A new version of the famous Crysis game was recently released. While there shouldn't be any major improvements over the original Crysis engine, "Crysis Warhead" could stress our Gainward HD4870 1GB graphics card under both DirectX9 and DirectX10 rendering modes. In all cases we didn't enable anti-aliasing since it would give a major blow in the performance.

The Gainward HD4870 1GB performed well even at the Gamer level, provided that you will not choose a resolution higher than the 1680x1050 p. The "Enthusiast" quality settings After that point, while the game could be still playable, you'd better lower the resolution.

Enabling DirectX10 has an impact on the performance. Again the Mainstream level is very easy to handle even at 1920x1200, offering more than 53FPS. The Gamer level is playable as soon as you keep the resolution at 1680x1050. After that point, the rendering performance drops significantly.