What's up with Crysis 1?

What gpu does your laptop have?

I know that Crysis would have issues loading on 64 bit windows computers, maybe it's a part of that?

Specs of your laptop?

Also remember Crysis 1 does not have a really good optimization per se, the CryEngine 2 (and 3) is optimized for consoles and scales much better with different hardware. I'm not sure how well does Crysis 1 run with SLI/Crossfire setups though, i haven't checked.

crysis is not optimized well for windows 64, it runs smoother with 32, believe me, i cant run payday the heist but i can run crysis :D

"I just started Crysis 1 on my new laptop, Lenovo Y500, and started up Crysis 1." Maybe the problem is that you started the game twice :D aslo try patching the game, it always helps :)

maybe the cpu or gpu is choking who knows, runs well on my 6870 and phenom ii 925 x4 but then again it's a desktop so idk i guess it just doesn't like the hardware.

The explanation is rather simple. Crysis 1 was a PC only game, a performance benchmark for top PCs of the time. Crysis 2 was developed for consoles, and thus system requirements (along with some graphical effects) were lowered. Crysis 3 was supposed to take the best from each of the previous games, however they still have to make it run on consoles, and so it also runs better than the first game. Which, in my opinion, is a very good thing.

I remember it not working and running better in one of my remote environments...

Anyway, there is a fix. I had to google for it, but it exists right here.

I dont know why but, I have problems with all Crysis games, my PC is good enough to run MW3 / BF3 at the max settings but Crysis games always have FPS problems (I tried Crysis 2 and Crysis 3 beta)

I had problems getting Crysis 1 to run also, but installed the 1.1 and 1.2 patches I think. I installed the 1.21 and it completely killed it. Had to uninstall and reinstall, leaving 1.21 out. After that it ran fine on Windows 7 64-bit w/ built-in Radeon 6530 graphics except the screen resolution. I had problems getting Crysis 1 and 2 to run in full screen on a 1080p monitor. It would leave a black border all around it. I upgraded my graphics since then to GeForce GTX 660. I can't remember if it fixed the resolution issue with Crysis 2, but I'm pretty sure it did. I didn't play that game long because it made me crazy motion sick after 15 minutes. Was a cool game though. Haven't loaded up Crysis 1 since the upgrade.

Cryengine 2 was never made to run on consoles. It is almost completely unoptimized. The few optimizations it did receive are only integrated into Crysis: Warhead, not the original Crysis.

Cryengine 3 is just Cryengine 2 with optimizations so that it would actually run on consoles.

on my old POS computer: a 3.2 p4, 4 gigs ram, and a 9800gt, lol, ran crysis 1 great lol.

G75VX running like a charm.

Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 3.3 GHz and nVIDIA G92 9800 GT 512 MB, got this setup for 5 years now and it runs crysis 64-bit pretty well on low/medium by forcing DirectX9

the laptop's single graphics card nVIDIA 750M is equivalent to the nVIDIA G92 9800 GT 512 MB in terms of gaming performance therefore the intel core i7 maybe bottlenecking the laptop because crysis is not multithreaded and it will only take advantage of 1 or 2 cpu cores

Are you trying to run Crysis 1 Vanilla? If yes, it is EXTREMELLY unoptimized, but in 5 min you should be able to find some good Custom Config that DRAMATICALLY increases both graphic quality and performance.

I got most of my mods from Here.
Got a nice performance and loved the graphics.