Duke Nukem system specs revealed

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• Cool, June will be pimp, the game will be good. Pretty light on the reqs, I am sure everyone that want... : valcan_s
• Man, I think I could run several instances. : ryuuseki
• Damn my old computer I built in 2007 crushes these recommended specs. : ShXIII
• whoa such high specs : moe6
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  These specs are also applicable to the demo as well, right? : Haxim
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    no, the demo requires a 6-core Xeon w/ 24 gigs of RAM and a Radeon 6970 : zerog83
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      Is that because I need it to run some kind of wormhole device to travel to a time/alternate reality where... : Haxim
      • no, it's because game developers usually make games have completely different specs than a small subset o... : zerog83
    • With 6 bridges covered in sand. : HL3dsx
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      I heard a 16 core with a 10 meg pipe. : skankcore
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        you must have the high score in almost all the top mmorpgs : rodneystubbs
        • You guys wanna hack together? I'll move over : Omning
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    What demo? : watcherxp
    • Yeah, what demo? : jdcope
• rofl : Godhatesfatpeople
• whoah i have recommended specs : dantastic
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  Yeah, those are pretty light specs! I built my computer three years ago, looks like I won't have to rebu... : monthigos
  • yeah everything is being built for consoles and those are 5 years old now, so you should be good for anot... : headbone
• Looks like I need an upgrade : Slowtreme
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  I wonder if the art director has decided to give us all an eye blinding FOV? : Beady
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    Probably but hopefully they won't do anything as stupid as hard coding the fov value or encrypting the co... : TheEmissary
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      Gearbox got their hands into it. You'll get 65 FOV and the game will self-delete if you try to change it. : Rehevkor
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        Exactly, every time you'd sprint it'd remove your custom FOV, very annoying. : ReckHavoc
        • I also love resetting all my controls and graphics options every fucking time there's a patch, or a dlc i... : Tech T
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    Can't we get some official migraine association to come out with a statement against low FoV in PC games,... : Marrbe
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      "Studies have shown that FOV's below 90 can cause migranes in 30% of the population." Say that often e... : Beady
      • "Further studies have shown that people who hardcode these FoV settings are fags." : Hemtroll
  • I'm thankful it was so easy to tweak for Crysis 2 (well, it took a console command and it "stuck" when se... : Freon
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  Wh0a, good thing I upgraded for this game...three years ago. Sadly, I upgraded again recently. : CrustaR
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    Crusta, there is still Skyrim!! Do not be sad! : uebersoldat
    • Jetprone64!!!! : Dusty_Slim
• I'm surprised the recommend spec wasn't "Just buy a damn Xbox 360 you computer curmudgeon!" : baron calamity
• specs are meaningless. it will all depend on how it's ported from console :( /shakes from BLOPS launch r... : Downforce
• That's funny b/c years ago when I got my 8800GTS on my Core2Duo system George said that would be good eno... : rosewood
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  Wait a fucking second here. We've waited a decade for this game and even it's going to have consolized gr... : Yumcheese
  • fuck you! this ain't crysis 2 mother fucker! : varsindarkin
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    You used the word consolized which automatically nullified anything else in your post. Just a heads u... : ColoradoCNC
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      I prefer to use the more generic phenomenon of "Console Leakage" : watcherxp
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        Fucking Olestra. : Merconium
        • ulcerative consolitis : spiderfill
      • people who use BRO and CONSOLED need to punch themselves in the head for their stupidity. Gaming is co... : rasputinreborn
    • the gamer version of Godwin's Law? Does it have a name yet? : captfarrell
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      Recommended specs for a game in 2011 is an 8800. C'mon dude, that's laughable. : pancake humper
      • ya i figured my pc would be in the basic, its like 3yrs old now, but its in the rec emended. bad sign lol... : AMikaboshi
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        Well, it was supposed to be out last year if 3DR hadn't gone kaput. : pyrogen
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          8800 last year wouldn't have made any difference. It's an ancient ass card. : pancake humper
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            I have an 8800. :-( : jasonepowell
