Experience Index Idea

[Kosmiche]

Ok so windows vista and windows 7 have an experience index utility, telling you the performance of your system.

My idea is to put a suggested experience index rating on game boxes and also on digital downloads. This will not have an impact on sales as it is a suggested rating - the game will run on systems that fall under the rating just not as fluidly.

I think this will reduce the confusion that casual owners of pc's such as parents and students have when studying game requirements.

 

[krooton]

But the indexing itself is total crap.

Crossfire 5770s only gave me 0.4 more on the graphics experience score, whilst all my benchmarks were obviously showing massive improvements.

 

[edscdk]

but most games will run on most PC's at low detail / res anyway...

also the windows rating is a think at very simply test and not designed to give a gaming rating... more of a general idea..

 

[Dave****]

No, but what it should do is average out the score and not make the lowest scoring item the result.

 

[Sleepery]

I thought they already did that for Games for Windows titles? Can't check from work, but I'm sure I remember seeing it on boxes.

 

[unknownsock]

Thats a terrible idea as i'd have 5.9 with all the cards i've had 4870, 2x4870, gtx275 and a 5870..
A very bad way to know any gaming performance.

 

[Last Kronin]

mine is at 5.4 due to my hard drive or so it says, rest of the tsuf is 5.7 or higher, if i remember righlty there was talk about the index systems replacing the systeme requirments on games.

 

[dane3388]

Loads of people wont even know how to run the utility. The existing system is fine! Developers make games that run on the majority of computers to give the largest fan bases they can.