In an interview with VideoGamer, CEO and founder of Crytek, Cevat Yerli said that Crysis 2 will only be hit with a performance impact of 1.5% when 3D is enabled. That’s an amazing number, especially since Crysis 2 is already a demanding game. The current perceived method of producing 3D effects is to have the game render a frame twice which has a large performance impact on the game. However, Crytek has managed to create a method which only renders one image but creates a second image out of that one to produce the 3D effect.

This method will thus result in only a 1.5% performance loss which has enabled Crytek to bring Crysis 2 in 3D to all three systems, including the Xbox 360. You will only lose 0.4 frames out of 30 frames per second, so the loss is very minimal and probably not even noticeable to the naked eye. Of course, you’ll still need a really good PC rig or expensive TV set in order to take advantage of this new feature.

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