Resident Evil 5 System Requirements Revealed

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Slimebeast said:

jefforange89 said:
Geez, massive specs. I wonder if it's just extremely poorly optimized, or if it actually needs that much power.

Exactly. It's poorly optimized, that's guaranteed by looking at those requirements and knowing Capcoms history on PC ports.

Historically, I'd agree, although some of their PC ports were actually done by other developers. But their more recent PC 'ports' (which I think were actually developed on the PC), such as DMC 4 and Street Fighter 4 have been superb technically and also feature some nice extras over the console versions. According to Wikipedia-

The Windows version of Resident Evil 5 will feature online play for co-operative play sessions over the internet and will also take advantage of NVIDIA’s new GeForce 3D Vision technology (wireless 3D Vision glasses sold separately).^[37] The PC version will also have exclusive contents, such as new costumes and an improved Mercenaries minigame

There is quite a gap between the minimum and recommended specs given, suggesting that the engine is very scalable so should run fine on most people's PCs.