Examples
Following are a few examples of system requirement definitions for popular PC games and trend of ever increasing resource needs:
For instance, while StarCraft (1998) needed:
- Windows 95 or NT or superior
- Pentium processor at 90 MHz or higher
- 16 MB RAM
- 80 MB available in the hard disk
- CD-ROM, 2x or higher
- DirectX 3.0 or higher
Spider-Man (2002) needed:
- 3D Hardware Accelerator
- Windows 98/2000/NT/XP
- Pentium III processor at 500 MHz or higher
- 128 MB RAM
- 1.5 GB available in the hard disk
- DirectX 8.1
Doom 3 (2004) needed:
- 3D Hardware Accelerator - 64MB of memory minimum
- Windows 2000/XP
- Pentium 4 1.5 GHz or Athlon XP 1500+ processor or higher
- 384 MB RAM
- 8x Speed CD-ROM
- 2.2 GB free hard disk space
- DirectX 9.0b compatible 16-bit sound card
- DirectX 9.0b
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed (2009) needed:
- 3D Hardware Accelerator - 256MB of memory minimum
- Windows Windows XP SP3, Windows Vista SP2, Windows 7
- Core 2 Duo or Athlon X2 at 2.4 GHz
- 2 GB RAM
- 8x Speed DVD-ROM
- 23.8 GB + 1 GB Swap File hard disk space
- DirectX 9.0c compatible sound card
- DirectX 9.0c compatible video card.
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