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Re:It's the Memory Latency, Stupid by alpaca128 on Saturday October 31, 2026 @05:32PM (#50320441)
I'd it's more a convenient outcome of maximizing profits than premeditated. Not optimizing is cheaper for studios while Nvidia doesn't mind extra popularity for their DLSS feature.

Crysis 3 is over a decade old, still looks great and ran on hardware that wouldn't suffice for web browsing today. I haven't seen anything in games since then that justified a significant increase in system requirements.

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Re:It's the Memory Latency, Stupid by ses1984 on Sunday November 01, 2026 @01:10AM (#50322884)
What about hardware that could run crysis3 wouldn’t suffice for web browsing?
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Re:It's the Memory Latency, Stupid by lelanthran on Sunday November 01, 2026 @02:06AM (#50323322)
Well, it ran on my 9600GT, which I used in a desktop from 2016 and recently used that desktop with 16GB RAM for the last few weeks.

I was unable to see any site that used webgl, which is almost all games site and many charting and graphing apps.

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