Red Alet 3 System requirements revealed

Right off yougamers.com

* OS: Windows XP / Vista (32-Bit)
* Processor: XP: 2.0 GHz (Intel Pentium 4; AMD Athlon 2000+; Multiple Cores) / Vista: 2.2 GHz (Intel Pentium 4/AMD Athlon 2200+/Multiple Cores)
* Memory: XP/Vista: 1 GB
* Hard Drive: Media: 6.0 GB / EA Link: 12.0 GB
* DVD Drive: 8 SPEED
* Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 6800, ATI Radeon X1800 or higher end DirectX 9.0c compatible gfx card
* Sound Card: DirectX 9.0c compatible (Creative Sound Blaster Audigy cards require a Intel P4 2.6 GHz or similar under Vista, Yamaha Xwave-512 not supported)
* Online Multiplayer: 512 Kbps or faster; 2-8 Players
* Input: Keyboard, Mouse
* Optional: VoIP Headset

Sounds like you won't need a beast to run the game. Great news!

 

1 GB of RAM in both Vista and XP?! That doesn't look right. The video card requirements look okay although the 6 GB of HDD space for the EA Link looks downright dubious and akin to bloatware.

 

Well.. maybe its a very optimized game, since the new games run great, but i doubt that.. it has the EA tag xD

 

Ah man! And when's it releasing ?

 

Considering it's a RTS the system requirements seems skewed toward the GPU rather than the CPU. Since a 2GHz Pentium 4, which never even had HT, is very slow nowadays, yet a 6800 or a X1800 is still pretty strong, better than the 8400M series that is common nowadays.

 

^^^ They're not very clear on the processor; they seem to be OK with either a 2GHz P4, or they want a 2GHz dual-core. Either way that is a huge difference. If its the latter, those requirements are steep.

 

all we can do is wait. i dont remember any modern game asking for a 2ghz P4 processor, maybe its the RTS i've waiting for.. but who knows..

 

it looks very GPU intensive, looks like I have "overkill" for the CPU, but barely at minimum requirement at the GPU level as my 8400gs performs at the same level as a 6800 if not worse. still going to try running it, been waiting for this game for a long time

 

Ati X1800 and above? wuosh, the X1800 is a pretty good card, so I guess the game should look awesome

 

well, id love to see and RTS that depends on the GPU more than the CPU, because that would be special

 

Hmmm... That can't be right. 512 kbps!?

That must be with Video Chat + Voice Chat + Text Chat turned on....

My connection isn't that fast.

 

512 kbps (kilo-bits) down. its not that fast, thats like the cheapest high speed around. semi-broadband.

"Typically, the download speed of consumer DSL services ranges from 256 kilobits per second (kbit/s) to 24,000 kbit/s"

"[cable internet customers] are generally offered between two and ten megabits"

 

i remember some games calling for 4 mbps , so 512kbps should be no problem at all

 

wait wait wait wait wait, does it say that Red Alert 3 won't be compatible with Vista 64 bit???NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

 

What? I think that just means that Red Alert 3 won't be a 64-bit app. It'll still run in 32-bit mode using WoW64 (the 32-bit compatibility layer not World of Warcraft) in Vista x64.

 

Well, that makes it more optimized XD

 

my pc will crush that game

 

Wow, pretty low reqs. I guess that's the advantage of continued use of SAGE.

 

those are minimum requirements just to note.

 

Hmm I'm getting an Asus M70VM with a Intel C2D P8400 2.2GHZ and a nVidia Geforce 9600M 512MB, I'm assuming it's the GS but hoping it's a GT (but I know it'll be a GS even though the page doesn't say so - http://www.meshcomputers.com/Defaul...SG=PRODUCT&ENT=PRODUCT&KEY=394773&APPS=234471)

So looking at those specs I'd say my new laptop will run that with no problems. For a change I might be able to enjoy a brand new game at reasonable settings :yay:

I just hope DoW 2 is as good on the requirements...

Two things I can see though - it's done by EA and Red Alert 2 was rubbish, RA 2 + EA = RA 3? or RA 3 = Good Looking low on content PoS?

 

ah, okay, thx for clarifying that, i was seriously worried

 

It's gonna be a really cool game I can't wait

 

This is good news, though not at all surprising since it's just running a modified version of the SAGE engine, which itself is just a modified version of the Westwood3D engine that's been powering all of Westwood/EA's 3D games since Emperor: Battle For Dune. Even C&C3 runs just fine at minimum details and native res on my old Gateway 7422GX.

 

I'm kinda lost here. Do you mean that it's the first modern game you've seen with such a low requirement for CPUs? Or is it the other way around?

 

I am really big fan of ra2, ra2:yuri's revenge, generals, tiberium wars ...u get the point the whole c&c series. Too bad my nv 6150m wont be able to run this game...

 

Yeah what i meant was the CPU requirement is quite low for an RTS dont you think?

 

Sorry to revive such an old thread. Was it ever confirmed whether or not RA3 runs on Vista x64?

 

I have x64 and it runs perfectly. The only thing you might find annoying is that it doesn't create a start menu thing (which means u have to make your own shortcut by going to the programs x86 folder).

 

I See. Thanks for clarifying. Because I have heard some people say it was a hit-and-miss thing.