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Caveats in place, here is what might be the system requirements for Assassin's Creed Unity:
- Operating System : Windows ® 7 SP1, Windows 8 / 8.1 ® (64 -bit version only supported)
- CPU: Intel Core® i5-2500K @ 3.3 GHz or AMD FX-8350 @ 4.0 GHz or higher (Intel Core® i7-3770 @ 3.4 GHz or AMD FX-8350 @ 4.0 GHz or more recommended)
- RAM: 6 GB or more (8 GB or more recommended)
- Graphics Card : NVIDIA GeForce® GTX 680 or AMD Radeon HD 7970, graphics memory 2GB or more (NVIDIA GeForce® GTX 780 or AMD Radeon R9 290X, graphics memory 3 GB or more recommended)
- Sound Card : Direct X 9.0c compatible sound card and the latest drivers
- HDD: 50 GB or more
Yup, that's a minimum requirement of a GTX 680—effectively restricting the game to the last few years of GPU tech.
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It's too soon for games to be requiring GTX 680 and 6GB of RAM for minimum specs.
post edited by MSim - 2014/10/23 09:49:05
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Re: Assassin's Creed Unity system requirements rumoured to be steep
2014/10/23 10:37:55
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This does not surprise me, since the consoles have tons of RAM.
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Re: Assassin's Creed Unity system requirements rumoured to be steep
2014/10/23 10:43:28
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Most gamers have more than 8GB of system ram so no worries there.
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Re: Assassin's Creed Unity system requirements rumoured to be steep
2014/10/23 11:00:12
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Hopefully it's not locked at 30 fps like I think it's going to be.
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Re: Assassin's Creed Unity system requirements rumoured to be steep
2014/10/23 11:23:11
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Most gamers have more than 8GB of system ram so no worries there.
I don't know where you read that but it's wrong. Most gamers have 4-8GB of RAM. You can still find people that only recommend 6MB of RAM for gaming system. Steam hardware survey shows the following: (not everyone agrees to take part in steam survey) 2GB 10.24% 3GB 14.57% 4GB 21.34% 8GB 28.77% 12GB or higher 12.21%
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Re: Assassin's Creed Unity system requirements rumoured to be steep
2014/10/23 11:51:00
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There's enough circumstantial evidence now to suggest that there's been a collaboration between consoles and publishers to alienate PC gamers and our systems, basically attrition. Say near every title coming out in the near future has a minimum spec of 8GB RAM, 50GB Hard Drive space, 6GB VRAM...because consoles can handle that and the majority of PCs can't, consoles will win that scenario. Publishers will only do what the purse string controllers tell them. Furthermore, this would lead to an even greater percentage of disenfranchised PC gamers that can meet those specs turning to piracy because they want to play the game but not pay for being ripped off, which would give the publishers the "moral highground" to say "Ahhh Ha see every PC gamer is a pirate." Tell me if this makes sense, or if I'm barking up the wrong tree with my predictions here.
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Re: Assassin's Creed Unity system requirements rumoured to be steep
2014/10/23 12:03:33
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This does not surprise me, since the consoles have tons of RAM.
current consoles only have 8gigs of shared system memory
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Re: Assassin's Creed Unity system requirements rumoured to be steep
2014/10/23 12:05:14
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tl;dr: We no longer bother to properly optimize our game content, so you need to upgrade your computer.
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Re: Assassin's Creed Unity system requirements rumoured to be steep
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Re: Assassin's Creed Unity system requirements rumoured to be steep
2014/10/23 22:18:30
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Well all I have to say about Ubisoft is......Uplay. Better then steam right? Those requirments are just crazy. Almost reminds me how lotr mordor is asking for 6gigs on only 1080p.
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Re: Assassin's Creed Unity system requirements rumoured to be steep
2014/10/23 22:18:31
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Well all I have to say about Ubisoft is......Uplay. Better then steam right? Those requirments are just crazy. Almost reminds me how lotr mordor is asking for 6gigs on only 1080p.
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Re: Assassin's Creed Unity system requirements rumoured to be steep
2014/10/24 08:03:03
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This does not surprise me, since the consoles have tons of RAM.
current consoles only have 8gigs of shared system memory
Yes, but they also aren't running bloated windows desktop OS's on top of the game, so that is still a lot of memory for the game to use even when you consider video ram coming out of it. If the games are ported over to PC with little to no optimizing, this is what we get to look forward to. The last gen consoles had at max 512 mb of ram, look how many resources the ports used on pc.
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Re: Assassin's Creed Unity system requirements rumoured to be steep
2014/10/24 08:36:15
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So my 570gtx is finally considered slow now...  I can't afford to upgrade but seeing as the last few Assassin's Creed games have been somewhat unmemorable, I think I will watch the highlights on youtube.
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Re: Assassin's Creed Unity system requirements rumoured to be steep
2014/10/24 16:06:27
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It's too soon for games to be requiring GTX 680 and 6GB of RAM for minimum specs.
Personal opinion here, but no its not, its time for game developers to start pushing boundaries again. Infact, its well overdue IMO.
