Can you run a game if you don't meet minimum requirements?

[Yukiko ~Snow Child~]

I find it hard to believe that everyone who plays the most popular games like PUBG actually meets the requirements. The website Canyourunit says that most people who test their computers actually don't meet the minimum requirements. Does it depend on the part of your compyter that doesn't meet the requirements? I mean, if you have everything working, but the graphics card is a year out of date, couldn't you just turn down the graphics?

[mimizukari]

u can have a bottleneck and still do OK sometimes, but if you're under requirements there's no point trying. it'll be laggy af/unresponsive/crash often

[Yukiko ~Snow Child~]

Originally posted by Yuiko:

u can have a bottleneck and still do OK sometimes, but if you're under requirements there's no point trying. it'll be laggy af/unresponsive/crash often

I'm not asking because I want to buy a game. I'm just curious. I always make sure that I can run a game before buying it so I never run into issues like that.

[ KARR™]

The people checking the site are usually the people that aren't sure if they can run it, so most of them will fail.

People who know they can run it, won't bother checking it, so it's not strange to see that most of the people checking have failed.

[ReBoot]

That depends on how far youre under the requirements, what component is at fault and what you see as "run". If lets say your CPU is a bit too weak but everything else fits, the game will most likely run, look extremely ugly and stutter. And if the game in question is a competitive MP game, stuttering means youre gonna die all the time resulting in the game being unplayable despite technically running. I tried Wolfenstein 2 on my older rig where both the CPU and the GPU are way below the requirements. It worked, even at mostly solid 60 f/s, but it looked like crap on all-lowest settings. But if youre trying to run a 64 bit game on a 32 bit system, it wont work at all.

It depends, theres no universal answer.

[Satoru]

Some requirements are 'hard' some rae 'soft'

1) "hard" requirements are ones that must be met. Generally things like "64-bit OS" or "DX11" are hard requirements and cannot be run on OS or video cards that do not explicitly support them. On MacOS the OS version is a hard requirement since the OPenGL version id OS version dependent (why....)

2) "soft" requirements are ones that the game will 'run' but will likely be very bad. "CPU" and "RAM" are generally soft requirements. Could you run PUBG on a 1.1Ghz cpu with 2 GB of RAM? the game will probably 'run' but it will suck.

[Yukiko ~Snow Child~]

Originally posted by Satoru:

Some requirements are 'hard' some rae 'soft'

1) "hard" requirements are ones that must be met. Generally things like "64-bit OS" or "DX11" are hard requirements and cannot be run on OS or video cards that do not explicitly support them

2) "soft" requirements are ones that the game will 'run' but will likely be very bad. "CPU" and "RAM" are generally soft requirements. Could you run PUBG on a 1.1Ghz cpu with 2 GB of RAM? the game will probably 'run' but it will suck.

I actually wanted to try Stellaris, but I used PUBG as an example because it has a higher failure rate on canyourunit. I'll get Europa Univerisalis IV instead. I can run that one.

[Tcxpsa]

I looked this up to see if I should buy cyberpunk since all of my stuff meets the requirements and are higher than what I need expect for my graphics card which is a Amd Radeon rx 370 series, but the game requires at least a 470 so I am just wondering should I buy it or not and if so, all I need is for the game to work not run well.

[Wolf Knight]

Originally posted by Tcxpsa:

I looked this up to see if I should buy cyberpunk since all of my stuff meets the requirements and are higher than what I need expect for my graphics card which is a Amd Radeon rx 370 series, but the game requires at least a 470 so I am just wondering should I buy it or not and if so, all I need is for the game to work not run well.

if you have questions about a game running on your system, ask in that games forum. there was no reason for you to necro a thread from 2018

[Yzal]

Originally posted by Tcxpsa:

I looked this up to see if I should buy cyberpunk since all of my stuff meets the requirements and are higher than what I need expect for my graphics card which is a Amd Radeon rx 370 series, but the game requires at least a 470 so I am just wondering should I buy it or not and if so, all I need is for the game to work not run well.

Ask on the Cyberpunk forums.
This is too game specific, some games will run perfectly fine and others will be a slideshow if they ever run.

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