Check System Requirements of Games Easily

Check System Requirements of Games

In this article, I will be talking about a nice service that allows you to easily check the system requirements of games. Recently I bought a couple of games and I tried installing them on my computer system but with no success. I was thinking that my computer system wasn’t fast enough or my graphics card wasn’t good enough to support the games. Anyways, while I was searching the net for the games’ system requirements, I stumbled across a nice site that actually compares all your system specs with the games requirements and then tells you which piece of hardware is not up to standards.

The sites name is System Requirements Lab and you may have already used it before as it is an excellent hassle-free utility that quickly tells you the information that you need. You will need to give your permission to download an ActiveX/Java browser component that does all the analysis of your hardware. Currently the service supports Windows 98, 98SE, ME, 2000, XP, 2003, Media Center and Vista.

Some of the more notable games that you can check to see if your computer system will play them are BioShock, Call of Duty 4, Command & Conquer 3 Tiberium Wars, Crysis, Gears of War, NBA Live 08, Need for Speed Pro Street, NHL 08, SimCity Societies, Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance, World of Warcraft: Burning Crusade. So if you are planning to buy any of these games, I would suggest that you first check to see if your computer system is able to play them or else you will be utterly disappointed in the end, like me. :(

Comment posted by SecundaCasus
at 1/29/2008 8:19:15 AM

This sounds interesting, how many times have you scoped a game at the store, taken a look at the req’s on the box, only to install it and find out that you cannot run it. I wonder however if it actually informs you of anything you already did not know, because most of the time, my hardware has simply not been compatible for some reason or another. Only way to know is to try it out I suppose.

This entry was posted on Friday, January 25th, 2008 at 1:08 pm and is filed under Computer, Web 2.0. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

11 Responses to “Check System Requirements of Games Easily”

  1. Amanda…

    great post…I look forward to reading more! thanks alot!…

  2. The VAMPIRE are Here

  3. i need to know if i can run saints row to for pc i got 2gb ddr2 ram 8500 video card 512 mb ddr2 3.6 cpu and 250 gb hard drive

  4. A much more useful tool would be “what games can I run?” “Can I run it?” is retarded and/or for retards. All you need to do is google your game name plus system requirements to find out what the box says and I highly doubt they actually test these requirements for all these games. It’s likely a db full of box-copy-requirements.

  5. processor quad core 4.0ghz
    250 HDD
    ASUS BOARD
    2GB RADEON V’CARD
    2GB APACER MEMORY CARD

  6. This is best.But is there any software which i can download and it tell system requirements.This website is too heavy for me because my internet speed is only 115Kbps.
    Please tell me any software(nit website) which tells that your computer is perfet or not for this game.

  7. @Akhlaque Ahmed
    I am sorry but I dont know of any other tool like this. It should only download a small file when you initially install it so the long loading shouldn’t occur if you use it after that.

  8. Bookmarked for future reference. TY

  9. Hello,i want to know requirments for game grand theft auto 4? coz my pc very trouble or not support this game? my pc Amd athlon 5600 ghz 2.8,2gb ram ddr2 800mhz,HDD 500gb,MSI r3870 512mb 256bit.I hope n to know run this game perfect.

  10. hey, i have a trouble to play call of duty 4.. my system configuration is 333 mhz ,sd ram 64 mb , hdd 4 gb , motherboard gfexcel … plz tell how can i play call of duty4

  11. It appears canyourunit.com is no longer being updated. No new gsmes are listed.

Leave a Reply