exactly why i said it's just to prove how big one's virtua-wang is. Benchmarks such as 3DMark don't use AI..... nothing ever moves differently one run through than it does on another. It's basically to see how much power your GPU has, and how well the CPU can keep up with it. Once AI and everything is thrown into the mix, that feeling of well endowment drops to the floor.
Probably the reason Crysis got such a bad reputation from the get-go. People had these high end rigs, and they thought that just because they had the most powerful PC out there that money could buy, they should be able to max the resolution and every detail possible and run the game at well over 60fps. But Crytek didn't focus on creating a game that would look great when it came out and slowly die out like everything else. They created a game that would stress the hardware.... something not often seen anymore in this realm of crap-tacular console-to-PC ports and MMORPG's trying to compete with WoW..... so that when new hardware came out, the game could look better..... not just bump the framerate more and more.
