Crysis 2 and noob questions

As some of you may know crysis 2 is apparently due for release March 2011, and will have lower requirements than the originals, but however for crysis games I want to play the game on amazing settings.

On my previous desktop before I moved to laptops I could play Crysis smoothly on all high with just the following set up:

4GB RAM
Nvidia 9600 GT
2.2Ghz AMD Quad ( OC to 3.1 GhZ Stable purely on air cooling ( didnt like the idea of water cooling ) )

However I'm constantly moving between countries and don't see a desktop as a viable option, Would I really have to go for something overkill like dual GTX 480Ms to play even the crysis originals on high settings?

Just asking this because I know the mobile equivalent gfx cards don't perform as near as well as the desktop equivalents, also is it worth it to wait for the sandy bridge processors to come out aswel?

sorry if it's wrong forum.

 

I think a 9800m gts is like a underclocked 9600 gt so I don't think it will be too hard to find a laptop that fits your needs.

 

Depends on your resolution.

I couldn't get Crysis to play smoothly at 720p with a mix of high and very high settings with an overclocked GTX 260m, which is about a 9800 GT.

 

Could that be due to your processor? also mine was just solid high settings no AA.

I noticed your a G73 owner, what kind of settings can you play BF2 BC on with the i7 740?

 

that's definitly the resolution like 600x800 i'm having a hard day runing crysis everything on max with my 2 4850 but my cpu has a lot to do in it

 

I was playing on a 32" HD TV with 1280 x 7xx

 

basicaly any recent "gaming" laptop with a pseudo hd screen ar 720 can run crysis at your setting


in my case the resolution is 1900x1200 wich is why it's so hard on my laptop

 

I had a T9900, so I don't think the CPU would have been a major bottleneck.

 

I can play crysis on 1920x1080 all high around 30fps right now, and they say Crysis 2 will be the same or less demanding, so you would be alright with a high end current GPU 460m or HD5870 or better, and hopefully a resolution around 1600x900 to ensure decent performance all around.

My previous GTX260m would choke on high though, it would require mix settings to get smooth gameplay.

 

OP, depends if you want AA or not. You could probably get by with a set up like what I have, and play it on Very High settings, but as soon as you put the AA on it will choke.

You will NEED dual GTX 480M's to play it at the highest settings possible. Even then it will be hard.

Protip: Don't spend thousands upon thousands of dollars just to try and max Crysis. It's a waste of money and you'll end up making a fool of yourself.

As for Sandy Bridge and the like, if you can wait until it comes out, then do it. I'm guessing around January, February sort of time would be best to buy a new notebook, as USB 3.0 will be widely implemented, the prices of SSD's will drop with the release of another series, and probably most significant for mobile gamers, AMD will be releasing the 6000 series for mobile computers.

 

Ur either lieing or u were playing at <25fps even at a low res. Ive owned tones of riggs and ive played with all the 5xxx and GTX 4xx desktop cards and i have to say even the high end cards struggle on high settings. A 5770 can barely play crysis on high at around 35fps but dips to 20-25 in situations.

Anyways for crysis 2 a high end gaming laptop like the g73 or gx660 should be enough to play it on medium settings on multiplayer and high settings on singleplayer.

 

I play with all high, medium shadows with no AA @ 1600x900. I get around 40-50 FPS average in 32 man servers and don't feel held back by the i7-740.

 

If I remember correctly, Crysis stopped being CPU bottlenecked after a simple Core 2 Duo over 2.2ghz. So any newer/faster CPU than that shouldn't have issues in such department.

The GPU will, however, still suffer the consequences. Specially vanilla Crysis on the later snow levels.

 

I was playing with playable settings, didn't use fraps for FPS recording.

for the G73 is it true some of them come with 1600 x 900 and some 1920 x 1080? which model does 1920 x 1080?

Not to fussed really but the sharper the picture the better.

would Crossfire 5870s do the trick? would the difference in performance be noticable between 5870s in xfire and 480 GTX SLI?

Not really buying a laptop for maxing crysis, more like a laptop that can handle games at high settings where it doesn't feel like i'm playing on runescape ( sorry worst game I could think of ), January, February time really isn't that great for me, my laptop is dying fast on me so need a replacement in the next month before it probably completely shuts down In store I saw an Asus N61 with USB 3.0 the only downside it didn't have a 5870, do any of the G73's come with USB 3.0?

 

ARRRRGGGGHHH i'm 200 mhz far from safety ...... that is why a 200 mhz overclock gave me a 15 fps bump -.-

 

I think any of the g73s that are not a best buy model will have 1920x1080. The g73jw has usb 3.0.

 

I don't know guys but I'm running a G73-JH and I'm running Crysis (optimized) on Ultra High settings, 1600*900 res, I'm getting a smooth 30 FPS, and if I shut off motion blur blur it rarely dips lower than 29-30 FPS even in snow levels. I do, however, overclock my gpu(5870m). 820/1140