Far Cry 2 System Requirements Seem Reasonable

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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.

Chris Faylor was previously a games journalist creating content at Shacknews.

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    August 8, 2008 7:54 AM

    Hmm... Maybe this'll run better than Crysis on my 15" MBP. The Crysis demo runs absolutely terrible at 1440x900 on anything but Low, and even that's slow.

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      August 8, 2008 8:07 AM

      a) you're using a laptop and also you're using a laptop to play the beefiest PC game alive
      b) you're playing the game in a virtual OS using a fraction of your laptop's resources

      ??

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      August 8, 2008 10:35 AM

      Did you really expect Crysis to run well on a mac laptop? Jeez...

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      August 8, 2008 3:57 PM

      make sure you're not running it in DX10. I had a laptop with the exact graphics card of the MBP and I could run it on med/high at 1440x900 ( not great, but decent for a laptop ) but on DX10 it would chug at maybe 10fps on low. If it's not that then I don't know

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      August 8, 2008 4:58 PM

      I played through the campaign on my acer laptop (8600m gt) without problems (low, 1280x800)

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      August 8, 2008 11:15 PM

      That's because the extra $1500 you spent over a cheap PC-based laptop went into sleek curves and a sleek OS instead of a solid video card.

      Which is fine for a lot of people. But your priorities are out of whack if you want to play Crysis on a Mac with a two-generation-old (three?) card at 1440x900.

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