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Posted December 01, 2017
Sorry if this is not the right place to post this, just have an idea that I think would be useful.
If the main opinion is against it, then just discard it, but anyway this is my suggestion

I often read the minimum and recommended technical requirements for games and always hit the same problem. The graphic card requirements. I don't understand why the developers just mention a model they may have tested as minimum and expect all users will know if theirs is worse or better just by the naming convention.

In my case I play with a laptop that has a Nvidia G940M, nothing spectacular, but how am I supposed to know if it's better than a GeForce GTX 660 2GB or an AMD Radeon 7850 2GB ???
I now have to lookup both these graphic cards to see their performance details and then compare with mine. On the other hand I already know that my graphic card has around 823 GFlops.

I would really suggest that instead of writing Nvidia GTX .... and AMD Radeon HD ... why not simply put the GFlops or Texel rate needed. Maybe it's more complicated than that, but at least I would know if my graphic card has enough power to run the game at first sight without checking up graphic card comparison websites.

Hope I didn't waste anyone's time.
Posted December 01, 2017
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alexcuria: Sorry if this is not the right place to post this, just have an idea that I think would be useful.
If the main opinion is against it, then just discard it, but anyway this is my suggestion

I often read the minimum and recommended technical requirements for games and always hit the same problem. The graphic card requirements. I don't understand why the developers just mention a model they may have tested as minimum and expect all users will know if theirs is worse or better just by the naming convention.

In my case I play with a laptop that has a Nvidia G940M, nothing spectacular, but how am I supposed to know if it's better than a GeForce GTX 660 2GB or an AMD Radeon 7850 2GB ???
I now have to lookup both these graphic cards to see their performance details and then compare with mine. On the other hand I already know that my graphic card has around 823 GFlops.

I would really suggest that instead of writing Nvidia GTX .... and AMD Radeon HD ... why not simply put the GFlops or Texel rate needed. Maybe it's more complicated than that, but at least I would know if my graphic card has enough power to run the game at first sight without checking up graphic card comparison websites.

Hope I didn't waste anyone's time.
Actually that's a good idea. With the number of models out there, it has become quite difficult to compare the different cards. Is there any easily accessible performance value that can be used to compare graphics cards? Or perhaps they could just specify some kind of card generation.
Posted December 01, 2017
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alexcuria: Sorry if this is not the right place to post this, just have an idea that I think would be useful.
If the main opinion is against it, then just discard it, but anyway this is my suggestion

I often read the minimum and recommended technical requirements for games and always hit the same problem. The graphic card requirements. I don't understand why the developers just mention a model they may have tested as minimum and expect all users will know if theirs is worse or better just by the naming convention.

In my case I play with a laptop that has a Nvidia G940M, nothing spectacular, but how am I supposed to know if it's better than a GeForce GTX 660 2GB or an AMD Radeon 7850 2GB ???
I now have to lookup both these graphic cards to see their performance details and then compare with mine. On the other hand I already know that my graphic card has around 823 GFlops.

I would really suggest that instead of writing Nvidia GTX .... and AMD Radeon HD ... why not simply put the GFlops or Texel rate needed. Maybe it's more complicated than that, but at least I would know if my graphic card has enough power to run the game at first sight without checking up graphic card comparison websites.

Hope I didn't waste anyone's time.
But the reverse could is also true, I don't know off the top of my head what my g-card's flops or texel rate is, but I know its a Nvidia Geforce GTX 1080 FTY which is greater than a GTX 660.

Not saying they couldn't give both options of course, but I would suspect that is more down to the developers - minimum specs tend to be conservative anyways. How would you handle multiple graphics cards, onboard ones etc?
Posted December 01, 2017
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alexcuria: Sorry if this is not the right place to post this, just have an idea that I think would be useful.
If the main opinion is against it, then just discard it, but anyway this is my suggestion

I often read the minimum and recommended technical requirements for games and always hit the same problem. The graphic card requirements. I don't understand why the developers just mention a model they may have tested as minimum and expect all users will know if theirs is worse or better just by the naming convention.

In my case I play with a laptop that has a Nvidia G940M, nothing spectacular, but how am I supposed to know if it's better than a GeForce GTX 660 2GB or an AMD Radeon 7850 2GB ???
I now have to lookup both these graphic cards to see their performance details and then compare with mine. On the other hand I already know that my graphic card has around 823 GFlops.

I would really suggest that instead of writing Nvidia GTX .... and AMD Radeon HD ... why not simply put the GFlops or Texel rate needed. Maybe it's more complicated than that, but at least I would know if my graphic card has enough power to run the game at first sight without checking up graphic card comparison websites.

Hope I didn't waste anyone's time.
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nightcraw1er.488: But the reverse could is also true, I don't know off the top of my head what my g-card's flops or texel rate is, but I know its a Nvidia Geforce GTX 1080 FTY which is greater than a GTX 660.

Not saying they couldn't give both options of course, but I would suspect that is more down to the developers - minimum specs tend to be conservative anyways. How would you handle multiple graphics cards, onboard ones etc?
I understand your point of view, but guess what, next year maybe Nvidia has a GTX 1140. Will you know if has better performance than yours? It's newer model, maybe more memory, more pipelines, more everything, but the ending numbers are lower.

I do expect that almost nobody knows the Gflops of their graphic cards, but it's something you lookup once and done.
For example, I know exactly the horsepower of my car, and although there are many many much factors to know if it's faster than another car (weight, gearbox ratio, etc...) I can know more or less it's raw performance. On the other hand if I compare a brand new 2017 1.6 litre 16v Ecoboost engine from Ford, how can I know if the engine has more horsepower than a 2005 2.0 litre 8v engine from Volkswagen ?

Maybe it's not the best example, and maybe you don't care too much about cars but I think you get the idea. If you find out the GFlops of your graphic card (yours should be around 10 TFlops or 10.000 GFlops) then you can instantly compare.
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