Itching to give the PC version of
Borderlands a shot? Does the lack of it feel like a badger has clawed into your stomach and annihilated your inner being with its goblin teeth? Tell me about it. While the version doesn’t hit retail shelves or Steam until October 26th, pre-ordering may serve to dull the pain of not having it in hand. Even better, the Steam pre-order deal --
which went live today -- at least guarantees action the instant the title launches. It doesn’t fix the inner-being-lessness, but it’s a more soothing option than, say, doing nothing.
The current Steam pre-order deal -- announced this afternoon by Valve -- also cuts the price by 10 percent, making the title $44.99 instead of $49.99.
While the price is nice, it’s pointless if the target PC can’t run it. The Steam pre-order page lists the requirements. At minimum,
Borderlands requires a 2.4 Ghz processor, 1 GB of RAM, A GeForce 8 or a Radeon R8xx series graphics card and 8 GB of hard drive space.
Ah -- if only graphics cards could also function as time travel devices.
Contest:
10:30 PM on 10.02.2009
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How I long for a wii version...if only if only...
AMD 64 bit - 2.21 isnt gonna cut it ><
Also, @Aughndibi
Why would the PS3 version be unplayable?
I really want a gaming pc.
On a sadder note:
Earlier I was wading through some Borderlands 1UP comments (stumbled upon the article in which Borderlands devs declared that the PC version would look better), and came to the realization that console fanboys are dumb enough as to reject powerful PCs. Who on earth would reject a better computer? Every time I get caught reading those comments I die a little bit inside.
Good thing I still have destructoid to come back to!
:)
Seriously, if your PC can't run U3, it's not a gaming PC and you aren't a PC gamer!
Also, the '2.4Ghz' refers to a single core processor - Multiple core machines often clock slower but make up with it by shunting the OS and other processes to another core, meaning they cope better.
there is NO WAY that this game only supports ATI cards that have only been on the market for a week or so. G80 series is now 3 years old, so it's more likely that it's supposed to say R600.
It takes them fucking forever to give us system requirements, and this is what they give us? Seriously? 2.4GHz processor? What does that even mean? I mean, most people will meet that, but is it talking pentium4 or Core2 or what? That might be important to some people. And Geforce 8 series or better? That's completely meaningless. Give a fucking specific card. Would it run on the 8500? A lot of devs post something like "Geforce 7800 or higher(excluding Geforce 8500)". Man this pisses me off.
@mkshiranui, that'll run it on medium settings.
uhh actually mkshiranui is correct. 512mb of ram on a low end card does not make it anything like as powerful as a high end card with the same amount. it's like putting a bodykit on a shitty car. it might look fast to the untrained eye, but it's still shitty underneath.
sorry mkshiranui, that 4350 doesn't really stand much of a chance of running this game at max or even high settings, so i wouldn't go getting your hopes up.