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Here are Prototype's system requirements photo

Earlier this week, Activision revealed the system requirements for Prototype on the PC. Here are the details:

Windows® XP (with Service Pack 3) and DirectX® 9.0c or (Windows Vista® with Service Pack 2)
Video Card: 256 MB 3D hardware accelerator card required - 100% DirectX® 9.0c with Shader Model 3 support*
Processor: Pentium(R) Intel Core® 2 Duo 2.6 GHz or AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ or better
RAM: 1 GB of RAM for Windows ® XP / 2 GB Windows ® Vista systems
Hard Drive Space: 8 GB of uncompressed hard disk space (Plus 500MB for swap file.)
Sound Card: DirectX 9.0 –compliant sound card
DVD-ROM: DVD-ROM
Peripheral:
100% Windows(R) XP/Vista - compatible mouse, keyboard and drivers
100% Windows(R) XP/Vista - compatible 4X DVD-ROM drive or better (600
K/sec sustained transfer rate) and drivers

*Supported Chipsets for Windows(R) XP and Vista
All NVIDIA® GeForce™ 7800 256 MB and better chipsets
All ATI® Radeon™ X1800 256 MB and better chipsets 

That doesn't seem too bad. Granted, I have no idea what most of it means. What I do know is that Prototype is looking pretty hot thanks to Colette's preview. I am worried it will get a little too repetitive, but that's a fear I always have about sandbox games.

How about you? Looking forward to Prototype

[Via Activision Forums]








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PhazonYoshi's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/31/2009 19:54
PhazonYoshi
Yeah, they're not too bad. Processor's a bit steeper than most.
Jon B's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/31/2009 19:57
Jon B
Yeah, the required processor is a bit high. Can still run it nonetheless, planning on the Steam version.
Berzerk's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/31/2009 20:33
Berzerk
I already bought it on Steam. My PC'll do better than my PS3 will...
KorJax's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/31/2009 20:48
KorJax
What's funny is that it requires Service Pack 3. Every single game on the PC that required SP3 from what I have heard ended up shit (or, the game was good but the port was shit). This is generally a warning sign that the port is shit because the devs don't know what they are doing for the PC crowd, truth be told.

Service pack 3 was nothing more than a few security adjustments here and there really, and smoothing out a few small bugs in the OS. It's only important to have SP2.

Especailly since I can't install SP3. Not that it matters since this game wasn't on my radar at all really.
gamadaya's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/31/2009 20:52
gamadaya
Dang, 2.6? What's with that? My laptop might have a little trouble.

@KorJax: What do you mean you can't download it? Why would that be? You wouldn't be running a *gasp* stolen version, would you?
Chronic Logic's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/31/2009 21:04
Chronic Logic
This is just the minimum? I'd hate to see the reccommended specs.
Mr Kite's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/31/2009 21:07
Mr Kite
If this turns out better than inFamous I'll probably be getting it for PC rather than 360.
gszx1337's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/31/2009 21:23
gszx1337
Looks like I'll be playing this on low with my 7900 GT.

What's with the CPU requirement? C2D @ 2.6GHZ? AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800? That's a bit unbalanced.
everybodyruns's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/31/2009 21:26
everybodyruns
Hamza, how can you write for a gaming blog and not know what most of those requirements mean?
Hamza CTZ Aziz's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/31/2009 21:38
Hamza CTZ Aziz
Easily. I know how to write about stuff. Duh.
MrSlippery's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/31/2009 22:18
MrSlippery
I think the game'll only be as boring as you wanna make it, based on the sheer variety of powers that are supposed to be in this game. It's supposedly going to have more then inFamous, according to the listenUP podcast.
pascuz46's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/31/2009 22:22
pascuz46
I am looking forward to Prototype thank you. But Ill be renting it on PS3 and if I like it. I'll buy it!
psycho terror2's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/31/2009 23:02
psycho terror2
hmm my pc is currently improving significantly faster than system requirements are.

someone needs to release the PS4 or something.
oknd's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/01/2009 01:35
oknd
That's great. Vista SP2 isn't even out in some languages yet so they're making this game unplayable for certain regions.

The processor requirement is kinda high though so maybe these are the recommended specifications and not the minimum.
Wintersocks's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/01/2009 04:25
Wintersocks
I wonder if I can overclock my 2.2 ghz to 2.6?
Insomniax's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/01/2009 04:51
Insomniax
Wintersocks: I overclocked my 2.2 to 3.0 recently. All you need is some patience and probably a new heatsink if you're still using the bog standard intel one.
Cyber Altair's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/01/2009 05:36
Cyber Altair
yay for meeting the requirements.
aZZmodan's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/01/2009 06:20
aZZmodan
Ohhh... Are those the minimum or the recomended specs? 'Cause if that's the minimum, a Duo 2.6 is just... too much. Oh, and this will be a game that has to run smoothly on a 5-year-old piece of hardware that's the 360... Oh, how I hate the software-hardware lobying...
Velt's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/01/2009 09:47
Velt
A duo @ 2.6ghz??? Thats not good for me, and for a CPU is just TOO much.
I will test drive it and see if it runs at 2.4ghz and what is the fuzz behind the cpu thing.
DGX Goggles's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/01/2009 10:08
DGX Goggles
Will 2.5 do?
Eschatos's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/01/2009 16:39
Eschatos
Those are quite light requirements. Looking forward to the ninth.
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