Website where I enter my computer specs and I'm told what games will work

[hanzj]

Dear fellow Windows gamers,
Is there a site where I can enter my computer's specs and then I can see only those games that will work on my system?

Thanks.

[CharlesA]

http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/cyri/

I believe it uses Java to scan your hardware.

[hanzj]

CharlesA,
Thanks for your reply. I didn't want to know whether a particular game would run on my system. I wanted to know _all_ games that could run on my system.

[CharlesA]

I don't know of any other way outside of checking the system requirements of the game you want to play.

[cbennett926]

CharlesA,
Thanks for your reply. I didn't want to know whether a particular game would run on my system. I wanted to know _all_ games that could run on my system.

If you have an nVidia card they have a neat GPU tool that allows you to see what games will work, otherwise I would use the Windows Experience guide they have.

Here ya go!

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/products/features/windows-experience-index

[hanzj]

cbennett926,
my basic computer has no specialized graphics card. All I have is the Intel processor.

[cbennett926]

cbennett926,
my basic computer has no specialized graphics card. All I have is the Intel processor.

What processor? How much RAM? Also, what type of graphics card? Intel 3000?

[hanzj]

cbennett,
my computer has:
Intel Pentium P6200 (2.13GHz)
4GB DDR3 Memory,

GRAPHICS ENGINE*
Mobile Intel® HD Graphics
GRAPHICS MEMORY*
64MB-1696MB dynamically allocated shared graphics memory



inxi -Gx
Graphics: Card: Intel Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller bus-ID: 00:02.0
X.Org: 1.11.3 drivers: intel (unloaded: vesa,fbdev) Resolution: 1366x768@60.0hz
GLX Renderer: Mesa DRI Intel Ironlake Mobile GLX Version: 2.1 Mesa 8.0.2 Direct Rendering: Yes

[patrickceg]

Looking at those specs, I wouldn't expect much - see this set of benchmarks for your graphics engine:
http://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-Graphics-Media-Accelerator-HD.23065.0.html

As for the database, I don't know of any since it's more often that people look at a game they want and see if their computer can run it, not the other way around. With Intel graphics though, I'd limit myself to looking at 4-year old games or "Indie" games that don't go nuts with 3D graphics.

[Lucradia]

If you have an nVidia card they have a neat GPU tool that allows you to see what games will work, otherwise I would use the Windows Experience guide they have.

Here ya go!

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/products/features/windows-experience-index

The WEI will be increased to 9.9 in Windows 8 by the way. Almost all Windows 7 WEI for current hardware will stay the same in Windows 8 (unless you have a 7.9 that turns out to be like, 8.2.)

[smellyman]

A Windows forum? I kid I kid...

You are better off going to the website and forums of a game you want to play. trusting a random website could result in poor results.

[forrestcupp]

The only web site out there like this that I have come across is Can You RUN It, which CharlesA referred to. I hate to say it, but I think that's the best you're going to get. It's the only automated web site I've seen that analyzes your specific hardware.

Maybe if you can figure out how to contact them, you can suggest that they need to add the functionality to scan your computer and list all compatible games in their database.