Thought Crysis was too much for your dusty budget eMachine? Assassin’s Creed has come to steal the processor-melting crown, with it’s unbelievable system requirements:
- Processor: Dual core processor 2.6 GHz Intel Pentium D or AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ (Intel Core 2 Duo 2.2 GHz or AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ or better recommended)
- RAM: 2 GB (3 GB recommended)
- Video Card: 256 MB DirectX 10.0?compliant video card or DirectX 9.0?compliant card with Shader Model 3.0 or higher (512 MB video card recommended) (see supported list)*
- Sound Card: DirectX 9.0 or 10.0 compliant sound card (5.1 sound card recommended)
- Hard Drive Space: 12 GB
You know it’s bad when it would cost less to purchase a 360 and the game, than to buy computer upgrades and pirate it. Although, this game gets so tedious, your time is better spent running two copies of Crysis at the same time, to achieve similar performance.
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LOL you could get a PS3 and a Xbox 360 for price of the computer upgrade.
sloppy programming, who ever did the port should be fired since the game does not look that great.
The guys who are porting this game are already ignoring all the sloppy XBOX360 and PS3 code that was full of bugs, totally inefficient and poorly set up then added there own sloppy programming when porting the code to run ON the much faster PC cpu’s with 4 times as much ram (and faster main RAM) as the consoles at least.
Maybe it will crash like the PS3 version too you can stick that bug back in a remake it for the PC cpu’s.
This kind of laziness is a brand new triumph in Programming stupidity or laziness on the job, so much that guys must have been solitaire the entire time they was porting the code and shooting spit wads. The game ran like a sucktaztic uve bowl movie on a good day then these guys came in and got the film dirty and ripped for the I-max version.
Nice job ubisoft! (or what ever people made that game it sucked so I forget) you should be rewarded with a demotion and a free pass to a psychiatrist to talk Over your MMO/solitaire addiction and get some free pep pills.
The game is not worth playing anyway like stranglehold for PC was so who cares.
Ubisoft exec: Damn, look at all the press Crytek’s getting for Crysis needing an uber-PC!
Ubisoft yes-man: Sir, that’s a great idea, we should make Assassin’s Creed specs higher than Crysis’! Excellent, excellent idea!
Ubisoft exec: Wha? Um, well, yes. That’s what I meant. Make it so. Crysis didn’t sell well, so we’ll _really_ have to pump those minimum specs up high to get people excited at the prospect of this game.
Joe Gamer: Didn’t anybody interested in this game already play it and move on?
Me: *sigh*
my PC got everything Assassins Creed needs. But what does it need on Full HD? 4Ghz Quad Core? 8GB Ram?
okay imma keep playin my x360 verson ^^
Many people wont look at the back of the box. This will sell lots of copys but only several of them will actually be played
You are already running the game in at least “HD” unless you a running it at the low PC res from 1996 of 640×480/800×600? Who runs anything on pc like that ? Nobody.
The 3gb ram recommendation is effectively 12 (yes 12. 8 for 2gb) xbox 360’s or ps3’s memory pool of 512mb ram to store all game data + textures or anything else.
Then with that there is additional 512mb texture memory(1 xbox 360/ ps3 worth for just video related memory items) on there video card to store textures and the video buffer for “this Port” What are they doing? Are they going to fill this version of the game with the “ultimate in huge game textures”? in the case the game better look better than Crysis and like a “ remade playstation 4 version of Assassins creed”
I want my EYES to bleed from visual joy and the game textures to have more dots than the digital scan of the declaration of independence for these kind of ludicrous recommended memory requirements from a port of a little console game.
There is NO way any OS/ other system programs will fill this memory requirement not even windows vista unless you fill it full with the ultimate spam and spyware junk package and the run Photoshop and watch blueray/hd-dvd movie while you play this game.
Ohh and you install 12GB the entire uncompressed XBOX 360 DVD on your much faster HARD disk nice job streaming data there UBIsoft! Only if the game is broken can it require this much to get the game running it’s broken even before it gets to shelves
TO top it off the game does not support laptop GPU’s and they are standard OPEN GL /directX gpu’s. the only thing worse is konami’s port of metal gear solid 2 that only ran on NVida GPU’s
Broken, end of story they should not even release it in this state it’s flawed before it even gets out of the gate. It is even more broken than the xbox 360 and PS3 versions that crashed all the time and had a frame rate slower than Britney spears and Michael Jackson dancing at age 90.
Do not forget ubisoft frendley reminder “it will ship with anti-piracy measures that “may conflict with some disc and virtual drives” Thanks ubi for making this train wreak of a port it will take up lots of PC shelf space at the store that could have went to a good game.
This is nothing new really… looking back at last gen ports: DMC3, RE4, Onimusha3, Halo, Halo2 (they recommend 1GB RAM while the old xbox only had 64mb… WTF?!) all these required CPU and RAM equivalent of at least 4+ PS2’s/GC’s/XBOXes without providing nothing new to justify that!
What surprises me though is this time it happens with Ubisoft. These guys had always made technically adequate PC games and I don’t remember if they ever had a console game actually ported to PC… they just made different versions for each platform. It’s a shame!
BTW SG, thanks for changing the captcha script!
Cube: I remember a while back Ubisoft stopped using StarForce protection in it’s new games, which was causing a ton of problems. They still are using anti-piracy measures, but I haven’t found the ones recently to be very intrusive.
WOW
i hope they crash and burn for this tyranny.
NO ONE will play this game
The gigantic abstraction layer required to be able to port games between platforms without even knowing how to program probably accounts for most of that wastage. Add in a complete lack of optimization and you get the equivalend of using an 18 wheeler truck to deliver a pizza. It gets there just fine but your gas mileage sucks.
those requirements are impudent…
is this running through emulation or what?
my system meets exceeds those requirements but this is just stupid for a console game port.
also what i find a bit funny:
Supported Video Cards at Time of Release:
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NVIDIA GeForce 6600
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i guess one would need a 256mb version of that card to display the slide show it will be able to deliver? my old 6600gt had 128mb and so did most reference gf6600(gt) cards… yet it’s on the supported list of chipsets…
System Requirements
Minimum Recommended
Microsoft Windows
Operating System Windows XP with Service Pack 2 or Windows Vista
CPU Intel Pentium D 2.6 GHz or AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ (Dual Core) processor Intel Core 2 Duo 2.2 GHz or better / AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+
Memory 1 GB (XP), 2 GB (Vista)
Hard Drive Space 8 GB of free space
Graphics Hardware 256 MB DirectX 10.0 Graphics Card or DirectX 9.0–compliant card with Shader Model 3.0 or higher, PCI Express 256 MB DirectX 10.0–compliant video card or DirectX 9.0–compliant card with Shader Model 3.0 or higher, PCI Express
Sound Hardware DirectX 9.0 or 10.0–compliant, 5.1 channel surround (Rec)
I got all requirements…. yet my computer does not wanna work…. got 4gig ram, amd 64 athlon X2 and a nvidia geforce 7300…. now it says on the back my computer is enough >.> please help