Stranglehold PC Minimum Requirements May Demand Players Upgrade
Posted by Shawn on Wednesday, August 8th, 2007 at 12:41 pm under Computer, Games, Microsoft, Midway, Sony
With the August 20 release date for Stranglehold rapidly approaching, Midway has announced the minimum PC system requirements to run the title on their forum. Those of you PC gamers expecting to grab a copy of Stranglehold, prepare for shock and awe:
Windows XP SP2 / VISTA (Games for Windows compliant)
Dual Core Processor
2 Gigs of Ram
Nvidia 7800 or higher / ATI x1300 or higher
Disk space: 15 gigs
With these specs, PC gamers who planned to purchase Stranglehold may have to think twice or upgrade.
Personally I wouldn’t buy Stranglehold for the PC with these stats. If these are truly the minimum requirements, I shudder to think of what the recommended PC system requirements are. It would be cheaper to buy an Xbox 360 than upgrade even one of my systems to meet just these minimum requirements.
via Midway
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August 8th, 2007 at 12:48 pm
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August 8th, 2007 at 12:51 pm
The term "that's *something* ridiculous" springs to mind. 2 gigs ram? 15 gb's storage?! Not even Medieval TW 2 hit that mark! DC pro?! It almost makes the graphics card seem reasonable.
I hadn't heard of the game much, but now I definitely won't be getting it. Holy moly.
August 8th, 2007 at 1:11 pm
er… my post was supposed to say *hugs his ps3* I love you
dunno what happened there
August 8th, 2007 at 1:54 pm
Good god, i have 80 Gigs of space on my computer so the storage wouldnt be a problem but the other things are ridiculous. 2 Gigs of Ram, ok. But a NVIDA 7800 or higher? thats expensive, not to mention a dual core proccessor. Count me out for this game.
August 8th, 2007 at 1:55 pm
Shadowrun also requires a dual-core processor according to the box so this game isn't the first with that requirement.
August 8th, 2007 at 2:15 pm
Welcome to next gen, get new computers folks your 6600gts' arent gonna cut it anymore neither is that celeron d it took you 6 hours to overclock up to 3.4ghz.
Personally i cant wait to see the sys reqs for crysis, that oughta make people cry.
August 8th, 2007 at 2:37 pm
I've already got 2gbs RAM and an X1900XTX but I've only got a single core Pentium 4 (it is running at 4.2ghz though
)
Thor said - "Personally I cant wait to see the sys reqs for crysis, that oughta make people cry."
The requirement that will annoy most people is that it will only look like the screenshots with Vista and a DX10 card. That's why I'm upgrading to a quad core DX10 monster at some point in the next year
My current rig is going to be stuffed into an HTPC case (a passively cooled mCubed HFX probably with a BluRay drive and relegated to the role of living room media centre.
August 8th, 2007 at 5:26 pm
The system they've been running the Crysis demos on isn't even that l33t.
Do they include the movie that's packed with the game in the goddamn required installation?
Uber minimum requirements is what's killing PC Gaming. Upgrading your machine to play modern games is far more expensive than a Xbox 360, Wii, or PS3. My $300 gaming rig can play games so good looking your eyes water without slowdown, such as Silent Hill 3 (1024×768 with moderate AA, 60+ FPS) and Far Cry (medium settings, 800×600 40 FPS). There's no reasonable excuse for the constant push to support only the latest and greatest. It doesn't make a goddamn lick of business sense.
And what, 15 GB!?
August 8th, 2007 at 8:56 pm
"The system they've been running the Crysis demos on isn't even that l33t."
The Crysis demo at this years GDC was running on an Intel Quad core CPU with a Nvidia 8800 series DX10 GPU.
August 9th, 2007 at 6:01 am
Thank god I'm getting this for the 360 then, no need to upgrade to about £300 - £400 worth of PC parts for my shitty rig.
August 10th, 2007 at 2:02 am
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August 13th, 2007 at 6:02 am
the makers of Strangen hold ……Wat the ….
Dual core proceswsors……… They must have a deal with Intel core 2 duo
15 gb of hard More than Windows Vista
August 13th, 2007 at 6:07 am
Oh My God I can,t believe this Strangelhold gona be a big flop due to its requirements i have bought nx 6200 agp and i m glad to know Bioshock and crysis will run great on it and c0d 4 will also …….. i bet all the games will run on my computer
i have p 4 3 ghz ht 80 gb hard 1 gb ram and nx6200
August 14th, 2007 at 12:37 am
Was edited/stated that these are only the reqs for the unfinished engine. Minimum specs for the finalized engine should be lower. No worries here tho, quad-core 6600, 3 gigs ram, 8800 gts.
