why do you use: Processor: x86 Family 6 Model 42 Stepping 7 GenuineIntel ~2893 MHz

[sp3lfanaaT]

Its confusing ... and a google search was required to see if my system can run it
gaming for >40 years now i have read many game reviews, and seen many system requirements
the example you use is not clear and neds a online search to see if a system can run a game.

example: the example below is just taken from a random game to show the ease of use
this way you can see if your pc can run a game:

Processor: 3.0 GHz Dual-Core - Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 / Athlon 64 X2 6000+
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: 512 MB VRAM, DirectX® 9.0c Compatible - Intel HD 4400 / NVIDIA GeForce 9600GT / AMD Radeon HD 3850
DirectX: Version 9.0c
Storage: 5 GB available space
Sound Card: DirectX® 9.0c Compatible

Recommended system requirements - Windows: 7 SP1 / 8.1 / 10
Processor: 3.1 GHz Dual-Core - Intel i3 2100
Memory: 6 GB RAM
Graphics: 1 GB VRAM, DirectX® 9.0c Compatible - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti / AMD Radeon HD 5850
DirectX: Version 9.0c
Storage: 5 GB available space
Sound Card: DirectX® 9.0c Compatible

This format to show the req. is extremly easy and no google search is required to see if someone can run the game

[NanBreadLoaf]

That'd be roughly 2.9GHz. It's also not a specific graphics card, but the description of a family of graphics cards? I'm not quite sure why they did that.

[ropo]

this is 2d drawings, i think most potatoes can run this game

[sp3lfanaaT]

Originally posted by ropo:

this is 2d drawings, i think most potatoes can run this game

Yes they should be able but reality is often different cause many games that seem to be very simple require a powerfull PC.

many games released look like atari 2600 or c64 or maybe like a 280 or 486 game but try to run the game and the PC will start to break a sweat, i guess it is coding related, in the old days they had no unity or xna frameworks they used real code, today everything is klik and play i'm playing games for a very long time ( >40 years) so i know games have become extremely laggy, hog the cpu and gpu, but still the game look simple ( simple graphics).

Anyway there a still games that are optimised, and optimised games are important to me, more then bugfixing cause gamebreaking bugs will be detected very fast, small bugs will be caught and solved aswell, but performance............. thats another story : bad performance is seldom solved because if a game sells 1000 copies and 10 people have performance problems no one cares not even if 100 people have performance problems.

So, if a game performans bad and boils my cpu i ask a refund cause many times systemrequirements mentioned are wrong, i see too many games that use: 1.5 ghz and thats itor 2.1 ghz .... these numbers make me safely assume they refer to a single core 1.5 or 2.5 ghz cpu cause if they mean double or quad they should have mentioned it, many times devs dont seem to be aware of the real minimum needed system .

[Lizard Hazard Games]

Hey there! Sorry for the super late answer, we just recently realized that we're not getting notifications from the community hub posts. Whoops!

Anyway, I can shed some light into the system specs. You guys are right, you can probably run this game with a potato. But we didn't have a potato to test the game with, so we just submitted the specs of the worst computer we tested the game with. So far, we haven't been able to find a computer that can't run the game, so it's pretty safe to say that the game can be run with anything that runs windows XP or a newer operating system (there may be some exceptions, but we haven't found any so far).

The reason why it's so confusing is that our team is small & consists of people with software skills. Our understanding of hardware is embarassingly limited. So it's literally just the specs of the worst computer we ran the game with.

Sorry for the hassle! If anyone knows a better way to present the minimum specs, we're all ears. Thanks for your patience! :)