Far Cry 2 System Requirements Seem Reasonable

Publisher Ubisoft today issued the minimum and recommended system requirements for the PC edition of Ubisoft Montreal's open-world shooter Far Cry 2, which is also due out on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 this fall.

"It has always been our intention to make Far Cry 2 as accessible to everyone as possible, and we have worked continuously to optimize Far Cry 2 to achieve this goal," noted lead technical director Dominic Guay.

Minimum requirements

• CPU:

  Pentium 4 3.2 Ghz, Pentium D 2.66 Ghz AMD Athlon 64 3500+ or better

• Video card:

  NVIDIA 6800 or ATIX1650 or better

  Shader Model 3 required

  256 Mb of graphic memory

• Memory: 1 GB

• Media reader: DVD-ROM

• Hard drive space:
  ~12 Gig or HD space. (tbd)

Recommended

• CPU:

  Intel Core 2 Duo Family AMD64 X2 5200+, AMD Phenom or better

• Video card:

  NVIDIA 8600 GTS or better ATIX1900 or better

  512 Mb of graphic memory

• Memory: 2 GB

• Sound: 5.1 sound card recommended

• Media reader:

  DVD-ROM

• Supported Video cards

  NVIDIA 6800, NVIDIA 7000 series, 8000 series, 9000 series, 200 series. 8800M and 8700M supported for laptops.

  ATI X1650-1950 series , HD2000 series , HD3000 series , HD4000 series.