Farcry 2 PC Requirements

Minimal:
CPU:
Pentium 4 3.2 GHz, Pentium D 2.66 GHz, AMD Athlon 64 3500+ or better

Video card: NVIDIA® 6800 or ATI®X1650 or better; Shader Model 3 required; 256 MiByte video memory

Memory: 1 GB

Media reader: DVD-ROM

Recommended:
CPU: Intel® Core 2 Duo Family, AMD®64 X2 5200+, AMD® Phenom oder besser

Video card: NVIDIA® 8600 GTS or better, ATI®X1900 or better; 512 Mb video memory

Memory: 2 GB

Sound: 5.1 sound card recommended

Media reader: DVD-ROM
SaintsRowSam

That's crazy. That's why I'll be getting the XBox 360 version instead.

Thats a bunch of crap. The recommenced is never what you need to run the game maxed out. Sure you'll be able to run it decently but now what you expect. Anyone remember the requirement for crysis and yet the only play to truell7 play it maxed out is with tri-SLI 280GTXs.

Hey but if there close to that then I reward ubisoft for good optimizing.

[QUOTE="SaintsRowSam"]Minimal:
CPU:
Pentium 4 3.2 GHz, Pentium D 2.66 GHz, AMD Athlon 64 3500+ or better

Video card: NVIDIA® 6800 or ATI®X1650 or better; Shader Model 3 required; 256 MiByte video memory

Memory: 1 GB

Media reader: DVD-ROM

Recommended:
CPU: Intel® Core 2 Duo Family, AMD®64 X2 5200+, AMD® Phenom oder besser

Video card: NVIDIA® 8600 GTS or better, ATI®X1900 or better; 512 Mb video memory

Memory: 2 GB

Sound: 5.1 sound card recommended

Media reader: DVD-ROM
blackace

That's crazy. That's why I'll be getting the XBox 360 version instead.

What? Do yuo know how cheap you could build a pc to match the recommended requirements let alone the minimum?

[QUOTE="SaintsRowSam"]Minimal:
CPU:
Pentium 4 3.2 GHz, Pentium D 2.66 GHz, AMD Athlon 64 3500+ or better

Video card: NVIDIA® 6800 or ATI®X1650 or better; Shader Model 3 required; 256 MiByte video memory

Memory: 1 GB

Media reader: DVD-ROM

Recommended:
CPU: Intel® Core 2 Duo Family, AMD®64 X2 5200+, AMD® Phenom oder besser

Video card: NVIDIA® 8600 GTS or better, ATI®X1900 or better; 512 Mb video memory

Memory: 2 GB

Sound: 5.1 sound card recommended

Media reader: DVD-ROM
blackace

That's crazy. That's why I'll be getting the XBox 360 version instead.

There's nothing crazy about it.

Core 2 Duo family CPU's are very common these days while quad-core CPU's constantly become cheaper and cheaper.

The Nvidia 8600GTS is a low-end card which costs very little. You'd be better off throwing in an extra $50 for an 8800GT which should run this game as smooth as silk.

Also, 2GB of memory is extremely cheap and has been the norm for most stock computers for a long time now.

Thats a bunch of crap. The recommenced is never what you need to run the game maxed out. Sure you'll be able to run it decently but now what you expect. Anyone remember the requirement for crysis and yet the only play to truell7 play it maxed out is with tri-SLI 280GTXs.

Hey but if there close to that then I reward ubisoft for good optimizing.

Killfox

Well the 360 wont be matching the recommended requirements lol. and you dont need tri-sli GTX 280s to max crysis. My friend does it with a single GTX260 at 1440x900...stop talking rubbish pls.

Thats a bunch of crap. The recommenced is never what you need to run the game maxed out. Sure you'll be able to run it decently but now what you expect. Anyone remember the requirement for crysis and yet the only play to truell7 play it maxed out is with tri-SLI 280GTXs.

Hey but if there close to that then I reward ubisoft for good optimizing.

