What were the most unoptimized PC games of the early to mid-2000s, where even if they were visually impressive, they didn’t justify a $3,000 setup just to play them at medium to high settings?
>>11687831There's that theory about technology where hardware evolves idk what it's called. But a high end setup that you bought in 2000 was already out of date by 2001 or something like that
>>11687831Far Cry was demanding, not unoptimized, it played just fine on an average PC if you turned down a few things.Besides, you needed to buy a completely new rig every 2 years anyway, the tech growth was very similar to early smartphones (in the early 2010's, hopefully you're old enough to find that relatable).
>>11687831>FC1 >unoptimizedhuh? As a fun comparision, Far Cry, Doom 3, and Half-Life 2 came out in 2004, some people back then called them the "big three" of shooters. I ran all three on the same machine: HL2 worked okay on mid settings, Doom 3 was a slideshow, and Far Cry worked perfectly maxed out.
>>11687831The Witcher 1, that slop in unoptimized like shit
>>11687831I read Crysis used some tech that was only being developed at that time and never really got implemented in graphics cards (at least until way later). So basically running Crysis on max settings with good fps/ res was nigh impossible for a long time
Original Far Cry actually runs well.
>>11687903I refuse to believe that Far Cry ran better maxed out than HL2 on medium, that's crazy.
>>11687831I really liked FarCry. I must have got it when it was new.
>>11687831FEAR is really demanding on mid-2000s hardware. It even has nasty rendering issues on most graphics cards of that time. Good luck running it above 1024x768 at max settings and you can forget about AA or soft shadows.
>>11688669FEAR ran like literal shit on my 2gb vram 16gb RAM laptop which would easily max out every 2010s era game. Horrendous optimization.
>>11688669FEAR was one of the best games of its generation and decade.
>>11687831>What were the most unoptimized PC games of the early to mid-2000sDaemonica. For a simple horror adventure game it had long ass loading screens since it was reloading every damn location from scratch.
>villain is a total idiot
>>11687831I'm gonna say Deus Ex Invisible War. That piece of shit was one of the worst ports of all time.
>>11687831PC games were generally well optimized, console ports were a shit show. I had a system that could play Far Cry smoothly yet San Andreas kept dropping frames left and right.
>>11688174Not so much tech, as firepower. The devs wanted to future-proof the game's graphics, so the higher graphics settings would throw more stuff at the GPU and the CPU than they could actually handle. Unfortunately, they thought CPU speeds would just keep going up instead of going multi-core, so the game only uses two cores and expects high core speeds.On Crysis's release, the top CPU was somewhere around a 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo, and the top GPU was roughly a GeForce 8800. The first setup that could actually handle Crysis on maximum settings was a 3.6GHz C2D or i5/7, which didn't really show up until around 2010-2011ish, and 3 GeForce 285's in 3-way SLI, which you couldn't get until 2009. It wasn't until the GeForce 780Ti or Radeon HD 7970 that you could get a steady 60FPS on the maximum settings on a single card, and that's not even at extreme resolutions. Go up to 3840x2160, and the Radeon RX Vega 64 can't even reach 60fps, and even the GeForce GTX 1080Ti can barely hold 60FPS when things get busy on-screen.So you couldn't actually play Crysis on maximum settings at 1080p at 60FPS until about 3-4 years after the game released, and only on the extreme high end hardware of that period.
>>11688527Of course anything runs well when you have gt8800, including far cry or fallout new vegas
>>11687831Operation Flashpoint is probably the worst offender
>>11687847What a mindboggling pointless post youtube tier
>>11687903I had an athlon 2800+ xp system with 128mb x700se and 512mb ram and ran all these games fine. zoomers just post things they have read on the internet. i'm 33 so not exactly ancient
>>11687859>>11687903>>11688527FC1 ran well maxed out even on a fucking Celeron CPU which was impressive considering how much the maps were populated with AI and physically interactive objects
>>11687831I hate Europeans so fucking much.
