Why don't all games have a benchmark that can be gotten for free?

[Lep]

You know, so we can easily check if the game runs or no? I'm surprised it's not implemented.

[Spawn of Totoro]

It would be up to the game's developer to do so, not Valve.

The developers would basicaly have to create the benchmark, costing them more money.

[Lep]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από Spawn of Totoro:

It would be up to the game's developer to do so, not Valve.

The developers would basicaly have to create the benchmark, costing them more money.

Really? It'd be like DEMO version but you can do a benchmark.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Devs usually do it because they have done very well with their game engine or want to show off their new fancy feature. Others aren't pushing the bleeding edge of graphics and wouldn't need to waste resources on it.

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από ← Leprechaun→:

Really? It'd be like DEMO version but you can do a benchmark.

Demos are terrible for benchmarking.

[Spawn of Totoro]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από ← Leprechaun→:

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από Spawn of Totoro:

It would be up to the game's developer to do so, not Valve.

The developers would basicaly have to create the benchmark, costing them more money.

Really? It'd be like DEMO version but you can do a benchmark.

And use the game's assets, so it is a developer decision.

Would still cost the developers to make the becnhmark as people need to be paid for their work.

[ReBoot]

Two words: System requirements. Any reason not to check them?

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

1. Steam / Valve does not make benchmarks, or demos for other people games, it's up to the game devs to make the benchmarks, or demos, and yes it cost money to do all that, as someone has to do all the work for that.

2. Demos are not good. In most cases they won't have the same optimization because it's not going to have the same changes they made to the main game, so perforamnce may be worse, or better than the full game. Example Final fantasy 15, benchmark either say you have hard time playing it on high at 60 fps, yet i'm playing it at max settings on full game. The issue is that it just a waste of time to keep pumping out.

3. When they do demos, or benchmarks they do it to promote the game, but again, just wasted money if the demo, and benchmark wasn't even needed, which if you look on youtube, you see people do benchmarks for the full game, and giving you an idea what to expect for what kind of hardware setup, which is basically free advertisement for the game devs, and the fact it be taking the guess work out for how the game will run, as you be watching the video seeing it for yourself.

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από ReBoot:

Two words: System requirements. Any reason not to check them?

^This. If you don't meet the system requirements, don't expect you have good gaming experience for performance.

[Mikasa Ackerman]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από ReBoot:

Two words: System requirements. Any reason not to check them?

^
system requirements exist for a reason , and you dont need to run a benchmark or play a demo to see if a game works with your specs , you can have the specs and it wont work because its a bad port ,thats why steam has refunds
but generally demos and benchmarks arent needed , you only need a benchmark if you want to reach 144 fps without setting the graphics to low straight away , lower one setting a bit and see how it affects the fps in the benchmark

[Tito Shivan]

And benchmarks have a factor of unreliability to be accounted for.
If you make a little stressful benchmark people will complain it's not reliable when the game gets more busy and performance drops.
If you make a more stressful benchmark people will complain 'the game runs like crap' when running the benchmark.