@Greg since 3d gaming became popular it has been limited by the hardware.
The developers write their games for the latest hardware with the ability to degrade gracefully on older hardware. Crysis is the best example of this at the moment. If you want to run (at a playable framerate) on the highest settings you need a bleeding edge computer, however you can turn down the graphics to the point where the majority of computers can play it in some form
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Paul @ Dec 28th 2007 3:24PM
@Greg since 3d gaming became popular it has been limited by the hardware.
The developers write their games for the latest hardware with the ability to degrade gracefully on older hardware. Crysis is the best example of this at the moment. If you want to run (at a playable framerate) on the highest settings you need a bleeding edge computer, however you can turn down the graphics to the point where the majority of computers can play it in some form