Can I play Crysis(1) on this configuration?

[black hawk]

My pc has- Pentium 4 - 3.0 Ghz, Seagate 80 gb harddisk, 1 gb dynet ram, gigabyte 8400 gs graphics card, motherboad- intel 945 gcm, running windows xp. I also have a laptop, which has intel i3 processor, 3 gb ram, ati radeon 5450 graphics card. Now, according to my knowledge, i should run crysis on the laptop. But, just to be sure, i went to the internet to get some benchmarking results and there in some websites, i've seen that the results on both the cards are very identical. So, on which one should i play it? Also, if i lower the resolution and the settings, how much will it affect the graphics of the game? Will it look horrible?

[Hellfighter]

do you have your PC connected to monitor by DVI (HD video feed) or VGA connected?

*DVI is box shape box (white in color) shape were the VGA connection has around corners (blue center color)
*who the maker of the video card (graphic card) ATI or some others MFG

[Guest001]

Going by CPU, ram etc I'd say the laptop connected to your Desktop Monitor to get the best result.
Plug a mouse into the laptop also

Speed of your p4 is faster than the i3 I'd say and most games use only a single core or thread anyway but ram is insufficient (windows is a memory hog).
Believe it or not turning resolution down too low puts reliance on cpu not gpu
a good screen res is 1280x1024 - 1400x900

[Mstenger404]

Play it on the laptop, Crysis will use up every last thread and 1.5 GB of ram. What year are we living in, Stompem? 2005? It's not a Novalogic game.

let's do a quick review of the P4 vs i3
- The Pentium has less cache than the i3
- The Pentium memory controller runs slower than the i3
- The Pentium lacks hyper-threading found on the Core i3

Clock per clock, the i3 churns up more performance against the Pentium 4. Combined with an extra 2 GB of ram over his desktop he's guaranteed a 10 frame per second difference between the two, with the laptop being more powerful.

[Guest001]

Originally Posted by Mstenger404

Play it on the laptop, Crysis will use up every last thread and 1.5 GB of ram. What year are we living in, Stompem? 2005? It's not a Novalogic game.

let's do a quick review of the P4 vs i3
- The Pentium has less cache than the i3
- The Pentium memory controller runs slower than the i3
- The Pentium lacks hyper-threading found on the Core i3

Clock per clock, the i3 churns up more performance against the Pentium 4. Combined with an extra 2 GB of ram over his desktop he's guaranteed a 10 frame per second difference between the two, with the laptop being more powerful.

Crysis1 runs on a single stream as far as I knew, so we need speed and ram, the gpu takes care of caching and buffering unless throughput is restricted, then swapping occurs, this was generally caused by resolution and refresh rate parameters. have not heard of any multi threading games...SRY please educate me...really.

[SilentTrigger]

There are several games that take advantage of mulitple threads

[Guest001]

Truly? I am a bit behind the times, what is the application and or advantages of multi threading a game? Game in a game? How is multi threading used in them do you know?
I could probably do a net search but would rather the info was shared here.

[Mstenger404]

Crysis one can run on a single thread, but there's a huge performance boost for letting it run on more than one. When I had my old computer with a single core Athlon64 and a Geforce 7800, it would never go any higher than 30 frames per second on medium settings. When I upgraded that Athlon to an Opteron dual-core, suddenly indoor environments are ran at 60 frames per second while outdoors were still 30.

[Guest001]

Yes, I see.
DF has a problem when there are multiple Blink walls intersecting but I see no difference between Multi core and not except with differences in overall clock x multiplier speeds.
Overclocking makes a huge difference. I run multi core now and one does most of the work most of the time, it depends on the software in use.
I reckon my old P4 @ 3.4GHz was better even though I have a better Nth Bridge FSB RAM etc.. I run Crysis2 no prob at 128 FPS when still and down to about 72 FPS at worst. I get lower frame rates in DFX2?
Here are a few screen Shots of the Angel Falls Alpha.
Hope they fixed it "Angel Falls" so modern Tech can be utilized.

[black hawk]

I have connected my monitor with the VGA Port. I know that i3 is way better p4, my laptop has better ram, but just tell me, how many fps will I get if I run the game on my laptop?

[Mstenger404]

Right around the 25 frame per second average with medium settings.

[black hawk]

Thanks everybody.

[SilentTrigger]

Raven Shield is one game that can't be run if you have more then one core unless you use a program to trick it into thinking you have only one core, i think thats what the program did. Little bit odd...

[Mstenger404]

The steam bought version goes right on ahead and runs even with 4 threads, it'll just use one.