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Far Cry 3 And The Stranger In A Strange Land I’m not sure anyone explicitly said it would have online multiplayer, but I’m also not sure anyone explicitly said Ghostbusters for the PC wouldn’t. Some are saying explicit things about the game’s authentication requirement, too.
Like every other big-name multiplatform game these days, Batman: Arkham Asylum will be appearing not only on console, but on PC as well. Here’s what you’ll need to run it.
Stormrise, a new RTS from Creative Assembly, is coming to consoles. No problems there. But it’s also coming to the PC, and when it does, you better hope you’re not still rocking Windows XP.
We know Crysis Warhead has some odd nomenclature for graphic settings, but how well do those graphics settings actually performed. After all of the complaints about the original game’s outrageous system requirements, developer Crytek promised that this side story would be tweaked to run well on a much more affordable computer, but did they deliver? The guys over at TechSpot have gone in-depth to analyse the game’s performance, providing benchmarks for 14 different video cards at each of the game’s three quality levels, and the results aren’t too spectacular. What they basically discovered is that said tweaks are negligible, and only a very high-end video card is capable of breaking past 32 frames per second at the lowest resolution they tested, 1440×900.
Hit the link for the full report on Crysis Warhead’s performance, including more comparison shots of the three levels of graphical detail.
Crysis Warhead performance in-depth [TechSpot]
Last week – and this got a little lost amidst all the Leipzig washup – Nvidia held their Nvision 08 get-together. And at Nvision, EA were showing off Mirror’s Edge, while also divulging for the first time the game’s system specs. For those worried that the game’s super-fast, super-clean visuals would demand a super-expensive rig, relax! The minimum specs are quite generous. Though being minimum specs, as always, your actual mileage may vary.
With Unreal Tournament 3 hitting computers next month it’s time to start worrying over what exactly you might have to do to get your computer to run the game.
Midway shot me the system requirements today and they are, not surprisingly, quasi hefty:
Minimum System Requirements • Windows XP SP2 or Windows Vista • 2.0+ GHZ Single Core Processor • 512 Mbytes of System RAM • NVIDIA 6200+ or ATI Radeon 9600+ Video Card • 8 GB of Free Hard Drive Space
Recommended System Requirements • 2.4+ GHZ Dual Core Processor • 1 GBytes of System RAM • NVIDIA 7800GTX+ or ATI x1300+ Video Card • 8 GB of Free Hard Drive Space
