PC games, system requirements are not exact..?!

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Ok this might sound weird, but new games these days seem to have low pc requirements and still if you have those hardwares that they recommend you to have to play that certain game its still unplayable or it just lags rly hard even with the recommended specs or higher.... for example Watch dogs, AC Unity or some other pc games. I just hope it wont be like that with the new upcoming games (2015/2016) like The division, Black Ops 3, AC Syndicate, Rainbow Six Siege etc. so again if the games lags alot why do they even put such a low requirements ???

Sry for my bad english.

EDit: The Division & Black Ops 3 have such a low system requirements. The min. sys. requirements of The Division is so low but the game itself is so demanding and I can't imagine how to play that game on such a low spec. Even the recommended requirements aren't so high. Same goes for Black Ops 3. So are those requirements just there to tell you that you can play the game but not at a constant 60 fps or on ultra settings ??
 
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System requirements aren't consistent across all developers and performance seems to vary heavily depending on who makes the game. Ubisoft has a long history of releasing crappy ports to PC that are very badly optimized and don't run all that great even with top of the line hardware. Conversely you have some other developers who have decently optimized games and even their minimum system requirements are a bit overstated and the games are still playable even if you don't strictly meet the so called minimum spec.

It's almost getting to the point now that you have to look at the system requirements as very loose guidelines and seek out benchmarks from hardware review sites if you want a decent idea on how a game will perform on your...
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System requirements aren't consistent across all developers and performance seems to vary heavily depending on who makes the game. Ubisoft has a long history of releasing crappy ports to PC that are very badly optimized and don't run all that great even with top of the line hardware. Conversely you have some other developers who have decently optimized games and even their minimum system requirements are a bit overstated and the games are still playable even if you don't strictly meet the so called minimum spec.

It's almost getting to the point now that you have to look at the system requirements as very loose guidelines and seek out benchmarks from hardware review sites if you want a decent idea on how a game will perform on your system. I suppose one good thing with Steam's new refund policy is you do have the option of trying a game, and you can get a refund if it simply won't run at an acceptable framerate on your system. It's probably the next best thing to having the publishers actually putting out a demo for people to try so the customer can confirm that the game will actually run on their computer.
 
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