I found a youtube vid on how to do this, but I can't find it now.
In Crysis, you can't use the very high settings on dx9, regardless of how good your PC is. HOWEVER. There is a very quick and simple way to beat the system. Simply navigate to your crysis folder, usually C:\Program Files\Electronic Arts\Crytek\Crysis\ or something like that, then go to /game/Config/CVargroups. There should be a bunch of .cfg files there that can be opened with notepad.
BACK THESE UP. all of them. Srsly. Once you have backed them up, open one up. In them there should be something that looks like this:
These are the graphics specs. 4=very high, 3=high, 2=medium, 1=low. To enable very high settings, all you have to do is copy everything under the number 4, i.e.
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sys_spec_ObjectDetail=4
sys_spec_Shading=4
sys_spec_VolumetricEffects=4
sys_spec_Shadows=4
sys_spec_Texture=4
sys_spec_Physics=4
sys_spec_PostProcessing=4
sys_spec_Particles=4
sys_spec_Sound=4
sys_spec_Water=4
sys_spec_GameEffects=4
For instance, and paste it over the code for three, so that you end up with:
Repeat with all of the .cfg files and viola. You've just tricked Crysis into thinking high is very high.
Note: this does not unlock very high in the graphics settings menu. All it does is make high use Very high settings. You'll see this in the shafts of light coming through trees, the dynamically rendered ocean surface, and a bunch of other stuff. Good luck!