About this site
Hi, I'm Patrick, online I go by chicksaw. doesitrun.com is a one-person side project, not a company, and it isn't affiliated with or endorsed by Valve or Steam.
It started when my graphics card died. While I was working out what to replace it with, I kept asking the same question about every game I owned: will this actually run on the new card? I couldn't find a tool that just answered that for a whole Steam library, without making me sign up, download something, or wade through ads. So I built one.
You sign in through Steam's own page (or just type your parts in by hand), and the site estimates the frame rate for every game in your library on your exact hardware, what runs great, what's borderline, and the cheapest upgrade that would fix it. How that estimate is calculated is explained openly on the methodology page.
What I promise
- No account and no sign-up. Use it signed in through Steam's own page (steamcommunity.com, the site never sees your password, only your public SteamID), or just type your parts in by hand. Nothing is installed in your browser. There is one optional download: a small hardware detector (a plain text .bat/.sh script you can read in full first) that reads your PC's parts and the IDs of your installed Steam games, and sends them back to this site to fill in the form, only after you confirm. You never have to use it; manual entry works just as well. It reads public profile data to do its job and doesn't sell or share it, details in the privacy policy.
- No banner ads, and I'm open about how it's funded. There are no display ads and no third-party ad-tracking. The upgrade tips and the PC builder use affiliate links to shops: if you buy through one, I may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. It never changes which hardware the site recommends, and nothing sits behind a paywall.
- Nothing to take on trust blindly. You can check the site yourself with independent scanners (Google Safe Browsing, VirusTotal, SSL Labs, Mozilla Observatory), the links are on the home page.
- It gets better with you. If you measure your real FPS in a game, you can report it, and it improves the estimates for everyone. ( player measurements so far)
Found a bug, got an idea, or want to say hi? Drop me a message. If the tool saved you some money or a bad purchase, that already makes it worth it.