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Cant this laptop run crysis?

Hi
Im about to purchases a laptop and im just wondering can it play crysis here are the stats:

Intel Core 2 Duo processor T9300 -2.50 GHz
15.4" Wide WXGA HD BrightView Glossy Screen
320GB ULTRA SATA Hard Drive
4GB Memory (DDR2 RAM)
895MB Video Memory with nVIDIA 8400M Graphics
BLU-RAY and Super Multi 8x DVD+RW w DL -Write DVD and CD
Vista Home Premium
Thanks
Sorry guys wrong Graphics card
I mean the 512MB NVIDIA 9600GT
I was thinking of the laptop i have nows
Also is it a good price for $1400AUD
Thanks

That's a main line game from the end of 2007. You must be joking...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crysis

Recommended graphics chip is NVIDIA 8800 GTS 640 meg

That's a desktop chip - the equivilent laptop chip might be a NVIDIA 9800M GTX...

That 8400 is the first step up from the low-end junk and can play much older games OK, but you've specified "the real thing" in games:

"Crysis uses a new engine—the CryEngine 2—that is the successor to Far Cry's CryEngine. CryEngine 2 is among the first engines to use the Direct3D 10 (DirectX 10) framework of Windows Vista, but can also run using DirectX 9, both on Vista and Windows XP. Roy Taylor, Vice President of Content Relations at NVIDIA, has spoken on the subject of the engine's complexity, stating that Crysis has over a million lines of code, 1GB of texture data, and 85,000 shaders"

Compare the video/graphics chips tested and ranked in this list:

http://www.notebookcheck.net/Mobile-Graphics-Cards-Benchmark-List.844.0.html

Try one of these to run Crysis in decent glory:

Dell XPS M1730:

http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/xpsnb_m1730?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs

http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/xpsnb_m1730wow?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs

Falcon:

http://www.falcon-nw.com/

Voodoo:

http://www.voodoopc.com/#/productsenvy

Alienware:

http://www.alienware.com/products/notebook-computers.aspx

Sager:

http://www.sagernotebook.com/default.php

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Update:

Your 512MB NVIDIA 9600GT still won't be enough for a satisfactory experience.

Check the list for something 8800 or greater:

http://www.notebookcheck.net/Mobile-Graphics-Cards-Benchmark-List.844.0.html

There aren't many games that hammer PC graphics like this one... And laptops are slower than desktops with the same model "number" in their components like graphics chip...

Unfortunately, there has been a lot of bad advice about laptop graphics because few people are aware of the fact that graphics chips in laptops are even more expensive than they already seem! That is because for laptop graphics, the manufacturers take a well known desktop chip model number and advertise the same number in a laptop and people assume they are getting th same chip. But they aren't. It is either running at half the speed or it is actually based on another chip lower down in the line with less shaders in it etc.

So if people tell you that for example an 8800M GT is overkill in a laptop, they are thinking of the 8800 GT in a desktop which is several times faster! Note that single "M" in the laptop model number - makes all the difference in the world!

And then people seem to think that laptops can somehow violate the laws of physics (i.e. reality) in that modern games require advanced graphics chips and those chips have to generate a lot of heat to function. So if the laptop is not designed well, it either overheats and crashes or else the chip goes into power management mode and slows itself down to an acceptable temperature. So that laptop graphics chip that is already running at half the speed of its desktop counterpart is now running even slower all the time due to heat... To get rid of the heat requires good design and some heavy copper. Yup, the laptop manufacturers compete on low weight and sure don't want more heavy copper inside so they just depend on power management to keep slowing the chip down and people's cluelessness over the whole situation to get away with this mess...

Really the jump from 8400 to 9600 will not get you into Crysis territory...