Steam should add the ability to compare your hardware with a game's requirements.

[Keba]

As title, I think Steam should add your pc specs near a game minimum and recommended specs in a game's page.

To add more to this, a cool feature would be to directly tell which hardware meets and which doesn't meet said requirements.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Originally posted by Keba:

Steam should add the ability to compare your hardware with a game's requirements.

As title, I think Steam should add your pc specs near a game minimum and recommended specs in a game's page.

To add more to this, a cool feature would be to directly tell which hardware meets and which doesn't meet said requirements.

When the requirements are text inputs on the store page, that can be misleading.

A couple examples...

MINIMUM:
OS: Windows 10
Processor: i7
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: GeForce 900 Series
Storage: 666 MB available space
Sound Card: Yes
Additional Notes: ༼つ ◕_◕ ༽つ

RECOMMENDED:
OS: Windows 10
Processor: i9
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Storage: 666 MB available space
Sound Card: Yes
Additional Notes: ༼つ ◕_◕ ༽つ

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1426300/The_Binding_of_Isaac_Repentance/

MINIMUM:
OS: Windows 7, 8, or 10
Processor: the metal part of a toaster when its being heated
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: the thing that heats the metal part of the toaster
DirectX: Version 9.0
Storage: 150 MB available space
Sound Card: something that makes noise

RECOMMENDED:
OS: Windows 7, 8, or 10
Processor: Post 2010 CPU
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: DirectX 9 compatible card - anything post 2010 is probably fine
DirectX: Version 9.0
Storage: 150 MB available space
Sound Card: something that makes pretty noises

https://store.steampowered.com/app/351450/Scribble_Space/

[Brian9824]

Please use the search, its been suggested before and its a bad idea. Microsoft tried it years ago and it failed horribly. Its not accurate, and those fields are free form type so trying to match it up is a nightmare.

Not to mention plenty of games work even if you don't have the specs. Also everyone's idea of "working" is different.

I mean if a game works and runs at 2 FPS does it work?
5FPS?
10FPS?
20FPS?
30FPS?

[Duel Sundown]

I'd be happy if system requirements were 1 click away, no scrolling necessary, but maybe I'm just being lazy.

[Start_Running]

Can'rt be done due to legal liability. There's a reason literally no store does this. Not even microsoft and they are literally the best case scenario for such a feature.

[Шум стола]

Зачем играть?

[Keba]

Originally posted by brian9824:

Please use the search, its been suggested before and its a bad idea. Microsoft tried it years ago and it failed horribly. Its not accurate, and those fields are free form type so trying to match it up is a nightmare.

Not to mention plenty of games work even if you don't have the specs. Also everyone's idea of "working" is different.

I mean if a game works and runs at 2 FPS does it work?
5FPS?
10FPS?
20FPS?
30FPS?

The first implementation is to just put your specs side by side with the game's one. For the comparison of the specs, I know there's at least one site that does it quite well: systemrequirementslab.

The point is not to show if the game will be actually working on your machine, but to see how the hardware compares to the requirements written by the developers.

[Keba]

Originally posted by nullable:

System requirements are garbage data, humans are able to parse it and fudge it and figure it out for their own purposes. Software is going to find that process to be a bit more challenging, and the accuracy is going to be wanting. And what do users call a utility that's sometimes not accurate? Not very useful. Garbage. Trash. Not worth using.

You're better off doing the things PC gamers have been doing for decades. It's not one button magical answers, but it's what we've got.

The idea is not to show if your game will be playable or not, but just to compare your system specs to the game suggested one's. A
Also, just adding your specs near would be a good addition.

[Duel Sundown]

I've found this site helpful: https://www.game-debate.com/can-I-run/?EA

[Keba]

Originally posted by Duel Sundown:

I've found this site helpful: https://www.game-debate.com/can-I-run/?EA

Yeah, there are many sites that do that

[Duel Sundown]

Originally posted by Keba:

Originally posted by Duel Sundown:

I've found this site helpful: https://www.game-debate.com/can-I-run/?EA

Yeah, there are many sites that do that

Then what's the problem, bud?

[Crazy Tiger]

Originally posted by Keba:

Originally posted by Duel Sundown:

I've found this site helpful: https://www.game-debate.com/can-I-run/?EA

Yeah, there are many sites that do that

The issue, though, is that those sites show how such a system isn't actually accurate. Use a few of those sites and you'll get different comparisons/results. Heck, Microsoft has a compatibility check in their store and it's not accurate at all. It green checks the work laptop of my wife for Flight Simulator, even though the CPU is underpowered and there is no dedicated GPU.

When I gamed on a potato laptop I also used such sites occassionally when I was on the fence. I often used three (Game-Debate being one of them) and took the average of the results as a guideline. And still I bought and played games those sites said wouldn't run on my potato laptop.

If such things could be reliably accurate, sure, would be great.