Can I Run It? Check Which Games Your PC Can Run

“Can I run it?” is really two questions: does my PC meet the game’s requirements, and how well will it run? Publisher requirements answer the first only roughly, so this tool answers the second with the same formula as our FPS Calculator, applied to each game’s type. For one game in more detail, use the FPS Calculator or open the game’s page in our games library.

What Typical Gaming PCs Can Run

Four common builds with 16GB of RAM: whether each meets the publisher’s recommended or minimum specs, and the highest preset that holds 60 FPS or more (estimated FPS in brackets; “under 60” means not even at low settings). The FPS is typical for the game’s type; where a build only meets the minimum, that game asks for more than most, so expect less.

How the Checker Works

1. Each game in our database has a type: typical AAA, esports (light competitive shooters and MOBAs) or CPU-heavy (strategy, simulation, MMOs, big open worlds).
2. For each game the tool estimates FPS at ultra, high, medium and low settings with the FPS Calculator’s formula: the lower of what your graphics card can draw and what your CPU can prepare.
3. It shows the highest preset that reaches your target frame rate, and the FPS there.
4. Your CPU, graphics card and RAM are compared with the publisher’s own minimum and recommended specs for that game. Those parts are placed on our score scale (where a listed part isn’t in our database, approximately, from public review averages), so a newer chip of a different brand is compared fairly.

The CPU and GPU scores are ComputingSkill’s gaming index, positioned from publicly reported review averages; we do not benchmark games ourselves (how the scores work). A game type is a rough class, so a particular game can run better or worse than its estimate, and ray tracing is not included. Upscaling and frame generation can add more: see DLSS, FSR and XeSS explained.