Low fps in Crysis (not warhead)

[Pyong Kawaguchi]

Ok, I went and did the benchmark test, to see it for myself, and I got a 33.92 fps average
According to many benchmarks I've read for my video card, when running at a higher resolution, and a higher quality, there was better fps

My Specs:
ATI HD4870 1gb vram non overclocked
2GB DDR 2 Ram (not sure if its 667, or 800)
Biostar TA780G M2+ motherboard
AMD ATHLON 64 X2 6000+ 3.1 ghz (Rated at 9.0ghz according to Sys requirements lab)
I am running crysis at 1028x768 32 Bit colour no anti aliasing, all settings at high, running in DX9 on windows XP
am I getting lower fps than I should?
Or is my ram slowing it down?
Any suggestions?

[Jean-Luc]

Your RAM is very likely to contribute to the slowing down, as with my specs (go check em), I can run Crysis and Crysis Warhead at 1680x1050 on Very High at an average of 25FPS.

[Xetsuei]

RAM is fine.

[Pyong Kawaguchi]

Thing is though, your card is nvidia, and crysis is built mostly for nivdia, but I doubt that huge of a difference would be made just because of the brand, especially when mine has higher specs.

[Amit]

Maybe the motherboard is just very bad with bringing all the components together to make the system run solidly. I have better FPS in Crysis than Warhead. I dunno, maybe Warhead is more optimized for your card? Does this occur in other graphics intensive games?

[Pyong Kawaguchi]

No, i can run COD4, GOWPC and COD5 at 1600x1200 with 60+fps each

[InnerGoat]

That sounds about right for your setup.

[Pyong Kawaguchi]

Is the reason the fps is so low because of my ram, or because its an ati card?
I also noticed, with warhead, at 1600x1200 w/o AA, at veryhigh, i get 20+fps
And, with most games, i hardly lose fps at higher resolutions, why is that?

[Syuusuke]

Are you playing Crysis at super duper ultra high settings?

[Pyong Kawaguchi]

Its high, not veryhigh, for normal crysis, not warhead, warhead is veryhigh

[InnerGoat]

Is the reason the fps is so low because of my ram, or because its an ati card?
I also noticed, with warhead, at 1600x1200 w/o AA, at veryhigh, i get 20+fps
And, with most games, i hardly lose fps at higher resolutions, why is that?

Slow CPU

[Pyong Kawaguchi]

My cpu is slow??
BTW I ran the benchmark test, again, but in vista, running in DX10, and i got higher fps, Why is that?

[Cortexian]

but in vista
What were you using before?

[Pyong Kawaguchi]

Windows XP Service pack 2
BTW alongside that, a friend of mine who has both 32bit and 64bit windows vista, says that he gets about double the framerates when running in 64bit, is that true, or a lie, or because it is able to make better use of the proscessor because his is 64bit?
And, if it is because of my cpu, would a physics card help?

[InnerGoat]

It runs better on 64bit vista, yes, but not twice as fast lol

[Pyong Kawaguchi]

Would you suggest getting 64bit vista?
Or waiting until W7 arrives?

[InnerGoat]

Wait for W7 if you want

[Pyong Kawaguchi]

Okay thanks guys
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