Specs vs Requirements

[philgc]

It may be already possible but I can't see it when looking. Is it possible to filter games by specifications? Steam can see what hardware my computer has. Steam can see what the minimum and recommended spec of games it. It would be amazing if steam could marry this information together and and allow you to search for games that you meet minimum or recommended spec for, or flag games that you cannot run sufficiently. I'd love to be able to search by games I have recommended spec for so that I can easily look at what I will have the best experience playing rather than trawling through games I might like only to find that I do not have sufficient power to use them.

[nullable]

The problem is system requirements aren't standardized and uniform and run the spectrum of detailed to vague. In essence it's information human being can interpret, but it's garbage data from a data processing point of view. And garbage in usually means garbage out.

The end result is an unreliable tool and no one really likes using unreliable tools in reality, even if they imagine it provides some convenience beforehand.

[Crazy Tiger]

Początkowo opublikowane przez philgc:

Is it possible to filter games by specifications?

No.

Początkowo opublikowane przez philgc:

Steam can see what hardware my computer has.

But Steam can't see what software you run. Or how well maintained your computer is. Even the best hardware can run like a potato when an idiot operates it.

Whatever result it would give is not an accurate one.

Początkowo opublikowane przez philgc:

Steam can see what the minimum and recommended spec of games it.

They're text fields, nothing more. Besides, quite some developers put in "If it shows a screen, it works" or something like that.

Let alone that there is no standard. Minimum specs can mean various things, a few examples:
- Game boots, that's it;
- Game runs at minimum resolution with minimum FPS;
- Game runs stable at 30fps and 1080p.

Początkowo opublikowane przez philgc:

I'd love to be able to search by games I have recommended spec for so that I can easily look at what I will have the best experience playing rather than trawling through games I might like only to find that I do not have sufficient power to use them.

Learn your specs and learn to compare them. Otherwise, do a Google search for "game name + canirunit". Keep in mind, when you check three sites, they can give three answers. That's how NOT accurate it is.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Liability is why not. And there are far too many variables to be accurate in any way.

Try using the search function. This is brought up many times.

It is just a variation of the "System Spec Check."

https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/search/?gidforum=882959061469928464&include_deleted=1&q=System+Spec+Check

On another note, even Microsoft tried something similar and it failed hard.

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Początkowo opublikowane przez philgc:

It may be already possible but I can't see it when looking. Is it possible to filter games by specifications? Steam can see what hardware my computer has. Steam can see what the minimum and recommended spec of games it. It would be amazing if steam could marry this information together and and allow you to search for games that you meet minimum or recommended spec for, or flag games that you cannot run sufficiently. I'd love to be able to search by games I have recommended spec for so that I can easily look at what I will have the best experience playing rather than trawling through games I might like only to find that I do not have sufficient power to use them.

There's no sufficient way to do that. What would show up first in a list of cpu from most powerful to least? Would a Ryzen 5 show up above an i5 and if so why? Sure, based on a specific game perhaps, but then lies the probably that hotsauce mentioned. The wrench it all is all i've mentioned so far is just the cpu, you also have ram, gpu, psu, ssd/hdd speed to account for. None of those can be an exact "Yes this system will run this game". This is why each page has a minimum that will likely run it and then a recommended that for sure will run it. This is beyond the health of the person's system. If two people have identical builds, but one has a bit of malware, or just bloatware eating way at ram while gaming, then that affects it greatly.