ATI "optimizations" in Crysis?

[RussianSensation]

people still play crysis?

Well considering Crysis: Maximum Edition came out less than 1 year ago, yes. http://www.gamespot.com/pc/puzzle/crysismaximumedition/index.html?tag=result;title;3

Also, not everyone buys $49.99-59.99 games the day they come out. They had the Maximum Edition for $20 from the EA online store last couple weeks. That's $10 for each of the Crysis games. Considering you can get these games for $20 vs. paying $80+ for the 2 games at launch, and have the privilidge to run them on faster hardware to max them out, there are lots of valid reasons to still play older games

 

[BFG10K]

BFG covered this in his IQ article a while back.

Yep, this issue has been around since the 5xxx launched, and I posted an article about it back in November. The problem is by no means limited to Crysis or to Catalyst 10.3, either.