System Requirements Lab a scam?

[startmenuisgone]

Ok so i was wondering about System Requirements Lab. I heard its a scam and highly inacurate. Well today i think i noticed something very odd. I was trying to see if i could run one of my fave games of all time, Hydrophobia Prophecy. However it said FAIL and said i only have 241MB Video ram. Thats not true, as i have over 500 on my ATI card.

Heres a screenshot of my Scan:
http://www.betaarchive.com/imageupload/ ... .62180.jpg

Is it just detecting my Embedded Video Card? Cause maybe i think my internal is about 200MB. Because my PCI Express card is an ATI Radeon 4800 series card with over 500MB.

[Panda X]

I ran the test for that game and it gave an improper result whereas others showed correctly.

[hogsy]

Yeah I played around with this and it gave me some pretty inaccurate results a few times for example I have 1GB of video ram and yet one time it showed I actually had more than that (3.7GB).

[Z33RO]

Yeah its not very accurate, especially with laptops. But its not a scam

[Panda X]

Yeah I played around with this and it gave me some pretty inaccurate results a few times for example I have 1GB of video ram and yet one time it showed I actually had more than that (3.7GB).

That 3.7 was probably shared and not dedicated.

[marceloantonio1]

It's not a scam. It's just not accurate.
I use it only to have an idea if the game will run or not, but I prefer to test the game myself.

[compgeke]

Honestly, those things are useless as often times you can play games on lower than reccommended. For example, Portal runs fine on a nVidia NVS160M while many people were saying it would run terribly. Sure, I have it on low-medium settings, but 30 fps is still playable to me.

[marceloantonio1]

For me 15FPS is playable xD
The only important things there for me is the pixel shader, vertex shader and hardware t&l.
They say that I can't run Resident Evil 4 but I can (~25FPS).

[prayaas1998]

Do you know what is defined as a 'scam'?

[Pwned]

For me 15FPS is playable xD
The only important things there for me is the pixel shader, vertex shader and hardware t&l.
They say that I can't run Resident Evil 4 but I can (~25FPS).

Same.

Don't listen to such testing labs. You may never know if it works or not unless you try. Before trying I usually also update my DirectX: DirectX End-User Runtime.