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Crysis Warhead plays way better than Crysis on a MBP

wgilles

wgilles

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Hey everyone. For those of you wondering how your Penryn MBP will fare on the new Crysis Warhead game, you are in luck. I have a 2.5GHZ with 4GB of RAM and the 512 8600GT. I was able to run everything on medium settings at 1440x900 resolution and still get frame rates at 25 FPS, which for Crysis is VERY smooth. Just thought I would throw this out there in case anyone was wondering.
 
25fps still isn't that great though...

just wondering what drivers you're using and if you overclock. i'm asking because if you don't, then it should run at 35fps for me.
 
It should run better, it's always been stated by EA that Warhead would run on lesser spec systems than Crysis.
 
raggedjimmi said:
It should run better, it's always been stated by EA that Warhead would run on lesser spec systems than Crysis.
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right. considering i run crysis at 25fps, 1440x900 medium settings aa off

tbh though crysis isn't really that fun of a game. what makes it a good game is the graphics. other than that, you can definitely find better gameplay elsewhere. and crysis online isn't great at all.
 
Stridder44 said:
Good for a laptop. You don't need to be on a Mac forum to understand that.
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but on a $2500 laptop?

If you are running Vista via bootcamp, I would advise forcing the game to run in dx 9 mode. I managed to eek out another 10fps by doing so. There is a difference but getting it over that 30fps hump on a higher setting is worth losing some of the shadowing.
 
They need to get cracking on the 64-bit patch for Warhead.

Warhead runs about the same as the original in 64-bit. A 64-bit version of Warhead would be even better.
 
sikkinixx said:
but on a $2500 laptop?

If you are running Vista via bootcamp, I would advise forcing the game to run in dx 9 mode. I managed to eek out another 10fps by doing so. There is a difference but getting it over that 30fps hump on a higher setting is worth losing some of the shadowing.
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Oh it sucks, I know. But the only other "powerhouse" gaming notebook is alienware crap, which are like 4 inches thick and have a 2 minute battery life. :p

I havn't played Warhead yet but I'm not surprised it's faster under DX9.
 
Stridder44 said:
Oh it sucks, I know. But the only other "powerhouse" gaming notebook is alienware crap, which are like 4 inches thick and have a 2 minute battery life. :p

I havn't played Warhead yet but I'm not surprised it's faster under DX9.
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Yeah, alienware is way too thick, heavy, and have bad batter life. Kind of a bad choice considering a lot of us here, I'm assuming, are college students or have a career in the graphic design field or something similar.
 
I am thoroughly enjoying this, and it runs great without much tweaking at all ... can't wait for Far Cry 2 next month.
 
txa1265 said:
I am thoroughly enjoying this, and it runs great without much tweaking at all ... can't wait for Far Cry 2 next month.
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you think our MBPs will be able to play Far Cry 2? Looks like a graphic intensive game. I'll probably end up buying it for console.
 
t19880821 said:
right. considering i run crysis at 25fps, 1440x900 medium settings aa off

tbh though crysis isn't really that fun of a game. what makes it a good game is the graphics. other than that, you can definitely find better gameplay elsewhere. and crysis online isn't great at all.
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Indeed. Enemy Territory - average graphics by today's standards, but has far more playability than a lot of games out there.
 
Crysis is great on a iMAc

I have a 24" iMac 3.06Ghz, 512 MB 8800GS and 4 Gigs of ram. And Crysis runs everything on high at 1920x1200. The Same with Warhead. And there are no lags. Even my PC friend who has a Quadcore PC is impressed. I Use Xp Pro SP3, dx9
 
Just a reminder:

If you want to get good performance out of Crysis, upgrade to a 64-bit version of Windows and get at least 4 GB of RAM.

I can attest to the effectiveness of doing this. My Macbook Pro (Penryn) choked to death on the final boss in 32-bit and I had to turn down the settings, but in 64-bit I had no problems at all with the performance.

You'll see about a 15% framerate improvement across the board, and much less stuttering problems.

Unfortunately, a 64-bit version of Warhead has not yet been released, but Crytek is working on it.
 
25fps IS good for Crysis, if you haven't experienced it yourself, shut up because otherwise you are just an idiot.

Crysis Warhead runs much better on all my computers, the game is pretty awesome, people assume that just because it has good graphics the gameplay must suck, the gameplay is awesome.
 
Chone said:
25fps IS good for Crysis, if you haven't experienced it yourself, shut up because otherwise you are just an idiot.

Crysis Warhead runs much better on all my computers, the game is pretty awesome, people assume that just because it has good graphics the gameplay must suck, the gameplay is awesome.
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25fps is good for crysis, considering how demanding it is. but that's like saying "well, 70% is a good score considering it was a really hard test." it's still pretty bad. i know, i have played it. it's much better running at 45+ fps, without sacrificing so much graphics. play it on a better machine, run it at better framerates, then tell me how that compares to 25fps.
 
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