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so you've recently decided to get into the world of pc gaming but
given that your seven-year-old computer struggles just to boot into Windows you
find yourself wondering aloud how in the world am i going to run those
fancy new aaa titles that my favorite streamers are playing on thousand dollar
hardware but wait the listed minimum system requirements
on the side of the box or excuse me web page
actually seem pretty close to what you have
so why is everybody running out buying prohibitively expensive hardware just to
play games well first off on a console most games are
tweaked to run in a predictable consistent manner on one specific
hardware configuration or at most like five
but running well may mean different things
to different people and this is particularly true of pc gamers
so typically the minimum requirements you see on steam or on a game studios
website are close to the bare minimums
to get the game running or at least walking we're talking low quality
settings at a low resolution with still
low frame rates and while this actually might be good
enough for a lot of people many others would probably be left feeling
unsatisfied from time to time game studios also
based their minimum requirements on the hardware that is technically compatible
at all rather than on a minimum bar of acceptable performance for example a
game might be coded in such a way that it requires the graphics card to support
certain instructions to produce specific visual effects
so if the earliest gpus that support everything the game needs are say five
years old then the minimum requirements might list a GPU from that era even if
the game might run so slowly at anything other than absolutely minimum on that
card that it looks more like a pixelated slideshow than an actual game
so in these sorts of situations minimum requirements are true minimums
with the game not being playable at any settings if your hardware isn't up to
that level on the flip side other game developers
have been known to post minimum requirements above what you may be able
to get away with this can happen for a number of reasons oculus famously set a
very high minimum spec for the rift on its release to ensure that anyone who
followed their guidelines would have a smooth experience across the platform
and in other cases game studios have made assumptions about what they think
most players will be using instead of spending a ton of r d time validating
very old stuff and they've effectively used the minimum spec as a way of saying
well anything under this might work and you're welcome to try but we just won't
guarantee that the experience will run well
adding even further to the confusion are the recommended specifications a term
about as devoid of meaning as a janitorial log in a gas station bathroom
since there isn't any kind of standard for what recommended means you'll
sometimes see configurations that might still not be good enough to run the game
on high settings with decent frame rates while others will list components that
are obviously overkill like eight thread
processors for games that can't take advantage of more than four so okay then
Linus if i want to make sure my computer can actually handle my new game
what the heck am i supposed to do then well figure out what kind of experience
you want are you okay with running a game at console like 30 FPS or is
buttery smooth 60 frames per second performance something that you have to
have and what kind of trade-offs are you
okay with making between that performance and image quality
once you've decided the answer is benchmarks there are plenty of resources
available online where popular games are tested on different CPU graphics card
and quality setting combinations at different price points by independent
reviewers you can use this information to decide if it's worth it to upgrade
and how expensive of a part you might need and you actually might end up
pleasantly surprised to find out how good of an experience you can have with
a mainstream processor and a sub 200
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