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              WHEW!!!!!!!!!!!! You are in the recommended specs!! No worries! Do you have 2gb of RAM though?????... : pancake humper
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                YES! I have 6! But pancake humper, it says I need an 8800 GTS. I have an 8800 GT. Is the "S" that imp... : jasonepowell
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                  Oh dear. You are fucked :( : pancake humper
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                    Goddammit pancake humper, god motherfucking dammit. Fuck life. I'm going to go play a console game fuck t... : jasonepowell
                    • http://www.amazon.com/EVGA-PCI-Express-Graphics-Lifetime-01G-P3-1371-AR/dp/B003VWW2KK/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&... : pancake humper
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                    The 8800GT is actually faster than the GTS. Do you have the 640mb one? : pancake humper
                    • YES I DO!!!!!! : jasonepowell
                • Dude you might as well just set yourself on fire what's the point of going on without the S?? : The Grolar Bear
          • and those of us that refuse to spend any more upgrade monies realize that console gaming is a smarter way... : rasputinreborn
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        It's also a game that was, supposedly, near release-quality over a year ago. Unless you wanted them to st... : ColoradoCNC
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          You can't get mad at someone for calling it consolized graphics when it clearly is made for super low end systems.
          
          Near release quality a year ago is DX10/11 cards, not the first DX10 card with 2gb of system ram. Even a year ago those were clearly low end specs.

          May 03, 2011 4:21pm PDT
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          You can't get mad at someone for calling it consolized graphics when it clearly is made for super low end... : pancake humper
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            The point is more that saying "consolized" is a lazy ass fucking word to use. Plenty of other games come ... : Evil Benius
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              Oh, so now it's his word choice he used, not the fact that the game is actually being made for low end sy... : pancake humper
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                Yes it has everything to do with his word choice and not actually making a good argument. Other games wit... : Evil Benius
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                  If PC ports have issues, it's cause they're ports. From consoles. Because the console is the focus of dev... : SpaecKow
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                    Because if the developer wanted to put the actual effort in to the PC version then they could make it wor... : Evil Benius
                    • If someone says "consolised" they aren't pissed that console games exist of themselves. They're pissed th... : SpaecKow
            • ^^^This : ColoradoCNC
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        what games have higher? : feek
        • Full System Requirements for Brink Apr-13-2011 Here are the Brink requirements. Brink System Minim... : pancake humper
      • that's got nothing to do with the game being 'consolized' though. 3DR fired everyone two years ago and G... : mikecyb
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        Not really. An 8800 is about twice as fast as the gfx hardware in a PS3. It's pretty reasonable. : daVinci1980
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          128 shaders vs 24 at pretty similar clocks is twice as fast? or are you including texture rates and bandw... : Toraz Chryx
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            I'm really just referring to how much faster it is in practical applications. If you look at reviews of t... : daVinci1980
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              I suspect it's actually a good chunk faster than double the 7800GTX (which is roughly what the PS3 carrie... : Toraz Chryx
              • It's definitely a lot faster than 2x in a lot of areas, my point is that for an actual user the number th... : daVinci1980
  • To be fair dude, it's not really about it being consolized at this point, it's about it going through so ... : Mr. Goodwrench
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    People are really so anal that they'll bitch about the terminology I use to easily describe an issue that... : Yumcheese
    • To be fair, in the case of DNF, "consolization" could only help. I mean, the 360 is vastly more powerful ... : verbatim
    • Makes me feel fine. Are the games still fun? Because that's really all that matters. : ColoradoCNC
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      why is that retarded? games are games, who cares if they are Crysis 2 or fucking Super Mario Bros. I pl... : mikecyb
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        It's called indignation. It's bad enough that games on the PC are limited in scope due to the memory limi... : Yumcheese
