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Crysis director says it was so hard to run it became a meme because its highest settings were meant for future PCs: 'I wanted to make sure Crysis does not age' (www.pcgamer.com)
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[-] MoonlitSanguine@lemmy.one 78 points 5 days ago

That is not at all how it works or what they are saying. For the time, it was not poorly optimised. Even at low settings it was one of the best looking games released, and pushed a lot of modern tech we take for granted today in games.

Being designed to scale, does not mean its badly optimised.

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