this problem and if they found any solutions.

Thanks for your time!

Justin

PS Awesome site! This site has been the one tool I have used (besides vlite) to really tweak Vista. Love it!

Hi!... I have recently install Crysis Warhead in my Vista x64 but...
The Sound is worse... It is slow and crash in every moment.... (I can't explain it better... I'm not english... but the sound stop during less than one second and start again )

Can anyone Help me!!!

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AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 5600+ 2.8GHz
HyperX 4GB DDR2 800
Asus GeForce 9600GT 512MB