Specify system requirements somewhere

[Zughy]

I can't find anything about what's the required and recommended system requirements for Minetest. Usecase: I wanted to draw a comparison with Minecraft using official data

[rubenwardy]

We don't have required/recommended requirements as we don't have access to enough test devices to determine what they should be.

Also, required and recommended requirements are completely arbitrary, Minecraft could be using a completely different target to us. You're probably better off recording FPS or frametime when viewing similar scenes on the same hardware. If someone is able to borrow a chromebook that would probably be quite compelling.

Another thing is that to crowd source testing it might be a good idea to create a standard benchmark

[rollerozxa]

There used to be a system requirements section on one of the Wiki pages linked from the downloads page, but it was useless at best and smartass-y at worst (did you know you need a screen to display graphics? speakers are optional if you want to hear... sound! Be sure to have a graphics card or use this thing called llvmpipe to render the game :D). The only system requirements that could be reliably written down would be the OS version support for each platform and the OpenGL(ES) versions supported. Latter being OpenGL 1.4 and OpenGLES 2.0 as minimum, but the recommended OpenGL would be whatever the new opengl3 video driver will use which I assume will be the baseline sometime in the future.

System requirements for things like CPU, disk space, memory, GPU etc. would fluctuate wildly depending on your workload and performance pain tolerance. You can make some absolute minimum requirements like 1GB of RAM (especially for Android where the OOM killer is very erratic on <1GB RAM devices), or that you should have a gigabyte or so of spare disk space to allow your world's map database to grow in singleplayer, but anything beyond that basically comes down to how high of a view range you want to have at a target framerate. For e.g. advertising the minimum requirements for an educator to be able to determine if a school's computer lab or laptop fleet could handle Minetest, the OpenGL version they have is basically the most important factor for having it run at all, whether the students can push 60FPS at 200 view range would likely be less important for educational use.

[Calinou]

You'll need to define some kind of baseline for comparison, such as a list of specs that can run Minetest in 1920x1080 at a stable 60 FPS on a blank Minetest Game world with no mods. It's a good idea to use a fixed spawn position and world seed as well to improve reproducibility.

There's obviously the caveat that the more mods you add, the higher your resolution/framerate expectations, the more powerful CPU/GPU you'll need.

This is what I did for the Godot System requirements page (feel free to use it for inspiration). I foresee the Minetest system requirements being pretty low by modern standards, likely being below the Godot minimum requirements for its Compatibility rendering method.