What you on about, there’s always been crappy game releases. There’s a reason “can it run crisis” became a meme. That game is a lot older than 10 years old and it was a unoptimized mess when it was released.
capt_wolf@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Remember how like… 5-10 years ago, games just… Kinda worked?
echodot@feddit.uk 4 days ago
Codilingus@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
To be fair, Crytek said it wasn’t unoptimized, but graphically over tuned on purpose, so that even years after release new hardware could finally play the game to its full potential and keep it a relevant graphical benchmark.
If that was a stupid idea in hind sight is another matter 👀.
Hadriscus@jlai.lu 3 days ago
I heard nothing in CryEngine 2 was multithreaded because they bet on processors getting better single core performance instead of getting more cores (which is what happened). Not sure about the gpu load though
Codilingus@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Ooooo, that’s a nice fun fact, ty!
otp@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
There was probably some peak, but I don’t think games as a whole every “just worked”.
If it wasn’t a problem with the game, it was a problem with your hardware.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 4 days ago
They did not.
alehel@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
Isn’t 10 - 15 more accurate at this point? I think we’re older than we think.
dantheclamman@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I feel like there have always been buggy releases. But I do feel they have gotten more frequent and have become the actual norm, with people being impressed when AAA releases don’t have deal breaking bugs on release
billwashere@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Or when they didn’t have zero day patches because it was a cartridge.
Darkenfolk@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
I remember, it was in the lands of make believe I think.
ripcord@lemmy.world 4 days ago
No, I don’t remember that at all.
Some did. Some didn’t.