The Last Remnant PC requirements messed up?

System Requirements

Minimum
o Operating System: Microsoft® Windows® XP SP2/Vista® SP1 *1 *2
o Processor: Intel® Core™2 Duo (2GHz) / AMD Athlon™ X2 (2GHz)
o Memory: 1.5GB RAM
o Hard Disk Space: 15GB Available HDD Space
o Video Card: NVIDIA® GeForce® 8600 VRAM 256MB or better *3
o Sound Card: 100% DirectSound® compatible sound card (DirectX®9.0c or higher）
o DirectX® Version: DirectX® 9.0c

Recommended
o Operating System: Microsoft® Windows Vista® SP1 *1 *2
o Processor: Intel® Core™2 Duo (2.4GHz or higher) / AMD Athlon™ X2 (2.4GHz or higher)
o Memory: 2GB RAM
o Hard Disk Space: 15GB Available HDD Space
o Video Card: NVIDIA® GeForce® 8800 VRAM 512MB or better *3
o Sound Card: 100% DirectSound® compatible sound card (DirectX®9.0c or higher）
o DirectX® Version: DirectX® 10 (OS Default) *4
o Supports Xbox 360® Controller for Windows®
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8600M GT minimum? Cmon, my laptop is playing it almost maxed at 1280x720! It's always the 2 extremes right? They either say minimum that aren't even playable or something that doesn't even makes sense!

Anyways, anyone's playing it?

 

I played the demo, and yeah I had it maxed out easy. Though I will mention the 360 version has huge slowdowns in battle scenes, that's probably why they recommend such comparably good hardware compared. Even on my 9800M GS, there slow downs in battle scenes, but nothing that dips below 30 fps and I did have everything maxed out. Squenix probably wanted to make sure their was none of the slow down associated with the 360 version, because typically multiplatform ports usually require a card like a GF 6800 or ATi X800 which is in the range of a third to half as powerful as the 8600GT.

 

Given that it uses Unreal Engine 3, I could see the requirements being high for good performance. I'm playing it myself (on my gaming desktop), I don't really have space or time to test on a weaker laptop.

Unreal Tournament 3 actually has lower minimum specs. So it may not be a limitation of the engine itself, rather what graphical features that Square-Enix want to push for good presentation and performance.

 

UE3 is a pretty efficient engine actually, but it depends on the devs coding in scalability to get older graphics cards to run using less detailed textures, lower AF, geometry, LOD, etc. UE3 will run on a Geforce 6200, same with Gears of War.

 

I am thinking about playing this game.
How do you like it?
What is your fps in the game?

 

Yeah I like it but I haven't played for quite some time now. I have only monitored FPS a little but it was 20~35 at 1280x720, 4xAA and everything almost maxed (except shadows, they are a killer for DDR2 cards).

 

I played the demo. It seems an ok RPG with a different touch.

Now on the requirements: It is something like playing lottery. Sometimes the minimum is close enough for a decent experience and sometimes it is not (that is why it is recommended to have hardware above the minimum). And on the recommended side it is the same because sometimes the recommended requirements does not even allows to play with 75% of the options at highest with decent resolutions. That is why I like sites like yougamers since they also analyze how real are the requirements of the games.