PC requirements for games? Where to find out?

I'm thinking of purchasing Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic on Steam and trying out the series for the first time on PC.

Is there a way to find out if a game is able to run on my current hardware? I don't have a gaming PC, just a regular one I got as a gift.

It gives you the system requirements on the steam page itself.

Otherwise you can find out on Wikipedia probably. Also the website canyourunit.com can be helpful.

I don't actually know how PC gaming works, and don't know any details about anything. Is that site safe to download the application?

Yeah it should be. My computer's fine and I've used it loads of times.

I don't actually know how PC gaming works, and don't know any details about anything. Is that site safe to download the application?

thattotally

Nope, I know the system properties of the My Computer icon which has small information to see such as Intel Core 2 Duo and 2.80 Gz and stuff like that. But as to whether or not I'm supposed to match the number with the name and see if they're the same, I'd feel more comfortable having a program just tell me if I'll be able to run it without hardware problems or such.

This is just a preliminary to see if I'm going to go ahead and maybe try out PC gaming with more recent titles sometime this year, and if needed actually get some PC gaming components or such.

Anyway thanks that site is pretty useful.

Apparently I need a better video card for recommended results. For the rest they gave me a Pass.

http://svc.systemrequirementslab.com/CYRI/ (use Internet Explorer for that site cuz of ActiveX)

This site scans your hardware, and tells you not only if you can run the game but how well you would run it.

Type Can you run it in a search engine (google)

and enter systemrequirmentslab

You must use IE though

KotoR is so old you should be able to easily run it on any machine made within the last half decade. Even if the thing is using onboard video.

There are several ways to find out your systems specs, one is with DxDiag (as stated by others already) and Belarc Advisor (free download) which puts everything into laymans terms and shows you everything you have installed both software and hardware wise.