Far Cry and Crysis......down to memory lane haha.

Hail Vostro user
How's the Vostro of yours? Wanna ask about the performance (gaming especially). If you don't mind.

Hm... I wonder. Have been searching the net for benchmarking of Crysis using DELL XPS M1730 but couldn't find any (except the demo version which is not optimized for Dual-Core yet).

Any of you guys here stumble across any sort of review and benchmarking consisting Crysis and Call of Duty 4 with DELL XPS M1730??

for me vostro really great...
normal gaming this lappy is performance very well....
for me i get 14" for portability.....if u prefer gaming u can opt to 15' which is abit expensive..

The brand new xps sure can satisfy your demand

ya agree2 v steven
but still don hope too much from 8600gt for crysis
my 8400gs still bit lag even under 800x600 n all low settings, totally gone case under 1024x768.
according to my fren his inspiron 1420 run COD4 smoothly on 1280x800 resolution, gonna try tat after my exam end of this month

thx for the support...
btw if you buying a laptop just to support crysis, my advise better buy a laptop (sorry typo error should be desktop )....
for me laptop is for portability and some medium gaming only...
8400gs is more than enuf for now...

This post has been edited by stevenlee: Dec 10 2007, 11:41 AM

huhh??? dun get it.

I think he meant "desktop" with the 2nd time "laptop" he mentioned.

I don't say it's impossible to game on laptop, but if u r graphic-whore or benchies/fps-junkie, get a desktop. Even 8800gtx mobile wouldn't hold new games too long especially for our type of gamer..

SLi-ed 8800gtx mobile? That will do high settings at least 6 months from the time it launches, but that depends on how much money u grow and how tough are you to carry around a 9-10 lbs laptop. Might as well get a desktop, if u asked me.

This post has been edited by derred: Dec 7 2007, 05:34 PM

Gears of War

Resolution and Video Settings: 1024X600, all visual settings to High, except shadows on Low.

System Specs:
Dell Inspiron 6400
Operating System: Windows XP Home Edition
Version: 5.1 Service Pack 2
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo CPU T5500 @ 1.66GHz, 677MHz FSB
System architecture: Intel CPU Family:6, Model:15, Stepping:6 with MMX, SSE Integer, SSE FP, SSE2
Chipset: Mobile Intel 945PM Express Chipset
Built-in memory: Kingston Dual Channel DDR2 677Mhz 2046 MB
BIOS: Phoenix ROM BIOS PLUS Version 1.10 A17
GPU: 256MB ATI Mobility Radeon X1400 Hypermemory
Sound: SigmaTel HD Audio
HDD: Hitachi TravelStar 5K100 5400rpm
Misc: ATI Catalyst 7.11 Hotfix, DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904), eBoostr.

Comments: The graphics in this game is awesome; with all the eye candies, it does come with a price. Having said that the performance on my laptop is playable in my opinion (although it dips down to 10fps, for the most part, the game still feels smooth), unlike Crysis (which I'll probably do a benchmark on it in the coming days) which kills my laptop so badly. Is just that we, as users of WinXP home will have problems with the game launching; the sound stutters a bit too, not sure what causes it. Overall the game is very engaging and it constantly puts you into intense action. And yeah, I'll post my CPU-Z, GPU-Z etc stats later.




This post has been edited by Onyx_black: Dec 8 2007, 04:56 PM

Just got my 3D Mark 2006 score on my modified acer aspire 5563 is 1344...

What are your spec?

changing a bit on processor and hard disk and upgrade ram....so what your 3D mark score..

Thanx Onyx for your benchmark contribution from the red team. Be sure to post other stats screens/benchies etc in a new post too. I'll update this topic main page from time to time to reflect the changes/addition.

Yeah, will do later, kinda busy these few days. Hey, is benchmarking for older games okay?

Yup. Any 3d games especially that has not yet benchmarked will definitely appreciate by all of us.

Be sure to post screenies of your laptop stats and game benchies.



Agreed, especially for budget-conscious and/or time-constraint gamers.

I'm unable to post more games benchies as well as being active in the forum for the moment cuz been busy with real life issues. But I'll find the time (at least on weekends) to update this topic for the benefit of the community. In the meantime we need contributors from the enthusiast category too.

Crysis

Low settings playable on my Dell Inspiron 1420
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo T5250 @ 1.50GHz
Memory: 1.50GB 667MHz DDR2-SDRAM
Graphic: NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS (128MB DDR3)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 2 OEM (Dell)
Drivers: Microsoft DirectX 9.0c (Nov 2007), NVIDIA ForceWare G86 v156.19 WHQL XP

Crysis is a science fiction first-person shooter computer game developed by Crytek and published by Electronic Arts, and is the first game of a planned trilogy. It was released on November 13, 2007 in North America, November 15 in Australia, the following day in Europe, November 23 in New Zealand, and November 29 in Japan. Crysis is based in a fictional future where an ancient alien spacecraft has been discovered deep within the Earth. The single player campaign has the player assume the role of United States Delta Force operator Jake Dunn, referred to in-game by his fieldname- Nomad. Nomad is armed with various futuristic weapons and equipment, most notably a "Nano Muscle Suit" which, according to Crytek senior game designer Bernd Diemer, was inspired by the United States' Future Force Warrior 2020 program. In Crysis, the player fights both North Korean and extraterrestrial enemies, in four different locations: a tropical island jungle, inside an "Ice Sphere" (consisting of the same jungle, but frozen), the alien ship itself (with a zero-gravity area) and an American aircraft carrier. Crysis uses Microsoft's new API, Direct3D 10 (DirectX 10) for graphics rendering, and includes the same editor that was used by Crytek to create the game. [from wikipedia]

@HellRyzer,

great benchies there on Crysis ! So how was it? Playable ? Seems playable to me..

waahhhh

Finally a benchiez on Crysis.. and seems to me its quite playable even though just 20fps like that.