You are mixing it up with Crysis?

I absolutely am! Doh!

It's fair, though - it was the original Crysis

There was a time when it took fairly impressive hardware. I think this was one of the first popular 64bit games, upgrading into it

> I think this was one of the first popular 64bit games, upgrading into it

I don't think so. I remember struggles and patches necessary to get it run when I moved to a 64 bit machine a few years after it came out and I wanted to replay it.

A trip down memory lane :) The patch for Far Cry to become 64bit:

https://www.anandtech.com/show/1677

They were technically beat by Chronicles of Riddick who shipped something on disk

Looking back, this did little for performance. I suspect the memory limitations and introduction of SMP around that time to be a lot of warts we recall

I think I remember seeing someone run Crysis in software on a 128core AMD Epyc and get a decent frame rate.