Crysis issues. . .

Hey there I purchased myself a new computer about two months ago and in that time I have had alot of issues with it (damned Vista). However most of those issues I've been able to resolve, except one. When ever I play Crysis, my computer has a hard time playing Crysis even on Medium settings in some cases. When I was putting the computer together it was with impulse and just kinda went with it. However I still expected to play Crysis at least on high settings. Initially i thought it may have been my RAM as I originally started with two so I purchased two new sticks and then realised that I got a 32 bit system and it probably would not detect it all. It did however which really confused me and the computer itself does run faster, however no improvement with Crysis. I just get alot of lag and slow performance overall

Windows Vista

Intel Core 2 Q6600 Quad-core 2.4 Ghz,

4 GB of RAM,

Dual nVidia 8800 GT 512mb

You could try overclocking, but (IMO) the bottlenecking thing has gone way out of proportion.

I'd suggest trying different drivers (8800GT should run high @ resonable resolution, easy) AND making sure you enabled SLi through control panel. Make sure there isn't anything running in background (Norton AV, Windows update, etc.). It sounds like a driver issue though.

I learned that CPU is more important than GPU when you get high-end. My PC can max all games with little difficulty (without AA maxed on some), but Crysis is a different story. I can even get the game to be playable on medium, MEDIUM. I did beat the game because it must have used to run a little better, but I still have to squint my eyes to play..

I think if all background processes are off, it could help, but as of now I need some on.

Crysis is a great game though, I just found out that my next PC build I will shift 200 dollars from GPU to CPU :) I actuall though I was getting a great CPU and I don't think it is bad, but Crysis hates it.

People,People its not his CPU its Vista and DX10!

Run the game with Dx 9 which will almost double your fps and then you can run the game on high no problem.

Hmm I was kinda worried about that ha. . .

Ah well, none the less though their are tons of other good games that I still want to try out . . . Any suggestions at all? I mostly like FPS, RTS, and some adventure or Role-playing games.