Last night I was playing a bit of Crysis on my desktop computer. It runs very well on medium settings @ 1680x1050, but when I tried turning it up to high, it started randomly freezing up for a second or so - usually right as an enemy appeared on screen. I was getting ~20fps excluding those pauses, but they make the game very difficult to play.
I realize that my desktop isn't a supercomputer (Athlon X2 4000+ @ 2.64ghz, 2gb RAM, GeForce 9800GT, Windows 7 64bit), but since it the pause only appears when an enemy comes on screen, I'm thinking it's just running out of memory. Would another 2 or 4GB of memory help? Or should I just accept medium settings as the price of buying a cheap processor a year ago? I won't be able to upgrade the processor for some time - it'd involve replacing the motherboard, and by the time I do that I'll replace it with an i7 hopefully.
EDIT: I had shut off folding before I started the game.
I realize that my desktop isn't a supercomputer (Athlon X2 4000+ @ 2.64ghz, 2gb RAM, GeForce 9800GT, Windows 7 64bit), but since it the pause only appears when an enemy comes on screen, I'm thinking it's just running out of memory. Would another 2 or 4GB of memory help? Or should I just accept medium settings as the price of buying a cheap processor a year ago? I won't be able to upgrade the processor for some time - it'd involve replacing the motherboard, and by the time I do that I'll replace it with an i7 hopefully.
EDIT: I had shut off folding before I started the game.