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

[Azeemkwow]

Hi its my hp g42 458tu notebook. os: windows 7 ultimate 64bit
processer: intel i3 dual core 2.40 Ghz 370M
ram: 4gb
graphics: intel hd graphics and with directx 11
soundcard: altek lansing

 

[Boozad]

That's not a gaming spec by any stretch of the imagination, gameplay would be unbearable. The only tip I can offer is to buy a new appropriately specced rig if you want to play games on the PC.

 

[Contrabardus]

Edit: Actually, I take back what I said. After checking your specs, you should be able to run Crysis 2. Probably not on max settings, but your GPU, CPU, and Ram are all at around recommended settings. You should be able to run it at a decent framerate at medium or low settings.

I recommend upgrading your CPU. You've got a G1 socket so you can put an I5 or an I7 in there and improve performance. You should be fine for Crysis 2 even with what you have.

If you want to be sure go here and it will tell you if your system can run any particular game or not: http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/cyri

From what I see you should have no trouble running Crysis 2 based on your specs. Probably not on Ultra settings, but you should be able to run it on maybe a little better than low.

For the other posters in this thread, this an article that shows benchmark scores for his GPU. He has a gaming laptop. It's not an Uber rig, but it's good enough for most games. It could be made a bit better with an upgrade to at least an I5, but OP should be fine with what they've currently got for playing Crysis 2.

http://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-HD-Graphics-2500.69812.0.html

ArchitectureIvy BridgePipelines6 - unifiedCore Speed *650 - 1350 MHzShader Speed *650 - 1350 MHz

The integrated GPU isn't horrible as it's an Intel HD 3000 or an Intel HD 2500 [I think, it's hard to find any info about the exact GPU your laptop uses, but it's running DX 11 so it's probably at least a 2500 and given the model of your laptop a 3000 at best]. I'm pretty sure it will run Crysis 2. I'm not sure about that, but it seems safe to assume it given the information you've provided. 4gb of Ram isn't bad, your CPU could do with an upgrade but it's decent for a dual core.

Unfortunately as it's an integrated GPU and a Laptop at that, the only way to upgrade the GPU would be to replace the entire Mobo, and you'd need a new PSU as well. You're honestly better off buying a new laptop to upgrade GPU capability.

It will run a lot of games. Even some new stuff will run on it such as Dead Space 3, Grid 2, Fifa 2012, Guild Wars 2, and Splinter Cell Blacklist [All on -low- settings] at a decent frame rate [30fps+] with that GPU and a decent CPU such as an I5 or an I7, and it may run them even with the I3 he has. 4gb of Ram is fine for most games, though upgrading to 8gb isn't a bad idea, OP should be fine with 4gb as not many games use more than that anyway and those that would won't run on what he's got anyway.

It'll run Orange Box at medium to high settings. That will net OP Half-life 2, both expansions, TF 2, and Portal. All of which are excellent FPS games. OP can Run Doom 3 BFG edition as well which will also provide quite a bit of gameplay as it includes the expansion for Doom 3 and the first two Doom games as well.

OP is sitting on a pretty good laptop for casual gaming. Not exactly top of the line, but it's decent and should run most games that aren't brand new and huge graphics hogs. Crysis 3, Gta IV, and Farcry 3 are out of the question for example. None of those games would be playable, but he's not too bad off for most other games.

 

[AstaLaVista]

IIRC Crisis 2 was not that tough on Rigs like C1 was but... +1 what the others have said, as far as enjoying the game? only if you're into S&M

 

[paulpicks21]

This is a video of it on the lowest possible settings on the OP's CPU/Onboard graphics. Don't look too smooth to me.

Link to video to show settings here

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[M1GU31]

Yea I believe you should just invest in a new computer with better graphics. Looking at that video it looks like its running at 14fps, brings back memories of running some games on my p4 pc with intel graphics. Lagged like that, can't believe I use to be able to play like that , I can hardly stand anything under 35fps now lol

 

[paulpicks21]

Yea I believe you should just invest in a new computer with better graphics. Looking at that video it looks like its running at 14fps, brings back memories of running some games on my p4 pc with intel graphics. Lagged like that, can't believe I use to be able to play like that , I can hardly stand anything under 35fps now lol

I agree mate, I watched the whole video through and it looks painful, I imagine in multiplayer you would not stand a chance!

Here are the stats from the video -

Average fps (frames per second) in game 11, in this clip 8... Lowest settings & res 800x600. Conf: Notebook Toshiba Sattelite Pro C660-13K, Core i3 370M 2.4GHz, 4GB RAM, SSD OCZ Vertex 2 60GB, Windows 7 x64 Home Premium.


I think you are right, it needs to be at least 30-40FPS to be comfortably playable and obviously ideally 60FPS.

 

[Contrabardus]

That's playable. I never said it would be amazing. It will work though for portable gaming. I agree that an upgrade to a new laptop would be the best option, but what he has will work.

As I said, if he upgrades to an I5 or an I7 he should be alright and get a framerate boost to around 20-30fps or so.

His GPU is acceptable. [Assuming he has a 2500 or 3000 gpu]. Not great, but acceptable. You really can't upgrade a GPU on a laptop anyway. You'd have to take out the Mobo and replace the power supply. You might as well just buy a new one as it would likely cost more than a new laptop to do it anyway.

A decent laptop that can run Crysis 2 doesn't cost that much.

