Games filteres by PC specs
Hi, i wanted to suggest a filter for the games browser in Steam.
Since there's a lot of differente configurations and a lot of people tha are still using low specs PCs, it would be a titanic effort to compare all the old hardware for all the games. But once the old hardware is done, it should be easy to maintain this system.
The idea is not filtering "as a rule", but more as a "suggestion". Users can input their specs in the filter and the system will filter out all the games that 100% will not run on that machine, leaving the ones that "could run, but not guaranteed" with a visual warning, and the ones that will run fine too.
I noticed every now and then you ask us to survey our specs, and that's a great idea for this purpose. You could use that system to automatically add the specs into the filter for people that are less "knowledgeable", and then give the option to apply the filter or not.
You don't even need to go "one by one" adding hardware into the database to compare. You can check simple things like "number of cores", "Hz", "GPU generations", "GPU entry level" (for example, GTX1050 and GTX1080 are same generation but the 80 means is high-end), "GB of ram", "SO", "resolution"... and so on. It can be only used as suggestions, as i mentioned earlier, just to prevent users from seeing games that they actually can't run.
ON TOP OF THAT, you can even make a "warning" if the user don't actually filter the games, but Steam knows it specs, and add a little visual cue indicating that the game "may not" run well in their PC.
I'm really sorry if i'm saying something strange because english is not my main language, but i think it would be a cool feature.
My best regards !!!
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I'd suggest you use the search as its been asked for before and its not really feasible. There are quite a few issues and Microsoft tried something like this a while ago and gave up.

Just a few of the issues.

1. Steam has no way to know how the game will run, games can run well even if some of your hardware is under spec, or not run well even if you have stronger hardware.
2. The concept of "running well" is so ambigious everyone will have different ideas of what it means. Not to mention it greatly depends on the game settings
3. Steam can't test every combination to verify, so if steam tells you a game will run well and it doesn't well that makes them liable.
4. Likewise if steam tells you a game won't run well and it does that makes steam liable as well.
5. Most users don't want steam saving their computer specs or having access to that data.
etc
It's a great idea, one of the holy grails.

But, easier said than done. And lots of reasons why it hasn't been, at least not satisfactorily.
Liability, to the customer:
If Valve acted on, filtered or rated a game based on given hardware, Valve could be held liable for false advertisement to the customer. While there is the option for refunds, Valve would have to be much more lenient with how frequent they tolerate returned games due to unsatisfied hardware requirements that were inaccurately represented, be it through misjudgment by the developer and/or publisher, misconfigured hardware settings, drivers, combination of software on the operating system or other variable factors that lead to exotic outliers.

Liability, to the developer and/or pubisher:
If Valve acted on, filtered or rated a game based on given hardware, Valve could be held liable for missed sales to the developer and/or publisher for misrepresenting a product during the opportunity of its sale towards certain customers due to inaccurate evaluation by underestimation of a system's power relative to the given hardware requirements, be it through misjudgment of benchmark results by misconfigured hardware settings, drivers, combination of software on the operating system or other variable factors that lead to exotic outliers.

The system requirement info fields are form free text fields instead of static fields in which to add or select hardware components from.
Valve would have to have a perfectly written and ranked database in which components are compared and benchmarked, something no vendor, not even specialized sites that benchmark hardware, can provide accurately due to exotic outliers.

No, Valve wouldn't do that.
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