Comment on Steam is adding support to show estimated FPS for your hardware before buying a game
thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
This is something gamers wish to have since inception of PC Gaming. And it was always told this cannot be done. That’s why we rely on game specs and tests. I mean we still rely on, but a storefront putting estimated FPS is something they would fear to do. And here we have VALVE (once again) doing the impossible. Very curious to see how this will workout in reality.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 day ago
It’s literally been a thing for decades. Not only have games themselves had automatic configuration based on the machine its installed to, sites like “Will It Run” have been around for a very long time.
thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
No, this has never done before. Games configuring itself is something completely different and irrelevant to our discussion topic. It has nothing to do with gathering information from players and trying to estimate a FPS before buying the game. “Can You Run It” also does not estimate a FPS for your hardware, based on opt-in information from analyzing the FPS you are playing the game. And especially making it an official thing for a store is also spicey, because usually those stores selling the games themselves could potentially be sued for false marketing if it does not work well enough.