System Requirements Revealed for Resident Evil 5 PC

[Shawn Zipay]

Today, Capcom revealed the system requirements for the PC version of Resident Evil 5.

CPU
• Minimum: Intel Pentium D Processor or AMD Athlon64 X2.
• Recommended: Intel Core2Quad Processor or AMD Phenom X4

Video card
• Minimum: 256MB VRAM; DirectX9.0c/Shader 3.0; NVIDIA GeForce 6800 series or ATI Radeon HD 2400 Pro.
• Recommended: 512MB VRAM; NVIDIA GeForce 9800 series or ATI Radeon HD 4800 series.

RAM
• Minimum: 512MB if on Windows XP, 1GB in Windows Vista.
• Recommended: 1GB if on Windows XP, 2GB in Windows Vista.

• Interface: Keyboard and mouse, or gamepad (Xbox 360 controller recommended).
• Hard drive: 8GB
• Internet: Broadband recommended for online modes.
• Sound card: DirectSound Compatible (DirectX9.0c or higher).

Operating system
• Minimum: Windows XP.
• Recommended: Windows Vista.

The game is slated to arrive on September 14 in North America. September 18 is the date Europeans should mark down.

[AlecJ32]

Re: System Requirements Revealed for Resident Evil 5 PC

My PC doesn't meet the Recommended Requirements! (I have an 8800GT, it recommends a 9800, though there's not much of a performance difference) Other than than the video card, though, I meet everything.

I've been finding System Requirements aren't really worth much anymore, since they're so vague/ambiguous as to how well the game will run even with the recommended requirements. Some don't run so hot with the recommended requirements, yet for others the recommended requirements are overkill.

[Linux]

Re: System Requirements Revealed for Resident Evil 5 PC

My PC doesn't meet the Recommended Requirements! (I have an 8800GT, it recommends a 9800, though there's not much of a performance difference) Other than than the video card, though, I meet everything.

I've been finding System Requirements aren't really worth much anymore, since they're so vague/ambiguous as to how well the game will run even with the recommended requirements. Some don't run so hot with the recommended requirements, yet for others the recommended requirements are overkill.

Your video card might not have Shader 3.0, my only guess I'm too lazy to look it up. The could be the reason why they require a higher video card, but again I can be wrong :).

[AlecJ32]

Re: System Requirements Revealed for Resident Evil 5 PC

Your video card might not have Shader 3.0, my only guess I'm too lazy to look it up. The could be the reason why they require a higher video card, but again I can be wrong :).

Shader Model 3.0 has been around since the GeForce 6 series cards.

In fact, I'm almost positive that my 8800GT is Shader Model 4.0