[Captain Jack Sparrow]

Before my computer broke, I have been playing COD 4 on full resolution, highest settings, at least 30fps. (1440x900)
However when it comes to Crysis, 1024x768 Medium exept Texture, Objects, Physics and Sound Quality on high. The fps randomly go down (12 minimum), however on the Sandbox 2 Editor, this never happens and Editor is a higher resolution. Should I try playing Crysis on DevMode or is this because it is a pretty crappy card?
Also can it run Call Of Duty 5 World at War?

[Waynos_Face]

Hi,

The Sandbox editor doesn't run as intense on Graphics Cards as the actual game as there is less to process, thats why if you go onto youtube people have it maxed out on 8800GTS when otherwise its not possible.

Look at the FPS for a 8800GTS on Crysis at 1280 x 1024 its only 35FPS on high settings and that card is worth 2 1/2 of yours, i had 3 x hd3650 in Xfire on my Phenom system and it was crap, when i got an 8800GT it beat all 3.

It will play COD WAW just fine but on low res and low detail.

The minimum you want in your PC if you want to play new games properly is a dual core, 2GB RAM and a 3870 or 9600GT.

If you have the DDR2 version of the 3650 then its crap. No oofence as i said i had 3, they are crap, but thats why they are £35.

Edit: This would be a very good upgrade over the system you have, see what you can get for xmas.

[Captain Jack Sparrow]

I'll probably have to for the time being, play Crysis through the Sandbox Editor then. The ATI Radeon 4870, is that good?

I **DON'T** like playing my games in low res and detail and I don't like nVidia.

[Waynos_Face]

Yeah the 4870 is an awesome card but if you spend £170 on it then you're gonna be wasting most of its power as your processor and motherboard are gonna severely bottleneck it.

Plus i'm pretty sure it has to have a PCI-E 2.0 slot and isn't backwards compatible.

[Captain Jack Sparrow]

SO basically I can't use it with a Socket 939 Motherboard.

[Waynos_Face]

Don't think so mate.

[Captain Jack Sparrow]

What about the HD 4850? Will that work?

[Captain Jack Sparrow]

UPDATE!!! WIKIPEDIA: PCIe 2.0 is backward compatible with PCIe 1.1
The HD 4870 will work!!!!

[Waynos_Face]

Yeah i would check first though as i'm sure i have read that it needs a 2.0 slot.

An 8800GT is 2.0 but works on a 1.0 slot, so do lots of cards but i think the the 4870 or maybe its the GTX 260/280 doesn't.

[Waynos_Face]

Haven't found anything conclusive but it seems that it will work on a PCI-E 1.1 which is 2004 onwards.