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Is was wondering if gog is working on this kind of hardware filter, i know there is a spec on each game but it is way more efficient to only see games that can run on low spec hardware( for exemple UHD 630,Intel HD Graphics 4000, and all other integrated video card)

Memory requierement will be also a great help.

Maybe there is a website out there with this kind of filter ?
I doubt that GOG is working on it. There's too many different hardware out there to make such a filter useful for most users.

Also many developers don't test their games on low spec computers and just give hardware requirements which are way too high. Very often you can play games even below the hardware requirements/recommendations.
Parsing hardware requirements is very much a matter of interpretation.

Take Limbo for example [url=Limbo]https://www.gog.com/game/limbo[/url]. The graphics requirements are

5 years or younger. Integrated graphics and very low budget cards may not work. Shader Model 3.0 required
This means 2015 or newer right? SImple enough, other than the fact the game was released in 2011.

Then there is the The Witcher Adventure Game

2.0 GHz Dual Core
1 GB RAM
Integrated Graphics (512MB)
My Pentium D 805 from 2005 is a 2.66GHz dual core. It comes with 945G integrated graphics. That must be good right?

Even assuming every developer gave sensible inputs to the filter, keeping it updated would be a nightmare.
Every year, games will move progressively down the requirements hierarchy as more advanced hardware is released - the older your computer is, the less relevant their filters become.
Then there are the games that stop working on newer hardware. Apple's dropping of 32 bit support caused much wailing and gnashing of teeth.

Honestly, if such a thing were feasible, Steam would have implemented it by now.
Post edited August 06, 2020 by Mortius1
I feel like the workload of creating such a filter would be a little too much in comparison to the commonly used filters. Moreover, knowing that some games are just not as well optimized as the others despite the system requirements that their developers had set for the potential buyers to see, makes the whole system or hardware requirement filter a little useless in my opinion. Again, this is just my opinion. I'm no programmer.

That said, I think there's nothing wrong with just sticking to the conventional way of heading straight for the store page of whatever game we're interested in and just search for that game's hardware requirements from there.
I was more thinking of a tick box {Low spec games}

It will immediatly show up good recent games like :

Papers Please
Hotline Miami
FTL: Faster Than Light
Castle Crashers
Stardew Valley
Terraria
Limbo
Diablo II
Shovel Knight
Prison Architect
To the Moon
Cave Story+
Stick Fight: The Game
Undertale
Civilization V
Spelunky
Factorio
Don't Starve
Mini Metro
Crypt of the NecroDancer
Project Zomboid
Braid
Thomas Was Alone
Into the Breach
baba is you
celest

This will work as a white list, people with regular laptop as only computer, will use that, i guess.
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fury_jin: This will work as a white list, people with regular laptop as only computer, will use that, i guess.
PCs aren't consoles - "low spec" and "regular" are meaningless concepts. Just forget about your magical "solutions".
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fury_jin: I was more thinking of a tick box {Low spec games}

It will immediatly show up good recent games like :

Papers Please
Hotline Miami
FTL: Faster Than Light
Castle Crashers
Stardew Valley
Terraria
Limbo
Diablo II
Shovel Knight
Prison Architect
To the Moon
Cave Story+
Stick Fight: The Game
Undertale
Civilization V
Spelunky
Factorio
Don't Starve
Mini Metro
Crypt of the NecroDancer
Project Zomboid
Braid
Thomas Was Alone
Into the Breach
baba is you
celest

This will work as a white list, people with regular laptop as only computer, will use that, i guess.
Your idea sounds a lot like curation.
Post edited August 06, 2020 by Vingry
i read something 'bout the cpu could make as much as 20% difference for the igpu

for example the difference between uhd630 on a i3 or a i7 ( similar generation )

never used mine though

i did saw a guy who managed to workout control on a uhd630 chip

makes one willing to say almost anything goes on a modern day chip
It's not exactly the same but sorting by "oldest first" or filtering by "indie" is a way to get a list with lots of low-spec games.
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fury_jin: Is was wondering if gog is working on this kind of hardware filter, i know there is a spec on each game but it is way more efficient to only see games that can run on low spec hardware( for exemple UHD 630,Intel HD Graphics 4000, and all other integrated video card)

Memory requierement will be also a great help.

Maybe there is a website out there with this kind of filter ?
You can use MaGog (http://www.an-ovel.com/pages/magog.php) for filtering by more or less anything you want, including system requirements.

Two caveats:
- The system requirements information MaGog filters on is that available on the GOG game pages, which is usually provided by the developer/publisher, so don't expect it to be too consistent across games.
- MaGog is currently functioning in legacy mode, which means she ignores games added to GOG in the past year or so (sliding window, updated once a month). This limitation will be removed when GOG removes Gwent from its catalogue (or does something similarly remarkable).
Post edited August 06, 2020 by mrkgnao
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park_84: It's not exactly the same but sorting by "oldest first" or filtering by "indie" is a way to get a list with lots of low-spec games.
That's... Actually true! Now I feel kinda stupid for not realizing this sooner haha.
I just found a game list of low spec games:

https://store.steampowered.com/curator/6874705-Low-Spec-Games/

and a other one :

https://www.slant.co/topics/3892/~best-low-spec-pc-games
Post edited August 22, 2020 by fury_jin
Yes, it’s not going to work though. There are quite a few games that you can get running on lower end systems. Heck a god win 2 can run gta 5 (and that’s not a low hardware game is it?), sure lower res, few things turned off or tweaked. See even a minimum requirement is not really always accurate, you may have a worse graphic card, but more memory and so it might work. These requirements are just put there to cover them if things don’t work.