After some tinkering I managed to get Crysis running without any crashes. Since I’m on a new install of Windows 7 I had to pull out my CD Key for the game, only to find that for whatever reason it wouldn’t accept it. Having read the Crysis forums on Steam I found that I had to run Steam in administrative mode for it to accept the key… wtf?
Now onto the problem I was having beforehand. Whenever I went to play the game in DirectX 10 mode on Ultra in fullscreen mode I would crash on the first level after a few minutes of being on the ground. So I used a program I stumbled across recently called Windowed Borderless Gaming, which was a bit difficult to set a profile for at first, but after ramming my head against the keyboard the necessary buttons aligned and everything was a-ok!
So I got my answer, can I run Crysis? Fuck yeah! And pretty damn well. I think the lowest framerate I got was 55, and the highest I saw was 165 so far. After all these years the game still looks amazing.
And people say there’s no beauty in FPS…