Killfox

Recommended =/= Maxed Out

Recommended is only used to describe the PC specifications that are required to run the game at moderate settings within the game. An 8600 GTS will not max this game out, but it *should* run it at medium settings with stable framerates.

[QUOTE="Killfox"]

Thats a bunch of crap. The recommenced is never what you need to run the game maxed out. Sure you'll be able to run it decently but now what you expect. Anyone remember the requirement for crysis and yet the only play to truell7 play it maxed out is with tri-SLI 280GTXs.

Hey but if there close to that then I reward ubisoft for good optimizing.

DAZZER7

Well the 360 wont be matching the recommended requirements lol. and you dont need tri-sli GTX 280s to max crysis. My friend does it with a single GTX260 at 1440x900...stop talking rubbish pls.

A GTX 260 would start to suffer on resolutions above 1680 x 1050, though.

[QUOTE="Killfox"]

Thats a bunch of crap. The recommenced is never what you need to run the game maxed out. Sure you'll be able to run it decently but now what you expect. Anyone remember the requirement for crysis and yet the only play to truell7 play it maxed out is with tri-SLI 280GTXs.

Hey but if there close to that then I reward ubisoft for good optimizing.

-Jiggles-

Recommended =/= Maxed Out

Recommended is only used to describe the PC specifications that are required to run the game at moderate settings within the game. An 8600 GTS will not max this game out, but it *should* run it at medium settings with stable framerates.

QFT

[QUOTE="DAZZER7"][QUOTE="Killfox"]

Thats a bunch of crap. The recommenced is never what you need to run the game maxed out. Sure you'll be able to run it decently but now what you expect. Anyone remember the requirement for crysis and yet the only play to truell7 play it maxed out is with tri-SLI 280GTXs.

Hey but if there close to that then I reward ubisoft for good optimizing.

-Jiggles-

Well the 360 wont be matching the recommended requirements lol. and you dont need tri-sli GTX 280s to max crysis. My friend does it with a single GTX260 at 1440x900...stop talking rubbish pls.

A GTX 260 would start to suffer on resolutions above 1680 x 1050, though.

Yeah it would, not disputing that mate :)

Arent these req the same as Crysis? I cant find the req on my box...Memoryitis

Nope, Crysis's system requirements are significantly higher.

before we know it were gonna have to be selling our souls to Crytek to play there gamesAnimal-Mother

Why? Do they charge more their games?

[QUOTE="-Jiggles-"][QUOTE="Killfox"]

Thats a bunch of crap. The recommenced is never what you need to run the game maxed out. Sure you'll be able to run it decently but now what you expect. Anyone remember the requirement for crysis and yet the only play to truell7 play it maxed out is with tri-SLI 280GTXs.

Hey but if there close to that then I reward ubisoft for good optimizing.

devious742

Recommended =/= Maxed Out

Recommended is only used to describe the PC specifications that are required to run the game at moderate settings within the game. An 8600 GTS will not max this game out, but it *should* run it at medium settings with stable framerates.

QFT

[QUOTE="Animal-Mother"]before we know it were gonna have to be selling our souls to Crytek to play there gamesDAZZER7

Why? Do they charge more their games?

i phrased that poorly, what i meant to say was people with mediorce rigs are going to have to be selling our souls to Crytek to play there games, i mean i feel like everytime a new game comes out only nasa supercomputers can handle them

[QUOTE="DAZZER7"]

[QUOTE="Animal-Mother"]before we know it were gonna have to be selling our souls to Crytek to play there gamesAnimal-Mother

Why? Do they charge more their games?

i phrased that poorly, what i meant to say was people with mediorce rigs are going to have to be selling our souls to Crytek to play there games, i mean i feel like everytime a new game comes out only nasa supercomputers can handle them

Crytek isn't developing Far Cry 2.

