Filter library by required specs

[Mal]

It would be cool if there was a toggle in one's steam library that would only show games that the current machine you're on meets the official min specs to play.

Clarification: The feature I'm suggesting here would not be used to inform purchase decisions. The idea here is that people who already have multiple purchases, multiple computers and already know which computers are capable of handling which games would have a quick and convenient method of searching through their library.

[Nx Machina]

There are multiple PC configurations and even store bought PC's with the same specs can have variances.

Developers, publishers maintain their store pages and provide the information BUT they use minimum and recommended specs as a failsafe against liability to avoid been sued by random people claiming "you said it would run on my PC".

Valve provides a storefront to sell their games and also will not commit to providing a definitive answer for other developers games for the very same reason - as a failsafe against liability to avoid been sued by random people claiming "you said ti would run on my PC".

The onus is on you to KNOW your PC specs and KNOW which games should run on your PC with variable performance depending on components and installed software.

Windows updates and driver updates can also negatively impact gaming performance so a definitive answer is not an option nor can a tool give you that definitive answer.

[Benny Bridge]

been looking around on this topic for a while and its so full of smug ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ hatenerds its insane. To everybody who seems somehow offended by the question (?), and saying that steam would get in trouble if they did, I will say this: okay cool that makes sense, lets move on.

I'm looking for a feature like this to get some kind of ballpark idea of what stuff is lower intensity. For example, I have learned anecdotally that total war is insanely hardware intensive, and that civ6 is a lot less hardware intensive. I've never played total war, so I wouldn't have any reason to know that.

If steam itself doesn't have the feature, perhaps an outside website has a database in which games can be ranked by hardware requirements, and perhaps it can be connected to your steam library. and perhaps, the OP and I would benefit from getting a rough idea of what games we are unfamiliar with are easy to run on most machines through such a site.

some ppl in this thread are responding in good faith and trying to suggest ways to move forward. but so many of them are just like, ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, who hurt you?!

[Brian9824]

Originally posted by Benny Bridge:

been looking around on this topic for a while and its so full of smug ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ hatenerds its insane. To everybody who seems somehow offended by the question (?), and saying that steam would get in trouble if they did, I will say this: okay cool that makes sense, lets move on.

I'm looking for a feature like this to get some kind of ballpark idea of what stuff is lower intensity. For example, I have learned anecdotally that total war is insanely hardware intensive, and that civ6 is a lot less hardware intensive. I've never played total war, so I wouldn't have any reason to know that.

If steam itself doesn't have the feature, perhaps an outside website has a database in which games can be ranked by hardware requirements, and perhaps it can be connected to your steam library. and perhaps, the OP and I would benefit from getting a rough idea of what games we are unfamiliar with are easy to run on most machines through such a site.

some ppl in this thread are responding in good faith and trying to suggest ways to move forward. but so many of them are just like, ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, who hurt you?!

Suggest you use the search, it's been discussed repeatedly. There isn't a good way to tell, or parse out the requirement fields, or read the minds of developers to figure out what minimum settings look like .

It's not too hard to tell at a glance requirements with good ole fashioned mark 1 eyeballs

[Rosa]

This thread was quite old before the recent post, so we're locking it to prevent confusion.