Bethesda Reveals Dishonored PC Requirements

[Rip Van Rabbit]

Hmm, these requirements trouble me :'(

Escapists! I call upon your observational skills!
How will my rig handle Dishonored?

Intel Core2Duo E8400 3.0ghz
1T HDD
4GB RAM
GTX 550 Ti 1 GB
Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit

 

[Knusper]

Gah, curse my Radeon 4850, will probably wait until I upgrade the computer, maybe pick it up in a Steam sale

 

[Eruanno]

Ergh, 3 ghz dual core processor minimum? 4 gig of RAM minimum? Are these really reasonable? Hmmmm. Not sure if I should change my preorder from PC version now...

And for anyone who is wondering, Games For Windows is a different beast from Games For Windows LIVE. Also, it is published by Bethesda who have been pushing for all of their PC releases to use Steamworks.

Games For Windows = Follows some standards like quick installation, controller supported in addition to mouse/keyboard and some other things I can't remember right now.

Games For Windows LIVE = The thing we love to hate that you are probably thinking of.

 

[SajuukKhar]

Why does this game have requirements that none of the gameplay vids released thus far can justify?

Seriously, the game looks like Bioshock 1 visually, I'm smelling some poorly optimized game here.

I still want to play it, but these requirements are really overblown.

 

[synobal]

In case you weren't aware, Bethesda has previously revealed [http://www.bethblog.com/2012/07/13/a-look-at-dishonoreds-many-ui-options/] that the PC version of Dishonored will offer a number of exclusive features including a shortcut bar mapped to the top-row number keys which will give direct access to powers and items, a field-of-view slider and various options and "graphical toggles" that will let gamers take full advantage of their rigs. Yeah, it's good to be elite.

They're hyping these as "exclusive features"? I remember when it was just... what you did when you made a PC game.

shhh they want to make us think that throwing out the radial skill select that the consoles use and implementing hotkeys, is difficult.

 

[Chairman Miaow]

See, From Software? This is how you do a PC port. Day one purchase for me.

yes because a company who's made nothing but console games and is first time in pc games can really match a company who made pc games since their beginnings
O.T. Hmmmm might be able to run it on min at least but wait for reviews

Never mind the fact that From said from the beginning they wouldn't be doing a full port, just the basics, because they have no experience with it, and that they are including free DLC as an apology of sorts.

 

[legendp]

The original crysis said it required a 6800ultra or better and yet I managed to get it running on an ATI x300 with 64mb (on a laptop gpu 64mb I might add) (admittedly at very low with only 15fps, but it ran nonetheless). It seem whith a lot of games minimun is really the recommended, and recommended is if you wan't the best experience (at least from my experaince)

 

[Thoric485]

Err, same card model for minimum/recommended, only more VRAM? This doesn't seem right.

 

[Wolfram23]

Hrm. Sounds like a company is publishing actual specs that will get the game running well. Yeah, lower cards will certainly play it, but one of my biggest gripes is that so many games publish specs that barely run at 720p with lowered detail settings. It's about time they tell gamers the truth. I'd bet that a 5850 will run the game at 1080p with medium or high settings (no AA).

Good thing I've got two 5850s

 

[lacktheknack]

The lack of windows XP support is a dealbreaker for me unless they release a patch that makes it XP compatible.

They've been dropping XP support for the last three years. I'm OK with it, as it seems silly to me to take extra time to design the architecture to account for the quirks of an OS over a decade old. Any reasons for not upgrading?

 

[Pinkamena]

Oooh, sweet. My rig is ridiculously overpowered for games (3d rendering mainly), but the only thing I am lacking is a proper graphics card...

 

[Vhite]

It's really funny how the newest games require 512MB of video memory yet you still see people buying graphic cards with 2GB of video RAM and then they wonder why HL2 runs slow on their machine.
Marketing is a *****.

 

[KingsGambit_v1legacy]

No DX10/11 support at all? Wow, thanks consoles, I love you so much for the way you've held back games development for so many years. Really, you're so awesome for what you've done to the industry.

Still gonna get it...shame it will be a handicapped console game ported to PC :\

 

[Xan Krieger]

The lack of windows XP support is a dealbreaker for me unless they release a patch that makes it XP compatible.

They've been dropping XP support for the last three years. I'm OK with it, as it seems silly to me to take extra time to design the architecture to account for the quirks of an OS over a decade old. Any reasons for not upgrading?

Because I play so many games designed for windows 98, been on a real retro binge, so if I get windows 7 a lot of what I play won't run. This is not a matter of hardware, I run games like Deus Ex Human Revolution and Crysis 2 just fine. This is a matter of not being able to play X-Wing vs Tie-Fighter on anything newer than XP.

 

[lacktheknack]

The lack of windows XP support is a dealbreaker for me unless they release a patch that makes it XP compatible.

They've been dropping XP support for the last three years. I'm OK with it, as it seems silly to me to take extra time to design the architecture to account for the quirks of an OS over a decade old. Any reasons for not upgrading?

Because I play so many games designed for windows 98, been on a real retro binge, so if I get windows 7 a lot of what I play won't run. This is not a matter of hardware, I run games like Deus Ex Human Revolution and Crysis 2 just fine. This is a matter of not being able to play X-Wing vs Tie-Fighter on anything newer than XP.

https://www.virtualbox.org/

Totally worth the zero dollars I paid for it.