How good is Can You Run It, and is it reliable ?

[banka republike srpske]

Can someone tell me is can you run it reliable, thanks in advance 😁

[Big Pharma]

It's reliable.

[banka republike srpske]

Yeah, but it isn't right most of the time. It said i couldn't run Far Cry 3, but i run it smoothly without any lag spikes or problems! Yesterday i looked if one of my old computers can run COD : MW 1 , and it said i couldn't run the minimal, but when i downloaded and opened the game, the game just ran fine!

[Exiled Alchemist]

The site tends to be wrong most of the time. Said I couldn't run Dragon Ball FighterZ, and it ran just fine when I installed it during a free weekend. Another time it said I could run something, and it wasn't able to run at all. The best way to actually find out if a game will run is just to install it, and see if it works. "We learn by doing." - Winston Zeddemore

[sage2001]

I stopped using sites like that a long time ago. Odds are YouTube will have the specifications of my PC (or something similar), which gives me a better idea of how playable the game is.

[Red™]

I used it almost every time I wanna test out a game, but even though, it's not always accurate. Min and Req spec means ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. In developer's logic, it the bare min to open the game, when a lower end card could easily open it and run it at decent frames at good res. Don't take account in everything what the "Can I run it?" site, and if the game is well optimized, chance you could with minor tweaks.

[Big Pharma]

Well, look's like I was wrong. Maybe I'll try running Shadow Warrior 2 after all.

[harley]

can you run dead island definitive edition?

site: no

me: laughs in 10 fps

[Red™]

Originally posted by GageTheSpartan:

can you run dead island definitive edition?

site: no

me: laughs in 10 fps

me: laugh in 50 frames rate medium high

[🍋 Lemonfed 🍋]

Yeah it's often wrong , it's often say I can't run certain games even when I definitely meet the requirements.

[Alex Slater]

I used to use it all the time, however it factors Hard Drive Space into the Equation, which is stupid in most cases today.

Other things are that naturally, having to Download a Software for it is stupid, and always raises Questions. Other stuff like that it often just evaluates if your Shader Model Version is the latest, and it may sort of assume from there that you're good to go; when you may not be.

[Edge_Master]

think you'd usually use that site just to give yourself an idea.

if it says you don't meet minimum requirements you can obviously still try running it but have low expectations.

of course just because a program says you can run something there can still be a lot of variables like how well optimised the game is.

[Meove]

its actually good. but, not too accurate.

it say i can't run Sekiro in minimum requirement. but with my 2015 laptop, i can run smooth in low setting

[S E X Y]

>be my pc
>Intel i7 8550u
Gtx 1050
8 RAM
>Can you run It says i cant run battlefield 3

Ok...

[Princess Milissa Annie]

To run something it has to be at least 30 to 60FPS to be runnable at all.I say 30 to 60FPS because some games are locked at 30FPS.

[Defective Dopamine Pez Dispenser]

I don't recommend it. For one, it's simply unnecessary. Looking up performance benchmarks for hardware similar to your own is probably more indicative of what your actual experience will look like. You don't just want to know if you can run the software. You want to know what your experience will be like moment to moment in-game.

Secondly, it's essentially just taking either recommended or estimated system requirements and measuring them against your own hardware. And then spitting out an estimate. You can do that yourself just by knowing your hardware (if you don't, in the Steam client go to Help > System Information, and copy what you find) and making those comparisons yourself. Or asking someone.

Finally, as others have said, it's often inaccurate. I've seen it either overestimate or underestimate actual requirements for a given performance target or a given in-game preset or what have you. There will be games optimized and scalable to much lower end hardware than official specs might indicate, and there will also be games that run poorly even with recommended specs. It won't know that in advance.