August 14th, 2007 at 3:06 am
Ali..I'm sorry to say that Bioshock will run horribly on a 6200 agp, Your paying attention to published system requirements..which is a mistake, And with only 1 gig of memory your putting a lot of undue strain on your CPU.
August 16th, 2007 at 8:08 am
August 16th, 2007 at 8:15 am
These specs have been proved false, it was an error made by an unapproved moderator over at their forums. THESE ARE UNTRUE.
August 26th, 2007 at 2:21 am
Yeah, these requirements are false, although, that PROBABLY isn't too far off from what the max system requirements would be, but there's no way those are the minimum system requirements.
There are going to be some games coming out in the not too distant future that will make people's jaw drop. Alan Wake, for example, will probably require a quad core processor to run with all the eye candy maxed out.
August 28th, 2007 at 4:24 am
Holy crap !! NO WAY are those the minimum system requirements !! I agree…someone's got em mixed up - REAL BAD ! These must be the recommended requirements to play this game. If it is indeed the minium, well then, goodbye Stranglehold !!! I have a Core 2 Duo proc. @ 2.16 GHz, 2 GB RAM & GeForce 7950 GTX 512 MB…but if those are the minimum, I'm sure the game's gonna look pretty gay AND run like a slideshow on my laptop !!
September 4th, 2007 at 11:02 am
ELOO I READ WOT PEOPLE HAVE BEEN SAYING ABOUT crysis THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE GAME IS NOT SO BAD UNLIKE STRONGHOLD THERE GOING STUPID BUT IT LOOKS GOOD BUT THE REQUIREMENTS FOR CRYSISSystem Requirements
Processor: Athlon 64 3000+/Intel 2.8ghz
RAM: 768Mb/1Gb on Windows Vista
Video Memory: Nvidia 6600/X800GTO (SM 2.0)
DVD Only?: 1
Hard Drive Space: 6GB
Operating System: Windows XP / Windows Vista
DirectX Version: DX9.0c / DX10
Recommended System Requirements
Processor: Dual-core CPU (Athlon X2/Pentium D)
RAM: 1.5GB
Video Memory: Nvidia 7800GTX/ATI X1800XT (SM 3.0) or DX10 equivalent
Hard Drive Space: 6GB
its excellent
September 4th, 2007 at 11:05 am
GHOST M8 get rid of your LAPTOP there crap get a real computer you cant upgrade graphics and that with shit laptops
September 5th, 2007 at 5:36 am
Those aren't the proper requirements for Crysis. Crysis supports SM2.
September 8th, 2007 at 8:32 pm
But come on, think about it. Haven't anyone been seing any gameplay movies? Think about the distructible environment for just a start
If you get that to run on a single core you would have to remove the environment completly, the cpu would burn ffs! 
And here is memory also a importat thing. Okey, the 15gb free diskspace sounds a little overkill. 6-8 would be accepteble, so I hope its a gameplay time of around 50h 
Minimum is a little weard, but recommenden wouldn't surprise me at all. Tjo
September 19th, 2007 at 1:14 am
You don't need a system that good. I downloaded the demo and it played fine with only a few minor stutters (only one playing through the hole demo)
My system is
amd athlon xp 2600+
768 Mb DDR memory
x1650pro
September 19th, 2007 at 4:31 am
somebody has it right. I can run bioshock on my sempron 3400+ overclocked 1gig ram and a tweaked measley fx5500. damn kids these days learn to tweak your pc's already. I been doing it since win3.1 get with the game lol
September 19th, 2007 at 10:52 am
Haha, I love how many kids automatically think that dual-core = Intel, especially since even a cursory glance at the site reveals that they're flaunting the AMD/ATi branding.
I think people need to get it in their heads that dual-cored and quad cored processors have been MAINSTREAM for a few years now- I don't know that single cores are even sold at retail anymore. If you know how to tweak (and there's no reason you shouldn't; it's not hard) then the minimum spec doesn't really mean anything, and if you don't you're about guaranteed to get a computer capable of running it from a processing and memory standpoint if you simply pick up the deal-of-the-day at any largish online retailer. A 7900GS is only $150 or so- no big deal for a machine that (should, unless you're incompetent) last you a good five years at least.
September 22nd, 2007 at 9:11 am
guys what ya think??
my system spec is:
"3.2GHZ Dual Core Processor,250GB & a 80GB SATA Hardisk,2GIG of DDR400MHZ RAM,1 Sony DVD writer & a LG DVD rom,500 WATTS Power Safe system PSU And Finally The LEADTEK GEFORCE 8800GTS 640MB of GDDR3 320BIT Memory."
well i feel my system will run this game well right???
