Will crysis 2 run on my computer? If not give some tips.

I spent a while trying to find what onboard graphics the Core i3 370M has, I could not find out anywhere including the official Intel site, it just lists it as HD. I doubt it's even as high as the HD 2500 but I could be wrong.

As for swapping out CPU's on laptops, I don't think that is a good idea, however I have never tried it, it all depends on the particular laptop, some are so well sealed it takes hours to get into them to get to the cpu and you have to pretty much strip down the whole thing, some have a cover that allows easy access, but I imagine if you changed the cpu from an i3 to an i7 then heat would have to be considered, obviously the cooling for the laptop would have been designed around a lower power cpu and we all know how quick laptops can heat up.

Paul.

Yeah bud, I get what you are sayin, I am just going back to the original post and really he was just asking if it could run it on what he has right now. I really don't expect him to start swapping parts or upgrading parts on his laptop, dam it's expensive enough on a desktop.

I think the bottom line here is, as you have said, it will run, but it won't run nice and in my opinion it will run crap, looking at that video I could not play a game like that. If he watches that and is happy with it then fair enough, he knows what to expect, but personally and I know you feel the same, at frame rates like that it won't be great fun.

Paul.

Contrabardus said:

True, I've been spoiled for too long. I'd likely just play something else if it was me. However, like you said, it will run and it's got enough FPS that it's functionally playable. Not great, but might be better than not playing Crysis 2 at all to OP. I couldn't say.

Yeah it's a good point, If he want's to play it he certainly can, I think we have certainly covered every angle of if it will work to if it's playable, he should be happy with the info in this thread, I know I would be.

Fair play to you for your efforts in this thread, rep on it's way my friend.

Paul.

M1GU31 said:

I can hardly stand anything under 35fps now lol

Lol, ditto.

Contrabardus said:

True, I've been spoiled for too long. I'd likely just play something else if it was me.

And ditto again.

The first time I built a proper gaming rig and broke the "30+ Fps / lag barrier" I vowed never again would I play slideshows. It's been an expensive vow...

Well they would be Low everything. Every in game setting.

If you run the game with every in game setting in the options menu turned to the lowest setting it will run about as well as it does in the video posted earlier in the thread on your laptop. Maybe slightly better, but not by much. The video is gameplay for Crysis 2 running on hardware that is very close too if not identical to your laptop that is running at the lowest possible settings for the game.

It will run and it's not so bad you can't play it, but what you see in the posted video is about as smooth as it's going to be and as good as it's going to look if you run Crysis 2 on your current hardware. Yes, you can run Crysis 2 well enough to play it, but it's not going to look any better than what is in the video. You can move, aim, and fire well enough to play the game, but it's going to be at least a bit choppy.

The only way to run it any better is pretty much to replace your laptop with something better. You could upgrade the hardware, but it would cost as much as, if not more than, replacing the laptop with a new one anyway, so there's no real advantage to upgrading your existing laptop with new parts. It'd be a waste of money and time.

You've basically got three options. You can settle for playing it running only as well as it is in the video, buy a better laptop that can run it better than what you have, or forget about playing Crysis 2 and play something else that will run better on what your current hardware.

There is the fourth possible option of upgrading your laptop with new parts and installing new parts yourself. However, you would need to know what you're doing. Laptops are not the place where you learn how to upgrade computers. They're difficult to get into, easy to break, and you run a very high risk of turning your laptop into a flat plastic brick/paperweight.

It would only be marginally cheaper than buying a new laptop anyway, and it's not something a novice should try. You need to know what you're doing, how to get into the laptop, how to remove and install the new parts, and how to put it all back together without destroying it. Upgrading a laptop is more advanced work than upgrading a PC tower. It's seriously not something a beginner to upgrading should attempt. The risks outweigh the possible rewards here and I seriously don't recommend it.

If you wanted to upgrade your existing hardware you'd be better off paying someone else to do it, and that would cost you more than buying a better laptop would and you wouldn't get as much of a performance boost as you would by just buying a new and better laptop.

So even though it's technically a 'fourth option' it's not really worth it and isn't really something you should consider unless you've got a lot of experience dealing with electronics repair and PC building.