Just finished Crysis - Comments on 8600m GT Performance and Game in General

I just finished Crysis. While I will make a few comments on the game itself, this post is really to comment on the performance of the 8600m GT in my Vostor as clocked in my sig: GPU = 600 MHz / Shader = 1200 MHz / DDR2 Memory = 500 MHz.

EDIT: Forgot to add I was running Windows XP 32-bit, DirextX 9 (obviously) with laptopvideo2go 169.28 drivers.

For the most part, Crysis performs admirably @ 1280x800 if you turn everything on high (no AA or Aniso tho), shadows on medium, and shaders on low. Problem is that there are issues if you leave shaders on low, such as funny water textures, fire not showing from time to time, no blur or focus features, and lighting issues like flashlights lighting a large area. While not a huge detriment, it can cause issues due to some game objectives relying on it.

Setting shaders to medium improves overall visual effects greatly, of course at the compromise of framerate. For 90% of the game, the framerate is more than acceptable. Not sure what framerate is, but usually for me less than 25-30 is not acceptable, so take it FWIW.

When it comes to the final showdown, however, get ready to drop that shader setting to low and as many other settings down that you deem not critical to visual appeal otherwise it can become completely unplayable due to poor framerate.

As far as the game is concerned, I found it to be a very fun FPS with some unique features. It is nice to have a destructible environment, an open travel path - which can cause trigger issues however, and somewhat new twist on having super powers that can be turned on or off at a whim.

It quickly went from being fun and fairly easy (which I like) to difficult and cumbersome near the end. So much so that I enabled a god mode and unlimited ammo cheat just so I could finish (I know, I know).

All in all I would rate Crysis:

Graphics: 9 (of course better GPU's will make it look much better than the 8600m)
Gameplay: 8
Story: 7
Unique Features: 8
AI: 8
Fun Factor: 9

Overall about an 8.5 out of 10.

I look forward to the sequels and also there could be some really fun user mods to take advantage of all the weapons and special powers.

In the end, the 8600m proved very playable and encourage anyone who enjoys an FPS who has an 8600m or better GPU (maybe even 8400m GT if you don't mind 800x600 res).

 

HOW did you get 25-30 fps with that settings ?

I only get around 10-15 with the same settings

 

I agree on gameplay. I enjoyed the game very much as well. can't wait for the next one!

 

His card is O/C'ed

 

the 320M is based off the 8700...are you running regular laptopvideo2go drivers, Danish? If you're running stock IBM drivers, they might not be made for gaming... also, you might be running in DX10, Wingnut is in DX9.

 

can you post some pics? And how will will Crysis run on my 1530(look at sig)?

 

I get around 18-25 fps at 1280x800 with Textures, Volumetric Shading, Game Effects, Post Processing, and Particle effects on High; Object Quality, Shadows, Physics, and Shaders, and Water Quality on Medium; Sound on low.

This way, I don't get any funky stuff with water or fire or anything, and the sky doesn't look like #$@!. My card is oc'd to 621/1242/500 on 169.09, but I'd recommend these settings.

 

Wow I never knew the 8600 GT was that powerful, and even the DDR2 one :O

So with your settings and Oc'ing, I should get about 24-31FPS right?

Viper, can I see some pics plz?

 

ViperYourMother - what is your 3DMark06 score with your GPU @ 621/1242?

 

Im running the newest latopvideo2go drivers, but of some reason, i only score around 4000 point in 3dmark 06

I´ve only played the demo, how is it possible to choose between DX10 and 9?

 

he abviously cant get 25-30 on med settings i can say....my dual 7950GTX barley manages to get 42 FPS on all set to med

 

OK....Guys please recommend best setting for me.

My 3DMark06 score is 4160 (8600M GT DDR2 OC)

I'm going to play @ 1024x768 .What's the best setting level for me?

 

See this post. Shadows and shaders on low get avg 39 FPS:

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=199855&page=3

I'll run benchmark again with shaders and shadows on medium to show results

 

htwingnut, whats your 3dm06 score ?
I´ve got 4400 3dmarks mit my G1S and I´m playing Crysis @1024*768 with 17-22 FPS.

 

i wonder when the gpu will play crysis in all max settings
lol mine is way low i only get like 3800points with oced...

 

If you're running Vista, either go to your "games" folder and right click on the Crysis .exe and there should be an option to run it in DX9, or right click on the exe, and at the end of the "Target" line, add -dx9 so it looks something like this

Bin32\Crysis.exe" -dx9

 

And what are your settings??
And you Oced your 8600M GT GDDR3?

