cant play crysis with playable framerates

[termister2000]

Hello,
Im running my machine with P4 3.00ghz H, 1gb ram and sapphire radeon x1950pro 512mb GPU.
Today ive got the new game, crysis. i tried it and frame are very low... around 19 no matter if it is on md or high settings 1024*768 no AA. All the games that i played before ran fine.(like bioshock)
why i cant play crysis???????

[buckaro]

Try updating your graphics card drivers at:

http://ati.amd.com/support/driver.html

If that doesn't give you the FPS boost you need then:

For those of you struggling with performance, setting the shadows to "low" gave me a very nice boost in FPS, about 15fps. However, "low" means off really and takes away from the game a LOT. Game still looks good without them, but the atmosphere is nowhere near as good. I turned mine back on to medium.

[nemowolf]

you could upgrade your vid card, your processor, and all subsequent equipment to get into a dual core or quad core processor to help out your FPS :>

[SoloCamo]

Simply put, Crysis is a beast in comparison to all other games. Those are decent and normal framerates for the settings in comparison to your rig.

Your cpu is definitely holding you back though.

[buckaro]

That and the RAM...and ram is cheaper :P.

It seems to me that about now is a great time to upgrade, and with the new intel coming out or whatnot then maybe CPU prices will have a bit of a cut soon?

New mobo, CPU, RAM and GPU- ok so its basically a whole new build lol.

[ShyguyXPC]

All the games that i played before ran fine.(like bioshock)
why i cant play crysis???????

Simply put, because they are all no where near what Crysis is, as far as Graphics & what not go, can't even compare. which means, going to need some hefty hardware to effectively run Crysis at same framerates & percentage of options you were running the others on.

even those of us with systems far better to what your running (CPU, RAM, GPU) have a hard time with Crysis.