what tool do you use to know if your PC can run a game at a certain fps/pixels etc

xBlackwater18

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Hi guys,

What tool do you use to know if your PC can run a game at a certain fps/pixels/game settings etc.
I've tried using benchmarks but they are not interactive, user friendly and don’t really benchmark MY particular gaming system.

Can You Run It doesn’t include things such as fps/pixels/game settings etc (thus not a option)
Asking on forums results most of the time to inaccurate advice and again, not interactive.

The problem is, all of the options above (benchmarks, CYRI, forums) are not interactive; i can’ t pick any gpu/game combination i want or any resolution/game settings combination, things like that. I want to be able to play around with those settings and eventually build a PC for particular game(s).

Do u guys know such a tool/service? It would definitely help me out.

cheers
 
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Nvidia's GeForce Experience may help you, you can change the games to run at certain resolutions and things, I know it has a performance - looks slider, but I do not think it can tell you the framerates you will get. Thankfully it comes with shadowplay, a great framerate measuring tool.

Just note, you need a Nvidia graphics card, and for shadowplay it has to be in the GTX division.

If you are on AMD, they have an equivalent, and the free fraps demo can let you monitor frames.

LostAlone

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There isn't really such a thing. The potential combinations of hardware and games are really really huge and no-one has documented them all. You can compare present games that you know the performance for against new ones that you don't yet own, and you can run benchmarks to see how your system compares to systems that achieve specific settings but those are still just a guide. You can ask people of course, although specific forums for those games are a better bet than here.

The truth is that it's very much trial and error. Go see how things run, tweak settings, try again. That's just the nature of PC gaming. Don't buy games you don't think you can run, and move on with your life.
 
Typically, you look at your system, what similar games tend to benchmark, and guestimate. For example, my i7 2600k/GTX 770 will run pretty much everything at Very High, 1080p in the 50's FPS range, but start to choke a bit on Ultra on a game to game basis.
 

duck74uk

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Nvidia's GeForce Experience may help you, you can change the games to run at certain resolutions and things, I know it has a performance - looks slider, but I do not think it can tell you the framerates you will get. Thankfully it comes with shadowplay, a great framerate measuring tool.

Just note, you need a Nvidia graphics card, and for shadowplay it has to be in the GTX division.

If you are on AMD, they have an equivalent, and the free fraps demo can let you monitor frames.
 
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