octafish said:
Stealthygamer said:
I highly doubt those graphics cards are the minimum, since they are top of the line. Otherwise, pretty darn simple specs, and the hotkeys sound awesome
Top of the line? They are both two generations old and were the lowest level/cheapest enthusiast cards available at the time (I'm not counting the 5830 because they were essentially a broken 5870). Not bad cards either of them, but pretty far from top of the line.
The 5850 was AMD/ATI's second best graphics card when it released, while the 460 was Nvidia's 3rd best. Yes, they are two generations old, but one would still need to spend around $130-150 to get that level of performance nowadays. That's definitely not the level you want to set minimum requirements when making a PC game.
(And nerd nit-pick: the 5850 technically was a "broken" 5870 as well. That's the way PC graphics cards work: AMD and Nvidia design and manufacture chips, but those chips don't always come back as fully functional. Rather than simply dispose of the imperfect chips, they disable the non-functional parts and sell the chips at a lower specification, e.g. the Radeon HD 5870 has a full 1600 shader processors while the Radeon HD 5850 uses the same chip with only 1440 shader processors active. It's a simple cost saving procedure for graphics chip makers).
