Duke Nukem Forever PC Specs Revealed

[Nikolaz72]

This is what we get for making it a console port instead of a PC exclusive like it should have been.

*cry*

wtf is your problem? looks like high-ass specs once again like you pc gamers love so as to keep the dirty peasants who can't afford your super graphics cards and have the deep ass wallets to afford that shit

just because it isn't crysis grumble grumble...

EDIT: One thing i REALLY don't understnad is WHY PC GAMERS WANT MEGA-HIGH SPECS?! wtf is the goddamn deal with having specs higher than the moon? so what if more people can play the games you play? elitism makes me so pissed...

What is the reason PC gamers cannot play games like Halo or Little Big Planet. Somehow I honestly think Jealousy is the reason for them demanding higher specs. Because higher specs would be an exclusive. And Exclusives =/= Exclusives. Then again, that arguement is invalidated by all the RTS's out there.. Still, Shooter-Exclusives.

 

[TimbukTurnip]

Heh, I only recently upgraded from a 7600 GS to an 8600 GT, and that was only because my friend bought a better graphics card for his computer and give me his old one (which had originally come from the computer of our other friend).
I really need a new computer.

 

[Gildan Bladeborn]

Wait, those are the recommended specifications? That's awesome, my system's innards are way better than that.

 

[tahrey]

Man, guess I can finally chuck away that Socket 7 beast I was saving to play it on then... couldn't they have included a 1999-PC compatible low graphics version for old time's sakes?

The fairly new (<18 months) machine I'm typing on from work (waiting for a conference to finish across site ;p) could barely handle that, IF I stuffed in the best videocard found in any computer on site. My own everyday home machine would cry, then burst into flames.

So will there be a console version, given I'd have to invest in about £300 worth of upgrades to make myself a usable DNF machine?

(yeah yeah, I know, it's all par for the course in PC gaming, and these specs are quite light... i'm just sayin'

^ this incredibly tardy edit brought to you by the enormous trouble the corporate firewall 15ft away from my desk behind a wall consisting of 1: Air, 2: Nothing is having with a bit of sunlight falling onto it. Is it possible for fans to explode from running too fast?

 

[VanityGirl]

Am I the only one who thinks this game and L.A. Noire look like they belonged on my PS2 about 7 years ago?

 

[Pebkac]

"Series 3" vs "Series 4" isn't going to make a huge different, but the 8 in 3850 signifies a gaming series card, while the 2 in 4250 signifies general purpose; ie: high definition movies.

It's like Celeron 3.2 GHz VS Pentium 2.6 GHz.

Your example here is very laughable, especially without context of respective era or other specs from each chip.

Don't ever make this comparison again.
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Find me a same-socket Pentium and Celeron where the Celeron gets better performance.

I've known people that made the "upgrade" from a lower frequency Pentium to a higher frequency Celeron... The point is, higher numbers in the product name don't mean better cards. Of course, you shouldn't make hardware decisions based on product name alone...

Hmm, I've got a similar layout in a laptop to redisforever, but I've got the ATI Radeon mobility HD4570 (512mb). It does run Starcraft 2 on medium graphics quite well, and Flight Sim 9/2004 on high. The poor little Intel Pentium Dual Core running at 2.3Ghz is probably my main limiting factor.

Do you reckon my Laptop would be able to handle the Duke?

I'd expect it to run. notebookcheck.net is pretty sweet site for looking up hardware.

This looks like your card:

http://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-ATI-Mobility-Radeon-HD-4570.13885.0.html

If you click the pluses next to the individual benchmarks, you'll see what cards ranked. The 2600 and the GeForce 7600 appear on some of these.

Just keep in mind it's based on benchmarks. They are not perfect or absolute measure of hardware performance. Driver versions, game engine, settings, and test system all make a difference. Sometimes one brand of card runs much better than another, normally better card... Cards also come out in a lot of slight hardware variations.

With enough benchmarks, and consistent settings, and similar test systems, the effects of these become minimal.

Again, it won't give you an absolute measure of performance, but it gives a good ballpark figure of how your hardware compares to others and how the game will run; ie: "high", "med", "low", or "won't run".

There's also that "can you run it website", but I have no clue how good it is since I'm always browsing in Linux (no aActiveX, no loss).

