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Far cry on centrino

post #1 of 12
4/25/04 at 9:40am
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Hi everyone,

Did anyone get to play Far Cry on a centrino notebook (radeon 9600 or 9700) with a usable frame rate?

Thanks

Ohad
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post #2 of 12
4/25/04 at 10:18am
I remember klas said he played far cry w/ his centrino lappy... of course it had the m11 9700 vid card so it ran probably at 35-40 fps avg @ 1024 res
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post #3 of 12
4/25/04 at 10:58am
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I have to say this is far from amazing. Considering that Far Cry is an example of a next gen game these numbers mean that even if you buy the best notebook available it will be useless in less then a year (doom 3, HL 2).

Say it isn't so!!
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post #4 of 12
4/25/04 at 11:13am
It ain't so!!!

First, I've gotten Far Cry to run quite well on my Dell 8600 (1.7GHz, ATI 9600 128 MB, 1 GB RAM) with the game settings as follow: 1024x768, Very High graphics, No AA. Of course, I don't see all of the super, hi-end graphics the game offers, but no one could expect that. Get a maxxed-out desktop if you wanna see the best graphics possible for FC or any game.

Second, a new notebook purchased today will NOT be useless for future games like Doom 3 and HL2. Notebooks won't be running those games on the highest settings...most desktops won't even be able to do so...but an 8790, GX7, m:860, AX7, etc. will run the best games at reduced settings, and the games WILL look quite good.
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post #5 of 12
4/25/04 at 11:23am
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Originally Posted by Ohady2
I have to say this is far from amazing. Considering that Far Cry is an example of a next gen game these numbers mean that even if you buy the best notebook available it will be useless in less then a year (doom 3, HL 2).

Say it isn't so!!
do a search...
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post #6 of 12
4/25/04 at 12:24pm
35-40 fps is what alot of desktop systems are getting

it is very playable at that setting

and to my knowledge the only cards of getting 50-60 fps in farcry at 1280 is the geforce 6800 ultra and the 9800 xt
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post #7 of 12
4/25/04 at 2:38pm
meh. My 600 dollar desktop does 75 FPS at those settings. With AA/AF turned up it ALL The way (radeon 9800 pro) i get 25 :/. This is with all settings at max though.

My desktop pwnz tho. (for a cheapss one ) Mobile Celery @ 3.5 gigahertz, asus p4p800deluxe, 768 PC3200 RDRAM, and the usual.
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post #8 of 12
4/25/04 at 3:44pm
A mobile celeron? runnning on a p4p800 with... rdram?
I dont believe you, you need more people.
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post #9 of 12
4/25/04 at 3:49pm
I'll call BS on that one as well.

The P4P800 uses DDR memory.

Celerons notoriously suck too, mobile or not. It's already been shown that an overclocked Celeron at 3GHz can barely hang with a 2GHz Northwood.

If you care to submit pics, by all means do.
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post #10 of 12
4/25/04 at 4:19pm
My bad, Kingston Value DDR Ram.

I am using RDRAm on one of my Dell Desktops, got confused for a sec.

Lol, " i need more people?" Whats that supposed to mean?

And some pics:

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k3=1928700

compared to

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k3=2065776

These are someone else's rigs, same mobo w/ different CPU/memory. This is a 1.5 -> 3 gigahertz comparison. My system is 1.6 -> 3.5 overclock. My rig is slightly better or worse (ram) in some areas, but you get the idea of the kind of performance. Never underestimated Mobile Cellys! They are blazingly fast.

I am on my Dell right now (P4 2.4 gig, 256 RDRAM, teh crap), and my better computer is at my mom's house. Staying at my Dads until vacation ends and rest of senior year gets back in.
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post #11 of 12
4/25/04 at 5:08pm
i had an nvidia 5900 ultra before i sold it, it ran far cry like crap, i could only get playable framerates at 1024x res...thats gay considering it was a 5900 ultra

then again, the game is mostly cpu dependant and i only had 2.4ghz p4 a
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post #12 of 12
4/25/04 at 5:10pm
I can't see where a Centrino would be expected to be the desktop replacement CPU. Look toward the Athlon 64 (either mobile or DTR) or the regular Pentium laptops for desktop replacement. You will get half the battery life, but that's just the tradeoff in today's technology.
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