Will Crysis work well on M17x laptop?

I still doubt very highly that even xfire 6970 will run crysis at 60 fps, especially on highest settings. Remember the 6970 is not that much more powerful that the 5870. There are several threads here explaining that. They didnt make the news cards way more powerful, they made them more efficient.
The x7200 just barely gets 60 fps without 3d. With you're looking at 30 fps. And thats with a 980x desktop processor and 2 GTX480's.

 

Even GTX 580 in SLI can't maxout csysis in 3D, and get 60 FPS. LOL

 

Sorry to point it out, but that's not true.

The 6970 is significantly more powerful. What you're thinking of when you say that is the 6870.

The 5870M was at a similar performance level to the nVidia 285M. The 6970M is at the same sort of performance level as the nVidia 485M.

But yeah, even with two 6970s you're probably not going to get 60fps with everything maxed. You probably CAN get 60fps with everything put on Very High, at 1080p, and perhaps 2xAA.

 

It's honestly a waste to go above 4xAA with a 1902x1200 res. On 1080p I don't see jaggies at 4xAA in Crysis. Sometimes "maxing out" is unnecessary and a waste of precious fps.

 

Not to mention the game has EdgeAA running on foliage as standard.

I mean, the ATi control panel can enable up to 32xAA...is that really necessary to be considered 'maxed out'? I hope not

 

Lol, some may say it is but to me it's just wasteful as soon as I don't see a difference...it's all about the e-peen with some...it's how the benchmark game is played unfortunately.

 

I don't even see much of a point in any AA, but that's because on my system, it would be performance overkill. However, at maximum resolution, it looks fine. Just 2xAA added into the spin should be enough to iron-out any remaining jaggies.

As for 60fps. . . I'm both hopeful and a bit doubtful. It could be possible seeing as someone's already managed to get the game to run at 44FPS on Very High after overlcocking a 940XM along with a pair of 5870Ms, but reaching a solid 60 still seems a bit much. Anyway, it doesn't matter since the game is just right at 30, and damn-near perfect at 40FPS.

 

Plus it's only one game, an old game at that (plus it's only fun up until you fight the stupid aliens). Crysis 2 is promised to look better and play better (aliens got a revamping) than it's predecessor. I, for one, am excited for that!

 

to get 60FPS on very high with crossfire mobility 6970, means that 1 6970 is almost equal to 2 5870s in crossfireX. I don't think 2 mobility 6970s will run crysis on very high at 1920x1080 at 60FPS, cuz that would mean that 2 mobility 6970s in crossfireX is more powerful than a desktop 5970. desktop 5970 averages 51-55 FPS at 1920x1080 no AA very high settings DX10.

 

I stand corrected. I just found released specs from eurocom on 6970m.
HEXUS.net - Press Release :: Eurocom Launches The Newest AMD Radeon Mobility HD6970M CrossFireX in its high end notebooks : Page - 1/1

The initial article I read showed the 6970 having the same number of stream processors as the 6870. The 5870 has 800 and the 6970 has 960. Nice bump. So yes the 6970 should be a strong competitor for gtx485.

 

I have been a huge fan of Crysis. I was the only one out of my friends that could max everything out on high.Then Crysis wars came out and then my friends could max stuff out. So I bought it and wadda ya know, I went from about 50 fps to 66. Read some blogs from crytek stating the tweaked the code a bit to be more efficient. There were rumors for a long time that Crytek was getting a paycheck from Nvidia to raise the graphics demand to push sales of high end graphics cards. Unfortunately that was true in my case. I ran out and got 3 gtx275 and a quad core xeon 3.0 to be able to max it out.

Since Crysis 2 will be on the new engine, lets hope they dont push the graphics needs again. Because I'm already in line to buy it. And with my specs it should run well, as crysis wars runs pretty fast on my system.
I'm downloading the crysis warhead benchmarking tool now to see what that says I get with my lappy.

 

Crysis 2 is using a hybrid-engine with Deferred Shading, which means you get even better lighting, with flashy lens-flare and what not else. All this comes at a cheaper and more efficeint cost. Think of titles like S.T.A.L.K.E.R., Killzone 2, and Dead Space. This is good news for us seeing as the original Crysis -- while great looking -- did lack in its primitive but robust lighting system.

Lighitng has always been a rather taxing element in Cryengine 2.0, but with version 3.0 and its use of Deferred Shading, somethings will become more efficient while others will be streamlined. I think it'll look more 'flashy' than the original Crysis, but it'll also be a bit scaled back in other terms. All in all, dual-GPU configurations should have no problem running the game on a high-to-very high setting at native resolution.

I see this as a good thing since it'll still look very nice, and run faster.