[QUOTE="Animal-Mother"][QUOTE="DAZZER7"]

[QUOTE="Animal-Mother"]before we know it were gonna have to be selling our souls to Crytek to play there games-Jiggles-

Why? Do they charge more their games?

i phrased that poorly, what i meant to say was people with mediorce rigs are going to have to be selling our souls to Crytek to play there games, i mean i feel like everytime a new game comes out only nasa supercomputers can handle them

Crytek isn't developing Far Cry 2.

looks like i've been misinforming myself

[QUOTE="DAZZER7"]

[QUOTE="Animal-Mother"]before we know it were gonna have to be selling our souls to Crytek to play there gamesAnimal-Mother

Why? Do they charge more their games?

i phrased that poorly, what i meant to say was people with mediorce rigs are going to have to be selling our souls to Crytek to play there games, i mean i feel like everytime a new game comes out only nasa supercomputers can handle them

I dont think that fairly represents the state of PC gaming today. In the past, hardware has struggled to keep up with software but now, enthusiast level hardware from 2 years ago is still maxing just about any game out apart from crysis. Any new game coming out lately can be run maxed on mid - high end hardware.

[QUOTE="SaintsRowSam"]Minimal:
CPU:
Pentium 4 3.2 GHz, Pentium D 2.66 GHz, AMD Athlon 64 3500+ or better

Video card: NVIDIA® 6800 or ATI®X1650 or better; Shader Model 3 required; 256 MiByte video memory

Memory: 1 GB

Media reader: DVD-ROM

Recommended:
CPU: Intel® Core 2 Duo Family, AMD®64 X2 5200+, AMD® Phenom oder besser

Video card: NVIDIA® 8600 GTS or better, ATI®X1900 or better; 512 Mb video memory

Memory: 2 GB

Sound: 5.1 sound card recommended

Media reader: DVD-ROM
blackace

That's crazy. That's why I'll be getting the XBox 360 version instead.

[QUOTE="SaintsRowSam"]Minimal:
CPU:
Pentium 4 3.2 GHz, Pentium D 2.66 GHz, AMD Athlon 64 3500+ or better

Video card: NVIDIA® 6800 or ATI®X1650 or better; Shader Model 3 required; 256 MiByte video memory

Memory: 1 GB

Media reader: DVD-ROM

Recommended:
CPU: Intel® Core 2 Duo Family, AMD®64 X2 5200+, AMD® Phenom oder besser

Video card: NVIDIA® 8600 GTS or better, ATI®X1900 or better; 512 Mb video memory

Memory: 2 GB

Sound: 5.1 sound card recommended

Media reader: DVD-ROM
blackace

That's crazy. That's why I'll be getting the XBox 360 version instead.

Well my system easily exceeds those; so if I decide to pick the game up performance won't be a problem.

As a side note isn't it funny how some driver work can turn a GPU that was widely considering crap into a cross platform recommendation? When the 8600s first came out they struggled against their last gen counterparts, console users sometimes make fun of the fact that PC has to deal with drivers; but there are advantages to post release performance tweaking.

[QUOTE="SaintsRowSam"]Minimal:
CPU:
Pentium 4 3.2 GHz, Pentium D 2.66 GHz, AMD Athlon 64 3500+ or better

Video card: NVIDIA® 6800 or ATI®X1650 or better; Shader Model 3 required; 256 MiByte video memory

Memory: 1 GB

Media reader: DVD-ROM

Recommended:
CPU: Intel® Core 2 Duo Family, AMD®64 X2 5200+, AMD® Phenom oder besser

Video card: NVIDIA® 8600 GTS or better, ATI®X1900 or better; 512 Mb video memory

Memory: 2 GB

Sound: 5.1 sound card recommended

Media reader: DVD-ROM
blackace

That's crazy. That's why I'll be getting the XBox 360 version instead.

[QUOTE="DAZZER7"][QUOTE="Killfox"]

Thats a bunch of crap. The recommenced is never what you need to run the game maxed out. Sure you'll be able to run it decently but now what you expect. Anyone remember the requirement for crysis and yet the only play to truell7 play it maxed out is with tri-SLI 280GTXs.

Hey but if there close to that then I reward ubisoft for good optimizing.

-Jiggles-

Well the 360 wont be matching the recommended requirements lol. and you dont need tri-sli GTX 280s to max crysis. My friend does it with a single GTX260 at 1440x900...stop talking rubbish pls.

