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Graphics Card Problem, Maybe?

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SgtDuty

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Sep 15, 2007
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I have recently installed Windows Vista, via Boot Camp. To run some games, I downloaded the Crysis demo and the frame rate on the hardware recommended setting of Medium, is very slugish, and I can only run it on Low Settings. In addition I have been having a problem with sleep mode, when I open the computer after a night of sleep white boxes flash on the right portion of the screen when scrolling. Do I have a problem with my graphics card, for Crysis, also would adding 2 gb of ram make a difference?
 
When you sleep it, the graphics card gets reset sometimes; that's why the white boxes appear; pretty much you have restart the computer.
 
Jurwin said:
Yes the problem is you are trying to run crysis on a laptop with a geforce 8600. Lol what are you expecting?
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Agreed.. Crysis is one of the most graphics intensive games right now and trying to run it on an underpowered gpu is your problem. Take a look at the recommended system requirements. There's a difference between them and the minimum system requirements.
 
And I forgot to say, adding RAM will help, but it's not worth getting a RAM upgraded up one overrated game. I played in beta; it's overrated.
 
I dont know about you, but I can generally run Crysis at medium settings, though not at full resolution...are you trying to run it at full resolution?
 
I run crysis at 1440x900 with all settings high except, (Shaders - medium) and (Shadows - Off) I get about 25-35 FPS it depends on area and its running beautifully. Video drivers are 175.63, Video card overclocked to 614/854 under my cooling setup and Im running Vista Ultimate x64. I would post a video but I dont have a real video camera (only a phone camera) and fraps cuts the fps down in half when I record.
 
I was just trying out the demo, which I would suspect wouldn't run like the final game, although I was messing with the resolution and didn’t ever find a balance. Also I was just using the recommended setting for my hardware, they have a button to select the settings specifically for your hardware. In addition the game doesn't run like I wanted it to, as such I probably won't get it, would orange box run well?
 
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