I've got a new X401A-RBL4 14" laptop that runs most of my Steam games pretty well at medium settings. I got it for $250 on sale.

It's not great, but I didn't buy it for gaming, but rather web browsing, streaming video, and portability. I mostly use it when I'm out of my house or when I want to look something up while I'm using my PC for something else. I've messed with Borderlands 2 and Skyrim on lower settings and they run fine.

I have used it to play games when out of my house for a while such as visiting relatives and such, but it's not really anything that I see as more than a 'nice feature' as opposed to an important function. Mostly I end up playing Torchlight or Torchlight 2, or platformers like Ducktales or Trine on it. Never cared much for first person games on a laptop. I really only ran Skyrim and Borderlands to see how well they'd run on it and haven't really messed with them much.

 

[paulpicks21]

Whilst I agree with most of your comments Contrabardus I don't agree that an average of 11FPS is playable, it would seriously do my head in and most certainly my eyes. I think at 11FPS it would be bad in single player, but in mutliplayer you should forget it, you would be killed before you even saw the guy that shot you.

 

[Contrabardus]

Whilst I agree with most of your comments Contrabardus I don't agree that an average of 11FPS is playable, it would seriously do my head in and most certainly my eyes. I think at 11FPS it would be bad in single player, but in mutliplayer you should forget it, you would be killed before you even saw the guy that shot you.

No way on multiplayer. However, I would assume that someone playing Crysis 2 isn't very interested in multiplayer though. It's not why most people play it. Running online would eat even more fps away and you'd end up with around 5-6 fps in a multiplayer map.

I suspect that single player is the primary concern here. It works at that. I also say that video shows the game running at an average of at least 15fps and a high point of at least twenty. Maybe dragging down to 11-12 when things get extremely busy briefly, never so much that aiming, moving, and firing can't be done. I do think benchmarking programs often lowball FPS scores. That's not necessarily bad, call it erring on the side of caution as opposed to intentionally being fraudulent.

I'm not sure what kind of GPU the OP's laptop has. It's hard to pin that down looking up his model. I suspect it's a 2500. I'm not sure if the specs are exactly the same as the hardware the video is running on. Ram can make a difference as well. I'm not saying it's wrong, but only that I don't think the GPU is entirely at fault and that an upgrade would do some good.

I would like to do better than 15fps in a game myself, but I could deal with it if I didn't have another option.

As an answer to OP's question of can the laptop run it, the answer is still yes. It's not going to run great, but it's playable.

I think it would play at 25fps with an upgrade to an I5 and going from 8gb from 4gb of Ram. I'm not certain of that but I am confident it'd be at least 20fps average.

An I5 540m would run around $150 new, plus another $60 for 8gb of Ram. Even putting installing the upgrades on OP's own would cost almost as much as a comparable laptop on sale. Like I said, I paid $250 for mine and it's a 2.6ghz with a GeForce g 210m in it. It'll run Skyrim and Borderlands 2 on marginally better than low settings. Crysis 2 would run like butter at reasonable settings.

I think it is possible and not too difficult to upgrade the laptop he has to run Crysis 2 at a reasonable fps. However, it would honestly only cost a little bit less to ugrade, and that's assuming that OP does the installation. So I agree that it's the better recommendation to just get a new laptop instead.

 

[paulpicks21]

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.

 

[Contrabardus]

I'm pretty sure it's at least an HD 2500. The next version of the laptop model has an Intel HD 3000 gpu in it. OP's either has the same or an HD 2500 in it. I'm pretty sure about that.

Yeah. Most people wouldn't upgrade a laptop that way. I don't recommend it unless you know what you're doing. I've done it in the past and boosted Ram and put a better CPU in another laptop I used to own. It's not for someone who doesn't know his way around the innards of electronics. I recommend paying someone else to upgrade if going that route. It'd be kind of pointless to pay someone to do it as it would cost more than it would to just upgrade to a newer laptop.

Going from 4-8gb of ram and from an I3 to a low to mid range I5 shouldn't be too problematic. Going from an I3 to a q-core I7 is another matter. Heat would likely be an issue and you'd want to invest in aftermarket cooling. Considering the GPU is probably at best an Intel HD 3000, it'd be kind of a waste to go beyond an I5 540m even that might be a bit much and upgrading with a 460m might be best.

Again, if I was the one upgrading the laptop I would do it myself, so I might actually benefit from saving a bit of money. However, I'm assuming OP probably wouldn't know what they were doing and would be better off paying someone else to take care of it. In which case they aren't likely to save any money doing things that way anyway.

 

[paulpicks21]

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]

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.

 

[paulpicks21]

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.

 

[smarteyeball]

I can hardly stand anything under 35fps now lol

Lol, ditto.

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...

 

[Azeemkwow]

So give me some lowest settings of crysis 2 so that it run smoothly on my laptop

 

[smarteyeball]

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

 

[Contrabardus]

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.

 

[NavM]

Hi its my hp g42 458tu notebook. os: windows 7 ultimate 64bit
processer: intel i3 dual core 2.40 Ghz 370M
ram: 4gb
graphics: intel hd graphics and with directx 11
soundcard: altek lansing

I have similiar specs to (with Intel HD graphics) but with 8GB RAM
I will tell you NOW. If you want to get above 15 fps you HAVE to edit the internal game file autoexec.cfg and set all non in-game settings to lowest value (0) (especially r_shadows) even then you will get around 20-30 FPS.

That laptop will never run crysis 2 at a playable frame rate any time soon