Crysis with Radeon HD2600

Has anyone here tried playing the Crysis demo with the HD2600 card?

I'm looking at buying the Asus F3SA-A1 specifically, has anyone played the demo on this machine? If you could post some information about the framerate that be much appreciated.

 

DX10 + Vista: 1024x768: all low settings except for objects quality (med)
This nets me ~30 FPS with it dipping down to ~25 occasionally, but it still looks purdy.

Also, be forewarned that my memory is GROSSLY underclocked at stock speeds (500/400) instead of (500/600). Will OC a bit and check the difference.
Oh, and my system is in sig, oddly enough the T5450 seems to run pretty strong (50-60% load) considering I thought Crysis would be more CPU demanding, even on low.

EDIT: OC'd, I think something is wrong though since my clocks are apparently 500/800 and I'm only getting a few extra fps.

 

weird, I thought the HD2600 was on par, or better than the 8600GT. I run 1280x800 DX10, all on high (textures very high), shadows low, shaders medium and get 20-30 FPS. Your CPU is probably a limiting factor.. I can't explain why it's not being fully utilized, maybe your RAM is limiting both your CPU and GPU? (I forgot how much you had), or maybe it's just because it's really underclocked, but you should definitely be able to crank up the settings more.

 

- they should be about even (DDR2 HD2600/DDR2 8600M GT)
EDIT1: - CPU is 1.66GHz T5450, when running the demo, both RMClock and task manager show 50-60ish % utilization of both cores)
- I've got 2 GB of RAM with a little under 1.5GB cached/free
- my guess is that it's low due to insane underclocking (200mhz mem I believe), will have to try 7.7 & up modded ATI drivers from website OR (waiting on Toshiba's new ones [they have ones for XP now, dam them not being out before the weekend]) when I have more time (3 assignments due in a week and a half, ah the life of a university CS student).
- when OCing, my 3dmark06 scores don't seem to change, confirming my suspicions, but running GPUZ, says the speeds have changed.

EDIT2: forgot to change that it was running DX10 in my earlier post (I could shoot down trees )

 

cool. I see. Also I think in another thread someone said that the Shader and Shadows were the real limiting factors in performance.

How do you overclock the 2600 by the way? To be honest I've never had a ATI card, and with Nvidia I always used RivaTuner.

 

I believe the HD2600 GDDR3 is a little better than the GDDR2 version of the 8600M GT, but the GDDR2 version is definitely under.

 

as far as i know, no one has been a ble top figure out how to overclock that thing yet

at least not on the HP 8510P

 

It seems most of the O/C programs don't fully support the mobility HD 2600 yet because it's so new. Also HP may have done some sneaky locking to prevent any O/Cing, but we're not 100% sure yet. Either way (thus far) people have had mixed success at best.

 

AMD GPU Clock Tool works perfectly for me. I just set the core and memory to the desired speeds, and they "stick". I have verified this with 3DMark 06. At default speeds, I got 3213, while overclocked to 640/840, I got 3975. I have an Asus A7K-X1, with an AMD Turion X2 TL-56 & HD2600. I'm running Windows XP Pro.

 

very nice 3dmark scores. some other guy tried overclocking his card and it gave him weird results, like the score would actually be lower or something, but don't quote me on that. what cats are u using?

 

Since most of the threads around here regarding Crysis performance are centered around Nvidia cards I'll leave this thread open for the ATI owners.

 

NICE. What temperatures are you getting?

 

Runs fine on the HD2600XT in the HDX. Runs at 1280x800 on medium settings, dx10, get around 30fps, dropping to around 25fps in gunfights.

in dx9, runs on mostly high settings, same res, 30+fps even in gunfights, looks and feels fantastic

 

7.10, modified with mobility modder.

 

I didn't monitor the temperature, but I'd guess is was pretty high with the overclock, because attempts at slightly higher speeds resulted in lock-ups after completing a few tests in 3DMark. There were no artifacts during the tests; the computer just locked up in the middle of running 3DMark. I don't think the GPU and GDDR3 memory is at fault per se. I think the heatsink is. It's pretty pathetic. I have a low-end Acer with a single core Turion and Radeon Xpress 1100 IGP, and it has a much bigger heatsink than the Asus. I think Asus really cheaped out on cooling for this model.