 

[Soviet Steve]

D'aww shucks, seems like my computer can run it, but why would I ever want to? It's clearly not going to have realistic graphics D:

 

[Andy Chalk]

so without further adieu

The phrase is, "without further ado".

You are correct! That was an odd mistake to make. (Believe it or not, I am familiar with the term "adieu" as it's properly used.) Anyway, thanks for the heads-up.

 

[Andy Chalk]

Button-mashers have it easy when it comes to buying videogames. All they have to worry about is which logo is on the box. Those of us with more refined gaming palates have weightier matters to contend with,

So in the FIRST SENTENCE, you claim that PC Gamers have better taste than console gamers, even coming up with a cute little nickname for console gamers.

Nice bit of professional gaming journalism... /sarcasm

Third sentence, actually, but good try. I'm sure that it'd be close enough to count as a hit on the console version.

 

[ZombieGenesis]

This is what we get for making it a console port instead of a PC exclusive like it should have been.

*cry*

wtf is your problem? looks like high-ass specs once again like you pc gamers love so as to keep the dirty peasants who can't afford your super graphics cards and have the deep ass wallets to afford that shit

just because it isn't crysis grumble grumble...

EDIT: One thing i REALLY don't understnad is WHY PC GAMERS WANT MEGA-HIGH SPECS?! wtf is the goddamn deal with having specs higher than the moon? so what if more people can play the games you play? elitism makes me so pissed...

What is the reason PC gamers cannot play games like Halo or Little Big Planet. Somehow I honestly think Jealousy is the reason for them demanding higher specs. Because higher specs would be an exclusive. And Exclusives =/= Exclusives. Then again, that arguement is invalidated by all the RTS's out there.. Still, Shooter-Exclusives.

Actually (to the both of you) you'll find a lot of PC gamers requests for higher marks are because of a few simple connections.

Firstly, building a gaming PC is -NOT- nearly as expensive as people claim. Mine cost about the same as the ps3 did on launch, and it's a bloody titan. Of course if you're building and you happen to see a very good part sold at the same price as your budget, you buy it. That of course means you can run better games, meaning you experience and enjoy things at a higher and more demanding quality.
Perfect example, Metro 2033 at maximum visuals, lighting, shadow, 16 x AA and many other complicated terms.

Because of that, and through no 'evil' on the gamers behalf, they have a powerful machine. Is it so wrong to want games that really kick in to make the most of that?
Sure there are console games, and I don't mind console ports that share the same quality between all versions, but I'd at least like a button that said "press here for extreme quality management" as opposed to the 'low/medium/high' switch you get in regular ports.

So yeah... pretty much that. Nothing elitist about it.

 

[Rack]

Decent for these days but still, if you bought a PC when the 360 came out you'll be out of luck. Plus, is there any reason for it to need more than Half Life 2? It's not like it looks any better.

 

[shintakie10]

This is what we get for making it a console port instead of a PC exclusive like it should have been.

*cry*

wtf is your problem? looks like high-ass specs once again like you pc gamers love so as to keep the dirty peasants who can't afford your super graphics cards and have the deep ass wallets to afford that shit

just because it isn't crysis grumble grumble...

EDIT: One thing i REALLY don't understnad is WHY PC GAMERS WANT MEGA-HIGH SPECS?! wtf is the goddamn deal with having specs higher than the moon? so what if more people can play the games you play? elitism makes me so pissed...

What is the reason PC gamers cannot play games like Halo or Little Big Planet. Somehow I honestly think Jealousy is the reason for them demanding higher specs. Because higher specs would be an exclusive. And Exclusives =/= Exclusives. Then again, that arguement is invalidated by all the RTS's out there.. Still, Shooter-Exclusives.

Actually (to the both of you) you'll find a lot of PC gamers requests for higher marks are because of a few simple connections.

Firstly, building a gaming PC is -NOT- nearly as expensive as people claim. Mine cost about the same as the ps3 did on launch, and it's a bloody titan. Of course if you're building and you happen to see a very good part sold at the same price as your budget, you buy it. That of course means you can run better games, meaning you experience and enjoy things at a higher and more demanding quality.
Perfect example, Metro 2033 at maximum visuals, lighting, shadow, 16 x AA and many other complicated terms.

