ABOUT

About FrameScope

FrameScope (frame-scope.com) helps PC players answer a practical question before they buy a game or an upgrade: how does my hardware compare with what the publisher asks for? It is an independent project run by one editor, and this page explains who is behind it and how its verdicts and articles are made.

The editor

Game Panda (電玩小熊貓)

Game Panda has been playing PC games for more than 30 years. His first PC ran MS-DOS 6.22, where getting a game to run meant tuning CONFIG.SYS, AUTOEXEC.BAT and expanded memory; since then he has lived through the arrival of 3D accelerator cards, the Windows 95/98 era, LAN parties and internet cafes, and many generations of graphics cards and CPUs. He designs FrameScope's methodology and hardware tiers: verdicts are based on official published requirements and verifiable specifications, never on promised FPS numbers. He writes and reviews the long-form guides; per-game and per-hardware guides are drafted by AI from our own data, pass automated quality checks and are spot-checked by him.

Areas of focus

Reading PC game system requirements
Choosing graphics cards and CPUs
Tuning game graphics settings

Contact: contact@frame-scope.com

He plans the hardware tiers, sets the rules the evaluation engine follows, writes and edits the guides, and reviews every AI-assisted draft before it goes public. When a page is wrong, he is the one who fixes it.

Why FrameScope exists

Requirement tables on store pages are short and often name hardware that is several generations old, mixed across brands. At the other extreme, many websites print an exact FPS number for thousands of game and graphics card combinations that nobody has actually tested. Neither helps much when you are deciding whether to buy a game, lower a few settings or replace a part.

FrameScope takes the middle path: it starts from what the publisher actually published, places your parts on the same relative scale, and says clearly what that comparison can and cannot tell you.

How verdicts are produced

Source: the minimum and recommended requirements on each game's official Steam store page.
Matching: the GPU and CPU lines are matched to reference models, and every supported graphics card and processor has a relative tier score.
Comparison: a deterministic engine compares your parts with the minimum and recommended references and checks VRAM, system RAM and SSD requirements separately. The same input always gives the same result.
No promised FPS: FrameScope does not include measured benchmarks yet, so it never states a frame rate. A verdict says where your hardware sits relative to the publisher's lists.

The full explanation, with a worked example, is on the methodology page.

How content is written

Game guides and hardware guides start as AI-assisted drafts built from the official requirements and the hardware data in our database. The editor then checks the facts, removes anything that reads like a measured result, rewrites unclear passages and approves the page. Drafts that have not been approved are not published. Long-form articles in the Guides section are planned and edited by the editor around his own experience building and upgrading PCs; AI may help with drafting there too, and every article is checked before publication. The details are in the editorial policy.

Independence and advertising

FrameScope is not affiliated with Valve, Steam, NVIDIA, AMD, Intel or any game publisher, and no manufacturer pays for a placement or a verdict. The site is funded by Google AdSense advertising shown on some content pages. Advertisers have no influence over hardware tiers, verdicts or articles, and FrameScope does not currently use affiliate links. If that ever changes, affiliate links will be labelled on the page where they appear.

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Contact

Corrections, requirement updates and questions are welcome at contact@frame-scope.com. See the contact page for response times and what to include.