PC System Specs for Spore Revealed
By Jonathan on Tuesday, June 10th, 2008 at 4:02 PM PST In Computer, Electronic Arts, Game Companies, Game Platforms, Games
EA has finally revealed the minimum system requirements you’ll need to run Spore once it’s finally released. And they are (dun dun dun duh!):
FOR WINDOWS XP
- 2.0 GHz P4 processor or equivalent
- 512 MB RAM
- A 128 MB Video Card, with support for Pixel Shader 2.0
- At least 6 GB of hard drive space
FOR WINDOWS VISTA
- 2.0 GHz P4 processor or equivalent
- 768 MB RAM
- A 128 MB Video Card, with support for Pixel Shader 2.0
- At least 6 GB of hard drive space
You can check after the break for a more detailed overview of supported video cards, chipsets, and the system requirements for Macs. Overall though, it looks like you won’t be needing an especially beefy machine to run the game (as was previously speculated). Guess we’ll finally get a chance to check out the game in action a bit when the Spore Creature Creator is released on the 17th of this month.
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- Intel Integrated Chipset, 945GM or above.
- 2.6 GHz Pentium D CPU, or 1.8 GHz Core 2 Duo, or equivalent.
- 768 MB RAM
- ATI Radeon series
- 9500, 9600, 9800
- X300, X600, X700, X800, X850
- X1300, X1600, X1800, X1900, X1950
- 2400, 2600, 2900,
- 3650, 3850
- NVIDIA GeForce series
- FX 5900, FX 5950
- 6200, 6500, 6600, 6800,
- 7200, 7300, 7600, 7800, 7900, 7950
- 8400, 8500, 8600, 8800
- Intel Extreme Graphics
- GMA 950, GMA X3000, GMA X3100
When launching the game, some Microsoft Vista users may receive a warning about running out of address space along with a link to the Microsoft Knowledge Base. If you see this message, it is recommended that you follow the instructions and go to the website listed in the message to update your system.For computers using built-in graphics chipsets, the game requires at least:
Supported Video CardsLaptop versions of these chipsets may work, but may run comparatively slowly. Standalone cards that are installed in vanilla PCI slots (not PCIe or PCIx or AGP), such as some GeForce FX variants, will perform poorly. Intel integrated chipsets featuring underclocked parts, such as the 945GU, GML, and GMS, will not perform adequately.
Integrated chipsets such as the ATI Xpress and the NVIDIA TurboCache variants will have low settings selected, but should run satisfactorily.
Please note that attempting to play the game using video hardware that isn’t listed above may result in reduced performance, graphical issues or cause the game to not run at all.
The NVIDIA GeForce FX series is unsupported under Vista.
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- Mac OS X 10.5.3 Leopard or higher
- Intel Core Duo Processor
- 1024 MB RAM
- ATI X1600 or NVidia 7300 GT with 128 MB of Video RAM, or Intel Integrated GMA X3100
- At least 4.7GB of hard drive space for installation, plus additional space for creations.*
- Intel Integrated Chipset GMA X3100
- Dual 2.0GHz CPUs, or 1.7GHz Core 2 Duo, or equivalent
- ATI Radeon series
- X1600, X1900, HD 2400, HD 2600
- NVIDIA GeForce series
- 7300, 7600, 8600, 8800
- Intel Extreme Graphics
- GMA X3100
MAC SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
Spore requires at least the following:This game will not run on PowerPC (G3/G4/G5) based Mac systems (PowerMac).
For computers using built-in graphics chipsets, the game requires at least:
Supported Video Cards This game will not run on the GMA 950 class of integrated video cards.*Install space subject to change.
Via ShackNews
Suddenly I’ve begun calculating how much space games take up on my HDD in terms of fractions of Age of Conan.
Look out for the DRM that will be included in all EA games from now on. Check out the BioWare forums to see what I mean. Only 3 activations are allowed with the new SecuRom crap and they might add the every 10 day online activation.
Link:
http://forums.bioware.com/forums/viewtopic.html?topic=634123&forum=22&sp=30
Still whining about SecuRom huh? I own Mass Effect for PC and have no problems with the 3 activation scheme, hell don’t like it? Then don’t but it instead I can pretty much assume those who don’t like the 3 activations are probably pirates anyway. Though make no mistake I was pretty pissed about the 10 day thing on ME simply cause it is a single player game. Though after they did away with it on ME I had no problem.
Spore might be a single player game but it really does require you to be on the internet because for one your spore game is seeded with other creatures via the internet with the sporepedia thing or something like that. It is unlike ME which is a pure single player game that you don’t need the internet for, unless you want the downloadable content (that still hasn’t be released anyway).
GEFORCE FX5900?! Wow…That sad part is, I have that card. And it’s even paired with a P4 2GHZ, too!