Minimum and Recommended System Requirements

[PewPewCthulhu]

Dug through a few posts here and searched google trying to find out how game system minimum requirements are determined for games and if there is any regulation for them, but couldn't find any useful answers. Can somebody point me to any documents, websites or info about this topic?

[Gökyüzü]

Just because i dont want to deal with this sort of things i build an over kill pc i have no regrets

[Eagle_of_Fire]

It used to mean something. And that something was: minimum requirement is what you need as a minimum to run the game but you won't get a great experience. If you want to have a great experience, double everything up.

Now they give you both a minimum requirement which is actually not the exact minimal requirement and a second, "recommended" requirement that you should actually follow if you want a good experience in the first place (but should go above if you want the "best" experience or are bent on playing every game on ultra 4k...)...

[Tito Shivan]

引用自 Kage Goomba：

Specs are determined by the Devs - as to what standards they use is entirely up to them.

That's the thing, there's no ISO stating which standards minimum or recommended hardware must met in regards performance. It's mostly trial and error, or putting the limit at some tech limit on hardware or the OS.

引用自 Eagle_of_Fire：

It used to mean something. And that something was: minimum requirement is what you need as a minimum to run the game but you won't get a great experience.

Back in the day it meant you didn't even get the game to run if you were below the minimum. But that was at a time when hardware resources were scarce. Now system resources are plentiful, so it doesn't really hold to the old 'standard'.

[Eagle_of_Fire]

引用自 Tito Shivan：

引用自 Eagle_of_Fire：

It used to mean something. And that something was: minimum requirement is what you need as a minimum to run the game but you won't get a great experience.

Back in the day it meant you didn't even get the game to run if you were below the minimum. But that was at a time when hardware resources were scarce. Now system resources are plentiful, so it doesn't really hold to the old 'standard'.

I don't care in which time and age we are. Minimum requirement should be the minimum no matter what.

[Kage Goomba]

引用自 Tito Shivan：

引用自 Kage Goomba：

Specs are determined by the Devs - as to what standards they use is entirely up to them.

That's the thing, there's no ISO stating which standards minimum or recommended hardware must met in regards performance. It's mostly trial and error, or putting the limit at some tech limit on hardware or the OS.

Nailed it - with the various hardware configurations out there - its a wonder they don't have a harder time getting things squared away.
As I already alluded too - it prob starts with the core engine specs - then they grow from there.
But that kind of thing takes a lot of trial and error.
You'd need an AMD and Intel platform - with mixture of GPU's - and you need to QA it out to ensure things line up.

Likely uses a closed test to gather specs from all kinds of users to get a sense of performance etc.

Never straight forward to be sure.

[crunchyfrog]

Frankly there is nothing strict as far as regulation.

All you can do is this, as rule of thumb:

Look at the recommended and minimum specs. If you are far closer to minimum than recommended, then avoid.

That's the best you can do.