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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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[-] Demdaru@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

Maybe if games consistently had some kind of really reliable auto-profiling mechanism that could go run various “stress test” scenes with a variety of settings to find reasonable settings for given hardware

...like most games from early 10's? A lot of them had built-in benchmark that tested what your PC is capable of and then set things up for you.

[-] tal@lemmy.today 1 points 4 days ago

Yeah, there are auto-calibration systems, but that's why I'm emphasizing "reliably". I've had some of them, for whatever reason, not ramp up quality settings on hardware a decade later even though it can run it smoothly, which is irritating. In fairness to the developers, they can't test on future hardware, but I also don't understand why that happens. Maybe there's some degree of hard-coded assumptions that fall down for some reason down the line.

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