S.T.A.L.K.E.R : clear sky requirements published

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S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky System Requirements Published

GSC Game World has published the minimum and recommended system requirements for STALKER: Clear Sky.

MINIMAL

* Microsoft(R) Windows(R) 2000(SP4)/XP/Vista (SP1)
* Intel Pentium 4 2.0 Ghz / AMD XP 2200+
* 512 MB RAM
* 10 GB free hard disc space
* 128 MB DirectX(R) 8.0 compatible card / nVIDIA(R) GeForce(tm) 5700 / ATI Radeon(R) 9600
* Keyboard, Mouse
* LAN / Internet for Multiplayer

RECOMMENDED

* Microsoft(R) Windows(R) XP/Vista (SP1)
* Intel Core 2 Duo E6400 / AMD 64 X2 4200+
* 1.5 GB RAM
* 10 GB free hard disc space
* 256 MB DirectX(R) 9.0c compatible card / nVIDIA(R) GeForce(tm) 8800 GT / ATI Radeon(R) HD 2900 XT
* Keyboard, Mouse
* LAN / Internet for Multiplayer

Well.. it seems the requirements are just good, even the recommended requirement is quite good, since an 8800gt 256mb can be beat by high end Mobile Cards IMO since its a little limited card.

Anyways, GSC was always honest with thier requirements, so if you meet them, you will play the game without any slowdowns at all!
hmm i wonder how great is the game going to be..

 

Wow cool. Thanks much for the info, Brainer!

 

Hehe no problem, i'm really really waiting for this game.. ive played the first one with the god rays mod and it was Incredible, now that its already in the game, its gonna be unbelievable.

 

will the 8600m gt ddr2 be able to play on medium settings?

1440*900?

 

my guess is yes mate, the game is very scalable.

 

Awesome!

I wonder what you need to play with all these pretty new DX10 features! Hopefully not much more!

 

Looks like they kept the DirectX 8.0 rendering, which should allow almost any hardware to run. Sweet.

 

Now we just need to know the price tag on this thing....

This isn't an expansion is it?

 

Nope. It's the sequel.

 

as posted in the requirements, a 8800gt 256 will be enough even for DX10, which i suspect will have minimal visual impact because of better smoke and stuff like that, so FPS loss should be minimal

 

Thought so... looks sweet

 

Thx dude, think I'll have to get that one

 

Its actually a prequel.

 

ive seen video of the game, its not mind blowingly good looking like crysis warhead or far cry 2 so if they optimized it well, it should run on just about any decent graphics card

 

It's not so much the best graphics ever the developers are pushing for, it's for immersing you in the Zone, and god damn Shadow Of Chernobyl had the best damn atmosphere ever, as good as if not better than Bioshock's, I was playing on medium at the time too!

The wind, animal screams, gunshots in the background, trees and plants rustling in the wind, to anomalies activating and your Geiger counter going mental at times, to the worst of all "BLOODSUCKERS". This game was horrifying with what I heard about bloodsuckers, I was afraid of meeting them and I got lost and ended up in a village full of them I camped inside a building and pointed at the entrance..."shivers"! The game was still amazing fun, if not for frequent bugs and some features being cut out it would have been a masterpiece!

 

i want to try the first one out but im still working on beating crysis.... ive read reviews and they are mostly positive but im concerned about the backtracking which i hate doing in videogames.... and i heard you do alot of it in the first stalker

 

Yeah that's correct, I don't mind it too much but their is a fantastic mod called Oblivion Lost, which adds a lot of features that didn't make it into the game, one of these being "VEHICLES!" so you don't have to run about everywhere which can be frustrating.

I'd recommend you to go through the game unmodded first, and then try Oblivion Lost, because Oblivion lost can add tons of mutants and it can become very challenging!

 

If only more new games are as scalable as Clear Sky. With separate code paths for DX8.1, DX9 and DX10, the flexibility is probably only beaten by the Source engine with DX7, DX8.0, DX8.1, and DX9 (with DX6 also available in the engine, but I don't believe officially support in the system requirements).

 

Source looks pretty dated now, even in Very High! :|

Whoever plays in DX7/DX8 need to get with the programme!

 

atleast its gonna be 3/4 of Crysis looks with Triple the performance.. sounds like a good deal to me.

 

Nice! I've been looking forward to this game for a while now. It looks like it's everything the original STALKER was meant to be

 

Well the graphics is really good, it surely beats Crysis hands down in indoor areas where I think Crysis does not shine like it´s outdoor environments.

 

hmm, steam says Aug 29, will have to keep an eye on this one

 

I could never bring myself to actually finishing STALKER, not even played it for more than 5 hours total.
Was bored with the whole do this, get that thing.

 

yeah i was to but i stopped playing after 2 hours. don't know why though, i get urge's to play but i don't for some reason i even like the game.

 

I hear you. Boring game.. I really wanted to like it but there was no story. They just drop you in and expect you to want to walk around aimlessly. Meh.

 

Sounds like you guys never got immersed in the games atmosphere, that's what kept me in, then exploring underground labs etc was creepy as hell, but so much fun and rewarding.

Oblivion Lost mod, I need to try it! D=

 

I'm trying to be sympathetic to those who use those ugly cousins of GPUs, the Intel GMAs. Which is probably quite a few people. At least with a DX8.1 code path, the GMA X4500 and possibly the GMA X3100 have a pretty good chance of running Clear Sky acceptably. Obviously, the DX8.1 path won't look as good as the DX9 or DX10 paths, but at least they'll hopefully be able to play at a resolution better than 640x480 with a stable frame rate. And an Intel GMA being able to run a newly released game, particularly a first-person shooter, is probably a rarity.