Love it, but can't run it.

Dishonored will run on pretty much anything, especially with settings lowered. That thing's almost a direct console port so you know it's super optimized.

Serious Sam 3 and Dead Island. They work, but at 10-20 fps.

I don't look forward to having to actually pay attention to specs when I get games in the (near?) future. My gaming notebook is from 2012 and not really upgradable, but I still operate under the presumption that it will run any game I try, even if on low, so don't bother checking specs.

I can run pretty much anything, but I will still have to upgrade my GPU (weakest part of my desktop) asap since I am not getting the results I would like to in some GPU greedy games.

Having this dilemma right now with Watch_Dogs,not sure if my CPU can handle it :(

Hmmm... Like 100 games. I'll play them when I get new PC (After about 5 months)

really surprising you can play bioshock infinite just fine but not Borderlands 2 or Sanctum 2. ive run those fine on intel HD4000 at max settings with just vsync turned off. i dont own bioshock inf. but i would think a game like that would be more demandin those those 2

My backlog just consists of most of the tomb raider collection and....ben there dan that....it might not be my cup of tea...but i just thought that game was terrible but i still put it in my "need to beat" tag in library

Wait, you can't run Sir, You Are Being Hunted? Check your PC, something must be wrong, software-wise.

Nothing. (yeah im being the guy bragging bout his new super pc)

I haven't had that problem in well over a decade, but I tend to lag behind on my backlog, so I'm never playing the latest and greatest game. So long as its new to me, that's all that matters. I tend to build solid budget computers, but since I'm playing games a couple of years after release, they all run like gangbusters.

I thoroughly enjoy a good run in Planetside 2 now and then, but my laptop really does have a hard time keeping up with it.

Oh, by the way, you can check PC Gaming Wiki for suggestions on how to optimise Borderlands 2. I had some frame drops here and there and decided to turn off the cel shading for a second run - I gained quite some FPS just by doing that, and the game still looks neat, if you ask me. Always google PCGW! ;-)

I sold my gaming PC recently so I only have a laptop and I don't planning buying on a new PC (moving a lot, work no time etc) so here are the games I can't run:

Alan Wake, Alan Wake American Nightmare - 18fps max on lowest settings

Saints Row 2-3 - fps drops, microstuttering.

The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing - microstuttering, fps drops

Deus EX Human Revolution - incredibly unstable fps, stuttering and drops

On my old non-gaming PC I convinced myself I could run GTA 4..... ignoring any good sense that I was using an i3, intel grapics, and a non gaming computer. The lag was SO bad. I also bought Skyrim from walmart before GTA 4 (60 bucks, before I knew what all steam could do for me.) I can't honestly say my old computer couldn't run it, because I never really played with the settings, lowered everything, etc etc. but to this day I still haven't played into Skyrim, and I guess one reason is I am irritated I paid 60 bucks for a game that you can get on steam with all the dlc for like $10 on a sale. grumbles

I would love to run Shadow Warrior 2013 at the highest settings because it would look so beautiful T.T
When a game won't run on your pc, i don't know for you, but to me it feels like it puts you in the friendzone. You love it but you can only watch gameplays XDDDD Man i'm such a poet.

Back in 1999. I got Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear for my Pentium I with 1MB integrate graphics processor... It was torture, 4 minute long mission took me around a hour to complete. And because it was my only game, I've done campaign 10-15 times.

I'm using Linux and have 1.3k games on steam. How do you think?

Just fyi, there is a nice performance guide for Borderlands 2 on Steam. With the normal in game settings I would get a sluggish framerate of ~30-40 only (with low/med settings @1080p native resolution), with some ini tweaks I can play with 60 fps @1080p and it doesn't look any worse than the low/med settings I had before. It's worth a try.

And like someone else said, Dishonored is a perfect example of how you should do a PC game. The min requirements are a joke, I'm only slighlty above those and I can run the game @1080p with almost maxed settings with 60 fps.

As for me personally, I did have some games that I couldn't play (Natural Selection 2 and Rise of the Triad would be some more recent examples - both have terrible optimization), but none that I would have absolutely loved to play.

I had to sadly get rid of my gaming PC and now have a gaming laptop .. Luckily I can run any game I have without any problems.

Mine is on Origin (Bf3)

Mirror's Edge is quite laggy, Bioshock Infinite takes 20 minutes to boot and Minecraft overheats my laptop, other than that I have no troubles.

State of Decay and Arma II operation arrowhead(Dayz mod) currently, other games which have high system requirements that i own i played on my brothers laptop, but he recently moved out of the house so... :(

Mine is crysis 3 on best settings, bit laggy. And prototype 2, laggy on medium or lower.. ..... Minecraft on tekkit( with maxed out graphics)

I haven't had to worry about system requirements for a very long time lol.

Skyrim, runs on decent fps on high, but just gives BSOD after ten minutes.