Far Cry 2 System Requirements Seem Reasonable

August 8, 2008 7:48 AM

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.

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

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boarder2

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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.
- dantastic
  
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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
  
  ??
  - kodt
    
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    August 8, 2008 8:13 AM
    
    Mac Book Pro's can run Windows natively, you don't need to run it as a virtual OS.
    - dantastic
      
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      August 8, 2008 8:38 AM
      
      ah didnt know that
      - Toraz Chryx
        
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        August 8, 2008 9:21 AM
        
        http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/bootcamp.html
  - boarder2
    
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    August 8, 2008 8:44 AM
    
    I wasn't saying I was expecting it to work well, just stating how it actually does work. I'm probably gonna get it for 360 anyway.
- hamliga
  
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  August 8, 2008 10:35 AM
  
  Did you really expect Crysis to run well on a mac laptop? Jeez...
  - boarder2
    
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    August 8, 2008 10:49 AM
    
    Apparently you can't read.
  - klearlyunseen
    
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    August 8, 2008 11:14 AM
    
    macbook pros come with an 8600m gt if im not mistaken
- Drakoniac
  
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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
- xrolando
  
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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)
- finger
  
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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.