News Spore system requirements released

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2008/06/11/spore-system-requirements-released/1

If you're still waiting anxiously for Spore then you'll probably be interested in these - the recommended requirements for PC and Mac.

 

Yeah, but how crap will it look? Is that the recommended or the minimum requirements? If it's the minimum, as I suspect it is, I'd be rather intregued to see what the recommended is.

 

I *think* this may be the recommended.

 

I want to know if it will run with all the bells and whistles on my 2600XT at about 1280x720..

 

Wow, finally a game I can play since, well, F.E.A.R.

 

I'm really liking the look of spore, I just need a decent graphics card to play it at 1920x1200 (I had a 3870X2 that broke ) roll on RV770 based cards! *twitches*

 

+1
one thing that irks me with pc game minimum and recommended specs is that most of the ones I see only state the video card memory, cause theres a bit of a difference between my X1650 pro 512MB and someone else's 8800gt 256MB. I prefer the labels that say "minimum spec graphics card '7600gt' recommended '8600gts'." much more informative.
still, yay, I don't have to wait till I upgrade to play spore.

 

The game requirements for Vista are actually less than the normal requirements for Vista weird.
I will be able to play this on my laptop should I feel the need, which is nice but completely pointless! It has pretty much the minimum you can have, I think the 9700 was one of the first cards to have PS 2 support.
And how come it can work with integrated graphics on a Mac?

 

my motto is "If you need to read the minimum specs then pc gaming probably isnt for you."

 

I like to read them just to see how vague and uninformative they can be lol

 

"unless you're just poor and can't afford to upgrade"

I often need to double check the minimum requirements when my brother/dad wonder if game X will work on their aging PCs.

 

I remember when you could be well below the minimum requirements and still run the game just fine.

 

Even if these are minimum specs, they're pretty low. A medium/high-end PC bought in November of last year (like mine) has triple the requirements in every category.

Also, who is running Vista on 768mb of RAM? That's just masochism.

 

I used to just run a gig before I upgraded to 3, and better news is that the Creature Creator demo arrives on Monday/Tuesday depending on who you believe. As EA are saying that the 100% paid version will be available on Monday but everyone else is saying both will be available on Tuesday.

 

OS X support? I approve.

 

Depends on the territory. UK and Europe gets it, and the full game, a bit earlier.

 

okay I have always been curious as to how do these companies determine what is to be min requirements, is it if it plays within a certain number of frames per second or what?

 

Wow, I can run this game perfectly fine it seems! I hope these are just the recommended requirements. The game looks rather good for such low specs though so I dunno.

 

Trust me, almost anyone who I run into saying Vista sucks has this or 1 gig......

 

I just hope Apple gets Leopard openGL fixed in time.