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haxxiy on 13 June 2023
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episteme said:
hinch said:

There was no CPU on the market that could run it at 30 FPS at stock. But the Core 2 Duos could be overclocked to over 4 GHz most of the time.

Another issue back then was that the flat screen monitors of the time were terrible when you had to play below native resolution.

Crysis was definitely GPU limited. This is with a stock Core 2 Duo at 2.66 GHz.

You can argue that higher settings do have more CPU limitations due to increased draw calls but they were still going ~ 50 fps on these same higher-end cards (which all cost less than 400 dollars back then...)

Later it would look much more CPU limited as people pursued higher framerates with next-gen GPUs but that's because it was very very single-threaded.