Getting very high settings in crysis with HD4870?

[robmcrock]

Hi guys,

Im abit of a noob so be patient.

I just put a gigabyte HD4870 in my machine (abit of an upgrade from my 9500gt)

The deal that my factory o/c 9500gt ran crysis on high settings, was a little jumpy, but pretty good.

I was looking for a massive improvement with the HD4870, and i seems to play smoother and cut scenes bettter, but i cant get the settiings onto 'very high'?

Do i need to o/c my card or is there some other way to achieve this??

Not to keen on overclocking untill i get more confident with it

Cheers

 

[Godhatesusall]

what resolution are you playing on?Up to 1280(and perhaps 1440) you should be able to play on very high(depending on your CPU power)...For higher resolutions you need more powerfull GPU.

 

[inspector71]

Hi guys,

Im abit of a noob so be patient.

I just put a gigabyte HD4870 in my machine (abit of an upgrade from my 9500gt)

The deal that my factory o/c 9500gt ran crysis on high settings, was a little jumpy, but pretty good.

I was looking for a massive improvement with the HD4870, and i seems to play smoother and cut scenes bettter, but i cant get the settiings onto 'very high'?

Do i need to o/c my card or is there some other way to achieve this??

Not to keen on overclocking untill i get more confident with it

Cheers

I would overclock your cpu if you can and yes definetely overclock your video card also. I dont know if you will the acheive highest setting with just one card you probably would have with two of them but there will be some improvments.

 

[robmcrock]

Im playing on 1280. My cpu is the e5300. its running at the stock 2.6ghz, i know its a budget cpu, but im looking to overclock to around 3.3ghz.

Im happy with the res, just want the graphics on very high settings

 

[inspector71]

Im playing on 1280. My cpu is the e5300. its running at the stock 2.6ghz, i know its a budget cpu, but im looking to overclock to around 3.3ghz.

Im happy with the res, just want the graphics on very high settings

I know what you mean but thats a tough getting them high settings on that crysis game. You have a decent card. Will that e5300 cpu even clock that high it may not.

 

[inspector71]

What are you specs?????

 

[robmcrock]

im using xp, do i need vista or 7? DX10....

From what ive read online and in the mags the e5300 is very overclockable. One of the sites i saw pushed it up to 4ghz on the stock cooler (pushing the limits mind you). As far as i can tell 3.3 is a stable amount.

 

[robmcrock]

thanks for the help

 

[Mousemonkey]

It is possible to use the 'very high' setting on XP but you will have to make a couple of changes to a config file, Google it.