gaming
Because of the freedom of specification matching, it is not easy to know whether your computer can play a game smoothly. In particular, different games may have different requirements for CPU, GPU or even memory. Microsoft seems to be officially solving this problem. The Verge discovered that they added a new label to the Windows Insider beta Xbox app to show whether the game can be “played smoothly on this PC.”
As some games show “performance tests are not yet available”, we can know that this function of Xbox is not only to analyze your PC hardware, but also to consider the needs of individual games to some extent. The detailed implementation method is not yet known, but if it can reasonably estimate the performance of the game on your computer, it should help players make decisions when purchasing the game.
Xbox app
At present, most games only list the “minimum hardware requirements” and “recommended hardware requirements”. A few game developers also list the recommended hardware for different modes such as Full HD, QHD, and 4K. But these are not universal guidelines in the industry, and developers are usually overly optimistic about their specifications, and sometimes it is difficult to have reference. If Microsoft’s label this time is to have a fairer authority, it still depends on what method it uses to calculate whether it is “smooth.”