Crysis:



If any game on this website requires more than 512mb of video ram the recommended settings fail. I dont have crysis on hand right now, but HG:L had the same results so i'll have to give that a try and see what happens. I'm really hoping that it's at least playable on medium settings. As for Crysis I probably will never end up installing it on here.

Laptop video cards simply turn OFF when not using 3D, and it goes to onboard graphics to save power. It won't affect battery life when not plugged in/not gaming

You may want to do a little research on that, first.

Another bit of info. Battery power with everything running full and the monitor at 60% brightness I can get 1 hour of CoD4 on battery over wireless internet.

I thought gaming over a wireless connection would suck big time. Seems like I'm pulling better pings than being hard wired to the modem itself.

quote Iceguy2003

You may want to do a little research on that, first.

I've heard about a few (one) that was rumored to be able to go from integrated to GPU, but it had to be restarted. I dunno, I'm not up on it. Just know that when I was looking around, I didn't see any like that. So, I got an x1400 with power saving features.

quote ByRo

Laptop video cards simply turn OFF when not using 3D, and it goes to onboard graphics to save power.

My 17" HP with a 8600 gets about 3.5 hours of battery life on its High Capacity 8 cell battery. I wants too concerned about battery life when I ordered it, as long as it could last at least 2 hours I would be happy with it. But I was surprised when I took it to class the first time and was typing notes on it for about 1 hour and 20 minutes and still had about 65% battery life remaining.

Heres the full specs:

2.2ghz Core 2 Duo
17", 1680x1050 LCD
2x 2gb ram
8600m gs, 512mb memory
2x 120gb, 7200RPM hard drives
Wireless G/N, blue-tooth (turned off during above 'test')

I can probably get about 3 hours and 45 minutes of battery life with blue tooth and wireless turned off, and the back light about 60% brightness. Not really sure what a high capacity 8 cell battery is, but it was $40 more than just a regular 8 cell battery, and I get about an hour more battery life than a friend with a similar laptop (his has an AMD processor and only 1 5400rpm drive).

Crysis on low? I don't think so. I own a notebook with the Geforce 9500M GS and I tried Crysis on these settings:

DirectX10 mode at 1280x720 on the following settings:

No Anti-aliasing
Texture Quality: Very High
Objects Quality: High
Shadows Quality Medium
Physics Quality: Very High
Shaders Quality: Medium
Volumetric Effects Quality: High
Game Effects Quality: Very High
Particles Quality: Very High
Water Quality: Very High
Sound Quality: Very High

System:
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo T9300 (Penry)@2.5Ghz
RAM: 4GB
GPU: Geforce 9500M GS 512MB
HDD: 250GB
OS: Windows Vista

Frames Per Second(FPS): 15-22FPS with lowest drop at 10FPS.

Hers a video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bxeFdaKUoE

here are some 9500m gs benchmarks

halo combat evolved
1280x800 everything on high avg 49 fps

starwars battlefront 2
1280x800 2x anti aliasing everything high avg 48 fps

morrowind
1024x768 high avg 160 fps

asus m51
2.4 ghz core 2 duo
4 gb ram
9500m gs
windows vista

Crysis is not that demanding. My friend played it on Mobility Radeon 1100 which is supposed to be the second worst Radeon there is.

I personally have Radeon X200M and am satisfied with its power. I played games like Command & Conquer 3, MTW2 without a problem (no prob but 10fps ^^). ( its a 3years old laptop )

And i am actually going to buy a laptop with HD3650 soon. I think that it will be a hell'a different power.