Yea I stopped paying attention, but the last "show off" game I remember was Crysis in 2007. But at that point Valve games, Sims, and etc were very lower-end fri

Yea I stopped paying attention, but the last "show off" game I remember was Crysis in 2007. But at that point Valve games, Sims, and etc were very lower-end friendly. The premise is just bizzare where OP thinks these bleeding-edge mind-blowing graphical games were somehow "efficient" and conservative in how they abused your hardware.