System Requirements Lab is a free web based tool for Windows Vista (using IE or Firefox) that scans your computer hardware and software such as CPU, CPU speed, OS, RAM, GPU-Video Card, Sound Card, Direct X version, etc and compares it against a video game’s specific minimum and recommended system requirements. It then provides a summary and detailed analysis of your system. This is useful before you go ahead and purchase a non-playable video game.

The analysis tells you what the requirement is, what your system has, and whether or not it passed the requirement. If any component does not meet a specific requirement, System Requirements Lab provides specific and detailed solutions to help you upgrade your system, be it a free driver download or link to a specific component.

The website has an established database of more than 100 Windows PC games and is growing constantly.

The tool is compatible with Windows 98, 98 SE, ME, 2000, XP, 2003, Media Center and Vista and can be run from Internet Explorer using an Active X control or Mozilla Firefox using Sun Java.