Crysis very high

Yea well i justed wanted to let everyone know that i can run crysis on my desktop ( XPS 420 E8500 3.16ghz 3gb ram 8600 gts) with very high settings, in windowed mode and get it to run very smooth. Im shocked! i can only run it on medium settings in full screen 1280 X 800 res to get completely playable FPS. So, running in windowed mode with 800 X 600 res ( which looks real nice in windowed mode because of the smaller view) will greatly improve performance

 

Oh...

Darn, thought you were going to say 1440 or 1900 or something X_X.

 

haha yea, mods can delete this if they want to, i just wanted to let everyone know and share my expierence. Desktopreview has 3 members view threads sometimes :/ GPU isnt overclocked BTW

 

Ah well that's good to know! I know that I could run Crysis quite well on my desktop, but I only tried it for a bit when my brother's friend brought it over.

800x600 though, that's a neat trick, maybe I'll try that next

 

Well there's your problem. :wink:

It's been a while since I've played Crysis, but I do remember playing at 1920x1200 with most HIGH settings and it played exceptionally well.

Having 4GB of memory at the time probably helped.

 

Crysis isn't that RAM intensive though, it's mostly GPU power. I have 2Gb of RAM(granted I have XP) on my computer and I had no trouble running Crysis >.>

 

you got a dell "gaming" desktop with an 8600 GTS? no offense, could you not fork out another $50-100 and get a real gaming card?

 

Yeah, with a decent processor like that you should get a real card. 8600 is old, and getting outdated pretty quick. Should've chosen the 8800 GT/GTX, but probably expensive from Dell @ your time of purchase. Now high-end cards are pretty cheap, you wont have to play Crysis @ such low resolution. XPS 420 also has a really nice case...

 

wrong forum

 

Who cares, no one reads or post on desktop review anyways....

 

newer games are using less and less ram.. Farcry 2 never peaked above 1gb for me ( 1100mb with windows Usage) and crysis's peak for me is 1200mb. so ram isnt gonna be that helpful, a better GPU will do the trick

 

it is all in the gpu for crysis given that you have a better cpu than first gen duo core. I'm not surprised at all. it is crysis we are talking about after all, it murders anything below a 8800gt and not conceivable setup I can think of can run crysis maxed (2560x1600, very high, 16x AA) not tri sli gtx 280, not quad fire hd 4870 x2

 

that would be the challenge the DX11 cards should try to achieve

 

Why would you buy a computer with the purpose of playing crysis with an E8500 CPU, 3GB of ram, and an 8600GTS? Even back when the 8600GTS was out, you could buy an 8800GTS 320mb for like 50$ more, and with that you could play crysis in 1440x900 on all very high (in XP) pretty well, but since the e8500 came out around the time of the 9800GTX's, and 8800GT/GS cards going for like $99, why the 8600GTS?

I tell ya, spend $99 more, buy yourself an 8800GT 512mb, and you'll be able to play it in 1920x1080 on all very high probebly better than you play it now in 800x600..

 

Wow, that game has a ton of graphic requirements, you have like 3 frames per second? I heard good reviews of Crysis, is it a fun FPS?

 

I won't delete your thread, but I will ask that you post it over at DesktopReview since that is where all desktop discussion must go.

They will eventually. Don't be a pessimist.