A GTX 260 would start to suffer on resolutions above 1680 x 1050, though.

Looks fine to me especially when I will be running it on this:

Q6600 @3.2GHz

2GB DDR2 1066 Ram

2xHD4850

This makes me wish I could build my own computer. Anyone know a list of parts around 600$ that could run this?pyromaniac223

Go to the PC hardware forum, they are masters at that.

the 360 will give you better value for performance/money.

the 360 will give you better value for performance/money.

AtrumRegina

Have fun with sub par FPS.

My P4 is .2 GHz away and my 360 RROD'ed yesterday...>.>

Well, time to learn a bit about overclocking or hope that they mean a virtual performance of 3.2 GHz or greater.

mmm

i have a Sparkle 7900gt 512mb(basically a 7900gtx)
1 gig ram
Amd athlon 64 3800+ x2

medium is possible?
papi_lekker

2GB RAM,,,,, then yes and I assure with better framerate than on consoles at 720p!

[QUOTE="SaintsRowSam"]Minimal:
CPU:
Pentium 4 3.2 GHz, Pentium D 2.66 GHz, AMD Athlon 64 3500+ or better

Video card: NVIDIA® 6800 or ATI®X1650 or better; Shader Model 3 required; 256 MiByte video memory

Memory: 1 GB

Media reader: DVD-ROM

Recommended:
CPU: Intel® Core 2 Duo Family, AMD®64 X2 5200+, AMD® Phenom oder besser

Video card: NVIDIA® 8600 GTS or better, ATI®X1900 or better; 512 Mb video memory

Memory: 2 GB

Sound: 5.1 sound card recommended

Media reader: DVD-ROM
blackace

That's crazy. That's why I'll be getting the XBox 360 version instead.

Not really. Enjoy budget.

mmm

i have a Sparkle 7900gt 512mb(basically a 7900gtx)
1 gig ram
Amd athlon 64 3800+ x2

medium is possible?
papi_lekker

Get another stick or two of ram. 1 gig isn't very good, especially if you are on Vista.

[QUOTE="SaintsRowSam"]Minimal:
CPU:
Pentium 4 3.2 GHz, Pentium D 2.66 GHz, AMD Athlon 64 3500+ or better

Video card: NVIDIA® 6800 or ATI®X1650 or better; Shader Model 3 required; 256 MiByte video memory

Memory: 1 GB

Media reader: DVD-ROM

Recommended:
CPU: Intel® Core 2 Duo Family, AMD®64 X2 5200+, AMD® Phenom oder besser

Video card: NVIDIA® 8600 GTS or better, ATI®X1900 or better; 512 Mb video memory

Memory: 2 GB

Sound: 5.1 sound card recommended

Media reader: DVD-ROM
blackace

That's crazy. That's why I'll be getting the XBox 360 version instead.

LMFAO!

recommended =nothing

[QUOTE="SaintsRowSam"]Minimal:
CPU:
Pentium 4 3.2 GHz, Pentium D 2.66 GHz, AMD Athlon 64 3500+ or better

Video card: NVIDIA® 6800 or ATI®X1650 or better; Shader Model 3 required; 256 MiByte video memory

Memory: 1 GB

Media reader: DVD-ROM

Recommended:
CPU: Intel® Core 2 Duo Family, AMD®64 X2 5200+, AMD® Phenom oder besser

Video card: NVIDIA® 8600 GTS or better, ATI®X1900 or better; 512 Mb video memory

Memory: 2 GB

Sound: 5.1 sound card recommended

Media reader: DVD-ROM
blackace

That's crazy. That's why I'll be getting the XBox 360 version instead.

this dude is awesome

I only have a 8400 gt, but I want to try to get a 8800 gt. I don't know I would go about removing it and such, though.

I guess I'll just miss out.

[QUOTE="Memoryitis"]Arent these req the same as Crysis? I cant find the req on my box...-Jiggles-

Nope, Crysis's system requirements are significantly higher.