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Dr. Panic Jul 14, 2020 @ 9:35am
Reliability of PC-Game-Benchmark / Systemsrequirementlabs sites etc ???
These two sites are putting me off from buying some games, I check the games on these sites, and they say my my GPU wont run certain games on the minimum specs! Nobody wants to purchase a game that runs slow, especially if there is no demo. But what I am finding is a lot of the time the game runs fine, even when you crank it up to high, FPS games for example still run at 60+ frames per second. Okay the fans seem to be going a little wild! But they run fine!! So what's going on here? Can these sites be trusted?

I have a relatively new, laptop, its not a gaming laptop, but (1) its putting me off buying games on Steam that ultimately work? Any advice or opinions appreciated!
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Motopompa Jul 14, 2020 @ 9:39am 
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Theblaze Jul 14, 2020 @ 9:47am 
Such websites or software are never going to be 100% reliable.

Unlike consoles, PC has WAY more variety regarding system specifications. You can't expect the devs to test their games on 1000 PC's all with different hardware specifications.
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JacquesPatat Jul 14, 2020 @ 9:48am 
i can say there are a few games i myself played where my pc doesnt meet the minimum requirements with no problems but it also depends on what game as well. i wont really believe any of those sites very quickly. but then again i i have games where all of my system requirement meet games requirements but graphic card doesnt meet the minimum system requirement, but the game works perfectly when i play it.
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卂乙乙ㄚ丂乃 Mar 26, 2021 @ 4:16pm 
Dont believe everything these websites show you.

I have a Ryzen 5 3500U with Vega Graphics 8 2GB and 8GB RAM DDR4 for example. The websites say I can't even run CSGO or Valorant, yet I can play both those games at high settings and still have 60+fps.

Heck, I can even run Doom Eternal. I tested it today.

The websites use statistics, not actual experience. It's like someone saying they don't like Far Cry therefore the Far Cry series sucks. I would test the games on my new PC and even if I ended up not being able to run them well at least i could be assured what games I could run at the time.

In fact that's what i did until I got this PC.

Point is: Go by experience nott statistics
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