Here Are the Mass Effect 2 System Requirements

[invlem]

Hmm, seems the Recommended system specs have caught up with my system... I feel dirty... Time for a new system

 

[adithya]

IMO scaling is important. People can play crysis on 8600GT at lower settings at 1024*768. It runs on ultra high on GTX280 at 1680*1050. But avg guys with avg systems bitch when they are unable to run it at ultra high. They should run it avg settings.

 

[neiroatopelcc]

I wonder why the demon still can't spell, even though he writes so much and reads even more!

 

[neiroatopelcc]

[citation][nom]adithya[/nom]IMO scaling is important. People can play crysis on 8600GT at lower settings at 1024*768. It runs on ultra high on GTX280 at 1680*1050. But avg guys with avg systems bitch when they are unable to run it at ultra high. They should run it avg settings.[/citation]
Nobody should be satisfied with 'average settings' ; intel and nvidia should just stop producing cards that make people think they have a gaming pc, whilst they don't.
The only compelling reason to buy a cheap graphics card is for hdmi or multimonitor support.

 

[juliom]

[citation][nom]liquidsnake718[/nom]Well thats weird, I used to have a 8800GT and it worked fine for me two years ago. I cant believe how time goes by so fast... ANyway I guess the problem lies within your GTS.... its a GTS and only has 312mb of memory..... ouch... i think even the 6800gt had 512mb of memory, I used to have the 6800xt 5 years ago so that was the absolute minumim for this game.Interesting to see that your problem may have been the onboard memory as 312 is not good enough and may cause stuttering or loss of objects due to loading and mem usage on the GPU... and to think I had that(6800xt) with a pentium 4....[/citation]

liquidsnake718, don't talk about what you obviously don't know about. The 6000 series had a maximum of 256 MB. No, your 6800XT (it's a lower series, btw) did not have 512 MB.

 

[amnotanoobie]

[citation][nom]demonhorde665[/nom]why does it seem every otehr pc gmer except myself is a retard ??? i mean seriously think folks , do you really want every other gmae you buy to make your top of trhe line pc look like yesterdays moldy cheese ??? well i'ma budget gamer runnign on budget cards and quite frankly I'm pelased that my rig ( amd athy64 x2 5000+ BE oced to 3.ghz, gf 9600 gt, wiuth 3 gigs ram) has lasted 2 years and wil liekly give me another 2 years beofre i need to replace it. I'mn not borne witha silver spoon up my ass and i don't think the majority of PC gamers are either, so quite your "it does't push boundries" biotching and just be happy you don't ahve to spend 600+ dollars on a new vid card to play this. I ABSOLUTELY HATE games that "push boundaries" because that usually means i'm SHIT OUT OF LUCK on getting it to run and still look deccent. so use your ehad before you open your mouth please cos i'm sick of folks whining about games not "pushing the limits" because when they do push the limits you wil be bitching that your (now) 400 dollar vid card aint cutting it[/citation]

How the heck do you think we got to this level of detail? If developers follow your logic, Return to Castle Wolfenstein's graphics would be "the bomb" today. Most game dev's for PC follow the trend of video cards on price, a typical $150 card could usually make games look all pretty (and it has been since the 90's).

 

[C00lIT]

I have seen worse requirements... Should run this like a charm with my maxed out expired PC

 

[saint19]

I can play too, my rig is enough for play crysis...so, this game isn't a problem.

 

[xaephod]

Too bad the first ME was boring. Now I can be bored in high resolutions.

 

[tester24]

[citation][nom]festerovic[/nom]My rig with an 8800 GTS 320mb was not capable of playing the ME1 at full frames. Once I switched to a 4870, it was alot better. Not expecting a lot more graphically if the recommended specs haven't changed.[/citation]

I'm in the same boat, it did play alright at 1650x900... Waiting for Nvidia to come out with the 300 series graphics cards and see their performance before I choose what to get.

 

[Regulas]

What have I been saying all along. You do not need a killer PC gaming rig anymore because all the games are written for the kiddie consoles first then ported to the PC as an afterthought, sometimes horribly done too.

 

[nachowarrior]

This is actually kind of hefty... the recommended is a decent system.

