Crysis plays decent on a 8700M GT mobile part.

[Keysplayr]

DigTimes

"This is what PC gaming has been waiting for. Running on a high-powered Toshiba Satellite notebook packing a brand new DirectX 10-capable nVidia GeForce 8700M GT card, it can only be said that Crysis looked no less than stunning. The top shelf graphics accelerator had no issue churning out the visuals and handling the game's physics; amazingly enough, all from a notebook. That alone makes Crysis, as well as nVidia's new cards, worthy of anticipation."


Good news for 8600 and up desktop part owners I suppose.

8700M GT Specs:

Stream Processors 32
Core Clock (MHz) 625
Shader Clock (MHz) 1250
Memory Clock (MHz) 800
Maximum Memory 512MB
Memory Interface 128-bit

Should offer slightly better performance than a desktop 8600GT who's clocks are 540/800, and significantly less performance than the 8600GTS at 675/2000.

 

[Dainas]

Even in that low resolution it does look stunning, however I can help but dread that they've forgotten some setting that the screens don't show but would somehow floor the performance. A setting that somehow, us gamers would find reason to demand our videocards to run.

 

[MarcVenice]

"Crysis is possibly this writer?s most-anticipated game of the year, and I think it looks better and better every time we see it. However, I cringe at the thought of the kind of machine that?ll be required to run it at a decent framerate. Hopefully when the game is released it?ll still be scalable enough that I?ll actually be able to play it on my PC."

"That?s not to say it?s all perfect. Even running on a top-of-the-line PC, the framerates still frequently shuddered, although it was hard to tell sometimes as this often blended with the game?s ?blur? effect when turning."

They exagerated on the 8700m, it stuttered and what not. Don't expect fluid gameplay at decent settings. That's what I'm reading from this. How could a card like that keep up, when a top of the line pc even 'shuddered' ? We don't know jack about the settings used though.

 

[ArchAngel777]

I am with Marc on this one... However, I just think that the settings use on the 8700GT were lower and that the CryEngine II does great scaling. Plus, these days, most hardcore gamers demand some level of AA and I highly doubt they enabled it... CryTek are some absolutely wonderful devs (better than ID, Epic, Valve, etc, IMO) but even they cannot release a game that looks visually stunning, far above the rest of the crowd and run it on a craptastic subpar 8600GT, unless, of course, the settings are turned down, no AA and AF and at a low resolution.

 

[Cheex]

I agree with both Marc and Arch on this one as well.

If those pics are real then I'd say they were probably playing the game like a slideshow (which would also make the screenshots easier to take)....

 

[VERTIGGO]

Those screenshots have been on crytek's website for a year or so if I remember correctly. They weren't taken by the reviewer.

 

[lyssword]

Originally posted by: keysplayr2003
DigTimes

"This is what PC gaming has been waiting for. Running on a high-powered Toshiba Satellite notebook packing a brand new DirectX 10-capable nVidia GeForce 8700M GT card, it can only be said that Crysis looked no less than stunning. The top shelf graphics accelerator had no issue churning out the visuals and handling the game's physics; amazingly enough, all from a notebook. That alone makes Crysis, as well as nVidia's new cards, worthy of anticipation."


Good news for 8600 and up desktop part owners I suppose.

8700M GT Specs:

Stream Processors 32
Core Clock (MHz) 625
Shader Clock (MHz) 1250
Memory Clock (MHz) 800
Maximum Memory 512MB
Memory Interface 128-bit

Should offer slightly better performance than a desktop 8600GT who's clocks are 540/800, and significantly less performance than the 8600GTS at 675/2000.

one thing, 800mhz is obviously ddr speed, so it would be 540/1600 ddr

 

[Keysplayr]

You can all be correct. No doubt settings are turned down, but I thought it was still impressive that it could be played on a lappy.

And Lyssword: Yes, 8600GTs' run 700-800/1400-1600 GDDR3 for desktop versions. Biostar makes a version using GDDR2 that runs at 800. I'm guessing that is not 1600 effective.

 

[lyssword]

Originally posted by: keysplayr2003
You can all be correct. No doubt settings are turned down, but I thought it was still impressive that it could be played on a lappy.

And Lyssword: Yes, 8600GTs' run 700-800/1400-1600 GDDR3 for desktop versions. Biostar makes a version using GDDR2 that runs at 800. I'm guessing that is not 1600 effective.

oh, ok

 

[thilanliyan]

Originally posted by: VERTIGGO
Those screenshots have been on crytek's website for a year or so if I remember correctly. They weren't taken by the reviewer.

Exactly. I've seen those screens before as well.

 

[Ackmed]

Ill believe it when I see it. Personally I think Crysis is going to hammer all systems out there. My guess is this card will crawl with any settings other than a very low res, and low game settings. Not how I want to play a game.

 

[Keysplayr]

Originally posted by: Ackmed
Ill believe it when I see it. Personally I think Crysis is going to hammer all systems out there. My guess is this card will crawl with any settings other than a very low res, and low game settings. Not how I want to play a game.

Sounds like a plan.

 

[dug777]

So my 6800GS@>U should be fine in dx9 mode then?

 

[Ackmed]

You could probably play the game faster with a etch a sketch...

 

[dug777]

Originally posted by: Ackmed
You could probably play the game faster with a etch a sketch...

:laugh:

Crysis may just be my upgrade game

 

[Keysplayr]

Originally posted by: Ackmed
You could probably play the game faster with a etch a sketch...

As long as the etch a sketch has DX10 support.

 

[Ackmed]

Digit eXtreme10 support anyway.

 

[lupi]

I saw an alienware 7950 SLI notebook and thought laptop gaming was really coming now.



Then I saw the price and decided I didn't want to offspring children to pay for my computers.

 

[dug777]

Originally posted by: keysplayr2003

Originally posted by: Ackmed
You could probably play the game faster with a etch a sketch...

As long as the etch a sketch has DX10 support.

I thought Crysis had a dx9 path?

 

[Keysplayr]

Originally posted by: dug777

Originally posted by: keysplayr2003

Originally posted by: Ackmed
You could probably play the game faster with a etch a sketch...

As long as the etch a sketch has DX10 support.

I thought Crysis had a dx9 path?

It should. I mean, the devs don't want to just sell to DX10 card owners. The want to sell to everyone possible. It would be bad form if they didn't. Now "Vista Only" games may present a problem. Games that rely on Vista platform to actually run. I wouldn't put past MS to apply pressure to a big name dev, or two, to force them to write for Vista only.