I proved all you naysayers wrong!

[Rockstone]

REsolution: 800x600. Will it improve if I play one of the custom spec paks?

[Masakari]

You could try.. But those tend to manipulate the game and max it out, err give it a shot.

[metro]

heh...Im running at 60 FPS.

 NVIDIA card....bet ya can't guess which one = )

[Somebody Else]

I did say that it is very inconvenient for me to use a desktop (University student, going between home and here with laptop quite often). However... I am tempted by that, that's like £5-600, if I can get the same prices here (UK). Then maybe downgrade my laptop to keep one at home, and use Portable HDD to transfer anything necessary (Hurrah for 80GB iPod ).

Any ideas on improving performance for what I have here though??

Edit: Dude, that's the biggest sig ever...

[metro]

Enroll into the Capellan Academy, and I the adoring House Leader that I am, will personally outfit your laptop, for the ultimate gaming experience, where Crysis and MWLL is concerned = )

[Somebody Else]

Done! ^_^

(Metaphorically)

[Rockstone]

e8400 Processor http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115037 $239.99

MotherBoard http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813188015 $169.99 + $6.61 shipping 30 dollar mail in rebate (129.99)

2 gigs of DDR 2 800 Ram http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231098 $44.99

GPU http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130312 $339.99 Shipping 30 dollar mail in rebate (309.99)

power supply http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817182076 $44.99 +7.84 shipping

case http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811144151 64.99 +15.99 shipping 15 dollar mail in rebate (49.99)


935.38 with shipping included

860.38 with mail in rebates

You can play crysis maxed out on that rig 1024X768, 1280x1024 with i'm guessing around a SOLID 50 frames in MULTIPLAYER. And with proper CFG's maybe some moar

If you dropped the intel processor, the GPU, and the mobo. And replaced them with an amd 6400+, 2x 8800GTS 320mb(overclock them yourself) and get an m2n sli deluxe mobo you could probably drop the price by 200 bucks mb and max the game out easy at 1024x768 with a great solid framerate. 

One 8800 2 gb ram and a 5000+ oced to 2.5 ghz is enough to play this game on high-veryhigh.

[Masakari]

You can play the game on very high with an 8400GT and an 3000+ , doesn't mean it'll run well.

[KorJax]

Remember when I asked if my 4000+ and a 6800 would run Crysis with medium shader? Well guess what? It DOES, and more! It runs with everything medium except objects and shadows (which is on low- for obvious reasons), and it looks much better! Wow, my gun actually reflects light, the sun actually exists, and water has god rays! Amazing, and you said it wouldn't happen. Even better, I have an average of 15-20 fps!

Hm, good for you, but 15-20 fps for me personally is on the border of playability and far from enjoyable. I accept that during short periods of heavy load, but for constant playing? No way.
Also, what resolution are you running on? 1024x768?

Heh, funny enough you can't actually SEE anything under 10 fps or so (I did a test once on people who claimed they could, using a frame limiter in WiC. Turns out, people actually notice sudden DROPS in frame rate, not the actual fast frame rate itself. Interestingly, this meant people who typically got 80 fps, that suddenly dropped to 30 seemed more hitchy looking than a computer limited at 15 fps)

This is true.  I used to play games constantly at low FPS (such as Morrowind) on an old 500MHz, so frame rates at 25-30 FPS, I see as smooth.

What I do in game's is that I cap my framerate at 25-30 FPS if I can, even if it can pull off higher framerates.  Because the #1 cause of "stuttering" is fluctuations in framerates, not low framerate.  If your framerate goes really high but will jump down alot, it will APPEAR choppy.  Most 360 games even cap the framerate at 30 FPS.

[FDISK]

i run crysis on high with a amd 6000x2 8800gts with xms 4 gig 4-4-4-12 on xp pro, now my setup i have ihave 6 drives that are Western Digital Caviar SE WD5000AAJS 500GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s. Now i have 3 drives that each have xp pro loaded on them with a extra drive for storage for each OS. Basically i have xp pro loaded 3 times and my boot menu when it comes up looks like this, 1st is my gamer c: drive, 2nd is my work d: drive, and home e: drive, Now the reason is this if one set of drives goes out or gets corrupted or a virus hits i can still boot to the other 2 and eather clean or reload the other drive, now i have 1 TB drive that is usb for storage of important files and such which i turn off when not in use, but to get back to game performance, on my game drive i have that xp pro running on bare minimum in services and nothing not running in the background that i dont need for gaming, so i have more resources free to run my games on and my FPS for crysis is between 40 to 50 and my other games i have loaded including ETQW and X3 i run on max settings with no problems. So it is possible to get hi FPS in games but you just got to know how to do

