Polygamia has the scoop on the system requirements for CD Projekt's highly anticipated The Witcher 2, a game that impressed me at Eurogamer and made Samit forget about sports in New York.
Recommended specs:
Processor: Intel Quad Core or AMD equivalent
Graphics Card: Nvidia GeForce 260, 1 GB memory / Radeon HD 4850 with 1 GB memory
Memory: 3 GB for Windows XP / 4 GB for Windows Vista and Windows 7
Hard Disk: At least 16 GB of free space
Minimum specs:
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo 2.2 GHz or AMD 2.5 GHz equivalent
Graphics Card: Nvidia GeForce 8800, 512 MB memory or ATI HD3850 512 MB
Memory: 1 GB for Windows XP / 2 GB for Windows Vista and Windows 7
Hard Disk: 8 GB for the game installation and 8 GB for bonus materials
They look reasonable enough. Most mid-range rigs should be able to run it, but if you were thinking of what kind of new PC to build, the recommended specs do make for a nice guideline. While the recommended quad core processor didn't include any model or speed, it's safe to assume you'll be fine with an i7 920 or something like that.
[Update: The Witcher 2's newsletter has some more info on the AMD/ATI specs, which has been added to this post. We have not yet received any reply to inquiries about what kind of "quad core" or reference resolution is assumed]
Znamy wymagania sprzetowe Wiedzmina 2! [Polygamia]
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4:00 PM on 03.25.2011 | 
I've secrectly have had this game under my 'PC HYPE?' Radar, can't wait to pick it up.
Memory: 1 GB for Windows XP / 2 GB for Windows XP
Ehhhh
Fixed, cheers :)
I mean the card should act as the bottleneck, considering I'm lacking the quad core and recommended doesn't necessarilly mean max. Getting max settings and only getting under 30 FPS would suck for me too.
Anyway, hooray for The Witcher 2, can't wait for release. :)
This is my most anticipated goty, May can't come soon enough!
I meet the recommended specs pretty much precisely, but I'm sure as hell not going to get flawless performance at 1080p.
A very VERY good point, btw. I guess, the norm for writing specs today is 1680x1050 OR 1280x1024 So, no, i also think full 1920 will not be flawless performance with exact recommended specs.
I hope this comes out for consoles.
+1 rep for saying devs need to start including what screen resolution they did this on.
The Witcher ran on the Aurora engine (Neverwinter Nights 2), which made it ridiculous hard for PC's to run it properly at the time. Witcher 2 has a new engine that is platform agnostic, and a lot more optimized.
I don't agree with anyone who complains that Crysis 2 or Witcher 2's requirements are too low; those first games' specs excluded a lot of people.
AMD Phenom II X4 965BE 3.4 GHz (stock speed), 4 GB (1600) RAM and an ATI 5870 1GB. So very high detail experience on not top noch HW.
And W2 won't be that demanding because of lack of chaos on screen in C2 :)
I hope it eventually comes to PS3, then I can run it without fear. I'm a console gamer, but I LOVED The Witcher, even read the US translated novels.
They are still planning on a console release and haven't ruled it out, but I wouldn't expect it before 2012. One can hope of course!
I'm running a 6600 quad with a GTX460 SC. I could run almost any game at 1680 x 1050 without any problems. I recently got a larger monitor with 1920 x 1080 native res. My rig can still push the higher res, but my cpu core temps have jumped up considerably. Scared the shit out of me when they went over 80C once. No such problem when I lower the res back down to 1680 x 1050, but that res looks like shit to me now. I guess you can never go back.
Been playing Borderlands at max res and get temps around 70C. I've decided to go with liquid cooling. I've already picked up an H50, but have been to lazy and a bit paranoid about installing it. Anyone here have any experience with the H50?
Anyhow, The Witcher ran fairly well on my machine (at 1680 x 1050), and am looking forward to The Witcher 2. But probably won't try to play it until I get my temps under control.
OR AMD EQUIVALENT. You can get an Athlon II 640 for a hundred bucks, and your motherboard's probably too old for a modern Intel quad anyway.
but i'll probably wait for the console version since i don't have a gaming rig(mainly used it for interenet, anime, and other "stuff")
still nice to see they developed this as a PC game from the very start. though it doesn't play like the traditional PC games(point and click) so i think there's a fairly chance they'll port this to consoles(they even keep mentioning it in every interview)
Still gonna grab another HD5770 and crossfire for BF3 though, so I might grab one early just to crank up AA by another notch.
@bmart008: I think you must've got the unpatched original version. CD Projekt worked very, very hard to update the game. The current Enhanced Edition has no bugs and should run much, much better.
Can I run this on max? The original Witcher was one of the games, along with Crysis and Crysis Warhead, that made me bother to get a gaming capable PC. That was a few years back. Last year I got the i7-920 PC, for the futures....
Oh yeah, BTW, I spent a decent amount of cash to play the first 2 Crysis games, and I wasn't really happy with the gameplay regardless of the visuals.
So basically all my PC has been used for is The Witcher and my wife's WoW playing. Back to playing Xbox 360....