A technical question...

[Zanderinfal]

What would be a good graphics card that would help me run Crysis?

My current card is a Mobile Intel 4 Series Express chipset family. What would be something to run Crysis easier, but not at a big cost? I want something cheap that will help me run this great game but I find all the graphics cards around are specified for gaming.

Also, I have a laptop. ^^
Thanks.

 

[carpenter20m]

Well, if you have a laptop you probably (99%) can't change your graphics card. I am sorry. But you can spend ~500 dollars and buy a PC that can run crysis (not that well, however...).

I hope this helped.

 

[Glademaster_v1legacy]

What would be a good graphics card that would help me run Crysis?

My current card is a Mobile Intel 4 Series Express chipset family. What would be something to run Crysis easier, but not at a big cost? I want something cheap that will help me run this great game but I find all the graphics cards around are specified for gaming.

Also, I have a laptop. ^^
Thanks.

I would bet very very very good money that your graphics card is soldered into the mother board. Now if you could double check that for us and come back with a yay or nay then we could help you but without that info anything we say is probably redundant.

 

[targren]

You seem to be contradicting yourself. Above poster is right, though. On the tiny chance your laptop has an upgradable video card, you'll probably pay more for it than you would for a desktop card.

Also, you seem to be working at cross purposes. You don't want a card specifically for gaming, you just want one that can play one of the most graphically demanding games out there? That doesn't really make sense.

 

[Tesral]

http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/cyri/ This should answer the minimum and recommended requirements for Crysis, or indeed most games.

Intel family chipset, i'm assuming is an integrated graphics card? In that case there probably isn't enough physical space in your laptop to fit a dedicated graphics card.
Of course, the best thing to do would be to not use a laptop to play Crysis, but i'm also assuming you don't have access to a desktop.

You might also want to know that Crysis is being re-released on the 360 and PS3 in October.

 

[Zanderinfal]

You seem to be contradicting yourself. Above poster is right, though. On the tiny chance your laptop has an upgradable video card, you'll probably pay more for it than you would for a desktop card.

Also, you seem to be working at cross purposes. You don't want a card specifically for gaming, you just want one that can play one of the most graphically demanding games out there? That doesn't really make sense.

I can already play it, but very poorly, you see? I loved the game ever since I started playing but I can only play it on the lowest graphical settings with 8-13 frames per second average. It would be way better if I could even play with even 15-17 FPS.

 

[infohippie]

Why-oh-why do people insist on trying to use a laptop for gaming? That's just not what they're for. Only a (very expensive) dedicated gaming laptop is going to run anything at all demanding, and they have their own problems - such as stratospheric price, poor battery life, and poor heat dissipation.

 

[Eduku]

Why-oh-why do people insist on trying to use a laptop for gaming? That's just not what they're for. Only a (very expensive) dedicated gaming laptop is going to run anything at all demanding, and they have their own problems - such as stratospheric price, poor battery life, and poor heat dissipation.

People always have their reasons. My £500 laptop seems to run everything I throw at it fine (although my brother got an i7 for the same price, which annoys me to no end).

OT: Yeah, like the others, I'm 99% sure you can't upgrade the graphics card on the laptop, but you could always check to see if yours is an exception.

 

[PBMcNair]

Why-oh-why do people insist on trying to use a laptop for gaming? That's just not what they're for. Only a (very expensive) dedicated gaming laptop is going to run anything at all demanding, and they have their own problems - such as stratospheric price, poor battery life, and poor heat dissipation.

I can only speak for myself, but I only use my laptop for gaming because its all I have. The consoles we had always belonged to the family, and I don't really have the spare cash at the moment to get a console or desktop of my own. Plus at the moment, I'm living away from home and the room I have hasnt the space for a desktop, or even a desk.

Although I'd like to say my laptop ran Crysis on minimum, and it was playable up until all the flying enemies and lightning effects.

 

[Smooth Operator]

You want to upgrade your laptops graphics card?
Well you better be packing some mad tech skills because you will practically need to redesign the entire thing.
Next time if you plan on upgrades buy a regular PC, you get 2x bang per buck anyways.

Or you could wait for the upcoming console port of Crysis.

 

[targren]

I can already play it, but very poorly, you see? I loved the game ever since I started playing but I can only play it on the lowest graphical settings with 8-13 frames per second average. It would be way better if I could even play with even 15-17 FPS.

Well, yeah, you're pretty much hoping for the impossible there. You're not going to get Crysis playable on that thing.

 

[Wintermoot]

you can only upgrade RAM and HDD,s in a laptop.
just go to http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/cyri/ and pick Crysis.