My Windows Experience Index is 5.9 because of my hard drive - will future games run? [closed]

Question

My Windows 7 machine has a Windows Score of 5.9:

Now, I know that my hard drive is not that slow (it is a RAID 0), but will games of the future fail to run if the score is low?

What does this mean for gaming?

Asked by John Gietzen

Answer

I don't think the Windows Experience Index is taken very seriously, though Microsoft is certainly pushing it, and it is meant as a suggestion when put on the box of a game, or as a scale for comparison when displayed on a computer for sale.

In any case, nobody can say for sure but I would say it's very likely that no game will ever enforce a certain Windows Experience Index, for this very reason. My computer's low score is due to some cheap RAM, but I still play games at high quality and I expect future games will continue to run decently well, or at least I will attempt it. I don't think a company would be stupid enough to release a game which enforces a certain minimum index, lest it would receive tons of rage from people like you and I.

But, who knows what the future holds. Some company might just be that unwise.

Answered by Ricket

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