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SubiyaCryolite on 28 July 2009

 

 

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Kicking things off today, the fine folks over at Capcom have released some official minimum and recommended system requirements for their upcoming 3rd person shooter, Resident Evil 5. So what kind of hardware will you need to run this bad boy? Here's the scoop:

Minimum
OS: Windows XP
CPU: Intel PentiumD Processor or AMD Athlon64 X2
RAM: Windows Vista (1GB) or Windows XP (512MB)
HDD: 8.0GB or more
Minitor: 800×600
Disc Drive: DVD9 compatible drive
Graphics Card: 256MB VRAM, DirectX9.0c/Shader 3.0, NVIDIA GeForce 6800 series or ATI Radeon HD 2400 Pro
Sound Card: DirectSound Compatible (DirectX9.0c or higher)
Interface: Mouse & Keyboard
Internet: Broadband Connection recommended for online modes.

Recommended
OS: Windows Vista
CPU: Intel Core2Quad Processor or better / AMD Phenom X4 or better
RAM: Windows Vista (2GB or more) or Windows XP (1GB or more)
HDD: 8.0GB or more
Monitor: 1280×720 or larger
Disc Drive: DVD9 compatible drive
Graphics Card: 512MB VRAM, NVIDIA GeForce 9800 series or ATI Radeon HD 4800 series
Sound Card: DirectSound Compatible (DirectX9.0c or higher)
Interface: Xbox360 Controller for Windows
Internet: Broadband Connection recommended for online modes.

 

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Im happy to see Capcom put more effort on PC versions of their games. These specs are pretty reasonable, Im sure It'll look great, hope aiming uses the mouse.

:),



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jefforange89 on 28 July 2009

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



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My comp, as shown to the right (click for fullsize pic)
CPU: AMD Phenom II X6 1090T @ 3.2 GHz
Video Card: XFX 1 GB Radeon HD 5870
Memory: 8 GB A-Data DDR3-1600
Motherboard: ASUS M4A89GTD Pro/USB3
Primary Storage: OCZ Vertex 120 GB
Case: Cooler Master HAF-932
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate x64		 Extra Storage: WD Caviar Black 640 GB,
WD Caviar Black 750 GB, WD Caviar Black 1 TB
Display: Triple ASUS 25.5" 1920x1200 monitors
Sound: HT Omega Striker 7.1 sound card,
Logitech X-540 5.1 speakers
Input: Logitech G5 mouse,
Microsoft Comfort Curve 2000 keyboard
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Naum on 28 July 2009

Kinda low specs if I say so myself



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jefforange89 on 28 July 2009

Meh. I don't think I've seen a game other than GTA4 that actually recommended a quad-core processor, and it was extremely poorly optimized, wasn't it?

Either way, I'm sure I'll be able to run this at 1080p, everything on max, at a great framerate, so it's no problem to me.



Wii/PC/DS Lite/PSP-2000 owner, shameless Nintendo and AMD fanboy.

My comp, as shown to the right (click for fullsize pic)
CPU: AMD Phenom II X6 1090T @ 3.2 GHz
Video Card: XFX 1 GB Radeon HD 5870
Memory: 8 GB A-Data DDR3-1600
Motherboard: ASUS M4A89GTD Pro/USB3
Primary Storage: OCZ Vertex 120 GB
Case: Cooler Master HAF-932
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate x64		 Extra Storage: WD Caviar Black 640 GB,
WD Caviar Black 750 GB, WD Caviar Black 1 TB
Display: Triple ASUS 25.5" 1920x1200 monitors
Sound: HT Omega Striker 7.1 sound card,
Logitech X-540 5.1 speakers
Input: Logitech G5 mouse,
Microsoft Comfort Curve 2000 keyboard
Wii Friend Code: 2772 8804 2626 5138 Steam: jefforange89
Slimebeast on 28 July 2009
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.



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haxxiy on 28 July 2009

Low specs, most likely I will be monitor bottlenecked (meaning that even on my highest res I will reach framerates well above my refresh rate)

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Mudface on 28 July 2009
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.



Mudface on 28 July 2009

Oh, there's a benchmark tool available as well- http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/59563



Slimebeast on 28 July 2009

^I dont know if u can draw that conclusion that it's actually scalable, but let's hope so.

Im just still very sceptic after GTA4 on PC.



Mudface on 28 July 2009

Now Rockstar deserve all the bad rep for their PC ports that they get. They've used some horrendous engines over the years from that Renderware crap they used for the GTA 3 games, to the dreadful hopelessly unoptimised pile of toss they used for GTA 4 and Bully.