PLEASE ADD BUILT IN "WILL IT RUN TEST"

[StormBringer303]

I think all games should have a benchmarking test that says how well they will run on your PC with and without other programs running (Discord, steam background recording, Twitch, clipping software, etc) when you view it in-store before buying.

[FFL2and3rocks]

Too inaccurate to be reliable.
Players: "Steam said I could run it but it didn't work, why did Steam scam me?"
Developers: "Why is Steam telling my potential customers that their PC can't run my game when it should run fine?"

[d3str0y3r]

How does that work when you have games with system requirements like this?
https://store.steampowered.com/app/351450/Scribble_Space/

[Stevanator]

Originally posted by FFL2and3rocks:

Too inaccurate to be reliable.
Players: "Steam said I could run it but it didn't work, why did Steam scam me?"
Developers: "Why is Steam telling my potential customers that their PC can't run my game when it should run fine?"

how is is too inaccurate, you scan the computer for the components and match them up with the ones in the store, that sounds very simple

[DarkCrystalMethod]

Or you could just try to run it and if it runs then you immediately know it.
You seem to already know about background processes that interfere, so do what needs to be done and shut those down to see if the game starts afterwards.

[76561198407601200]

Originally posted by StormBringer303:

I think all games should have a benchmarking test that says how well they will run on your PC with and without other programs running (Discord, steam background recording, Twitch, clipping software, etc) when you view it in-store before buying.

They do, it is called the system requirements, if your system meets the requirements it should play assuming nothing is wrong physically or in software.

[EliteEndermanzz]

Games have minimum and recommended requirements at the bottom of their store pages

[Amaterasu]

There are sites for that. Hail Satan for those sites.

[DarkCrystalMethod]

https://www.systemrequirementslab.com/cyri
Legit software you can install yourself and then have it show you the results on their website.
If you still can't figure it out befriend someone of the nerdly persuasion.

[FFL2and3rocks]

Originally posted by Stevanator:

Originally posted by FFL2and3rocks:

Too inaccurate to be reliable.
Players: "Steam said I could run it but it didn't work, why did Steam scam me?"
Developers: "Why is Steam telling my potential customers that their PC can't run my game when it should run fine?"

how is is too inaccurate, you scan the computer for the components and match them up with the ones in the store, that sounds very simple

The sheer number of possible combinations makes it more complicated than you think. I remember when that third party site told me my PC can't run Super Meat Boy.
Also check out the game d3str0y3r posted, developers can enter their system requirements as plain text and put whatever they want. So it might not match up with whatever the scan has in its database.

[DukeyNukey]

so basically free demo to test the game?

[William Shakesman]

Does even "Can I Run It?" reach that level of certainty?

[DarkCrystalMethod]

Originally posted by William Shakesman:

Does even "Can I Run It?" reach that level of certainty?

Is there a tool one can use to determine if "Can I Run It?" will run? Where does this madness end?

[Crazy Tiger]

Originally posted by FFL2and3rocks:

Too inaccurate to be reliable.
Players: "Steam said I could run it but it didn't work, why did Steam scam me?"
Developers: "Why is Steam telling my potential customers that their PC can't run my game when it should run fine?"

^^this.

Inaccurate and therefore unreliable. As shown by the various "canirunit" sites and the compatibiltycheck in the MS store.

[Anonymous Helper]

Originally posted by DarkCrystalMethod:

Is there a tool one can use to determine if "Can I Run It?" will run? Where does this madness end?

Also what does you mean when when you say "Can I Run It?"? If game launches and runs 1-2 fps on minimum settings, that means it runs right?

There also is no standard or indication what kind of performance on what kind of settings game will run on Minimum and Recommended specifications.

[Ben Lubar]

If you can figure out whether a game is capable of running on your computer within two hours of running it on your computer, the refund system already covers this.