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Re: Assassin's Creed Unity system requirements rumoured to be steep
2014/10/24 17:15:57
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Caveats in place, here is what might be the system requirements for Assassin's Creed Unity:
- Operating System : Windows ® 7 SP1, Windows 8 / 8.1 ® (64 -bit version only supported)
- CPU: Intel Core® i5-2500K @ 3.3 GHz or AMD FX-8350 @ 4.0 GHz or higher (Intel Core® i7-3770 @ 3.4 GHz or AMD FX-8350 @ 4.0 GHz or more recommended)
- RAM: 6 GB or more (8 GB or more recommended)
- Graphics Card : NVIDIA GeForce® GTX 680 or AMD Radeon HD 7970, graphics memory 2GB or more (NVIDIA GeForce® GTX 780 or AMD Radeon R9 290X, graphics memory 3 GB or more recommended)
- Sound Card : Direct X 9.0c compatible sound card and the latest drivers
- HDD: 50 GB or more
Yup, that's a minimum requirement of a GTX 680—effectively restricting the game to the last few years of GPU tech.
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It's too soon for games to be requiring GTX 680 and 6GB of RAM for minimum specs.
Since when is a top of the line CPU built for video processing and multitasking a specific requirement for playing any specific game? The only real difference is the hyperthreading, a modern i5 will be fine for any game, and an i3 would likely serve you well. These specs are overkill for any game - I wonder what they're basing it off? 1080p @ 8x SSAA @ solid 60fps? Not even those prerequisites would deliver on the proposed specs on a AAA high-end game.
post edited by fubarhouse - 2014/10/24 17:20:37
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Re: Assassin's Creed Unity system requirements rumoured to be steep
2014/10/25 12:49:14
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I guess I'm a minority here, but I find this very hard to believe. For minimum requirements, this is outrageous. I have no idea why companies are trying to completely alienate their PC consumer base. I highly doubt Sony and Microsoft could pull enough cash out of their bums to bribe game publishers into effectively eliminating PC sales. It's bad enough that we have to put up with Uplay; they're just asking for piracy at this point.
For those of you claiming that this is a good thing, I agree with you that publishers should be taking advantage of better processing capability. However, they should not be so lazy as to abandon those without. It's not intuitive at all to completely disregard a huge chunk of your target market because you're too lazy to optimize your game for lower quality hardware. I mean, according to the steam survey only 17% of people even have a DX11 capable GPU, let alone a 680 or greater. There must be a lot of money involved to convince a company to give up even having the hope of 80+% of your target market ever buying your product.
Maybe I'm just naive, but I thought I'd have at least 3-4 years before seeing my GPU on the minimum requirements for a game. Maybe I'm just surprised that an AC game, of all games, would be the pioneer of new graphics. Who knows.
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Re: Assassin's Creed Unity system requirements rumoured to be steep
2014/10/25 16:27:06
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Seems like it's a bit hyped. Just like Battlefield 3 and 4 were when they came out.
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Re: Assassin's Creed Unity system requirements rumoured to be steep
2014/10/25 19:57:47
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Personal opinion here, but no its not, its time for game developers to start pushing boundaries again. Infact, its well overdue IMO.
However these requirements are not the result of boundaries being pushed. They're the result of lazy optimization.
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Re: Assassin's Creed Unity system requirements rumoured to be steep
2014/10/27 12:03:10
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I've also heard rumors that this game's resolution will be locked at 900p for all platforms. Seems like a joke to have these insane minimum requirements for a game that's likely going to be locked at 30 fps and 900p. I hope this isn't true because I have enjoyed the series for the most part. However, if this turns out to be the case, I'm going to vote with wallet on this one. EDIT: I read the rumor wrong, the 900p is supposedly only for PS4 and Xbox One (the issue is people seem to think the PS4 version was downgraded to not take away from the Xbox experience). Either way the whole concept of creating the same experience across all platforms reminds me of giving every kid a trophy in sports for participating.
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Re: Assassin's Creed Unity system requirements rumoured to be steep
2014/10/27 12:14:30
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There is noooooo way that an Assassins Creed game is going to require that as the minimum... I'm calling BS!!!!!!
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Re: Assassin's Creed Unity system requirements rumoured to be steep
2014/10/28 08:06:44
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Well all I have to say about Ubisoft is ......Uplay. Better than steam right? . Better? maybe not but it's all subjective to the end user, does UPLAY work?, for me yes, it's very simple just like the steam client is. The first iterations didn't do anything for me, quite boring for me, AC3 was mediocre and Black Flag i never bothered with, nothing there of interest but this new game might be ok?. Don't think i'm an assassins creed fan yet, ha ha.
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Re: Assassin's Creed Unity system requirements rumoured to be steep
2014/10/28 08:24:28
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Better? maybe not but it's all subjective to the end user, does UPLAY work?, for me yes, it's very simple just like the steam client is. The first iterations didn't do anything for me, quite boring for me, AC3 was mediocre and Black Flag i never bothered with, nothing there of interest but this new game might be ok?. Don't think i'm an assassins creed fan yet, ha ha.
We need a sarcasm font  . I've have quiet a few problems with Uplay, one of the most notable is in black flag the game randomly crashed while i was opening chests and it erased my save files. With one of the games also had it crashing on start-up and had to uninstall the version that steam installed, hunt down the installer from the ubisoft site, re-install it in order to even play the game. TLDR: it can be pretty unstable and if something odd happens, it may just delete your saves because it can.
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Re: Assassin's Creed Unity system requirements rumoured to be steep
2014/10/28 08:45:29
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tl;dr: We no longer bother to properly optimize our game content, so you need to upgrade your computer.
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