Dragon Age II system requirement revealed

Arghhh, posted in the wrong forum, moderator please move this thread to the gaming forum, sorry.

For those who dig DAO, here is the requirement for recommended and minimum, looks like a lot of people gotta do a upgrade if they want to enjoy good visuals in this game.

Recommended System Requirements:
CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad 2.4 GHz Processor or equivalent
CPU: AMD Phenom II X3 Triple core 2.8 GHz or equivalent
RAM: 2GB (4 GB Vista and Windows 7)
Video: ATI 3850 512 MB or greater
Video: NVIDIA 8800GTS 512 MB or greater
DirectX 11: ATI 5850 or greater
DirectX 11: NVIDIA 460 or greater

Minimum System Requirements
OS: Windows XP 32-bit with SP3
OS: Windows Vista 32-bit with SP2
OS: Windows 7 64-bit
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo (or equivalent) running at 1.8 GHz or greater
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 (or equivalent) running at 1.8 GHz or greater
RAM: 1 GB (1.5 GB Vista and Windows 7)
Video: Radeon HD 2600 Pro 256 MB
Video: NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS 256 MB cards
Disc Drive: DVD ROM drive required
Hard Drive: 7 GB
Sound: Direct X 9.0c Compatible Sound Card Windows Experience Index: 4.5

User blog:Aedan Cousland/Dragon Age II System Requirements - Dragon Age Wiki

 

Phew... at first I thought the recommended requirements were the minimum ones.

Perhaps we should move this to the gaming forum?

 

i thought the same thing too!
my laptop obsolete in a millisecond

 

These unreasonable requirements remind me of Mafia or GTA4 and were the sole reason why the games were relatively unsuccessful. I don't know about other computer enthusiasts, but I don't upgrade my computers just to play a game.

 

Good thing my hexacore i7 and incoming 6970 should be able to handle it. Wait I don't play DAO.

 

Which part is unreasonable? Except for the DX11 option, the requirements are practically the same as for the first Dragon Age. The latter played quite nicely on high settings (not maxed out, but high) on what was then a 2 year old laptop (8600M GT, C2D T9300).

 

I've thrown enough money at both of my systems that I pretty much just install anything and it runs well without even looking at the requirements

 

Well they always post the recommended but what do they test like 2560x1600 and max quality AA/AS? lol

I'm sure you'll run DAO with a Core 2 and a last generation card just fine, just not max max settings.

 

I dang near dropped my jaw on the floor thinking the recommended were required too, never played the game but not even Crysis or Metro 2033 REQUIRE as high of specs as what is recommended for this game lol.

 

Funny thing, my Metro 2033 runs better than my DAO at the same settings. Weird...

But I'm happy to see these requirements, I was worried I wouldn't be able to run DA2. Now if ME3's requirements are the same, that'd be great

 

Nice, thats one less worry.

 

+1 .... Actually I like DAO so much that it can be a reason for me to upgrade :O

 

Bioware likes to hit a wide audience. This is why they have mixed action FPS and role playing games together to create the likes Mass Effect. DAO2 apparently is taking on quite a lot of Mass Effect attributes in the next game. Forget about the pausing and stretegic thinking in DAO, basically it will be real play unless you really crank up the difficulty setting We'll see when it's out but I'm pretty sure I'm right.

I just can't see the game being that demanding like I said, Bioware love sales, why else would the world of warcraft rubbish be so prolonged? They won't compromise sales for hardware needs....unless of course it is targetted mostly for console users so it's poorly optimized.

 

Do you mean on the machine in your sig? If so, then there is no mystery there: DAO likes CPU power and the Turion X2s don't offer much of that.

On DAO2: it's nice that they're putting in some DX11 features. I wonder what they'll be though.

 

ME3 uses a different engine - the same basic engine as the first 2 games (based on UE3). Hopefully the requirements should be almost the same as the first 2 games. I sure hope so or I'm doomed. Currently I can play these games maxed out @ 1080p which is great as I can't say the same for the majority of modern games. They still look great as well. I'm very impressed with the level of optimization and really hope it carries onto the 3rd game.

 

That is false. It will still have the tactical pause, combat will just be more interactive and responsive, no shuffling. Watch this video.

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Wasn't the first DAO 15 + gigs? Kinda worried about the 7 gig hd space required...

Hopefully the game won't be that short

 

Am I the only person here who says, dump DRAGONS AGE of Consoles and bring back NEVERWINTER NIGHTS!!!!!

Yes... Thread takeover. NEVERWINTER NIGHTS! NEVERWINTER NIGHTS!

 

That's coming in the summer too.

 

Yeah like ME3, barely an RPG that requires any thinking or choices. Just another typical console game... IMO just fire this Mike Laidlaw dude. Get someone who is actually serious about making an RPG game.

Looks totally lame. Not even an action RPG, just looks like an arcade game.

DA:O already once you get some gear is so easy that you don't need to pause. With DA2 looks like the pause feature is useless since it's not needed at all.

 

I think that is a manner of perspective, I found the game very difficult on hard. Mass Effect 2 was better than the first IMO, and I enjoy RPGs alot. It removed cumbersome parts of the game and revamped the combat, I dont see why that would be a problem with DA:O, since combat was the weakpoint of the game.

I am not passing my judgement until the final game is released, Bioware has never let me down before and I expect they will deliver as usual.

 

What I was getting at is with DOA2 is that your character is already defined for you. In DAO1 you had choices of races and this would lead different story lines. Eliminating this eradictates a lot of the game and any replayability the former may have had. I really enjoyed Mass Effect 2 but implementing a lot of the ideas from that game will kill most of DAO's strengths. I like DAO for being DOA, I liked Mass Effect for being Mass Effect. You cannot make the perfect game. Bioware seem obsessed with dumbing down and generalizing games.

And the pause feature might be there but if the game is catered for console action based users it is a good as worthless.

 

I did it for SC2!

 

Those look like great specs. My current machine is right at the recommended, but hopefully I'll have a Sandy Bridge + 6900M machine in Q1 of next year.

Are you kidding?

The minimum req is four generations old hardware.

Your 3870x2 destroys the recommended anyway.

I wouldn't worry about the size too much.

Risen is a pretty big game, and it's a shockingly small 2GB.

 

Direct quote from the link in the first post that explains the seemingly small size of the game:

"On The Oddly Small Size For The GameEdit"

"Ok, to alleviate your worries (I know it won't in those who want to see something negative, but I'll try) here is why it is 7GB instead of a higher number. 3 main points.
- We used a different compression scheme in DA II than DAO (something called "ogg" I am told).
- 2 less fully VOed langauages
- Optimized mesh data, physics and lighting (which I am told reduces the footprint of environments by close to 75%)

I know some will still doom and gloom, but the game is 7GB because we are better at making games. So, now that you have some reasons why the game is 7GB I hope this will calm some of you down." --Evil Chris Priestly

 

Wouldn't you love to play the game as an Arcane Archer or Maybe an assassin? Oh wait... you can't do that on DA(C). but you CAN on Neverwinter Nights 2.

NEVERWINTER

StevenX