Will my Dell XPS 1530 specs handle crysis ??

Im about to buy a Dell XPS 1530, specs:

Intel Core 2 Duo T8300 2.4 GHZ 3MB L2.
Windows Vista Home Premium
15.4" Widescreen™ WXGA (1280x800) TFT Display (220nits) with TrueLife
4096MB 667MHz Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM [2x2048]
320GB (5.400rpm) SATA Hard Drive
NVIDIA® GeForce™ Go 8600M GT med 256 MB
6-cells battery

This is what im buying for around £650 new from Dell, What settings could I play Crysis at ? like low, medium, high, ect?

Thanks

 

You should be able to play at mostly medium. Some may have to be low, and some may be able to be high.

Its not really a hard core gaming notebook, but it does ok.

Good luck.

 

It will run well at medium settings.
the 8600m gt is a solid mid range card.

 

it's ****, but spend ur money

 

No, it's not ****. While it's not top-of-the-line, like others said, you'll be able to run Crysis on medium, and most other games on high.

 

Why is it ****?

Did you have a bad experience or something?

 

Just like your post then

 

Hell, even my desktop system with a 3.2Ghz Intel Quad Core, 4GB of Ram, and an 8800GT 512MB can barely play the game on High at 1680x1050. To play on Very High settings I gotta lower the resolution all the way to around 1024x768. Crysis is a ***** on any system. I know guys running dual SLI'd 8800GTXs that can't run it in Very High at a decent resolution.

 

Hey c'mon man, it can handle crysis. If my Inspiron 1720 8600M GT DDR2 card can handle crysis (Some medium, some low graphic settings) on 1280x800 OCed settings smoothly I don't see the trouble of a DDR3 card doing it. I just finished playing a map for 2 hours and it was fine all the way.

EDIT: @DFI Fan. Really? My desktop (See my sig below) was able to play it all on very high settings smoothly. 1680x1050, All Set to very high and it was smooth as anything else still. (Using the very high setting enabling trick for DX 9 XP users )

 

Does Dell still sell DDR2 memory?

 

Huh? Of course they still do! XPSes all ofer DDR3 memory support on all GPUs, Inspirons and Vostros are all equipped with DDR2 memory only. If Inspirons and Votros offer DDR3s then it's no point for Dell to release the XPS series into the market.

 

You can OC it, and I'm fairly confident you can get med/high settings out of it, the GDDR3 version of the 8600MGT is nothing to kidd about .
You might even get away with high shaders(which make all the difference in the world imo).

 

GDDR3 on the videocards (8600M GT) on the XPS M1530 not DDR3.

 

It's just a letter G for graphics in front. Whatever the additional acronyms are, everybody apparently knows that. And desktop wise it's not that difficult for Crysis to run on very high settings on 8800 GT 1680x1050 either.

 

Actually GDDR3 is designed for video memory is supposed to be much better engineered to handle the demands for that use then regular DDR3.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GDDR3

At lower resolutions you can play Crysis on all Very High settings, but at 1680x1050, your talking more like medium-high if you want the game to be playable. I know this from my own experience. And check out any benchmarks of the 8800GT as well.

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2008/02/11/zotac_geforce_8800_gt_512mb_amp_edition/4

From that Bit-Tech review of a 8800GT 512MB:
Settings: 1680x1050 0xAA 0xAF, High Detail, Medium Physics, Medium Post Processing, DirectX 9.0

Average fps: 32.3
Lowest fps: 20

DirectX10 is even slower.:
Average: 28
Lowest fps: 18

Of course this may have been slightly improved with newer drivers and newer patches (they tested with the 1.1). Even still, it's not gonna be enough to make Very High Settings playable at 1680x1050. But Very High settings are more than playable at 1024x768.

 

Hmm... Care to PM? I like to keep the thread to the topic. haha.

 

Why do you have some magic way to run Crysis on Very High at 1680x1050 with an 8800GT 512MB? At Playable frame rates too lol, not 15fps.

 

FYI, after overclocking to 685/1000 on the XPS M1530, I can play the game on "High" settings 1024x768 which gives around 20-25 fps. Not bad. However, once you reach the ice level, it'll be completely unplayable. That's an insane map - one that's worthy of benchmarking.

Try using "Benchmark_CPU2.bat" once you've updated to Crysis 1.2, that'll give your system a run for it's money. I managed to get 13 fps on high settings for that benchmark, which for a high setting on a mid-range laptop, is pretty good.

 

i think for the money you pay for it versus its performance it isn't worth it, especially the ddr2 version. benchmarks are pretty mediocre and while dx10 capable, it's almost pointless because it's underpowered. from what i've read, a lot of reviewers felt the card was a letdown that didn't meet expectations.

i was inspired by your face

 

I would get the LED (1440x900) it is REALLY nice, if not then at least upgrade the resolution to a Truelife 1440x900, and i would take the RAM down to a 2GB, and then buy a 4GB kit off of newegg or somewhere for $50..

other than that, youre all good

 

bump pee dump pee

 

Dude we have already answered your question. You can run Crysis but with minimal settings.

 

MEDIUM! not minimal.

 

^ LOL, That's exactly the point I'm saying. A little more detail, if you want best of frame rates, go for minimal settings. If you want performance:quality ratio, go for medium settings. However don't expect all settings high or very high on it. You'll have to overclock it to get those, but even that, I still wouldn't recommend. On an overall basis your card should game fine.

 

OC the 8600GT to 700/1000 and you'll enjoy Crysis on Medium with no issues.

 

Do you get artifacts running the core at 700? The most I can get is 685. Anything beyond that shows artifacts using the artifacts finder in ATITool.

 

There are a lot better games than Crysis to play that you can run at max settings. I personally think Crysis is poorly optimized in comparison to a lot of the other games in the market right now like Assasins Creed, etc.

Besides, gameplay is not really that great either. The only thing great about it is the physics, though once Star Wars Force Unleashed comes out, Crysis wont matter much.

 

No I dont get artifacting with the 700/1000 setting. However, I've only played about 20 minutes with that setting and can't say if I'd run into issues with longer play times.

 

Agreed. Crysis is nice eye candy, but as a game, I've seen better. Not to mention that its taking ALL the might of my OC'ed 8800GT in my desktop to run it with high/ultra settings.

 

Just bought a similar one ( 15% discount is great eh!?! )

Only got a 2.0Ghz processor though and 3Gb of ram!

will be interesting to see your results!

 

Thanks for the help everyone, I wasnt expecting to play it at high or anything so theres no need for people to start getting competitive.

Anyway cheers everyone !