Steam Will Soon Encourage Players to Share PC Specs on Their Reviews

Valve's latest Steam beta lets you add your PC's specs to game reviews

The beta version of Steam now lets users contextualize game reviews with details about their PC's hardware.

The latest Steam beta lets users add their PC specs to reviews

User reviews on Steam may get more informative after a Steam Client Beta update released on Thursday, which adds an option for users to attach their hardware specs to game reviews. Steam users have always been able to share their specs in the text of their reviews, but the option to automatically include that data could encourage more users to add it, potentially making reviews more useful. When a user posts a negative review or reports having p…

What Spec Is Your PC? Steam Asks Gamers to Add Detail to User Reviews

The beta feature supports a reusable profile for your hardware specs so you can automatically apply them to future reviews rather than writing them out every time.

Steam will soon let users add hardware specs and performance data to reviews

According to the February 12 Steam beta patch notes, users can now automatically include hardware specs in game reviews and provide Valve with anonymized frame rate data. The features appear to be in the early stages of development but could eventually provide helpful performance metrics.Read Entire Article

Steam Will Soon Encourage Players to Share PC Specs on Their Reviews

Valve is introducing the ability to include your hardware specs in any reviews you leave on Steam.Rolling out now in the Steam Client Beta — which means only those with access to the beta test can do this; those of us using the stable branch may have to wait a little — Valve explained that reviewers can "attach hardware specs when writing or updating a Steam User Review on a game's store page."Some reviewers already include this information in t…