I believe I've used it in the past. It was some systems labs website I had used before, it's nice.
Oh this site I used before, just change the name apparently. Yeah, it's safe.
I kind of got that impression when it told me that my computer met the recommended requirements for Bioshock, which I know for a fact runs like crap with this graphics card, first spazzing out and bluescreening all the time during my first play through on my pirated, non-Steam hacked copy, and then just lagging horribly (but at least not crashing) in graphics-intensive areas (including anywhere water was present) during my second play on my Steam copy. Both times with the graphics turned down as low as possible. I'd hope that the recommended requirements would be able to run the lowest graphics flawlessly.
Considering that the site says my graphics card is below the recommended requirements for Bioshock 2, I'm a little concerned about getting around to playing that one.
I think it might be because it doesn't take into account what kind of ventilation system you have or maybe the age of the CPU. I don't know anything on this subject at all, but it used to tell me all the time that games like LFD and TF2 could run just dandy on my old computer when really they were slow as hell, and I had an old processor that overheated all the time. Same for my little cousin, who had the best video card in the world (better than mine!) and enough RAM but it couldn't even run SoMI:SE for some reason we haven't figured out yet. (even with special effects turned off)
It told me I can run Unreal Tournament III which is almost definitely not true. I just bought Unreal Tournament 2004, though. God, I miss playing Unreal Tournament.
As has been said, it can be very inaccurate. It says i can run Crysis on full, but stand no chance in running Civ V. (actually it shows my system as being better than what they list, but still fails it.
Says I need ":Intel Core 2 Duo 1.8 GHz or AMD Athlon X2 64 2.0 GHz
You Have: 2.19 GHz"
I think it might be because it doesn't take into account what kind of ventilation system you have or maybe the age of the CPU. I don't know anything on this subject at all, but it used to tell me all the time that games like LFD and TF2 could run just dandy on my old computer when really they were slow as hell, and I had an old processor that overheated all the time. Same for my little cousin, who had the best video card in the world (better than mine!) and enough RAM but it couldn't even run SoMI:SE for some reason we haven't figured out yet. (even with special effects turned off)
That's it and it also doesn't take into account patches. Most of Valve patches make the games more proccy heavy then they out of the box.
It's insanely inaccurate. Firstly, it doesn't even seem to recognise my video card (ATI Mobility 5400 series), it tells me I can run Crysis on max settings on my old PC (which can't even handle Arkham Aslyum in lowest settings), it tells me that I can't run SCII on my laptop at all (which it does perfectly on high settings) and generally isn't very good.
It can be alright for a general idea but don't trust it when buying games that might not run.
If the requirement list a specific CPU and GPU then it's probably easier to use hierarchy charts: CPU, GPU. If your CPU and GPU are above the one listed, you should be able to run it.
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Oh this site I used before, just change the name apparently. Yeah, it's safe.
Also yes, I use this site a lot. Very handy.
How so?
In that my computer should be able to run Crysis on medium settings when it can barely run Splinter Cell: Conviction at 640x480 on all low settings.
Wow, you did a canyourunit on canyourunit and the internet didn't blow up.
I applaud you for that good sir.
Hiyooo!
I kind of got that impression when it told me that my computer met the recommended requirements for Bioshock, which I know for a fact runs like crap with this graphics card, first spazzing out and bluescreening all the time during my first play through on my pirated, non-Steam hacked copy, and then just lagging horribly (but at least not crashing) in graphics-intensive areas (including anywhere water was present) during my second play on my Steam copy. Both times with the graphics turned down as low as possible. I'd hope that the recommended requirements would be able to run the lowest graphics flawlessly.
Considering that the site says my graphics card is below the recommended requirements for Bioshock 2, I'm a little concerned about getting around to playing that one.
Says I need ":Intel Core 2 Duo 1.8 GHz or AMD Athlon X2 64 2.0 GHz
You Have: 2.19 GHz"
Same.
That's it and it also doesn't take into account patches. Most of Valve patches make the games more proccy heavy then they out of the box.
It can be alright for a general idea but don't trust it when buying games that might not run.