BM will be fine.
Crysis… not so much. It’s an entirely different beast from all the source games. Crysis on max for you (minus AA) probably 15-20FPS… jumping up to 30 sometimes.
Thanks for the info! So about my earlier question, is there a need to overclock my cpu and if yes, how do i do it?
EDIT : I haven’t played BioShock yet, how well do you think that will play? This is my last question.
Thanks in advance,
LamboMan
Bioshock isn’t that heavy. It uses the Unreal Engine as alot of other games.
And the unreal engine doesn’t have AA.
Nope.
I remember checking some numbers and benchmarks… The 7800 GT had like 50% more of every spec.
I’m probably looking at a < 100$ solution, too. I had paid my 7300 about 80 back in the day I think, so I can probably get a notch or two above for the same price, now.
Would more RAM help for gaming at all? 1GB doesn’t seem like much to me, but I’m not sure if it has any effect with games… I mean, once it loaded its stuff, it’s loaded.
I do a lot of multitasking, though, sometimes with about 20 applications running. It would certainly help for that 
Ok, here is the setup I have:
AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4200+ 2.20 GHz
2 GB RAM (This I can upgrade if REALLY needed, but I feel 2GB is enough.)
EVGA Nvidia GeForce 9800 GTX+ 512MB 256-bit GDDR3
Is that good? I just bought the 9800 new, the rest I’ve had. Previous owner said “it can run Crysis on all the highest settings with no lag,” but I’m assuming he had a better CPU and more RAM. Anyway, The card I’m not worried about, but the processor. Is it decent?
Yeah it still holds up relatively well.
The card is fine too.
However, this will definately NOT play Crysis on full. I’d say about medium, without Anti-Aliasing.
My own pc with an Intel Core i7 920 at 3ghz, 4gigs of 1600mhz ram and an ati 4870x2 does high, with AA on at about 45fps. (Can’t try very high, don’t have Vista]. So I can assure you your pc won’t play Crysis on full. I doubt it’ll have any trouble running Black Mesa though. And It’ll play most modern games on atleast medium.
Ok, thanks. 
Without AA kinda goes without saying because the cryengine 2 has half busted AA performance. The statement the fellow that sold it might hold true on like a 19 inch monitor running at 1440*900. But that isn’t what a lot of people run at these days because of the low cost a large TN panel goes for.
I’ll run it at good ol’ 1024*768 then.
Well, while we’re on the discussion of Crysis, I know a thing or two about the game, and performance boosting it.
You can have AA on, just type edge_AA=2 into the console for AA with proactically no FPS cost.
If you want a TON of tweaks from me and my fellow tweakers, head here.
https://incrysis.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=23117
I worked on this thing for a long time…
I dunno what he’s talking about, but my parent’s old computer had a GeForce 7300 LE in it, which is roughly equivalent to a 6600 or maybe a 6800. Playing Far Cry 2 on the lowest settings possible with the resolution set at 600x400 got about 22 fps max. The computer has a Core 2 Duo @ 2.13 Ghz with 3 GB of RAM.
We just put an EVGA 9800 GT in it, and just to see the performance increase between the two games, I put the settings to what they were before, lowest with resolution at 600x400, and it was a steady 75-80 fps. I boosted the settings a bit, and it plays on Medium at 1280x1024 at 45-60 fps.
Edge_AA only anti-aliases the transparent textures (namely vegetation) hence why it doesn’t have much of a performance drop.
That’s interesting. Personally I thought edge detection anti aliasing mode looks for geometry edges rendered in scene scene that sit across a pixel, using both the position on screen/direction of the edge which has been detected to weight and then anti-alias that edge… Which is even more stressful than the typical AA.
Yep!
Crysis plays as well as you let it, generally. You can tweak it to play as smooth or as pretty as you want, it’s just personal taste as to what you consider a playable framerate.
Since I’m not playing much multiplayer at the mo I went for very pretty but not so fast in places.
Heh, as you can see by my sig, I am good with 9-17 fps, which is pretty much what I get on HL2. I designed my own playing style, in which I take a second to look around and find places with low fps, and then I avoid looking at them. I will leave enemies just because I can’t aim around the area they are in. I tried Crysis, and I had .3 fps the majority of the time on low settings. I am getting a new computer this month so :3
Holy shit! That’s like my 10 year old Compaq Presario!
Holy shit! That’s like my computer right now!
HOLY SHIT! :fffuuu: