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From: candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
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Subject: Re: Decent FPS shooter bundle, worth a look!
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2024 04:50:03 -0000 (UTC)
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Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote at 15:51 this Sunday (GMT):
> On Sun, 24 Nov 2024 00:11:05 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:
>
>>Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Sat, 23 Nov 2024 08:37:51 -0700, "rms"
>>> <rsquiresMOO@MOOflashMOO.net> wrote:
>>
>>> >https://www.humblebundle.com/games/scifi-shooters
>>> >Crysis series
>>> >Prey
>>> >NuDoom
>>> >SShock
>>> >DForces
>>> >
>>> >   Pretty nice!  I'm still missing Crysis2 Remastered alas :(
>>> >
>>
>>> I'm not saying anything specific, but maybe hold off on buying because
>>> the Holiday Season will soon be upon this newsgroup, and who knows
>>> what will be available for free then? ;-)
>>
>>
>>> (That said... I was extremely disappointed with the remastered Crysis
>>> games. The visual differences are not all that apparent, and if you
>>> already own the original games it's really hard to justify the price
>>> of the remastered versions. Especially Crysis 2, which was the weakest
>>> of the trilogy.)
>>
>>I had the graphic enhancement mod for Crysis 1. Wow, it was beautiful even though choppy sometimes.
>
> "Crysis" had really poor support for multi-core processors. It's one
> of the main advantages of the Remastered version... or it would be,
> except that modern CPUs and GPUs are so powerful nowadays that even
> running the unoptimized single-threaded version on most modern PCs
> still offers more than enough performance to run the game at smooth
> frame rates.
>
> There's a reason the 'will it run Crysis' meme died out. Nowadays, the
> answer is almost inevitably, 'yes, of course it will.' 
>
> We're so spoiled by how powerful our computing devices have become.
> ;-)


I think we don't realize because the software devs get lazy with so much
processing power and stuff
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