Help me test Crysis.

I'm not much into Crysis, or gaming for that matter. All I have on my m15x right now is Supreme Commander, which I doubt taxes my gpu much.

Anyway, I'm getting Crysis, because I'm intrigued and I want to play it, and I do like First Person Shooters..

As I understand it, 25 fps is generally good for Crysis and the m15x? That seems a little low compared to other games on the same system, well, it is crysis though.

How do I figure out if my GTX is downclocking?

What settings should I run it at?

Should I get the BIOS update from alienware?

Should I not even bother?

I'm willing to post all my benchmarks/experiences/screenshots if ya'll guide me through the process.

 

run riva tuner in the backround and show us the data after like an hour. u probally need the bios. but the 8800m gtx gets owned by crysis anyway. the card can barely handle the game on medium which is sad becuase on the site AW keeps showing how good the laptop is for crysis.

 

actually supreme commander is very tasking on gpu. you can run the built-in benchmark utility within supereme to get results. add this command line in the end of your shortcut. /map perftest

it will run the benchmark by itself when you double click and the results will be in a txt file in the game's directory. you will want to check the average fps within the benchmark.

 

Well, I'm getting Crysis anyway, any advice one running it? Medium settings then?

 

Get patch 1.2 and install the Natural Mod. Anything that isn't set to custom after that, set to medium or high. I personally have them on high.

 

I don't understand how the m15x cannot run crysis on high settings if it has all TOP of the line parts?

Honestly, can only desktops handle the best games on highest settings?

This makes me think I should get the new Area-51 desktop instead of the m15x so I can have top of the line stuff... I don't know what to do anymore... I just want an amazing gaming laptop that I can hook up to my external monitor/keyboard/mouse/speakers and use the laptop like a desktop...

does anyone else use the m15x like that? if so, let me know how it runs when pretending its a gaming desktop..

Thank you, all help is appreciated.

~Brutality

 

Even my desktop handles the game about the same as my laptop, but on a higher rez.

E6600 CPU 2.4 GHz OC'ed to 3.2
4 gig of ram
eVGA 8800 GTS Superclocked

 

Remmeber that you cant compare the 8800GTX in the m15x to any desktop 8800 hundred, since it is a Mobile GPU. I have The m15x with a 8700 and Crysis runs on everything high except shadows

 

I'm not sure if it's the 8800m GTX or the drivers that lower the power.

But I know for sure that the 8800m GTX with 2.2 GHz C2D can handle Crysis on 1440x900 with everything on high with steady 25 fps.

 

Reality butts in:

G80:

• 8800 GTX: 575/128/1350/1800/518.0

G92:

• 8800 GT: 600/112/1500/1800/504.0
• 8800M GTX: 500/96/1250/1600/360.0

core clock/stream processors/shader clock/memory clock/gigaflops

Reference: Wikipedia

Considering that the 8800M GTX is based on the G92, which is a less powerful version of the 8800GT, which is not the top of the line desktop chip, is it really that surprising that the m15x can't run Crysis on all very high settings when top of the line desktops can barely do that right now?

 

I disagree, I can run Crysis at 1440 x 900 with all settings on high and it runs very smoothly & don't have the triple c pack or anything, hell don't even have the update.

 

on my desktop, i had the 8800GTS 640mb version and i could only run at medium settings at 1200p to get a accaptible frame rate. I could only go up to high if i went down to about 720p on resolution to keep a healthy 25fps

 

I run Crysis at 1024x780 with the natural mod and high settings. How do you guys run it at 1440x900 smoothly?

 

i can run it at 1600x???? and all on high and x2 AA and still be good it slows a bit when there is like 20 enemys atacking you runinng it at 1400x900 all on high with x2 AA it runs very smoothly

 

I do, occasionally it lags when there is too much onscreen or when there is a big explosion but apart from that very smoothly, very nice.

 

I go with 1440x900 at high, and average fps is probably around 20. So, that's hardly blazing, but it's pretty smooth (though you can tell it's a little off)

 

That's what I thought...I get around 20fps with all high settings and on 1440x900. So, there's nothing wrong with my system. The 20fps is too low for me.

 

lol reading at which settings some play crysis "smooth" makes me wonder what "smooth" actually means? More than 3 fps? :>

 

As regards top of the line parts

http://anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3271&p=4

Dual quads running at 4ghz and and sli 9800gx2's and still can't run crysis at a decent frame rate, Then there's no hope for an 8800m and a x9000 running at 2.8.

 

Dude, you need better drivers. The 8800M GTX is twice as fast as my 7950GTX and even I can run it at 1024x768 at high settings at over 20 fps

 

haha. I get well over 40fps at 1024x768 on all high settings. You're right, it's the drivers.

I just can't stand playing it at 1440x900 with only an average of 20fps.

 

Apparently you don't follow the Alienware forum well enough eleron. We can't upgrade the drivers yet, we need to wait for Alienware to give us new ones.

 

I think recently a new branch of nvidia drivers popped out that worked with the m15x? Of course with a modded inf but it worked without downclocking? Never tested it by myself so not 100% shure...

 

SLI 7950GTXs,t7200, 1440X900 all on high 32FPS average, not bad for a 2ghz CPU

 

The single 8800m GTX is better than SLi 7950's. And I got a faster CPU than you too.

Man....I really need some better drivers

 

yeah, the AW drivers have a particular problem with Crysis and those new ones (the only others that don't downclock the 8800 immediately) supposedly are no better, or are even worse

 

I can`t follow up all the forums, I don`t have a multicore brain.
But it`s common sense to know that drivers are holding back the 8800M GTX, that thing is a beast and should perform accordingly!
I`m sorry to hear that newer drivers are off limits, AW should get their collective asses on that and fix it, virtually anyone else can use modded laptopvideo2go drivers and get awesome results.

 

To through in my quick 2c. I play Crysis at 1024x780 on medium settings with an average of around 25fps. Which is fine to me.