Mass Effect System Requirements revealed

[Bobby1234]

http://www.strategyinformer.com/news/834/mass-effect-system-requirements-revealed

The official Mass Effect forums have an update from Jay Watamaniuk, community manager of Bioware, which reveals the final minimum and recommended system requirements for the PC Version of Mass Effect.

Minimum System Requirements:
Operating System:
Windows XP or Vista
Processor:
2.4+GHZ Intel or 2.0+GHZ AMD
Memory:
1 Gigabyte Ram (XP)
2 Gigabyte Ram (Vista)
Video Card:
NVIDIA GeForce 6 series(6800GT or better)
ATI 1300XT or better (X1550, X1600 Pro and HD2400 are below minimum system requirements)
Hard Drive Space:
12 Gigabytes
Sound Card:

 

[Nymins]

Wow the recommended are pretty low for a game that looks that good! Cool.

 

[FrenchTart]

I wouldn't call those 'low' hardware requirements but it's certainly doable by most I'd guess.

 

[Nymins]

I wouldn't call those 'low' hardware requirements but it's certainly doable by most I'd guess.

Im sure a lot of people on here will have a X1800 or more and more than a single core P4 2.6ghz though!

 

[Emlyn_Dewar]

NVIDIA GeForce 6 series(6800GT or better)
ATI 1300XT or better (X1550, X1600 Pro and HD2400 are below minimum system requirements)



The 1300XT is worse than the 1600pro? Certainly worse than the 6800GT... Bit messed up...

 

[Moredhel]

It has hardware support for things that cards earlier than the 6800GT don't.

 

[FrenchTart]

Im sure a lot of people on here will have a X1800 or more and more than a single core P4 2.6ghz though!

Completely agree. Most pc-gamers will have such systems..just not the masses of more casual gamers

 

[Pandion]

just thought I'd post the recommended specs for those not bothering to go to OP's link.

Recommended System Requirements:
Operating System:
Windows XP or Vista
Processor:
2.6+GHZ Intel or 2.4+GHZ AMD
Memory:
2 Gigabyte Ram
Video Card:
NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GTX or higher.
ATI X1800 XL series or higher
Hard Drive Space:
12 Gigabytes
Sound Card:
DirectX 9.0c compatible sound card and drivers – 5.1 sound card recommended

 

[z0mbi3]

How long until release then? Those requirements look very nice

 

[SS-89]

Its running on UE3 so expect similar system spec to UT3 and Gears to run it on high settings.

 

[Curunen]

Good news.

 

[Tom|Nbk]

My machine should rip it apart then.

 

[CrowK]

The 'minimum' specs quoted often seem to be the requirment to play at 800x600 at 20fps.

If you could call that playing...

 

[Timdog]

yay my 3700 and 1950pro lives on!

 

[Adrianr]

As with anything, lets get it on our PC's first eh?

 

[NeilF]

just thought I'd post the recommended specs for those not bothering to go to OP's link.

Recommended System Requirements:
Operating System:
Windows XP or Vista
Processor:
2.6+GHZ Intel or 2.4+GHZ AMD
Memory:
2 Gigabyte Ram
Video Card:
NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GTX or higher.
ATI X1800 XL series or higher
Hard Drive Space:
12 Gigabytes
Sound Card:
DirectX 9.0c compatible sound card and drivers – 5.1 sound card recommended

That's an ubelievable low spec!!! Not even Core 2 Duo!!

 

[uv]

yay my 3700 and 1950pro lives on!

My 3700 and 1950pro struggled to play UT3, and it's the same engine..

Should be okay with med settings though

 

[NeilF]

My 3700 and 1950pro struggled to play UT3, and it's the same engine..

Should be okay with med settings though

Is very odd isn't it!

 

[tripitaka]

Oh well, looks like it's time to replace the x1600 pro then...

It's rubbish anyway

 

[NeilF]

Oh well, looks like it's time to replace the x1600 pro then...

It's rubbish anyway

Looks like I can hang onto my P4 a bit longer though