Imagine if someone had the time to go to that website and capture a plain text request and the response from the website...
And then build a curl command around it so that you could hit the site with any game, your current hardware specs and receive the normal response that you can display however you like.

This is already a thing! Every game on the Store is tagged with its spec requirement. You just gotta know what you are doing!

Originally posted by real shiii:

Im not asking for a perfect app

Many people would complain if the detection isn't perfect.

Players: "Steam said this game would work, why did Steam lie and scam me?"
Developers: "Why is Steam telling my potential customers that their PC can't play my game when it actually can?"

Originally posted by real shiii:

If you are someone like me, you don't have a pc that can run most "high quality" games.
But you don't have a way to check if your pc can actually run a game without using some third party website with very obviously outdated info.

It would be awesome if when you saw the specs section, you could click a button for steam to
check if your pc is capable of possibly running that game.

Im not asking for a perfect app, i just want a general idea if it would even start

That is part of using pc is remembering your specs and researching things you are unsure of. If you know you have a particular Ryzen cpu and the minimum to run a game is a model/generation above yours then off bat you know the game will likely not work. Or if it does meet/exceed cpu do you know if your gpu meets it? Ram amount/type ? If you are not wanting to be concerned about if a game runs, either avoid "Triple A" games, games that pretty much look rather demanding (ie open world / high graphics), essentially eyeballing a game knowing if it will run on your system. Your best bet is utilize free weekends and demos.

Originally posted by FFL2and3rocks:

Originally posted by real shiii:

Im not asking for a perfect app

Many people would complain if the detection isn't perfect.

Players: "Steam said this game would work, why did Steam lie and scam me?"
Developers: "Why is Steam telling my potential customers that their PC can't play my game when it actually can?"

That latter scenario can be very problematic since it can be counted as label tampering. I.e the Store making claims and describing the product in ways the dev/pub did not intend.

That's basically a fine plus damages and the damages can be based on estimated lost sales.
Ad to that that you have dev/pubs deliberitely trying to game that system for an easy pay out.

Originally posted by real shiii:

If you are someone like me, you don't have a pc that can run most "high quality" games.
But you don't have a way to check if your pc can actually run a game without using some third party website with very obviously outdated info.

So you're critical of less than perfect applications.

Originally posted by real shiii:

It would be awesome if when you saw the specs section, you could click a button for steam to
check if your pc is capable of possibly running that game.

Im not asking for a perfect app, i just want a general idea if it would even start

But then less than perfect is OK? See the problem?

Plus, what people say and what they do want are often two different things. And the first time it was wrong, you'd have opinions. So would everyone else whenever they felt burned.

Reality is no one wants to use a kinda works sometimes application to make purchases.

But they just don't want to manage that aspect of pc gaming eirher. So it would be awesome if there was a way around that. But you might be better off learning your hardware and making informed decisions based on your knowledge and ability to use a number of resources.

So I can run this as tested?

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

Originally posted by blunus:

So I can run this as tested?

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpeVYQzsoKo

1. Learn your own hardware
2. Read the system requirements on the game's store page
3. Try to have better requirements than minimum. Its even better if its better than the recommended specifications.

Spec tests are unreliable and inaccurate. This gets proven by both the various canirunit-sites and the compatibility check in the Microsoft store.

PC Gaming is not plug and play. So if you want to do gaming on PC, you need to accept that.

Just use basic comparison sites till you LEARN you hardware. Had these 2 for my nephew. Have your hardware to one side and the games requirement to the other. Stick to comparing Nvidia GPU to Nvidia GPU, AMD GPU to AMD GPU, Intel CPU to Intel CPU, AMD CPU to AMD CPU. that way you shouldn't get any cross brand biases

https://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Nvidia-GTX-1050-Ti-vs-Nvidia-GTX-1050-Ti/3649vs3649

https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/AMD-Ryzen-5-2600-vs-AMD-Ryzen-5-2600/3955vs3955

*****************comparison request********************

720p low settings 30 fps with dips
720p low settings 30 fps
720p low settings 60 fps with dips
720p low settings 60 fps
720p med settings 30 fps with dips
720p med settings 30 fps
720p med settings 60 fps with dips
720p med settings 60 fps
720p high settings 30 fps with dips
720p high settings 30 fps
720p high settings 60 fps with dips
720p high settings 60 fps
1080p low settings 30 fps with dips
1080p low settings 30 fps
1080p low settings 60 fps with dips
1080p low settings 60 fps
1080p med settings 30 fps with dips
1080p med settings 30 fps
1080p med settings 60 fps with dips
1080p med settings 60 fps

Or anycombination not mentioned above

Aftyer a bit of practice you can look at a game and know whether it'll run.
The really key is mindset.

It has to be that of "Can my system run this game?"

and less
"I want this game, please someone tell me my system can run this game! I want to play this game so bad!"