Dragon Age System Requirements

[DemonKing]

XBOX360

or

PS3

or

Windows XP Minimum Specifications:

OS: Windows XP with SP3
CPU: Intel Core 2 (or equivalent) running at 1.4Ghz or greater / AMD X2 (or equivalent) running at 1.8Ghz or greater
RAM: 1GB or more
Video: ATI Radeon X850 128MB or greater / NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT 128MB or greater
DVD ROM (Physical copy)
20 GB HD space

Windows Vista Minimum Specifications:

OS: Windows Vista with SP1
CPU: Intel Core 2 (or equivalent) running at 1.6Ghz or greater / AMD X2 (or equivalent) running at 2.2GHZ or greater
RAM: 1.5 GB or more
Video: ATI Radeon X1550 256MB or greater / NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT 256MB or greater
DVD ROM (Physical copy)
20 GB HD space

Recommended Specifications:

CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad 2.4Ghz Processor or equivalent
RAM: 4 GB (Vista) or 2 GB (XP)
Video: ATI 3850 512 MB or greater / NVIDIA 8800GTS 512 MB or greater
DVD ROM (Physical copy)
20 GB HD space

The hard drive requirements will triple if you download and purchase through EA's Digital Downloader service. A Steam release is not yet confirmed.

 

[racofer]

In before skyway.

 

[Occasionally Fatal]

In after racofer.

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

In during multi-headed cow.

 

[The Ticktockman]

In between wankers.

 

[Turok]

Good my XT can run it, nice to know.

 

[Rohit_N]

I'm set.

 

[circ]

Funny how it doesn't look any better than ME but has almost double the min requirements.

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

I would say it looks significantly worse than ME.
http://pix3lnati0n.files.wordpress.com/ ... effect.jpg
http://files.bioware.com/dragonage/asse ... 1_sten.jpg

 

[Melcar]

DA does look fucking ugly. Hopefully by the final release they crank up the eyeorgasm, because face it, this thing has nothing else going for it.

 

[Texas Red]

NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT


Lol? Even NWN 2 had bigger requirements. I guess the optimization it quite good .

 

[Clockwork Knight]

20 GB HD space

The hard drive requirements will triple

do they realize how much porn is this

 

[Barrow_Bug]

In between wankers.

Bizarre. A yank using the term 'Wanker'. Weird.

 

[The Ticktockman]

It's almost as if we live in a world where some sort of world-wide communications medium allows slang to extend further than single nations.

 

[Barrow_Bug]

It's almost as if we live in a world where some sort of world-wide communications medium allows slang to extend further than single nations.

I know! Incredible, huh?

 

[Kraszu]

Why vista minimal requirement of gf card is so much bigger, shouldn't it be the same?

 

[Micmu]

Why vista minimal requirement of gf card is so much bigger, shouldn't it be the same?

Probably because everything on this shit "OS" will run slower than on XP using the same or even slightly better hardware , so they needed an extra edge.

 

[abstract]

20 GB disk space? What the shit? Are the backgrounds in uncompressed .tifs?

 

[Durwyn]

20 GB disk space? What the shit? Are the backgrounds in uncompressed .tifs?

It's becouse of several hundreds gory death and bizzare sex animations.

 

[NOVD]

I wonder if they upped the disk space to deter torrenters. DA:O is not using any sort of intrusive DRM or something.

 

[xuerebx]

Yay I can play it. On minimum. Hopefully.

 

[Melcar]

Why vista minimal requirement of gf card is so much bigger, shouldn't it be the same?

Probably because everything on this shit "OS" will run slower than on XP using the same or even slightly better hardware , so they needed an extra edge.

Minimum requirements for both operating systems seem about the same. Vista needs more RAM since it's a 64bit OS (I know a 32bit version is out there); a 64bit OS has a bigger memory footprint than a 32bit OS, even when running the same applications. CPU differences are minimal and understandable seeing that Vista is a "heavier" OS. In the GPU area, a x850 is actually much faster than a x1550, so this seems fuck up; the only thing that would warrant a GPU difference is if they account for DX10 (in this case the Vista requirements would have to be a bit higher), but I don't think the game uses DX10 so the recommended cards look alright.

 

[Shannow]

I wonder if they upped the disk space to deter torrenters. DA:O is not using any sort of intrusive DRM or something.

And does it matter whether it is 2 gigs or twenty? It takes the same amount of space on your HD and otherwise only prolongs the download by 2-4 days.
Pretty sure it's the same reason why game sizes have increased exponetially for the last 25 years: <s>lazyness</s> technical advancement.
And from general internet buzz and personal experience I'd rather say that intrusive DRM incites torrenters instead of deterring them (but I don't want to start another pointless debate about that ).

 

[Volourn]

"XBOX360"

That's all i need to know. I have no interest in spending upwards of a $1000 just to play any game on the PC.

PC is only worthwhile because of the internet. Otherwise, USELESS.

 

[Melcar]

Shut up Volourn. Nobody likes you. A $500 PC plays that game just fine (going by the recommended specifications).