I just wanted to say about crysis on my 8600GT machine is fabulous !!

Yeah that's what I did with my first gen MBP when I wanted to get the new 17" one. If the Macbook Pro get's an 8800 in 2008, I'll definately sell this one for one of those

 

Cool...........I almost want to buy one RIGHT NOW, but I need to buy a washer, dryer, bed, and maybe a nice LCD TV first as the total cost of all that is right over that of the MBP............

 

Personally I think there is a definitive difference between all settings High compared to all settings Medium and running the game in XP with tweaked Very High settings the game is leaps ahead of the screens you posted. This of course on a desktop system like I play on.

Now the game still looks really good in medium and glad it runs great on your laptop but saying that the difference isn´t that big is just not right. Shaders along with Post Processing and Textures Very High is what makes the visuals of this come shine through.

 

of course its going to look and run better on your machine all on high settings, what use is that in a thread about how it runs and looks on an 8600gt laptop ??

 

it surely also depends on wich 8600m GT version u have.. There is a ddr2 and ddr3 version.

 

you aren't running in dx10 mode
right

 

Unfortunately, the links for the settings seem to be broken. I'd be interested to see what you had the settings at.

Thanks,
N

 

Hmmm. They're all from imageshack. I'll give it a day. If not I'll resubmit!

 

The pics works fine for me =) .

 

Yup, they work now...Cool...

N

 

Now wait a minute. Check the benchmarks in my sig.

I am running 1440x900 but that should not account for you getting double the framerate on high than I can get on medium. Average 17fps on the CPU, 20fps on the GPU.

What's the deal? Are you truthfully using those settings? Something isn't right.

 

Are your shaders and shadows on low? If they're on medium that may account for that. I'll run with shaders and shadows on medium later with everything else on high and see what I get. The higher resolution can kill it too considering how GPU intensive the game is and bit-restricted that the 8600m is. Try running at 1280x800 and see what happens.

 

wow i ran it in 1280x800 with the settings above and got even better results...

the game plays in the mid 40 fps range

i have to admit that playing with basically no shadows and very unsophisticated shaders does detract from the visual experience, but everything else IS still on high and the game still does look very good. Now I am of the opinion that crysis with 40 fps is more desirable than crysis that looks somewhat better at 20 fps...

Im running like 30% faster + a higher resolution just by giving up shadows and shaders...

Shaders and shadows from low to medium easily cut the framerate in half from mid 40's to low 20's in 1280x800

maybe after a patch I can bring them up to medium... this game is in serious need of an excellent performance patch (or 2)...

 

Yeah I'll have to test again when I get more time. The runs I did were on "all" medium.

 

try a run w/ everything on high and shadows low, shaders low or medium.

see what happens. its kinda weird.

i think what is really going on is that we are experiencing limited control panel settings.

in other (better) terms, individual features are ticked on and off based on combinations of control panel settings. For instance, I noticed that motion blur wont turn on until shaders are at medium and post processing is at high...

i assume a lot of other settings work this way, and so a LOT probably gets ticked on once you set shader quality to medium and then to high.

we need a more specific control panel

i guess that is what tweaking is for...

 

Ok, ran a couple benchies today, with all on high, shadows medium (opposed to low previously), shaders on low and got avg about 31fps, more than previously with shadows on low???

Maybe the updated drivers at laptopvideo2go (169.28 XP 32-bit) made a small improvement?

I agree though, hitting the shaders will do funky things. I just leave it off because regardless of what I do it decreases overall performance. Same thing happened with Bioshock. Shader processing is probably too much for the limited 128-bit bus to handle.???

 

hey, anyone know what drivers work best for vista 64 and an 8800m gtx when playing crysis?