I was dithering about posting this, because I was uncertain exactly how many people here would ever have played Crysis, or remember the controversy at the time about its demands on people's computer systems.

Maybe more might have encountered the fairly recent Cyberpunk game, and it's weighty performance requirements.

Given the debates regarding the newest contender for the top cause of hasty systems upgrades,  MSFS, I thought some might find this article topical.

There may never be another Crysis moment for PC gaming

Edited August 28, 20223 yr by HiFlyer

I thought it would talk about the ET style crysis....

TBF nothing runs worse than FSX with tones of add-ons on relatively modern system, even P3Dv5, XP11 and MSFS is smoother...

9 hours ago, C2615 said:

I thought it would talk about the ET style crysis....

TBF nothing runs worse than FSX with tones of add-ons on relatively modern system, even P3Dv5, XP11 and MSFS is smoother...

There was once a popular tech site named MadOnion, where many many members used FSX as an makeshift benchmarking tool.

Madionion eventually rebranded itself as FutureMark, which makes..... Computer benchmarking software.

I still have Crysis, Crysis Warhead, and Crysis Wars. Thank you STEAM.

 I enjoyed them all, and my (then) system, had no problem. It helps to build your own, makes it much cheaper to stay up to date with your hardware.

1 hour ago, Penzoil3 said:

I still have Crysis, Crysis Warhead, and Crysis Wars. Thank you STEAM.

 I enjoyed them all, and my (then) system, had no problem. It helps to build your own, makes it much cheaper to stay up to date with your hardware.

I remember trying Crysis at the time, and wondering exactly what sort of God-Machine would eventually be required to play it.

I felt the same way trying FSX back in the day, and attempting a flight from JFK.... at fps so slow the sim might as well have been going backwards.....

I couldn't imagine a day would ever come when it would actually be fluid:

I mean, how many of us spent years chasing FPS, while avidly discussing the merits of various graphics cards for this or that sim?

Also, HT on, or HT off? 🙂

And how many of us are purchasing new systems and cards right now, to run MSFS?