Check if computer meets the hardware requirements of games in library

[Picchia]

I was just browsing my steam library on an old laptop. And I really missed a feature on Steam. It would be nice if Steam would be able to scan your computer and show for which games the hardware requirements are met.

I understand this feature might not be entirely accurate, as you would just compare the hardware with the specs given by the game developer, but it would certainly help when scrolling through the games using hardware with an older DirectX version or with a laptop without a grafics card. So you know which games you should download or not.

[Gwarsbane]

How about using the search feature to discover that this has been asked for many times and rejected many times because its not accurate and would leave Valve open to far more support messages and swearing filled rants in the discussion areas when people are told their system can run a game when it actually can't. Or when it can and they are told it can't. And possibly even lawsuits (which Valve would win, but still takes time and money to fight)


Just know your own computer and look at the specs on the page.

[Picchia]

Gwarsbane님이 먼저 게시:

How about using the search feature to discover that this has been asked for many times and rejected many times because its not accurate and would leave Valve open to far more support messages and swearing filled rants in the discussion areas when people are told their system can run a game when it actually can't. Or when it can and they are told it can't. And possibly even lawsuits (which Valve would win, but still takes time and money to fight)


Just know your own computer and look at the specs on the page.

The solution to that would be to add a disclaimer. Although I imagine that wouldn't be very aesthetic. So I can understand they might not want it.

But having 650+ games in my library I wouldn't mind having some kind of indicator to make the filtering easier. Even if it's something very basic.

[Start_Running]

Picchia님이 먼저 게시:

Gwarsbane님이 먼저 게시:

How about using the search feature to discover that this has been asked for many times and rejected many times because its not accurate and would leave Valve open to far more support messages and swearing filled rants in the discussion areas when people are told their system can run a game when it actually can't. Or when it can and they are told it can't. And possibly even lawsuits (which Valve would win, but still takes time and money to fight)


Just know your own computer and look at the specs on the page.

The solution to that would be to add a disclaimer. Although I imagine that wouldn't be very aesthetic. So I can understand they might not want it.

But having 650+ games in my library I wouldn't mind having some kind of indicator to make the filtering easier. Even if it's something very basic.

Disclaimer. The results of this are at best 50% accurate.

Basically. No. It would get steam in trouble with Developers and Buyers. There's a reason no software retailer actually does this. Read the specs. Know youyr specs. If you can't manage those simple things. Stick to consoles.

[RubyScythe]

I know that on some of the more "beefy" games, there are warnings on the check out page about whether or not your computer meets requirements. There is also, of course, the preferred specs seciton on the game's page. Hope this helps! or whatever.

[Binary Flame]

Or, you can try this:
steam://checksysreqs/<id>

[Tev]

Binary Flame님이 먼저 게시:

Or, you can try this:
steam://checksysreqs/<id>

Which will say my netbook can run Witcher 3.

If it first could run FEAR 3

[wuddih]

Binary Flame님이 먼저 게시:

Or, you can try this:
steam://checksysreqs/<id>

function does nothing but pulling name for the appid and generate the dialogue with the message.

[Xite >X< 👁️👁 🇦🇺]

Easiest fix: Simply show game requirments before you start a download and suggest you check you meet the requirements.

What I would like: To be able to sort games by requirements, in my inventory and the store.

You should be able to enter your cpu core, ram, vcard into Steam and it shouldn't list games you have no hope of playing on that machine (a local setting) or at least show a warning.

[Start_Running]

Gen. Xite >X<님이 먼저 게시:

Easiest fix: Simply show game requirments before you start a download and suggest you check you meet the requirements.

What I would like: To be able to sort games by requirements, in my inventory and the store.

You should be able to enter your cpu core, ram, vcard into Steam and it shouldn't list games you have no hope of playing on that machine (a local setting) or at least show a warning.

I would assume that what checks the requirements before buying the game in the first place.. or is that too much to hope for .

And no. CPU's are the easy one to figure out... those are linear. does your number match or exceed the number in the requirements congrats. Vidcards are a crapshoot since they aren't linear


Honestly, if knowing where your pc lies on the strength curve is too much... get a console and stick with that.

[Gwarsbane]

Gen. Xite >X<님이 먼저 게시:

Easiest fix: Simply show game requirments before you start a download and suggest you check you meet the requirements.

What I would like: To be able to sort games by requirements, in my inventory and the store.

You should be able to enter your cpu core, ram, vcard into Steam and it shouldn't list games you have no hope of playing on that machine (a local setting) or at least show a warning.

Or you could just look at the specs of your system and look at the requirements on the games page before you waste time and money buying the game in the first place.

Its not hard to know your own computers specs and look at a page of a game you are interested in. Even if Valve was to do something like this, you would still be left with thousands upon thousands of choices, which you would need to narrow down anyway by looking at the pages anyway....

Its a waste of time and money for Valve to do this.


If your system is 5 or more years old, don't expect to run any current AAA games. You could pretty much run everything else.

If your system is under 5 years old, you should be able to run pretty much any AAA, though you might have to turn the settings down.

I've got a AMD 965 Black edition quad core with a Powercolor HD 5770 1 gig video card and I can pretty much run anything on Steam right now and they are old.


Also Valve would have to include every single piece of hardware out there, which there are a crap ton, just for 1 brand there should be 5 to 10 versions of the video cards. If they miss something, they get blamed. If the developers don't put the correct info, Valve gets blamed.

Then of course there is also software. Thousands of pieces of software (along with lots of versions of each piece of software) can have different effects on how well the hardware runs a game. Again if they don't take that into account they will get blamed.... and there is no way to know what software will react well with each other and cause systems to slow down.

Why would Valve want to make something that will pretty much make sure they get blamed for stuff they have no control over?