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| Chrizum said: The minimum system requirements are necessary to RUN the game. For most games that means it will run like shit. |
Umm... Not exactly. It's more like minimum requirements being the minimum for being able to play the game on the lowest setting, a low resolution, and at a decent framerate. This would have much lower minimums if it was only for being able to run the game. I'm sure there are lots of graphics cards that are less powerful but have the same features. The same goes for CPUs.
That said, the lowest setting look rarely good. Sometimes they're almost unbearable. Crysis, for example, looks terrible on the lowest settings due to the fact that there are no shadows; the game simply needs them to look any good. But it will most definintely run on a PC that meets the minimum requirements.
Anyway, back on topic. Crysis-like minimum requirements 1.5 years after the release of Crysis is not bad. Anyone that has been gaming on PC within a year, maybe two, should be able to run this pretty easily. Of course even an older PC will work, as long as it was a powerful one back then. All in all, rather low minimum requirements. Recommended requirements are a different case, though.