September 24th, 2007 at 12:01 pm
Stranglehold - running smoothly on 1280 x 1024
Athlon 64 X2 5200 (2Mb L2 cache)
Is awsome !!!!
2Gb RAM 2 x 1Gb (Geil CL4) @ 667Mhz - Dual Channel
Asus M2N32-SLI DELUXE
Leadtek 8600 GTS TDH EXTREME 256 DDR3
September 25th, 2007 at 12:57 pm
you know i dont think the system requirements are all that much considering how far gaming has taken us in the last year. if you guys think that these rewuirements are high forget crisis and wait till assasins creed comes out. and it mentions dual core not core2 so its the first gen dual core processors that you need not the core 2 duo. AND THE 15 GB comes from all the short movies and that are played in the game. What would you expect from a game that was produced with John Woo.
September 26th, 2007 at 7:36 pm
System.
Core 2 Extreme QX6700 processor
Asus Striker Extreme nForce 680i Motherboard
4Gb Corsair XMS3 DHX
Geforce 8800 GTX x2
Raptor X 150GB x4
X-FI Xtreme Gamer Fatality Sound Card
September 30th, 2007 at 3:19 pm
I've had no concerns running it at 1650×1080, settings are maxed,however I have yet to install on another rig, as far as demmanding 15 g's of HHD that's not unreasonable, as it was said consider the source, with each new title released the commitment for space needed grows, I supose we're just keeping up with the Jones's
M2R32-MVP (Asus)
X2 5600+
2Gb corsairXMS pc6400c4
2 X1900GT's(Crossfire)
3 WD 320gbs3.0 16Mb
600psu
Onboard sound/ X530 5.1
DVD/CD and dont forget all the Pretty lights (LOL)
watercooled(titan/Nikita)
on a Sam. 205BW
October 6th, 2007 at 9:17 am
hya do u think stranglehold will run on a nvidia geforce 8500 gt or shud i go for the nvidia geforce 7300 am cofused cause i have a 7500 le n it wont run it at the lowist settings how crap anyway reply back thanks
October 28th, 2007 at 3:11 am
hmn i tried with Intel Core 6300 1gm ram and Gforce 7600GS and after i click New game it tries loading and crashes
November 5th, 2007 at 2:52 pm
wonderful game
My pc
p-4 1.8 845 board
no Gforce solt
ram 512
hard disk 60 gb
November 18th, 2007 at 2:45 pm
AWESOME GAME!!
I couldn't play this game at first because I only had 1GB of RAM. I recently upgraded to 2GB Crucial DDR2 and it runs fine!
My hardware:
Toshiba P100-188 Laptop
Core 2 Duo @ 1.8Ghz, 1.8Ghz
2GB Crucial DDR2 PC-4200
GeForce Go 7600, 256MB
Average FPS: 24
Even at those frames, the game is perfectly playable!
(Just though i'd mention, with the memory upgrade I now am able to run DOOM 3 at Ultra High settings with everything on and no problems! Same goes for Battlefield 2. Both run at 1024*768, setting on max, 2x antialising. Bioshock runs great on medium at 800*600)
November 21st, 2007 at 12:22 pm
I am sorry, Urbwolf, but that machine u have build, won't last long with the evolution of games.
November 27th, 2007 at 3:47 am
hi there guys i think that Urbwolf has the best machine for now, and if you bought it when the parts came out at the end of last year then you made the right choice but if you bought the parts now you lose big time because your rig will be outdated quickly because in the 1q of next year there will be new gen of gpu and cpu, ddr3 will become standard and ddr 2 prices will drop the allready started dropping, usb 3.0, pci express 2.0, dx10.1 not supported by nvidia8xxx series and ati 2xxx series (the will support it but not fully), great new motherboards and etc. I think we should wait another year to buy the ultimate rig because now things are going crazy its just like when the win xp came out it the hardware went through the roof, by the way you cant really feel any new game now because if you want to really fell the game and all it has to offer you need to have a rig that will come out in the next 1/2 years so you can play the game at the max
anyway to play stranglehold all you need is just more ram 2 gigs that is this are my outdated specs. of my machine and i can run crysis with no problems but everything at low
cpu amd atlon xp 2600+
gpu sapphire x1550 256ddr2 agp
mb abit nf7
memory 2 gig kingstone ddr 400
psu gembird 450
any way this is the way i think things are right now this is just my opinion feel free to comment
February 26th, 2008 at 4:30 am
July 16th, 2008 at 7:48 am
here's a good laugh 4 y'all guys: MY SPECS:
Pentium 4 (single core) @ 3,06Ghz
NVidia GeForce 7100gs 512MB Turbocache
Maxtor 160Gb HDD
This BEAST pwns!
yea lol…
