Video: Mini-ITX 2.0 with VIA Nano really does play Crysis
By Thomas Ricker 
posted Jun 5th 2008 8:05AM
posted Jun 5th 2008 8:05AM
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Try squeezing that in a notebook!
Lol, seriously though, thats quite impressive
My laptop plays Crysis on High at stable framerates...
ahhhh
but, can it play Scrabble?
yeah but can it play crys... ah damn
I can imagine the video card being bigger than the rest of the system. Good Job VIA.
ok, throwing turtles is not allowed.
Pwnd.
P.S. when someone (htc/nvidia) makes an phone that can run crysis, then I will be impressed. (...and it will have a mega huge video card sticking out of it. lol)
"My laptop plays Crysis on High at stable framerates".
A stable 3 fps?
Ah, but does it play Doom?
if it played crysis amazingly fine, woudn't you expect it to play doom?
@CUBSWILLWIN
You didn't get the joke, don't you?
@unearthed
His name is CUBSWILLWIN.... clearly he's not a serious person either
The Doom "joke" is getting old...
@ TRAFFICBLOWS
Ah, but the question is, WHO'S A MAN AND A HALF?
props to anyone who gets this.
I got the joke, I'm just tired of people repeating the same damn joke.
Ah but will it blend? That would make a fine puree!
sigh....
No it does not. It cannot handle the demanding nature that is DOOM. My old 486, however, can.
I'm sorry guys, i've never lowered myself to that before, but...gah, the title was just asking for it...I, however, am all for the pureé
We all know that it can play Doom... Now can it play lemmings at a stable framerate and be playable?
Impressive
Wonder what video quality they got considering YouTube totally butchers video quality
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-Obx7ZYTTU&fmt=18
there you see it a tad better.
hard to tell what res it is they play crysis at though. never even tried the game myself.
@Gier E
That's the wrong link btw, (this is the correct one; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBGIQ7ZuuiU )
@ steve
AHHH i have been rick rolled!!!
Runs Crysis fine, but bogs down in Word. Gotta be careful how you tweak your hardware.
Can somebody please tell me exactly why Crysis is considered the "Ultimitate" stressor of computers. Why is it that everyone always asks "does it play Crysis?"
What exactly is going on in this damn game? Is it like "pushing it to the limit" like Brucie would say or what ?
have you ever played it? if so turn on anti aliasing and watch the computer cry in pain.
1.8GHz? Welcome to 2006 VIA
I didn't realize there were that many 1.8 ghz 65nm processors running at 5-8 watts and designed for the ultra portable market back in 2006.
It's only the 1GHz version of Nano which is 5W. At 1.8GHz Nano is 25W therefore it's inferior than old LV/ULV C2D stuff from Intel. Put a decent GPU into Atom based system and it will play Crysis too.
Hardly an achievements.
CUBSWILLWIN, you are an idiot. No really, you are.
Intel's Atom is very slow compared to this VIA chip. According to previous benchmarks it is about half as fast as the old P3 chips on the same frequency. That means Intel should drive Atom at very high frequencies to run Crysis.
@Marcus
Well, with this being my 818th comment, I'm running out of things to say :P
all those posts, yet you contribute nothing. congrats, stupid
Gee, thanks for talking anyway
Your welcome. On a side note, VIA will make a great entrance for themselves into the big boy companies with this.
lmfao... I got a 2.1GHz in 2003 -_-
Do you people not realize that architecture has more impact than frequency. Anyone can make a 5Ghz chip, doesn't mean that it can do anything useful. C2Duos run at a lower frequency than P4s but they stomp on them.
They picked up the turtle, threw it in the water then SHOT at it? That's horrible! PETA will be on your arse tomorrow morning.
Seriously though, WOW.
Oh, that WOW was for the really smooth demo of Crysis on a VIA's Nano setup.
I wouldn't say REALLY smooth. idk if it was the video or what, but the framerate seemed to be laggin quite a bit, especially in the intro video (much like FEAR is known to do).
As far as I can tell, the only parts that were running flawlessly were the clips they showed of the trailer. The 2 seconds of actual gameplay I would guesstimate to be running at about 20-30 fps tops. Good, but not great.
it lags in the intro because of all the crazy high poly resolution people in it, along with the plane. I'm pretty sure they reduce the resolution during play, i've noticed flat parts during play that weren't there during the cutscenes.
the very beginning when it shows the plane flying by is the only time it gets choppy for me.
Real working pc was behind the display!
"CJ how you doing today?"
"Im excited... :|"
Games like crysis needs to be played in smooth high detail to be appreciated. It doesn't mean anything if it "can" play crysis.
Need a small machine to play really good PC games?
Telson UMPC prototype with KDC glasses-free 3D
http://www.slashgear.com/telson-umpc-prototype-with-kdc-glasses-free-3d-0411897.php
Word on the street NVidia will have a hand in this...
wait... is the nano the c8?
it had another name before, right?
Isaiah
ummm...any 'good' computer can run Crysis as long as you lower the settings. This is just stupid! I'm also sick of all talk about being able to run crysis...I run it just fine.
And it has a 8600GT! How is that Crysis worthy? Atleast say what settings the game was running at.
i think its not about the videocard...
more like the cpu is able tu handle windows and crysis at the same time...