Systemrequirementslab.com - not so right after all

Interesting.

This site is used by many.... I was just on it, trying to figure out if I can run Grid. It told me i couldn't. Just for fun, I selected Battlefield 2. This is a game I already own, and i play with no lag at all and on 1600 x 1050 resos. It told me that my pc didn't even pass minimum requirements....

BS.

Anyone expereince this thing lying?

 

It would help to know the specs of the machine you did the test with.
I did it with my M570TU for Battlefield II and Crysis, I passed both for basic and recommended.

 

What component did it fail on?

I have a quad cored 2.4 q6600, and i can get a fail if the game needs a 3.0 processor speed!!! , it does not take the extra cores into account.

 

The website really doesn't tell you anything new beyond the information that you can find on the boxes of PC games. It compares the official system requirements (probably retrieved from the developers' website or even game packaging) and simply compares them to your own; it really is a website meant for PC gamers that don't know much about PCs. For people who know what hardware they have and what it is capable of, and who research first-hand experiences of how demanding the game is, the systemrequirementslab website is really useless.

 

I know, but even for new gamers, it isn't too much help....

I was using it just for interest's sake. I already know i can't run Grid

 

so you can't run grid, and it told you this, and it fails? sounds good to me.

 

the point is that it told him he can't run bf2 when he can at 1690x1050 (im assuming also either max or high settings)

 

Unless it's programmed to use the other cores, then it doesn't matter. But I thought they made the system "smarter" so that it recognized newer CPU's and their relative performance to a P4.

 

It told me I couldn't run grid for the wrong reasons as well. That's not the point of this anyway.

Yeah, i can run BF2 fine.

Interesting, i wonder how many newbies have not bought games based on what the site told them.

 

A single core of that quad core will run CIRCLES around a P4 3GHz.
Comparing GHz of those two processors is kinda like comparing RPMs of a low-end 4-cylinder and a high end 8-cylinder.

You REALLY need to know what something gets done in that cycle-per-second before GHz means anything in terms of performance.
A single core of that quad core does a lot more in one cycle than the P4 class can ever hope to do.

The sheer thought that a site supposedly devoted to helping people determine if they can run something not taking this into account is a good sign that the site is pure fail.

Ignore systemrequirementslab.com as they are completely pointless.

 

yep the website is full of it. It said I could not run halo 2 on minimum settings and guess what I can run it on max!

 

The website has a kind of grey-area when it comes to mobile-graphics, as well as multi-core cpu's. It just dosn't have enough variance in it's tests, and obviously it's data base to keep up with the performance of newer components.

 

Sysreqlabs is a great idea. Seems like they should be able to set up a rating system for each CPU. Just have to keep the database up to date with the latest CPU's.

 

Yeah I agree, a great idea, even some game devs place sysreqlab banners on their sites. If only they rated actual systems and stuff, kinda like mixed sysreqslab + futuremark, then it'd be better.