Far Cry 2 Specs Announced

Thesnipergecko · 8 Aug 2008 at 15:38

London, UK – August 8, 2008 – Today Ubisoft announced the minimum requirements and recommended configurations to play Far Cry 2 on the PC.

“It has always been our intention to make Far Cry 2 as accessible to everyone as possible, and we have worked continuously to optimize Far Cry 2 to achieve this goal,” said Dominic Guay, Lead Technical Director.

Far Cry 2 ships for the PC Autumn 2008. For more information, visit www.farcry2.com.

Minimum requirements

CPU:
Pentium 4 3.2 Ghz, Pentium D 2.66 Ghz, AMD Athlon 64 3500+ or better

Video card:
NVIDIA® 6800 or ATI®X1650 or better
Shader Model 3 required
256 Mb of graphic memory

Memory: 1 Go

Media reader: DVD-ROM

Recommended

CPU:
Intel® Core 2 Duo Family, AMD®64 X2 5200+, AMD® Phenom or better

Video card:
NVIDIA® 8600 GTS or better, ATI®X1900 or better
512 Mb of graphic memory

Memory: 2 Go

Sound: 5.1 sound card recommended

Media reader:
DVD-ROM

Supported Video cards:
NVIDIA® 6800, NVIDIA® 7000 series, 8000 series, 9000 series, 200 series. 8800M and 8700M supported for laptops.
ATI® X1650 – 1950 series , HD2000 series , HD3000 series , HD4000 series .

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Archibald0 · 8 Aug 2008 at 15:39

mmm

*hugs 8800GTX*

Talrinys · 8 Aug 2008 at 15:43

Looks good, hopefully it'll run on some shiny settings on current gen cards

SS-89 · 8 Aug 2008 at 15:47

hmmm recommended for medium settings I guess. That sounds far too optimistic for high settings unless at fairly low res.

Aod · 8 Aug 2008 at 15:51

has no-one else noticed that these are the same requirements as the ones for Crysis?

willhub · 8 Aug 2008 at 17:11

I'm taking those sys req with a pinch of salt, remember crysis before it was released? On some forums I remember people saying things along the lines of, dont worry with an 8600GT you will be able to play it on high and 8800GTS very high

.....

I was on this forum called Crysis Sector, the owner was hoping it was going to be great, up untill crysis was released it was, then it went down hill, now the website does not even exist.

Its going to be same for farcry, all the same stuff happening.

Margaret · 8 Aug 2008 at 17:30

To be fair some magazine said that Far Cry 2 ran great at 1600x1200, Crysis certainly didn't even on the best cards out at the time!

But I guess people said the same about Crysis, can't really remember.

willhub · 8 Aug 2008 at 17:42

Someone claimed it ran fine on an X1900 but it never did.

Adrianr · 8 Aug 2008 at 17:53

I'm hoping they've been watching the release and subsequent backlash from Crysis and have perhaps put a little more effort than usual to make it work

I'l be optomistic and say the specs are going to be accurate.

Shamikebab · 8 Aug 2008 at 18:05

Crysis ran fine on my X1950, hopefully this will do fine as well.

psychas · 8 Aug 2008 at 18:08

looks good if they not public stunt just to buy a game like game specs to crysis

Nymins · 8 Aug 2008 at 18:09

Could run fine. This isn't the CryEngine 2 after all.

willhub · 8 Aug 2008 at 18:21

Shamikebab said:
Crysis ran fine on my X1950, hopefully this will do fine as well.

Did it? all high?

What res? 1024x768?

From what I've hear it ran fine on the X1900 series on medium settings with a mix of high. Nothing runs it fine unless it can do 1680x1050 all high, thats running it fine and my 4870 can only just do that.

Margaret · 8 Aug 2008 at 18:24

Nymins said:
Could run fine. This isn't the CryEngine 2 after all.

That and it doesn't even look as good as Crysis to begin with.

Doubt my 8800GT will like it at 1920x1200 though.

Shamikebab · 8 Aug 2008 at 19:27

willhub said:
Did it? all high?

What res? 1024x768?

From what I've hear it ran fine on the X1900 series on medium settings with a mix of high. Nothing runs it fine unless it can do 1680x1050 all high, thats running it fine and my 4870 can only just do that.

Not on all high, mix of medium and high 1680x1050. Still looked sweet though.

Tute · 8 Aug 2008 at 19:38

I saw it being played at Play.com Live earlier in the year. They claimed the machine had a C2Q and an 8800GTX, and it ran like silk on the screen there, looked good too.

I'm really looking forward to this game.

Talrinys · 8 Aug 2008 at 19:47

willhub said:
Did it? all high?

What res? 1024x768?

From what I've hear it ran fine on the X1900 series on medium settings with a mix of high. Nothing runs it fine unless it can do 1680x1050 all high, thats running it fine and my 4870 can only just do that.

My 4870 can't do that at all, average of 30 fps and some severe stuttering :/

Phil2008 · 8 Aug 2008 at 21:59

willhub said:
Did it? all high?

What res? 1024x768?

From what I've hear it ran fine on the X1900 series on medium settings with a mix of high. Nothing runs it fine unless it can do 1680x1050 all high, thats running it fine and my 4870 can only just do that.

I had a [email protected], X1900xt, 2gb of mem. Crysis ran fine at 1024x768, 2xaa, Everything on high accept for shadows on low, post processing on medium, shaders medium. I was avg 21fps, perfecly playable fps and it never dropped either... my X1900xt was a dam good card.

willhub · 8 Aug 2008 at 22:46

Talrinys said:
My 4870 can't do that at all, average of 30 fps and some severe stuttering :/

Odd, I dont have much stuttering :confused:

Phil2008 said:
I had a [email protected], X1900xt, 2gb of mem. Crysis ran fine at 1024x768, 2xaa, Everything on high accept for shadows on low, post processing on medium, shaders medium. I was avg 21fps, perfecly playable fps and it never dropped either... my X1900xt was a dam good card.

Yea with shaders on medium, FPS flys up when the shaders are on medium.

On the exact same settings as you, same res, 2xaa it looks pretty horrid dont know how you cope, allthough I was getting a constant 60fps apart from when you turn around it dips down for a second then back up.

Actually AA dont work it puts the shaders to high.

Talrinys · 9 Aug 2008 at 00:42

willhub said:
Odd, I dont have much stuttering :confused

I'm really trying to figure out why i'm getting seemingly lower results than most other 4870 owners, i'm really sad about the fact that i'm getting worse FPS than before the upgrade. It might be the 4GB ram doing it for you, but i can't be too sure.