 

No, it´s not oc´ed.
Everything´s on "medium", except shaders and shadows, both "low".
Funny thing is that I get these results with the drivers on the G1s driver-cd.
Every other nVidia-driver gives me about 300 3dmarks less...

 

I run Crysis at medium settings, some on low (like shaders), just because I don't need the extravagant graphics and I'm more concerned about FPS. Outdoors, with lots of greenery, I get about 20-30fps; indoors, usually 50-70fps.

3dMark06: 4432 (169.09 Drivers)
Running Crysis at 1024*768, usually at Dx9 because I hear it gives better performance.
No overclock on anything, and I have tweaked Vista a little (see Flamenko's guide).

Edit-
As for Crysis:
Singleplayer is awesome, I loved creeping up on unsuspecting victims and silencing them without as much as a whisper. The latter levels did get a little more annoying, not necessarily harder, but more confusing and generic (mazes, boss battles, "one man saves the world").

Multiplayer was a big failure in my mind. Instant action is only PvP, not TvT; power struggle is very complicated and half the people I've played with didn't bother with objectives but just ran around killing eachother. The extra weapons were cool, the maps were rip-offs of singleplayer missions and there was a lot of cheating and.

 

I noticed most of you are playing with shadows.

I've noticed in my case that shadows cuts fps almost in half, so have jumpy performance with shadows when you can get a constant 30+ without shadows?

 

Shadow's and Shaders decreases FPS a lot because those are the 2 things that makes Crysis gorgeous.

 

Hey guys, sorry for the longish wait, here are my 3Dmark06 scores:
http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/forum/index.php?act=attach&type=post&id=1957
Note that RivaTuner isn't tracking my clock speeds correctly, I had a thread about it earlier, but no one seemed to know what the problem was.

And I'll get some screenshots up soon

 

Is that at 1280x800 resolution? I just bumped my GPU to 620 and Memory to 500 and get 4250 3DMark06 1280x1024. I'm sure that would make up for the discrepency.

 

Yeah, its at 1280x800, and I'm using Fraps, so the yellow number in the top right is the FPS, if you didn't already know.

Here they are:















My laptop gets kinda warm - hitting high 80's under load, but runs pretty smooth, even in action.

 

Thanks for the pics! Would you be able to get brighter pics like pics outside near a lake with the sun reflecting the water?
Thx

 

Here you go:

 

Hmm I´m not surprised if the dual 7950GTX setup struggles with newer shader intensive games. These new technologies like the 8600m, 8700m and 8800m has the unified shaders they use work better in shader intensive games like Crysis. There is another guy on this forum who manages to run Crysis at 1920x1200 all medium settings with his dual 8700m GT setup on his XPS M1730 by just installing the laptopvideo driver 169.09 and trick his 8700m GT into thinking they are 8800GTX Seems like SLI works at least on his XPS M1730.

I think the more shader intensive games become the worse the 7950GTX the former king will perform since the card doesn´t use unified shaders. That is my 2 cents.

 

I agree with you magnus. And sweet pics Viper.
Sorry to ask again, but how will Crysis run on T7500,3GB RAM and 8600M GT GDDR3?

 

Oh, one more thing. What settings are you running at Viper/?

 

Slightly better than mine, as I have the DDR2 version of the 8600M GT. Crysis's bottleneck is the GPU, not the CPU, and the T7500 is just a step down from my T7700, and the RAM won't matter unless you're running 2 instances of it just for fun.

So basically, your GDDR3 will help you run it a little faster, provided you do some OC'ing.

 

My settings are on the first page somewhere.

 

That sounds pretty playable actually .
Maybe even worth checking it out on my computer, at least gonna see if I can get the demo running and I'll make some comments.

Any big performance differences between the demo and the full game btw?

 

I've just encountered the aliens for the first time today - come out the other side of the temple into the freeze and am currently running around like a headless chicken shotgunning floaty things.

As for FPS, I turned everthing to low, then adjusted up (to medium for most) including shaders then used a custom config to obtain FPS rates of 55-80 (90+ in-doors). Hitting the snow though just kills the frame rate - playing at about 18-22 FPS in the freeze - pretty good effects though, love it.

So far I'm giving crysis the thumbs up with 8/10

 

For myself i just can't get into the game. I am getting killer at the first level. After destroying the gps jammer. I am not a good crysis player or gears of wars. My setting are on medium on my 8700 GT. If i press optimize in the setting it changes everything to high.

 

I still haven't gone back to it yet. It was fun, but I just haven't really felt like playing it again yet.

Same thing for Gears of War. I thought I'd love playing that on my PC but I hardly got anywhere in it yet. Actually the last thing I remember is encountering my first Beserker and then I just got kind of bored.