Theory on Permanent CS Equips

Warcraft 3 runs better on my computer than MapleStory. 3D isn't necessarily more advanced than 2D.

That has nothing to do with the graphics of either game though; it's entirely thanks to Nexon's poor coding.
If someone really wanted to do so, they could make a game with 8bit graphics that ran more poorly than any other game out there.

3D imagining is more advanced and more resource demanding. With 2D, the rendering process is far more simple since it's basically just loading an image and displaying it. There's no shading, no shadows, no texture-mapping, or any of those other things that make up a 3D image. I mean, you could pre-render the models, but that's pretty much a by-gone trend when it comes to games.

This discussion actually has me curious as to how well my machine can run Vindictus...