As the developers of Crysis will no doubt attest, it's one thing to build a beautiful PC game -- but another entirely to build one your audience can reasonably play on existing hardware. But this is one of the many areas where Ubisoft's Far Cry 2 is attempting to step out of its predecessor's soft shadows.
Behold, the surprisingly reasonable system requirements for Far Cry 2!
Minimum requirements
CPU: Pentium 4 3.2 Ghz, Pentium D 2.66 Ghz, AMD Athlon 64 3500+ or better
Video card: NVIDIA® 6800 or ATI®X1650 or better, Shader Model 3 required, 256 Mb of graphic memory
Memory: 1 GB
Media reader: DVD-ROM
Recommended
CPU: Intel® Core 2 Duo Family, AMD®64 X2 5200+, AMD® Phenom or better
Video card: NVIDIA® 8600 GTS or better, ATI®X1900 or better, 512 Mb of graphic memory
Memory: 2 GB
Sound: 5.1 sound card recommended
Media reader: DVD-ROM
Supported Video cards:
NVIDIA® 6800, NVIDIA® 7000 series, 8000 series, 9000 series, 200 series. 8800M and 8700M supported for laptops.
ATI® X1650 – 1950 series , HD2000 series , HD3000 series , HD4000 series.
When technical director Dominic Guay told gamers it would run on a four-year old PC we were skeptical... but in terms of graphics card selections the NVIDIA 6800 is just that -- and even the recommended cards are running sub-$100 these days.
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