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Home News Assassin's Creed 3 System Requirements Are Promising, But XP Isn't Supported

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Assassin's Creed 3 System Requirements Are Promising, But XP Isn't Supported

Posted on Wednesday, September 26 @ 18:12:23 Eastern by Jonathan_Leack

Those looking to play Assassin's Creed 3 on PC now have some hardware specs to prepare their rigs with, and that might even mean upgrading their operating system.

The hardware requirements for Assassin's Creed 3 are a step up from what we have seen from any other releases in the series, even the gorgeous Assassin's Creed: Revelations. RAM requirements have increased from 1.5GB to 2GB, and video memory has gone up by a substantial 256MB. It's only natural to assume that we're in for one spectacular journey through colonial America.
Supported OS: Windows Vista (SP2) / Windows 7 (SP1) / Windows 8
Processor: 2.66 GHz Intel Core2 Duo E6700 or 3.00 GHz AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ or better
RAM: 2 GB (4 GB recommended)
Video Card: 512 MB DirectX 9.0c-compliant with Shader Model 4.0 or higher (see supported list)*
Sound Card: DirectX 9.0c-compliant (5.1 surround sound recommended)
Hard Drive Space: 17 GB
Besides the moderate requirements, you might also notice that Windows XP isn't supported. This isn't exactly a new thing, and lots of other games are starting to require Vista or later. However, don't assume that means DirectX 11 is supported, because it's not. That's definitely disappointing, but it isn't like we haven't seen a beautiful game in DirectX 9.0c before.
Related Games:   Assassin's Creed III
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  • Sourdeez
    Sourdeez
    Joined: Feb 2012
    Posted: Sep 26th, 2012 at 6:35 pm
    Did they back out on dx11? I read somewhere they even reaffirmed they would have it.

    The PC version of Assassin’s Creed 3 will support DX11 and tessellation. To be more precise, the water
    0 0
  • Sourdeez
    Sourdeez
    Joined: Feb 2012
    Posted: Sep 26th, 2012 at 6:36 pm
    during the naval sequences will be tessellated on the PC and will sport a new feature to simulate the water’s surface, called ‘approximation of subsurface scattering.’

    Spam filter got the end
    0 0
  • cyberjim2000
    cyberjim2000
    Joined: Feb 2010
    Posted: Sep 26th, 2012 at 6:58 pm
    Not surprising if you think about it. XP is ten years old.
    0 0
  • De-Ting
    De-Ting
    Joined: Nov 2006
    Posted: Sep 26th, 2012 at 7:16 pm
    Dawg, XP is ten years young.

    Word.
    0 0
  • Sourdeez
    Sourdeez
    Joined: Feb 2012
    Posted: Sep 26th, 2012 at 7:24 pm
    "YOLO is just Carpe Diem for stupid people"
    0 0
  • sliverstorm
    sliverstorm
    Joined: Jun 2007
    Posted: Sep 26th, 2012 at 7:54 pm
    I still use XP. What other games don't support it?
    0 0
  • Jonathan_Leack
    Jonathan_Leack
    Joined: Jan 2012
    Posted: Sep 26th, 2012 at 8:03 pm
    Hitman: Absolution.
    0 0
  • FATAL1TY
    FATAL1TY
    Joined: Nov 2005
    Posted: Sep 27th, 2012 at 6:45 am
    Ghost Recon Super Soldier. Then again I can't even get it running on Windows 7. With my recent incidents with Ubisoft's shitty ports (Splinter Cell Conviction and Ghost Recon Future Soldier). I would suggest getting Assassin's Creed 3 for the PS3, or 360. Then again I could be wrong
    0 0
  • Ananymous
    Ananymous
    Joined: Apr 2011
    Posted: Sep 26th, 2012 at 8:24 pm
    Can't you just run the Windows 8 beta or whatever?

    Good thing I'm getting this on the PS3, not gonna be worried about building a gaming PC until I get enough cash to build some overly ridiculous rig that can play everything at the highest setting. But I'll prolly have my PS4 by then -_-
    0 0
  • Sourdeez
    Sourdeez
    Joined: Feb 2012
    Posted: Sep 26th, 2012 at 8:30 pm
    Roommate just built his for $1400 including his monitor. 3570k and nvidia 670gtx.
    The price for a awesome pc that runs every game at max setting has come down a lot. And with developers not really wanted to push games past console levels ,other than recently, your pc doesn't have to work to hard. the end of last year and this year has been much much better for pc enthusiasts support in games so I really do have good visions of the future :)
    0 0
  • Ivory_Soul
    Ivory_Soul
    Joined: Nov 2005
    Posted: Sep 26th, 2012 at 11:58 pm
    I have a 2 year old gaming laptop that can still run everything maxed out including DirectX 11 games. PC hardware life lasts a lot longer than it used to.
    0 2
  • Jonathan_Leack
    Jonathan_Leack
    Joined: Jan 2012
    Posted: Sep 26th, 2012 at 9:46 pm
    Until you see what modern games look like that aren't bottlenecked by 256MB RAM and 8 year old graphics cards you have no idea what you're missing.
    0 0
  • Chunibrow
    Chunibrow
    Joined: Mar 2010
    Posted: Sep 26th, 2012 at 10:00 pm
    I was holding onto XP for the longest time, comfortable with it and unwilling to suffer through vista or learn 7. I upgraded to 7 a few months ago and it kicks the **** out of XP. To all of you with XP I say it's time to let go...
    0 2
  • Ananymous
    Ananymous
    Joined: Apr 2011
    Posted: Sep 26th, 2012 at 10:06 pm
    I've seen what high end PC's can do with games that are optimized for them, Battlefield 3 at all high settings with a loaded huge battle going on in front on you is amazing, a PS3 is just more affordable but I have a computer build fun and I've toyed around with setups on newegg and watch the sales all the time.
    0 0
  • Heath_Hindman
    Heath_Hindman
    Joined: May 2011
    Posted: Sep 26th, 2012 at 11:01 pm
    What about XMB?
    0 0
  • derb
    derb
    Joined: Jul 2012
    Posted: Sep 27th, 2012 at 12:50 am
    Windows 98 is still cool though......right?
    0 0
  • napsterxxl
    napsterxxl
    Joined: Mar 2006
    Posted: Sep 27th, 2012 at 2:30 am
    I dunno. all AC games on PC felt like half assed ports to me when I played them.
    0 3
  • InFinnIte
    InFinnIte
    Joined: Nov 2011
    Posted: Sep 27th, 2012 at 5:39 pm
    I am amazed people still use Windows XP. I mean it was good, So was the PS-ONE... people have moved on since 2001...

    If your still on XP it's time to let go...
    1 0

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