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INTEL® Core 2 Duo E6400 (2 X 2.13GHz) 1066MHz FSB/2MB L2 Cache
Memory (RAM)
2048 MB CORSAIR XMS2 800MHz – LIFETIME WARRANTY! (2x1GB)
Motherboard
ASUS® P5W DH DELUXE: DDR2, x16 slot, 975X chipset, 2 PCI
6 x USB 2.0 PORTS (4 REAR + 2 FRONT) AS STANDARD
Memory – 1st Hard Disk
36GB SERIAL ATA RAPTOR HDD WITH 8MB CACHE (10000rpm)
2nd Hard Disk
320GB SERIAL ATA II HARD DRIVE WITH 8MB CACHE (7200rpm)
RAID (HDD 1 & 2)
18x +/- DVD WRITER (8x +/- Dual Lyr) (Lightscribe) (40x CD-RW) (£20)
Graphics card : GTX 8800
So…. after my reinstall i can finally play Crysis! Wee!
Playing it at high resolution on high settings I am getting a fair bit of slow down. Is this just to be expected or am i right in thinking that a replacement processor might do the trick? I thought the 8800 would eat this game up…. so something is holding me back.
What do you guys think? Is it worth upgrading and if so to what?
Also… I have hated creative forever. Any one tried one of these new asus sound cards?
you forget one thing… crysis is nuts
turn down some of the in game effects and it should be more playable.
I have a 4870×2 card with 2 gig of ram on it and even that has slowed down in some of the more insane sequences… fluff has a 8800 and he has to turn down most of the settings.
I am about half way through this and loving ever second of it.. it is a beautiful if insanely demanding game.
you can find hardocp’s finding of the card and game here
http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/article.html?art=MTQxMCwzLCxoZW50aHVzaWFzdA==” onclick=”window.open(this.href);return false;
Hmmm cheers for the link. Maybe I was just playing in too high a res.
To be honest… since I am now playing it months after release with what was at the time one of the top of the range cards I thought it would be fine. Thats why i wondered if the CPU was holding me back.
I am enjoying the game – but the stealth side of it is a bit shit dont you think? Never seen a game that does stealth well. enemy AI isn’t exactly spectacular either – but I am playing on normal mode… anyone tried hard? Is it better?
@XDC_Wolf wrote:
anyone tried hard? Is it better?
ask your fiancee
Ouch.
Feeble m8 – even for you!
Seriously… I am embaressed for you. 😳
Get on TS tonight – I have downloaded it!
lol
that a side..
i thougth the stealth was done ok
when you cloak it is no guarantee that they wont see you and they alway flock to your last know location which leads to some scarey situations. guess you have to give it the benefit of the doubt.
i am not enjoying the later stages as much as the 1st part but it might get better.
Well thanks for all the advice guys really helped 🙄
I just shelled out for a 3ghz core 2 duo so will see how that works out.
Finished crysis tonight – played fine on 1600*1200 in high mode.. though a few bits slowed down it wasn’t to major.
Mixed feelings really. Graphics were pretty special and I liked the storyline, but the stuff in the alien base was rubbish, and the main gun towards the end (the alien weapon) was rubbish too.
COD 4 next! 😀
ps – magicker are you wanting a free COH or not?
Right, for those who are interested (probably all zero of you) I installed my new CPU today…. and almost crapped myself when it started making a high pitched clicking sound when i powered it up! Anyway – I sorted it out… gired up crysis… and it rocks! Made a huge difference to my frame rate.
I read a mates copy of custom PC this week and it had a CPU roundup – rated the 3 gig core 2 duo very highly – and they overclocked it to 4.1 for amazing results (was outperforming most of the quad cores for most things.)
So… next time i need some techy advice… i wont ask you feckers!
Thank you.
ps – still interested in anyone who has tried non-creative soundcards 😀
OC’in is for gheys with no girlfriends (Doc not included) Its like a chav with a corsa putting neon lights on the chasis to make it look faster.. I’ve never OC’d and never had issues 🙂
Oh and not tried other than Creative, but thanks for the reminder, still need to put my spare Fatal1ty board on Ebay
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