Ubisoft Unveils Far Cry 3 PC Requirements

[J Tyran]

Make em Jealous specs for me, well sort of. Ivy Bridge i5 3570 out benchmarks a Sandy Bridge i7 2600k in a lot of areas. Doesn't matter though I would rather go buy two games each from EA and Activision than buy a single Ubisoft game.

Maybe when its £3.75 on Steam I might have a look

 

[Quijiboh]

*Looks at 4½ year old laptop that was below average on time of release*

Ah well, I didn't want to play it that much anyway.

 

[halobolola]

Finaly something that might push my pc slightly

 

[RicoADF]

So I guess I'll be "making them jealous" and then some.

Join the club, *pats pc case*
Heck even my laptop is in that catagory

 

[Bat Vader]

Looks like I will be making some people jealous. Far Cry 3 looks like it will be a lot of fun. Hopefully it also has a decent story too.

 

[Xan Krieger]

What operating systems? I've got 4GB of RAM in my xp computer so I hope it'll run on XP.

 

[Insomniac55]

That is the most useless minimum/recommended requirements list I've seen in a while. The video cards in particular are completely arbitrary and don't tell you anything (you can get a relatively low end card with a gig of RAM on it which will be a joke compared to a "real card"; my old 512MB 4770 is massively faster than my friend's 1GB GT 240), and as has already been pointed out, the CPUs they list are just silly. And I'm sure to actually run on the highest settings and look as pretty as what they've been showing off previously, you'll need a much better video card than they're implying.

This, 1000x this. I've got a midrange multimedia/gaming laptop from a year or so ago (Asus N55SF) and it has a Nvidia GT555m with 2GB of video memory.

...But the GT555m is only roughly on par with a desktop 8800GT from five years ago, in fact I think the GT555m is a bit slower. Video memory is an important consideration in a card, but lots of VRAM =/= a fast card. They need to provide some actual example cards like 'GTX560 Ti 2GB' to give us a performance ballpark.

 

[themechanic]

Joining the GPU complaint train here. That gpu spec means nothing. Why can't they just do recommended = gtx 560ti or higher or amd 5xxx 6xxx 7xxx etc... GB is pretty meaningless as a measure of performance.

 

[Evil Smurf]

my computer looked and said nope.avi

Le sigh

 

[Phoenix8541]

If there not pushing the limits of the technology kinda seems pointless

 

[antidonkey]

I guess my computer would recommend jealousy since it falls between the two. Curse my first gen i7 and my lack of desire to upgrade for a minimum of one more year.

 

[devotedsniper]

What operating systems? I've got 4GB of RAM in my xp computer so I hope it'll run on XP.

Minimum specs require directx 9 so it should run on xp.

On another note 8GB??? my god what the hell is this thing doing? I don't think i've ever seen a game request more than 4GB. Either way my rig is fine when i upgrade the gpu when it arrives in a few days (well it's fine now but i want a pretty 600 series).

 

[antipunt]

Great... Now I'm jealous