Running Crysis and getting only 13-15fps

I have an M1530 with the 8600GT card, 2.0Ghz C2D and 2GB of RAM.

I'm trying the Crysis benchmark tool and am only getting around 13-15fps on 800x600 resolution, no anti-aliasing and on medium settings.

My Nvidia driver is 174.31.

What's wrong with the performance?

 

Remember, that's a synthetic bench tool. It can only estimate what you will get in the game.. average.

What did you run the test in? DX9? DX10?

 

did u run the actual demo or the game. the game itself runs a lot smoother than the demo.

 

Also getting 3GB ram would give you that extra boost.

 

It should probably be a little bit higher. I got 10.75 FPS average on High settings (except low shadows) with 174.31 and the demo, and 8600M GT DDR2 (slightly slower than yours) slightly overclocked, at 1280x800 resolution and DX9. However, that is actual in-demo performance. Turning down settings, it wasn't too difficult to get 20 FPS, even at native resolution. My processor is 2.2 GHz, but that wouldn't account for the difference.

The only major difference I can think of is if you are running Vista. Crysis ran absolutely horribly when I had Vista - less than one frame per second on low - but ran much better with XP. My machine seems to be far more anti-Vista than most, but it is possibly that there's noticeably better performance in XP on the demo.

 

I'm running Vista and am using the benchmark demo. would XP be better? I can go either way, just want to enjoy the notebook for the games!

Forgot to add, I'm running DX9.