Why such different hardware requirements?

[wasab]

I was shopping for new steam games and like always, I would check the hardware requirements. No use buying games that run poorly after all. 

 

I then notice a drastic difference in the hardware requirements between the OS.

 

Take total war Warhammer for example.

 

This is the minimum requirement on windows 

 

 

While on linux, the minimum is considerably higher 

 

 

However, the worst is on MacOS which requires a core i5 as opposed to a core duo on windows and an i3 on linux and 8 gb ram as oppose to 4gb on linux and 3 gb on windows respectively. 

 

 

This is a common trend across many games i find on steam. what gives? 

[Enderman]

Because they go off of officially supported hardware and not a hackintosh where you put whatever hardware you want in it like with a linux or windows PC.

Yo won't find a mac with a core 2 duo and 540 iris.

[wasab]

3 minutes ago, Enderman said:

Because they go off of officially supported hardware and not a hackintosh where you put whatever hardware you want in it like with a linux or windows PC.

Yo won't find a mac with a core 2 duo and 540 iris.

Assuming I created a Hackintosh with a core duo and 2014 onwards AMD cards, would that change the result? 

[Enderman]

3 minutes ago, wasab said:

Assuming I created a Hackintosh with a core duo and 2014 onwards AMD cards, would that change the result? 

Then I would go with the specs of the linux machine.

[wasab]

6 minutes ago, Enderman said:

Then I would go with the specs of the linux machine.

How would you even install graphics driver for a hackingtosh anyways? Neither AMD or nvidia website has a driver page for macOS. 

[SupaKomputa]

2 hours ago, wasab said:

How would you even install graphics driver for a hackingtosh anyways? Neither AMD or nvidia website has a driver page for macOS. 

AMD Drivers are included in macos, you can download nvidia drivers in their webpage.

[Chunchunmaru_]

My guess is they use porting layers from DirectX to OpenGL which could increase the overall hardware requirements

[Koeshi]

On 5/11/2019 at 11:28 AM, Chunchunmaru_ said:

My guess is they use porting layers from DirectX to OpenGL which could increase the overall hardware requirements

This.  While some games will have a true native Linux build, what normally happens is the Windows version is handed over to a company like Feral who are then paid to make it run on Linux.  This necessitates them adding some extra conversion layers, think of as kind of like them building their own version of WINE into the release.

[cretsiah]

@wasab when it comes to Steam now, I wouldnt bother with the "minimum" requirements, they seem to have become somewhat outdated.

 

I have had to to get refunds on games purely because of that issue. I only now look at the "Recommended" as the minimum base line.

[wasab]

Does maos support steam play? Or is it only Linux only feature?