Steam wants to end your doubts: it will show FPS before buying a game

The Valve platform wants to help you know how a game will perform on your PC before buying it.

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Buying a game on PC always carries a small risk: not knowing exactly how it will perform on your machine. That could change very soon, as Steam is working on a new feature that promises to be especially useful for gamers.

According to internal data from the platform, Steam plans to display an estimated FPS before buying a game, based on your configuration and real data from other users with similar hardware.

Steam will show estimated FPS based on your PC and data from other players

The feature has been discovered through changes in the Steam system, detected by the community and shared by users like dex3108 on Steam Database. The files refer to a “Framerate Estimator”, a tool that would allow calculating the expected performance.

The system would work by combining two main factors:

• Your hardware configuration (CPU, GPU, and RAM)
• Data collected from other players with similar equipment

In this way, Steam could offer a fairly accurate estimate of performance before you buy the game, something that until now relied on external tests, videos, or comparisons. Additionally, the tool would include options to select components, save configurations, and consult data based on real experiences. Everything suggests that it will be a function integrated directly into the store.

For now, there is no official release date, but it’s one of those improvements that could make a difference in the PC buying experience. Knowing how a game will perform before buying it is, without a doubt, a step that many have been waiting for.