It turns out that the developers behind Crysis made it so hard to run at its highest settings because they were thinking about the PC you would have in 2010, not the PC you were using in 2007
Crysis is a game that's notoriously difficult to run at max settings, it's become a meme, but apparently you weren't even planning on doing that at launch. “Can it run Crysis?” This is probably a meme you'd see everywhere in the gaming space from about a decade ago, so prolific in fact that the only ...