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HoloDust on 29 September 2012
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ninetailschris said:
HoloDust said:
Minimum system requirements for Far Cry 3 are 4GB of RAM (reminder that both Win7 and Win 8 use less than 512MB of RAM)
Epic, Crytek and Square asked for lot of memory. Crytek specifically asked for minimum of 8GB (and I would bet Epic wants that too, them being one that pushed Microsoft to increase RAM in 360)
As for 8 cores - bulldozers have 8 cores @95W TDP - if they use GPU similar to 7970m (basically mobile downclocked 7870 with TDP of 75-100W) I don't see problem with system's TDP, so why not...


Um this isn't PC ram this console Ram.  Console ram is customized and doesn't need 4 ram because it doesn't have to do 3-4 things the same at time while runing the game. PC runs general purpose like ram not like console. Please give me quote were Square/Creak asked for 8gb ram because I know your bsing because that would be completely overshot. The most they would as for is 3-4 ram because consoles don't need to run multiple apps at a time. When people say need 4ram to run ultra on fry  Cry what your saying is that much PC ram not console. Trying running skyrim with 2 gb ram with xbox360 chip on a pc at normal setting you will be lucky to get 10 frames per second and that's 4 times the ram.

Regarding  GPU please link to the GPU Specfic you think it will have in and then link me to Core you think it will have. Then I will show why it will not work

Thanks to Andrespetmonkey for posting those links, so I won't be posting them again (I thought that was pretty much well known, considering how much developers have been vocal about it)...why developers want so much memory, I don't know, but obviously there is some really good reason. I'm not game developer, so I don't understand the tech behind their new engines, but I'm kinda inclined to trust them when they say they want 8GB, and given previous history I think that Microsoft just might listen.

As for FarCry 3, I was giving it as example of what some of  new PC games will have as MIN requirements specs - FarCry 3 hi-performance specs ask for 8GB and 7970/680 cards....as for Skyrim, it runs on HD 6450 (which if I'm not mistaken is even less powerfull than PS360 GPUs) with 2GB system RAM, and gives some 25-30fps on medium settings.

Regarding GPU, rumoured performance puts it around 7850-7870 territory, so let's say something like 7970m could be good candidate (or something equivalent), and for CPU I honestly have no idea, but for the sake of exercise let's go with FX-8100...