Because of that, and through no 'evil' on the gamers behalf, they have a powerful machine. Is it so wrong to want games that really kick in to make the most of that?
Sure there are console games, and I don't mind console ports that share the same quality between all versions, but I'd at least like a button that said "press here for extreme quality management" as opposed to the 'low/medium/high' switch you get in regular ports.

So yeah... pretty much that. Nothing elitist about it.

I like you. You explained why PC gamers like higher specs without resortin to bein a dbag. I salute you...mostly because its far better than my argument of "Because I like my shiny stuff to be friggin shiny!"

Edit - On an unrelated note there's an alarmin number of people who think these specs are high. For reference, the first 8 series cards came out in late 2006. Thats just a year after the 360 came out. The Intel Core Duo was anywhere from 2006-2008 (Really have no idea which version had what speed). Buyin a computer that reaches those recommended specs would cost you about as much as a 360 did when it first came out, pay a bit more and you'd prolly be able to max out the settins of DNF and get a higher fps than our console brethren will enjoy.

 

[CrystalShadow]

Pretty light? Wut? My ATI x1600 can't run it .

I hate my gaming hobby for this. Tech bought now is obsolete in just a few years. And it's always the goddamn videocard. Never do they push the audiocard to it's max or whatever. I match everything on that list but the videocard. Sigh.

Well I guess DNF won't come to me then this year I think I can survive the wait tho.

I have a laptop with an X1400 chip...
It was my only PC for almost 3 years. (Now I have something with graphics 20 times faster.)

And yep. It's always the graphics. But you can blame the human brain for that as much as anything else.

at least 1/3 of our brain is dedicated exclusively to processing visual input.
It makes sense then, that you can cut corners on things like sound much more easily than you can with graphics without anyone even realising it's what you've done.

Game sound has been 'good enough' for 15 years, from a technical perspective, and most improvements barely get noticed.

Graphics haven't even gotten to 'good enough', and people notice minor differences all the time. - Don't expect this problem to really go away for at least another 10 years.

At that point, it might stop being meaningful.

 

[tehbeard]

* Huggles his GTX 460 *

Though I want to see a demo first, not to sure if my ancient xeon CPU's will be able to handle Duke's manliness.

 

[fanklok]

Hmm if I get sold that gaming PC I may have to switch my preorder over to the PC instead.

 

[Kabutos]

wtf is your problem? looks like high-ass specs once again like you pc gamers love so as to keep the dirty peasants who can't afford your super graphics cards and have the deep ass wallets to afford that shit

just because it isn't crysis grumble grumble...

EDIT: One thing i REALLY don't understnad is WHY PC GAMERS WANT MEGA-HIGH SPECS?! wtf is the goddamn deal with having specs higher than the moon? so what if more people can play the games you play? elitism makes me so pissed...

Because by developing for consoles, you limit yourself in what you can do because of the inferior hardware; a problem that wouldn't happen if you developed for PC and then ported it to consoles.

Also what are you talking about? C2D and 8800 GTS is hardly high end anymore.

Hah, I play games on PC sometimes, but me having an xbox and liking the simple fact that I don't have to upgrade it every 6 months to play the newest games makes me a button masher? I think NOT. I press with finesse mofo.

What is the reason PC gamers cannot play games like Halo or Little Big Planet. Somehow I honestly think Jealousy is the reason for them demanding higher specs. Because higher specs would be an exclusive. And Exclusives =/= Exclusives. Then again, that arguement is invalidated by all the RTS's out there.. Still, Shooter-Exclusives.

Wow please be more ignorant.

 

[Pebkac]

Newegg doesn't even sell 8800s anymore. For $60-$100 you can get a slightly better card.

So if desktop graphics is all that's holding you back, upgrading isn't too costly.

 

[ezeroast]

Everything looks good, but damn, 10gb?

Wonder what's taking up that space right there.

I'm guessing that 8 gig is pole dancers and flinging poo. The rest is guns and aliens.

 

[LaughingJester]

Specs look good, let's hope it isnt a port...

Im watching this game progress with optimistic scepticism...

This about sums up my thoughts about this game for me ever since i first heard the term 'vaporware'... optimistic scepticism

 

[LaughingJester]

Specs look good, let's hope it isn't a port...

Im watching this game progress with optimistic skepticism...

This about sums up my thoughts about this game for me ever since i first heard the term 'vaporware'... optimistic skepticism