Suggestion (maybe?) Auto-degrade feature

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As a person who loves games as a hobby, but not enough to actually spend 1500 euros on a gaming PC, I was wondering if the engine can be updated to run a benchmark before launching a game and, based on algorithms, to automatically adjust not only game settings, but also automatically decrease the polycount, texture resolution and everything else so that it can run on very under-powered rigs. Either by adjusting things in real time, or by rewriting the game files, so that it can check a minimum FPS selected by the user.

Kudos and if not possible, please ELI5 me.

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It already does this

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In that case, please allow me a newbie question. How come there are still… minimum requirements for games?

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Because the game requirements can easily be higher than the user’s machine can ever hope to reach.

Most people’s desktop computers aren’t capable of running much more than candy crush.

This code will automatically tweak the engine settings to suit a machine. But if that machine it total rubbish, nothing can be done.