Sega Releases Game Requirements

[Templar Knight]

PC Requirements

Operating System: Microsoft® Windows® 2000/XP

Processor: Celeron 1.5GHz Pentium 4® (1500MHz) or equivalent AMD® processor

Memory: 512MB RAM

Optical Drive: 8x Speed DVD-ROM drive (1200KB/sec sustained transfer rate)
and latest drivers

Disk Space: 11GB of uncompressed free hard disk space

Sound Card: 100% DirectX® 9.0c compatible 16-bit sound card
and latest drivers

Input Devices: 100% Windows® 2000/XP compatible mouse,
keyboard and latest drivers

DirectX: DirectX® 9.0c

Graphics Card: 128MB Hardware Accelerated video card with Shader 1 supportand the latest drivers. Must be 100% DirectX® 9.0c compatible

Display Resolution: 1024 x 768

Multiplayer: Internet (TCP / IP) play supported;
Internet play requires broadband connection and latest drivers;
LAN play requires Network card.

11 Gigs of space?

[Dutch_guy]

Thanks for posting this Templar Knight

Graphics Card: 128MB Hardware Accelerated video card with Shader 1 supportand the latest drivers. Must be 100% DirectX® 9.0c compatible

Time for an Upgrade...

[Barbarossa82]

New PC time

[Faenaris]

Those minimum requirements sure seem mild when you consider the graphics.

The 11 GB are a lot though. Then again, a good HD is pretty cheap. :) And also a good thing that the game is comming out on a DVD, I hated playing DJ with Rome. :)

EDIT: And I have already upgraded my pc, just for M2TW. How fanboy-ish is that? :D

[Furious Mental]

Eleven gigs? Holy porn deletion Batman, that's a hell of a lot of space!

[Dutch_guy]

Also, maybe this could get stickied ?

This has to be the single most asked question, second only to the ''when is the game going to be released'' question of course.

[Simmons]

Eleven gigs? Holy porn deletion Batman, that's a hell of a lot of space!

Its not that much space really an 80gig HD costs around $60 where I live another $30 and you can have 200gig.

It is large in comparison to other games.

[rory_20_uk]

Merely that space is plentiful seems to cause developers to take more and more. And this is before the mods of course!

Is all attempts at opimisation forsaken to get the game out quicker?

And yes graphic requirements are low, but the lower end probably has most if not all of the fancy new features turned off. (Not that eye candy is the biggest factor in me playing the series mind you).

[Brighdaasa]

11GB would be the biggest game i've ever seen (that's 2 dual layer dvd's or 3 standard dvd's!!)

however, consider that every unit now has multiple textures, and the assasination movies and stuff would take up a lot of space too if they didn't license like DivX or something

also not having those resources compressed and encrypted ensures CA won't have to release in-house tools to allow modding them

[rory_20_uk]

Some small tools to decompress would be a good idea IMO. However popular mods are, the majority are users with the minority actively tinkering. Even then, many focus on certain areas so would only need to decompress small areas of the game.

Having cutscenes on the same disk that is required in the drive might also reduce the size if the video compression is bad.

[Furious Mental]

That's a good point. Every cloud has a silver lining I guess.

[JR-]

also not having those resources compressed and encrypted ensures CA won't have to release in-house tools to allow modding them

if this proves to be the reason i will be a very happy man.

[x-dANGEr]

11 Gigs.. My..!

Good job CA!

[King Noob the Stupid]

Will it come on 2 DVDs, though or do they manage to compress it enough to squeeze it on 1? And, as an external HD n00b, I wonder if it makes any differences wether the game's installed on a normal IDE HD or on a USB one?

[TB666]

That's a lot of porn that will be deleted on the day of release

[Monarch]

Lol I think they should release it on cd just for a laugh, thatd be what, a gazillion cds?

[Stig]

Well they released the layout of the MTW2 Special edition pack before.
It should 2 game disks and the special bonus disks with movies you get, out of that you could see you needed about 10 gigs

[Kourutsu]

-And so it was, the angels fell from the heaven, singing their holy choruses. And this day would be forever marked, as the day I knew I could play the game.-

I still have 323 GB of free space. RTW has been kind to me. It has kept me amused for so long, that I have few other games cluttering m hard-drives.

And about the disk number...That is going to be...roughly...9-10 disks.
Which isn't that bad, Black and White 2 had like...seven disks, but I got through that with the help of a second window up.


"That's a lot of porn that will be deleted on the day of release."
Win.

[SpencerH]

What would be nice is to have a MTW2 lite without all the crap that I never watch and wish I could turn off. 11GB! Talk about bloatware!

[Mount Suribachi]

I wonder if 11Gb is for the full install?

Then again, since they tend to deliberately under-report the min specs in order to maximise sales, I'm wondering if there is no option other than full install? Maybe to cut down on internet piracy? By the time you've d'loaded 11GB you could've earned several days wages

[TB666]

Well considering that the specs CA was aiming for was higher then this I think the game is well-optimised.
Really the only thing that is high is the harddrive space.
The rest is lower.

[Sun of Chersonesos]

true, but at least i know i can play the game now and i may upgrade my graphic card but i dont need to :D. Im happy now. i also have 193 GiGz free space :)

[Sun of Chersonesos]

perhaps we're fooling ourselves, perhaps it's less than that but just requires that amount or more to play. relatively, it could also mean that you require 11GB of space after u DL it

[JFC]

I take it that this is the minimum reqs.

[Sun of Chersonesos]

indeed can you imagine what it would be like if they said the max reqs? it would be useless infromation to us and probably wont have a max!

[TB666]

perhaps we're fooling ourselves, perhaps it's less than that but just requires that amount or more to play. relatively, it could also mean that you require 11GB of space after u DL it

No, when they state HD space that's the space it will have once install on your harddrive.

I take it that this is the minimum reqs.

Well of course

[Sun of Chersonesos]

No, when they state HD space that's the space it will have once install on your harddrive.


Well of course

aww! TB *hugz*

[TB666]

aww! TB *hugz*

mmkay
Let's compare RTW to these settings.
Also minimum specs
Processor: 1GHz
256MB RAM
64MB 3D accelerator
8xCD-ROM
2.9GB free disk space

So people shouldn't really worry

[NeoSpartan]

Hummm.....

Well it looks like I will be playing EB (rtw mod) for a good while. I have no plans in getting a new lattop.

Besides, I am sure that If i give MTWII a while there will be some Reality mods out there.

[hoetje]

Excellent,I'll probably run the game on med settings