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          better hardware does not mean better games. the things you are suggesting would be a logistical nightmar... : mikecyb
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            Ya, funny how cost, time, and quality go hand in hand. : Yumcheese
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              They don't actually. Mass Effect is not that good a game, nor is Avatar that good a movie. They're not ba : SpaecKow
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                Mass effect only a "good" game? Really? : even4
                • Good and not a bit above that, my dear nerd. : SpaecKow
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          Lack of horsepower on the PC is pretty loltastic. The only thing that the consoles have on the PC is e... : daVinci1980
          • Google "Snapdragon". I never said consoles can run PC games. I said PC's are running games ported from Co... : Yumcheese
        • WTF? Is this gonna be a "Cell Processor" post. : watcherxp
        • Aside from what everybody else said.. What you just described would be an algorithmic nightmare to mak... : Toraz Chryx
        • this doesn't make any sense at all. not trying to sound like a jerk (i'm going to, but there's no avoidin... : dahanese
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          Yeah seriously, fuck those guys for not being able to hand deliver your imagination to you. : Poor Yurik
          • "Hand Delivering Your Imagination since 1947. I'm Cave Johnson, We're done here." : Toraz Chryx
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            what part of PS7 and 'far out' is hard to understand. Let say consoles going on from 2014 go with a 7 yea... : Yumcheese
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              You aren't talking about gains that can be made from increases in computational power, you're talking abo... : Toraz Chryx
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                I'm talking about hardware that enables developers to create games like that. Arguing the difficulty of a... : Yumcheese
                • Read what I said again, hardware only allows you do to mathematics problems at a given rate, if you don't... : Toraz Chryx
        • Guys, it's okay. The PS7 is going to deliver all of the secrets to hard AI. We can all rest easy now and ... : Danny5225
    • 3DR spent their entire development cycle trying to make a game that taxes high-end systems. I think the p... : The Grolar Bear
    • I don't want console like graphics, I want modern PC level graphics : watcherxp
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      Except you're not taking into account the fact that the better graphics get, the more money and manpower ... : gibolas1234
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        The stories I've read about DNF development have the DNF delays being more about poor management than act... : Yumcheese
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          . The numerous amount of graphics mods for games like half life2, STALKER, and Crysis demonstrate that in : ColoradoCNC
          • possible possibly : ColoradoCNC
          • Ya, I'd like to see more games where a gamers bitch about a 4yr old system not maxing it out. Also see... : Yumcheese
  • they should delay it and rework the graphics engine : pandastrong
  • "The first releases of the 8800 GTS line, in November 2006..." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeForce_8_... : sasoi
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  I guess I can look forward to constant 60FPS and a buttload of AA on a GTX 460. : pyrogen
  • yup I'd hope I can run it maxed with 16x or 32x fsaa! : Shadowdane
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    No jaggies on them titties? : Dr_Cube
    • not when you crank up nipplesampling to the max! : Sapiens
• Specs so low even your Xbox 360 could run it. : MeestaNob
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  Can't wait to see some low poly, muddy tits. : justwr!ght
  • At least we now know one reason why they aren't doing the early release demo. : CrustaR
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  Wow, my compy can actually run this. I beat everything except for the card's processor, which mine is an ... : GreggD
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    I dunno, if its GPU intensive, you might be disappointed. The 8600 was a pretty throttled card. : jdcope
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      You know, based on what I've heard, this game is basically running on a slightly enhanced version of the ... : GreggD
      • good point. : jdcope
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        I don't think it was running on the Doom 3 engine at any point. : pyrogen
        • Then what engine is it running on now? : GreggD
        • Never mind, I just answered my own question: http://www.giantbomb.com/forums/duke-nukem-forever/288/curre... : GreggD
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        Nope, not Doom 3 engine, heavily modified Unreal "2.5" engine. Pretty damned impressive looking for tech ... : ColoradoCNC
        • Well, then I'll definitely be able to run it. : GreggD
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