Thread: Cliffs of Dover, a Year Later
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Old 03-25-2012, 06:35 PM
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Originally Posted by David Hayward View Post
I'm sure they would. Of course, that does not change the fact that complicated software is never optimized at release.
I'm really confused about your definition of "optimization at release"...

You optimize the software to have better performance of course, but you do it through small fixes (in a complicated software as you say): you add/change code to handle hardware issue for example (a fix can be the one for the Ati cards, do you remember the Ubi movie's issue?). Still it's hardly possible to have a 100% increase of performance because it means that you really did a great mistake during the develpment.

The graphic engine was clearly broken at the release, I've always stated that didn't need fixes, but a serious redesign... sadly I was right.
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