 

[mlauzon76]

Doesn't anyone find the following to be a little weird:

"Supported Chipsets: NVIDIA GeForce 6800 or greater; ATI Radeon X1600 Pro or greater. Please note that NVIDIA GeForce 7300, 8100, 8200, 8300, 8400, and 9300; ATI Radeon HD3200, and HD4350 are below minimum system requirements."

Specifically where it lists 6 nVIDIA GPUs and 2 of the Radeon HD GPUs and says they are below sysreqs, yet the 6800 and X1600Pro can play it just fine.... O.0

 

[JimmiG]

[citation][nom]mlauzon76[/nom]Doesn't anyone find the following to be a little weird:"Supported Chipsets: NVIDIA GeForce 6800 or greater; ATI Radeon X1600 Pro or greater. Please note that NVIDIA GeForce 7300, 8100, 8200, 8300, 8400, and 9300; ATI Radeon HD3200, and HD4350 are below minimum system requirements."Specifically where it lists 6 nVIDIA GPUs and 2 of the Radeon HD GPUs and says they are below sysreqs, yet the 6800 and X1600Pro can play it just fine.... O.0[/citation]

It's mostly because Nvidia re-released the 8000-series as the 9000-series, so they had to list several unsupported chips twice.

More notable is that the 6800 supports the game, but not the X800, which belonged to the same generation (X10k went up against the 7800). There was much talk back then about whether the lack of Pixel Shader 3.0 support on the X800 and X850 would matter. Turns out it probably did. On the other hand, I doubt you'd get very good results with a GeForce 6800, so it probably still doesn't matter in the end.

 

[mlauzon76]

I've got a Radeon HD 4870 X2, will probably get a 5970 next year, to take advantage of the new graphics subsystem in Win7.

 

[Guest]

"Cure 2 Duo Intel" is it that hard to implement a spellchecker for the editors? Even the free Open office has one.

 

[mlauzon76]

[citation][nom]anonymus[/nom]"Cure 2 Duo Intel" is it that hard to implement a spellchecker for the editors? Even the free Open office has one.[/citation]

I didn't even notice that until you pointed it out, I do have to agree, they've been making a lot of mistakes over the last few weeks.

 

[rodney_ws]

Am I the only one that is happy about EA ditching SecuROM and just going back to a basic DVD check? WAY TO GO EA!!!

 

[captaincharisma]

my pc won't break a sweat. it by far passes the recommended specs

 

[mlauzon76]

[citation][nom]captaincharisma[/nom]my pc won't break a sweat. it by far passes the recommended specs[/citation]

So will mine:

Intel Core i7 965, ASUS Rampage II Extreme, G.SKILL Pi Black DDR3-1600 PC3-12800 6GB CL 8-8-8-21, Sapphire Radeon HD 4870 X2, Samsung Spinpoint F1 1TB (2), LG GH22NS30 DVD Writer, Corsair HX1000W

 

[sinsear]

[citation][nom]rodney_ws[/nom]Am I the only one that is happy about EA ditching SecuROM and just going back to a basic DVD check? WAY TO GO EA!!![/citation]

+1

 

[xaira]

so wat u tryin 2 say intel is the cure and amd is the virus?

 

[blevsta]

I wish these developers would say which hardware features their games take advantage of. Like:
-Two threads supports dual core processors, quad cores aren't utilized for our game
-Optimized performance for Nvidia cards (they stuffed our pockets with money to carry the "Nvidia logo")
-Physx
-EAX
-SLI and Crossfire both optimized up to 3 GPUs

 

[sinsear]

[citation][nom]Blevsta[/nom]-SLI and Crossfire both optimized up to 3 GPUs[/citation]

Make that up to 4 GPUs.

 

[Pijoto]

Sucks that the minimum system requirements are greater than the original Mass Effect, they're gonna lose a lot of sales initially for those with older rigs. My ancient Pentium 4 3ghz and Nvidia 8400GS PCI setup played Mass Effect pretty well running at 800x600 resolution. I'm also playing Fallout 3 and Dragon Age (even though my cpu doesn't meet minimum specs) with this system; hopefully those with older systems can still get by with this ME2.