[coastie65]

I am amazed that an earlier post mentioned running it on ati Radeon X200. That is the chipset that is in here and it crashed on every game I tried to run. I was going to trade this thing a week later on a Gateway, but bought a PCIe Video card instead. In hindsight, I maybe should have traded although I would have had to pony up an additional $300 or so.

[techie4fun]

Hey Coastie,



I've got the Radeon X800. The memory clock is topped to 980 MHz. I could probably get away with LOW settings on Crysis, but that wouldn't do much for game performance.



I may swap out this motherboard later down the road and do a video card upgrade.

[piyushsingh]

this is what crysis warhead reads in vista games explorer on my system. Mine stands at 5.5 , so its more than recommended. :)

!http://forums.pcworld.com/legacyimages/
1!

[techie4fun]

Not bad - I'm impressed.


Okay. Strong language . By strong language, is the F Bomb going off all the time?

[coastie65]

Hey piyush, Where did you find that thing for testing your system? I looked and couldn't find anything like that.

[piyushsingh]

techie4fun said:

Not bad - I'm impressed.


Okay. Strong language . By strong language, is the F Bomb going off all the time?

yup , language is strong. The f bomb is heard often , KPA men shouting "american a$$*" all the time . Leave the cutscenes , you can hear that during fighting also.

[piyushsingh]

coastie65 said:

Hey piyush, Where did you find that thing for testing your system? I looked and couldn't find anything like that.

switch to vista coastie. lol Its a vista feature called "Windows experience index" which rates everything out of 5.9 max. Another vista feature is the "vista games explorer" that contains info about all games installed and shortcuts , required rating and recommended rating. That was a snip from the vista games explorer (VGE).

Here's my experience index . Considering the max. at 5.9 , my systems pretty good at 5.5 for a 1.5 yr old build.





And this is the VGE .

[techie4fun]

Probably not the game for my ears then.
Too bad.

[coastie65]

Hey piyush, :p Figures it would be a Vista thing. XP doesn't need it, as it knows it is good to go. :D The demo for Crysis ran just fine on this thing although I ran it in 1024x768 with the AA turned off, but everything else on high. Seemed to get very good frame rates as well. I am not an FPS person though. I do have a third person shooter on the PS3 which is good ( Uncharted : Drakes Fortune ), if not frustrating at times.

[techie4fun]

Piyush... or Coastie ... send me the download link for the demo. I'm going to regret the swearing but I want to see if my machine can run it.



:^0

[piyushsingh]

techie4fun said:

Piyush... or Coastie ... send me the download link for the demo. I'm going to regret the swearing but I want to see if my machine can run it.

:^0

Take it - http://www.ea.com/crysis/home.jsp
The download button will be in the front. Its 1.8Gb setup. Wont take long for you. Its for crysis . I dont think there was a demo for crysis warhead.

[techie4fun]

I figured there was no demo for Warhead... I just want the orig.



Will open that link and begin downloading!

[piyushsingh]

Hope things go better this time for you and not like last time in case for GRID and DiRT. ;-)

[techie4fun]

30 minutes to download... but I'm up to 1.1 mb/s :D
B-)

[techie4fun]

piyushsingh said:

Hope things go better this time for you and not like last time in case for GRID and DiRT. ;-)

NO! Don't even remind me of that. Too late. I remember. LOL.

[piyushsingh]

techie4fun said:

30 minutes to download... but I'm up to 1.1 mb/s :D

B-)

!http://forums.pcworld.com/legacyimages/
1! 30 mins ...huh .....

[techie4fun]

12 minutes.

[piyushsingh]

>techie4fun wrote:I'm so glad I have Broadband compared to Dial-up :^0

Ok, mine is a bit slow , but that doesnt mean you can use that D word "dial-up" . !http://forums.pcworld.com/legacyimages/
1!

All speeds above and including 256kbps classify as broadband and mine is also 256. :p :D

[techie4fun]

See the above post.



Actually, I can and will use the word dial-up because I used to have it.

[piyushsingh]

see i brought back you original post in my quote from my browser cache.