Crysis Warhead Hardware Performance Review

“With their commitment to ensuring that gamers of all "system levels" can enjoy Warhead, EA and Crytek took it a step further and setup the perfect Crysis System. This innovative idea is not only a great selling feature, but gives gamers a standardized configuration against which to pit their system and base potential purchases. They stayed true to the performance claims and did not pad the numbers. A serious commitment to satisfaction was promised and delivered. Our benchmarks reveal areas which have received improvement, and some that that could still use a bit of fine tuning. DirectX9 has magically been brought back from the dead to compete with the visual quality of DirectX10 - unfortunate, given the strong push for gamers to adopt the new API. The game still struggles to take full advantage of multi-core processors, but we see that in the realm of video cards, manufacturers are dueling it out on an even battlefield, much unlike the rumours of "cheating" with the original.”