[Rockstone]

i run crysis on high with a amd 6000x2 8800gts with xms 4 gig 4-4-4-12 on xp pro, now my setup i have ihave 6 drives that are Western Digital Caviar SE WD5000AAJS 500GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s. Now i have 3 drives that each have xp pro loaded on them with a extra drive for storage for each OS. Basically i have xp pro loaded 3 times and my boot menu when it comes up looks like this, 1st is my gamer c: drive, 2nd is my work d: drive, and home e: drive, Now the reason is this if one set of drives goes out or gets corrupted or a virus hits i can still boot to the other 2 and eather clean or reload the other drive, now i have 1 TB drive that is usb for storage of important files and such which i turn off when not in use, but to get back to game performance, on my game drive i have that xp pro running on bare minimum in services and nothing not running in the background that i dont need for gaming, so i have more resources free to run my games on and my FPS for crysis is between 40 to 50 and my other games i have loaded including ETQW and X3 i run on max settings with no problems. So it is possible to get hi FPS in games but you just got to know how to do

Periods please.

[Criminal]

i run crysis on high with a amd 6000x2 8800gts with xms 4 gig 4-4-4-12 on xp pro, now my setup i have ihave 6 drives that are Western Digital Caviar SE WD5000AAJS 500GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s. Now i have 3 drives that each have xp pro loaded on them with a extra drive for storage for each OS. Basically i have xp pro loaded 3 times and my boot menu when it comes up looks like this, 1st is my gamer c: drive, 2nd is my work d: drive, and home e: drive, Now the reason is this if one set of drives goes out or gets corrupted or a virus hits i can still boot to the other 2 and eather clean or reload the other drive, now i have 1 TB drive that is usb for storage of important files and such which i turn off when not in use, but to get back to game performance, on my game drive i have that xp pro running on bare minimum in services and nothing not running in the background that i dont need for gaming, so i have more resources free to run my games on and my FPS for crysis is between 40 to 50 and my other games i have loaded including ETQW and X3 i run on max settings with no problems. So it is possible to get hi FPS in games but you just got to know how to do

Periods please.

Periods are for the weak jk...its only a forum no need to correct grammarrrrr

[shadowkiller]

i run crysis on high with a amd 6000x2 8800gts with xms 4 gig 4-4-4-12 on xp pro, now my setup i have ihave 6 drives that are Western Digital Caviar SE WD5000AAJS 500GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s. Now i have 3 drives that each have xp pro loaded on them with a extra drive for storage for each OS. Basically i have xp pro loaded 3 times and my boot menu when it comes up looks like this, 1st is my gamer c: drive, 2nd is my work d: drive, and home e: drive, Now the reason is this if one set of drives goes out or gets corrupted or a virus hits i can still boot to the other 2 and eather clean or reload the other drive, now i have 1 TB drive that is usb for storage of important files and such which i turn off when not in use, but to get back to game performance, on my game drive i have that xp pro running on bare minimum in services and nothing not running in the background that i dont need for gaming, so i have more resources free to run my games on and my FPS for crysis is between 40 to 50 and my other games i have loaded including ETQW and X3 i run on max settings with no problems. So it is possible to get hi FPS in games but you just got to know how to do

Wow, would you ever be able to fill all that space? If you have enough money for those i STRONGLY sugest you keep you eye on solid state hard drives. The are a bit expensive atm but are dropping in price. The are the future of hardrives and have NO MOVING PARTS. This makes the read/write times insanely fast. They even have a 1.6TB solid state drive. (its stupidly expensive but prices drop in time. )

P.S. This should give you an idea how fast these drives are... Full windows xp install in 17 sec! )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sts3ZqYdObM

[ToeBall]

Yup, very cool stuff. It's spendy as is to be expected for cutting edge tech, and as an added bonus there's a finite number of write operations any individual bit on a flash media can perform before it degrades into uselessness. I'm personally eagerly awaiting the marketing of magnetic memory. Basically a form of RAM that retains data without power. It should drop the operating temperature significanly since it does not require refreshing constantly like normal DRAM which should allow for a significant increase in performance there. Especially cool for CPU cache and video memory.

[Merle Jimmus]

Very cool though indeed. I would love to be able to boot my comp that fast