Steam will tell you how many FPS games will run on your PC before you buy them

Valve Steam It is one of the largest online video game stores for PC, which even has statistics to determine what type of hardware its players use. Now it appears that he is working to complement these statistics and show the average FPS speed of users. This average speed would serve to determine how many FPS our computer can move a game at, based on data from other users with the same or similar hardware configuration.

Steam will show the average FPS according to your hardware thanks to user data

With the latest updates, Valve already collected this data anonymously, without linking the FPS to no user account. But these FPS would be linked to a specific hardware configurationand now we know what his intentions were. The reason is none other than to help users evaluate the compatibility or actual playability in gamesto add it to the product page.

CPU, GPU and RAM data to provide real performance data in Steam games

According to the data of Valvethis collects information from the CPU used, the GPU that the PC has and the RAM memory. Its database also collects performance tuning entries for games and hardware. These data allow us to compare the game with a actual performancebeyond referring to the minimum or recommended configuration established by the manufacturer, and which many users will surely appreciate knowing a performance closer to the real one. before buying the game.

This data can also be used to improve the validation of games on their platforms with Steam OScurrently on a smaller number of devices. But at the moment there is no date for Valve to begin using this valuable information, nor has it confirmed how this tool can be used within Steam. You can initially start with a version beta to later be available to all users.