Valve has began testing a brand new function that may permit customers so as to add {hardware} specs to person evaluations, supplying you with extra info when trying to find out how a recreation may run by yourself PC.
The update, which is presently being deployed to the Steam Beta Shopper, will give customers the flexibility to connect {hardware} info to person evaluations as an alternative of simply counting on customers coming into this within the textual content immediately. The patch notes do not point out how or if these specs will likely be verified by Steam, or whether or not the data goes to be sourced from Steam’s non-compulsory Hardware Survey database.
Both manner, it ought to give evaluations extra context when customers go away criticism over a recreation’s efficiency, letting making a decision over whether or not it would have an effect on your present {hardware} configuration. Along with this, Valve can also be giving customers the choice to permit for anonymized framerate information assortment. That is presently unique to gadgets utilizing SteamOS (which is formally simply handhelds presently) however will apparently be used to assist Valve decide recreation efficiency and compatibility to enhance Steam going ahead.
That type of information could be very worthwhile to the continued improvement of Valve’s SteamOS-powered desktop, the Steam Machine. This console-like PC was just lately delayed into the primary half of 2026, however Valve did reaffirm that it expects most video games to run at 4K and 60fps whereas making use of upscaling methods. Given the {hardware} underpinning the Steam Machine, extra body charge information may assist information Valve into extra centered optimization avenues for video games which are presently in style.
You can try each adjustments in the event you choose into Steam’s Beta Shopper channel, with each options more likely to be patched into the official department within the close to future.