Almost all of us who have tried their hand at PC gaming have been burned by framerate and support issues when buying a game. Unless you have a ultra-high end dedicated gaming PC ready to take whatever you throw at it, it is an absolute must to check out minimum requirements of a game and see if your machine can run it to your expectations. A game purchase can be wasted if your PC does not have the juice to support it in the first place. Several gamers including myself have firsthand experience of being trolled like this. (If you want to check out game requirements, SystemRequirementsLab has a thorough and accurate database.)
However, unless you have perilously outdated graphics hardware, most games should start on all PCs, including ones sporting just integrated graphics unless it completely lacks support for a specific framework or feature used by a game. What really stops you from playing a game with a below-minimum-requirements card is the framerate, literally the rate at which your rig renders the game frames. You obviously can't play FIFA if every pass takes a minute to go through, or Skyrim if an ancient dragon turns you into dragonborn shawarma by the time you lift your mighty war hammer. The risk of overheating also always looms over under-performing graphics cards, especially if you use a laptop (i.e, notebook PC).
While system requirements give you a fairly good idea on how things will run, a more accurate estimation can be found in this delicious service on notebookcheck.net.
Basically, it tells you the framerate of various games , on ultra-high, high, medium and low settings, on a multitude of graphics cards. You can filter the list for a particular game(s), a particular GPU or GPU manufacturer, show only notebook GPUs. The options don't end there, extending to announcement dates, features like pixel shaders, core speed, architecture, DirectX versions and more, which can be invaluable especially to the ones building their own PC.
If you want an uninterrupted gaming experience, you should always make sure the framerate is at least above 30 for your card. If you are willing take a slightly less smooth experience, remember that the type of game is important while assessing your framerate. A game where terrains and landscape whizz away in a blur and new areas have to be rendered on the fly, such as Need For Speed and similar games, a high framerate is necessary for good gameplay. Less rapid games like Dragon Quest: Inquisition, Far Cry and so forth can be played acceptably with a lower framerate.
Hope that will be helpful at some point to you!
However, unless you have perilously outdated graphics hardware, most games should start on all PCs, including ones sporting just integrated graphics unless it completely lacks support for a specific framework or feature used by a game. What really stops you from playing a game with a below-minimum-requirements card is the framerate, literally the rate at which your rig renders the game frames. You obviously can't play FIFA if every pass takes a minute to go through, or Skyrim if an ancient dragon turns you into dragonborn shawarma by the time you lift your mighty war hammer. The risk of overheating also always looms over under-performing graphics cards, especially if you use a laptop (i.e, notebook PC).
While system requirements give you a fairly good idea on how things will run, a more accurate estimation can be found in this delicious service on notebookcheck.net.
Basically, it tells you the framerate of various games , on ultra-high, high, medium and low settings, on a multitude of graphics cards. You can filter the list for a particular game(s), a particular GPU or GPU manufacturer, show only notebook GPUs. The options don't end there, extending to announcement dates, features like pixel shaders, core speed, architecture, DirectX versions and more, which can be invaluable especially to the ones building their own PC.
If you want an uninterrupted gaming experience, you should always make sure the framerate is at least above 30 for your card. If you are willing take a slightly less smooth experience, remember that the type of game is important while assessing your framerate. A game where terrains and landscape whizz away in a blur and new areas have to be rendered on the fly, such as Need For Speed and similar games, a high framerate is necessary for good gameplay. Less rapid games like Dragon Quest: Inquisition, Far Cry and so forth can be played acceptably with a lower framerate.
Hope that will be helpful at some point to you!
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