Can You Run It? Must have website!!!

[Chris]

www.systemrequirementslab.com/cyri/intro.aspx

System Requirements Lab

Can I run Battlefield 3, or Modern Warfare 3? Does my computer meet the minimum or recommended requirements for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim? Difficult questions. But evaluating whether or not your computer meets or exceeds hardware requirements is our specialty. Remembering your exact PC hardware specs is tough, deciphering the meaning of a PC game’s minimum requirements is challenging and combining those tasks together is almost impossible for mere mortals. But Can YOU RUN IT does this millions of times every month. See for yourself, takes less than a minute.

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What it does

This site provides a One-Click solution that looks at your computer's hardware and system software to determine whether or not your current system can run a product. Each of your computer's components is evaluated to see how well it meets the minimum and recommended requirements for specific products. Recommendations are made on how to update or upgrade each component which does not meet the listed requirements. Sometimes, a simple, free software download is all that is needed. Sometimes you'll find that you need a different video card to fully experience what the game has to offer.

[kukijs]

I use it for few years now, but i have to say. It's incorrect at some points. Even if it says you cant run it - often you can. Just look at what points you are failing. For example You have WIN 7 and instaled 4 gb ram, 1gb video card and some other stuff. Windows than shows, that you have available on 2,3 gb of your ram. NFS The Run for instance REQ 3 gb of ram. SRL than shows that you cant run ir. BUT it runs perfect on my PC, because i have those 4gb of ram in RL, 1,7 gb ram are just reserved for videocard and other stuff.

Other problems i have noticed is - it sometimes has problems with multi core processors. It sees only 1 core. Or doesn't see so called Turbo Mode - build in ''over clock'' option.

[Chris]

This is of course a guide because as you said sometimes a system below minimum specs can still run it. That in turn depends upon your hardware, clock speeds etc etc, sometimes the difference between .. for example.. 3gig DDR2 667 and 3gig DDR2 800 is enough.

Never had any problem with it not seeing my 4 cores, but as far as the ocerclock option that most AMD cpu's have, that is code based in the bios with a graffical frontend for windows.

[kukijs]

I have i5 with ''turbo boost'' option and Nvidia card with CUDA. so when pc is not running something heavy, nor processor nor card work on it's full power and it sometimes causes some problems.

But Yeah. It is very useful and i give it thumbs up.