Allow reviews to show peoples detected hardware configs

[Cyber2B]

I read reviews and only reason I read them to see what the optimization looks like on the game that I want to buy.

Some people who say "This game is very optimized, easy to run game" then I ask them what their config is, they reply saying either an i7 with a GTX 1070 TI and above.

Only reason I came to PC is the free online and the freedom to do anything. I know this is the 1% of people having these configs but these configs are unrealistic to the rest of PC players.

My config is somewhat expensive.
i5 8400 with a intel stock fan and my GPU is soon to be the upcoming Navi series (going to something less then $200 CDN.


And ofcourse for the shy people, it will be off by default.

[Jaunitta 🌸]

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I've asked for the same.

[nullable]

Well that would require people to opt in as the Steam hardware survey is opt in and anonymous...

Secondly, while you can't always discover the exact performance that you'd see on your hardware via Steam reviews, that data is out there on the Internet.

Like you want to know if you can run the Witcher 3 on a Pentium 4? Someone's made a video or posted some benchmark results. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IebQS_I4QYA

[76561198001062896]

i would say thanks but no.

as for one: a whole lot of things can cause a game not run properly on your rig, regardless of your specs and thus that information may not necessarily be reliable.

secondly: it would lead to unnecessary arguing and flaming/eepen measuring over specs and people flaming others over it.

[Mikasa Ackerman]

would help with games that arent working , if steam detects a ton of amd gpu or cpu users reporting problems but not intel / nvidia users , they could put a warning " amd users reported problems" on the main page

[Gus the Crocodile]

As an off-by-default option, like just a checkbox saying "attach this computer's detected hardware specifications to this review", I've always thought it a pretty decent idea.

[Cherrycat]

This would annoy people and create a "steam is spying on me!" outrage, so no obviously not.

[Crashed]

Originally posted by Gus the Crocodile:

As an off-by-default option, like just a checkbox saying "attach this computer's detected hardware specifications to this review", I've always thought it a pretty decent idea.

I'd approve if it were opt-in and voluntary. However, it should be noted that reviews can be posted via the web so it can't tell if you are writing the review from the computer whose Steam Client you are reviewing the game for.

[Vaulty]

You can go to the forums and ask there for performance+hardware, would be much easier than scrapping for reviews

[Gus the Crocodile]

Originally posted by Crashed:

I'd approve if it were opt-in and voluntary. However, it should be noted that reviews can be posted via the web so it can't tell if you are writing the review from the computer whose Steam Client you are reviewing the game for.

Of course, but it's your review, it's okay for your input to be required in determining which hardware to post :)

They could even track it per Steam installation, give you a list to choose from about which one you want to attach, like "6.4 hours played on system A, 0.2 hours played on system B" etc.