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Steam would have to offer much more loosened refund options if they overestimated the capabilities of your system setup, be it drivers, interfering software or just misjudged hardware.
Liability. To the publisher:
Steam would be liable for missed sales if they underestimated the capabilities of your system setup, be it outdated hardware lists, misjudging benchmark results or due to interfering software.
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
This is also because it's not just hardware, but also software that counts. You can have good hardware but still run it like a toaster due to software mess.
If you want a "can i run it", the problem is that it's not accurate. The various canirunit sites do NOT give the same results for the same hardware/game combo. Even Microsofts compatibility check in their store is wonky.
Yes!
All games list system requirements. And it's not very difficult to look up and see if your CPU is better, worse, or equal to the minimum requirements CPU.
Same with the GPU.
Everything else it's pretty easy to find figure out if you're above or below, or have more or less than the requirements.
There's also lots of resources like https://www.systemrequirementslab.com/cyri
You can also just list your specs and the name of the game and people will rush to chime in. Only problem is some people are quick to say no if the hardware is substandard, but the answer may be yes technically if you look a little closer and aren't biased.
Alternatively running relatively current decent hardware makes things a non-issue.
That's true. I think they "up' the minimum standards. I'm playing some games i never thought would play on this pc.
On every game page if you scroll down a little, you'll see a section titled "System Requirements". There, the minimum and recommended requirements are listed. Just compare what you have with what's listed and you'll have your answer.
If you don't understand what you're looking at, then you should probably do a little reading on computer hardware first. You'll only be frustrated with PC gaming unless you at least know the difference between storage and RAM and you know what a graphics card is.