Starting Crysis

I've had a few bucks to waste on a gift coupon and decided to finally buy Crysis.

I will be playing at a 1680*1050 on 22" TFT with a Radeon 6850. The rest of the PC should be fast enough.

Should I play on highest details? Of course I want it to look as good as possible on the given resources.

Are there any mods I should download? I doubt I'll be making more than one run through the game.

I've never heard of any mods for Crysis, but I can't think of any reason to mod that game anyways.

Seems like you should be ok with highest details at that resolution. http://www.guru3d.com/article/radeon-hd-6850-6870-review/19

I'd probably leave anti-aliasing off though, or at least don't go higher than x2.

*Edit* After taking another look at those graphs, I think you might want to start with "high" settings first. The "Gamer" mode in Crysis: Warhead is equal to high in the original Crysis, and "Enthusiast" mode is equal to very high.

Thanks. Are there any patches?

Just make sure you have at least version 1.2

There is a v1.21, but that was just a hotfix for something related to multiplayer.

There are a lot of mods for Crysis but nothing you want to change the main campaign, it's just add-on stuff. New missions and modes, which mostly all suck.