When you visit steam, you see system requirements, but here you never see anything written, for example for games that use unreal engine 4 or unity and can put a heavy load on your PC, why is that the norm on f95zone.com ?
System requirements are never posted?
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Probably because it isn't worth the extra effort as that information isn't always easily accessible or even correct for that matter.
If your computer can't handle unreal engine games just avoid them unless they say '3dcg' instead of '3d game', then you should be fine.
If your computer can't handle unreal engine games just avoid them unless they say '3dcg' instead of '3d game', then you should be fine.
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Most devs do not give those information because the only thing they know is that it works on their computer. And globally, the games are too basics to have effective requirements.
As for Steam, for indie games what is shown is generally the minimal requirements that come with the game engine. And as you implied, they aren't always correct. You need "at least this" to play a Unity game. But if it's coded with the feet by someone who wouldn't see an endless loop even with neon signs pointing to it, even the last gen computer would have difficulties to play it.
Right, because 97% of the games posted on f95zone have flash-game-tier performance requirements, with some H-scenes thrown in hahaha.
Cases where the incompetent dev has written a horrible mess that consumes 100% for one CPU core because they don't know how to use multiple cores, or any other technical mistakes, that's raw stupidity, I am not talking about that.
Kay, thread closed, thanks.
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Well...
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(the last version, released in 2020) requirements are relatively low. A 10 years old CPU, 8 GB of RAM, and an OpenGL compatible GPU with 1 GB of RAM. Running on Mac OS X 10.13/Windows 8.1 or upper.
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(the previous version, mostly used here) requirements are, obviously, lower. A 17 years old CPU, 2 GB of RAM and an OpenGL compatible GPU without RAM constraint. Running on Windows 7/Mac OS X 10.10/Linux kernel 3.16.0 or upper.Obviously, all the previous version have even lower requirements. So, in short, RPG Maker need at most whatever 10 years old computers.
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, it's a bit more complicated due to all the supported platforms. But globally here again a 10 years old computer is enough by default. Everything else will depend on the dev coding capabilities and smartness.A game like The Twist, started in 2016 and finished this year, works smoothly on a 10 years old computer. This while a game like Abandoned: A tale of forgotten lives, started in 2016, finished in 2018 and that had a last patch in 2021, have difficulties even with relatively recent computers. The difference between the twos being the models used. The first one use models made for Unity, so with a reasonable number of vertexes, while the second use Daz Genesis models that haven't had their vertexes number reduced.
As for Ren'Py, all versions prior to the 8.x branch can't use more than 2GB RAM anyway, and until the version 7.4.0 it was still working on 20 years old computers. Now it need a bit more recent GPU (yet only due to its drivers) and OS (it do not support Windows XP anymore and need at least Vista). Still, this apply only if really the game use the new features GL2, what is really exceptional.
Add HTML and Flash games to the list, and it's already 12,390 games, over 15,641 that match your sarcasm attempt.
Yet it's what raise the minimal requirement bar to something more than a 10 years old computer for more than 79% of the games available here.
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Steam/other store fronts have system requirements because they don't want to have to process refunds for idiots who don't know what their own computer can handle. That's not an issue on this site because there are no refunds.