M1730 Crysis warhead performance

is anyone else getting really bad performance,
with crysis i get a solid 30 fps, but with warhead i get around 9 fps
wasn't warhead supposed to run better than crysis
I've tried both the certified 175.32, and the moddded 177.92
i got 8800 GTX SLI btw

 

maybe yet another bad coding lmao STALKER Clear Sky FTW!

 

Performance is better than Crysis on desktop hardware. Maybe you should try different drivers? Maybe Warhead just scales horribly on mobile video cards.

 

Lol if an M1730 won't play this game then I have no chance on my laptop hehe.

 

Interesting...I'm getting 15-25fps on my M1530. On medium settings at 1440X900. Granted, that's not great, but it's better than the 9 fps you claim. I would update drivers, disable anything not required and try again.

 

Which drivers are you using? I've got the latest ones from the Dell site but I am just waiting until later so I can try out Crysis: Warhead and see how it runs. Do you have different ones and do you have any 3D Mark scores or anything?


Does Crysis use DX 10 and can this be disable and run in DX 9 mode for a performance increase but slightly less visual effects? Even though the 8600M GT is a DX10 card i'd rather have the performance boost if possible.

 

It looks like Crysis Warhead has performance problems with SLIed G92-based cards (8800 GT etc.) On my m1730 with 175.xx and 177.xx drivers it runs faster (!) in non-SLI mode. It looks like you need to change the whole driver to non-SLI via NVIDIA control panel. Adjusting individual profile for Crysis.exe didn't work for me.

 

I will post my custom config today so you might check it out. I managed to run Warhead in pretty stable 30FPS (20-40) with everything set to "Enthusiast" (very high). I'm still working on those settings so they are in "beta" state but I will upload them here when I come back from work. Obviously I play with the SLI mode set to "on".

I have two 8700 on SLI and I play the game in 720p mode (1280*720) so you can push this config even further if you are using 8800 on SLI.

 

I have no problem running Warhead with a custom config I made. Take a look here at the framerate and how good it looks

 

To run in DX9 mode do you just right click in the Vista Games viewer and it has the option?

Are you running this on your proper gaming rig or on your M1730?

 

I am running on the M1730. To run in DX9 you can either force it through a config file or just add -dx9 to the executable when you start it up. Actually the game runs better on my XPS M1730 at 1920x1200 than it runs on my desktop 8800GTX at 1440x900.

 

Think ill try it on my M1530 at 1200 x 720 lol, see if it runs hehe, I think I should be able to get it going at a playable framerate.

It's strange but I always have this obsession with framerate when it comes to PC games, when im on my PS3 or 360 most games will have some slowdown in heavy battles but you don't notice it. On a pc any slowdown can annoy me lol.

Hopefully people will report on if their M1530 runs it okay, i'll post back here when i've had a chance to play.

 

Basskiddanny,

I have it on my M1530 running nicely, DX10 with latest dell drivers, all settings to mainstream. I read a post earlier where someone set the shadows to minimum and was in the 40fps range. I'll have to try that tonight. Only thing though, cutscenes are dropping to 11fps. Kinda scary.

 

with reference to playability, fps is definitely an important metric. I started a dedicated M1530 thread, feel free use that, too.

 

Care to share the exact setting syou are using, because this brings my system to its knees at MAINSTREAM graphics settings... basically unplayable and jerky. Not sure how you got high anything to work

 

Take a look at these vids by me of Warhead how it´s running on my XPS M1730

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udkNeq7Kbu4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhQpMRcSy-U