Shifty
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Manglement how perfect.That's the bitch about it though; it's like Microsoft with XP. You have to force people to upgrade or they're just going to sit around with old/unsecured products. Poor implementation or not, Manglement is always going to give us nerds issues with wanting to upgrade the hardware/software for whatever purpose because of whatever reasons. Usually money.
IIUC, SSE also does introduce some security, SSE4.2 added CRC32 checks for instance.
I'm not on the development end of things like yourself; I'm over on the administration side, so forgive me if I misstep some dev stuff on that low of a level.
And sure, but Far Cry is a far cry (see what i did there) from a desktop OS when it comes to stuff like security. In the general sense it would be wise to upgrade for the reasons stated, particularly now that we live in an age where, say, Intel CPUs can have long-standing exploits that require performance-degrading emergency patches to fix, but speaking specifically about being able to play Far Cry I don't think it should be a mandatory thing.
That said, OP's story is still breaking. We have yet to find out whether this crack has actually worked
And I believe SSE security stuff is also sort of an optimization in that it crunches existing software-side implementation down into a single CPU instruction, but has the added benefit of the algorithms themselves no longer living in software space, and therefore being safe(r) from things like code injection attacks or ROP chain shenanigans.
Mostly yeah, providing that what you want to run runs decently. Minimum requirements should be representative of whether your rig can run a game at acceptable minimum levels of performance, not "oh whoops we forgot to wrap this bit in an if statement so it's gonna crash".People that scream UpGrADE uR RiG! are victims of marketing - they don't understand that useage of CPU in modern games compared to GPU is fractional, and upgrade of the technology in CPUs was much slower then GPUs so having today 10 years old AMD Phenom is prefectly okay.
Are you done playing the corporate shill and making bad analogies now?*sigh* Blame the company and not the consumer. Let me sue McDonalds because I didn't realize hot coffee is hot.
I already clarified the different perspectives this situation can be viewed from. If you're going to ignore that context and go all-in on "hurr durr coffee too hot" then there's zero point in continuing to engage.
Ah, you're here to act like a moron and repeatedly shit on OP rather than having a conversation about the topic at hand. I see.Did you know that you can put diesel fuel in a regular car and it'll still run? Guess what, the manufacturer wouldn't touch your car with a 10 foot pole.
You were going to pirate it regardless. If you saw the requirements, you'd still pirate it. The only difference is that you wouldn't be on the boards to complain about it.
Bread has nothing to do with the perspective of calling bad code what it is. Earning money to eat is business.Not from the programmer's perspective, if he wants to have bread on the table.
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