My $600 8800GTX and Quad core barely run Crysis!! WTF!!

[Super6]

Too lazy to read all the posts. I played the Crysis demo on my old S939 Athlon 64 X2 4400@2508MHz with X1900 Crossfire and 4Mb of Corsair (2.6Mb used by XP) on an Abit mobo with the ATI chipset. On Medium it was smooth and gorgeous @1920x1200 on my Dell 24" LCD. On High it was only slightly better looking but the frame rate had dropped to where things were a little herky jerky.

I bought the LCD and memory new but on sale and everything else is used or open box. So I have about $1000-1400 in this system back in the first half of 2006. COD4 and Hellgate ran great on higher settings.

Oh, I won't bother with Vista for at least two service packs and it'll be the less bloated Basic. Maybe by then the Aussie who used to make 98Lite will have a package to cut out all the bloat and will give me a smaller, faster, and far more stable OS. My 98Lite installs were around 34Mb with 98SE as my core.

As far as Crysis, wait till after Xmas as retail sales will probably tank this season. As anyone who has taken Economics 101 already knows, we're in the beginning of the mother of all recessions and the dollar is falling off a cliff. There will be some GREAT buys out there in coming months (years?).

Jingle bells,
Super6

 

[lyssword]

I played crysis on Low (which still has excellent visuals, better than oblivion) and it was running fine 10x7 on my single core opteron 146@2.2 and x800xl.

 

[Coldkilla]

Originally posted by: fleshconsumed
You paid $4K for Q6600, 800GTX and 2GB of memory? I feel bad for you, here, have some cookies...

lol agreed. I built my pc, and have same spec except 4GB of memory.. under 1300 + I run vista (Smooth FPS still).

Even Crysis's editor uses 1.8GB of ram.

Something is wrong with your PC.