Now where was I? Ah! Crysis, was poorly optimised my friend. If it wasn't then they wouldn't have released a patch containing so many fixes:
Here is a small document containing all of the things that were to be fixed and a history of the Crysis affair!
I call it: When Hardware Met Psycho!
biggest_loser
Number of fixes overall don't exactly equate to poor optimization either. I'm seeing 4 references to optimization, of which all may or may affect graphical performance (sound id?). In addition, just because they tweaked optimization doesn't mean it was "poor" to begin with, there's no denying it's a relatively demanding game (the fact that it's demanding doesn't absolutely mean there's no justification -- considering it's graphics, physics, the world being rendered, I'd say quite the contrary, there is justification), of course it's reasonable they might choose to take a greater interest in trying to wring out more performance compared to many other games. Consider, not many multi-plats receive the same attention from their respective studios for example after release -- that does not mean they aren't "poorly" optimized. How much more efficient did Crysis become with the patches anyway, hardly substantial was it? Honest question, I never followed up on that, I never actually considered Crysis a problem to begin with running on a 8800GTS at the time anyway (1280X1024, no AA). I did eventually run Crysis with patches, but I don't think I ever noticed any appreciable differences. If it is marginal, how can the very original possibly be considered poorly optimized? I can at least assure you that the "go from a piddling 10-20 fps to a more exciting range like 40-60 fps" mentioned in your linked article is horribly inaccurate, if you have only played the demo, maybe you aren't aware of that (?). Wall Of Text. Why not for once. I would imagine when most people are referring to Crysis original, they are also including subsequent patches by the way ;) There's still no other first person shooter like Crysis (yet) to draw a fair comparison to and claim Crytek did a poor job in their optimization. You could possibly have a point to make with what mods have accomplished with Crysis, however, those seem hit and miss for various users (sometimes better, sometimes worse performance). Image quality improvements so far seem very subjective fwiw.
All of that is really meaningless anyway (yay!), the only thing important is I think you're still being much too presumptuous about Warhead's optimization **IMO**! :D Wait and see. You're gonna love it biggest_loser, just make up your own story along the way, or simultaneously read a book, and you'll be set :P Kidding about the book.
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