Which PC game right now has a very high requirement like RAM, Video card, Processor speed?

Question

Is there any PC games right now that need to have minimum 4GB of RAM, Intel core 2 duo 6800 or AMD FX-62, 750GB Hard drive, and a video card w/ 1GB DDR2 ram?

When will a company make such game?

Answer 1

I highly doubt there is such a game, and they'll probably start making them far in the future, when you dont have to be rich to play the game.

Answer 2

Those are pretty impressive minimums. There are no games out right now. I think the highest I have seen is 1 gb and 2.6 mhz cpu speed. But you need to be a little bit more detailed about the video card? The only card I know out there with 1 gig of ddr2 is the gx2 nvidia. But there are games that will start using Direct X10. So i suggest you get the nvidia 8800 gtx or gts. A lot of games coming out will be direct x 10 and if you do not have an 8800 graphics card you will not be able to play it. I also suggest that if you are going to buy the e6800, you might as well buy the QX6800 because it is a quad cpu. Granted right now there are not a lot of programs that are using quad, but very soon most programs will be geared towards quad cpu. For the same price maybe a few dollars more (literally 10-20 dolalrs more) you can get the QX6800 instead of the E6800. I do not suggest you get the AMD (although I am a huge AMD fan) AMD is not performing as well as the new Intel Core 2 Duo or quad core.

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Answer 3

No, there is no such game today.

It will be a very long time before you will see games that will have these specifications as a minimum requirement. That is not to say that future games will not benefit from such high end components, but you have to understand that the minimum requirements on a game box are not what you should ideally have in a system to run the game. They are the BARE minimum you need to get the game to appear on the screen, although it might not be very playable at all.

While it is likely that games made in late 2007 or 2008 will benefit from having 4GB of ram instead of 2GB, or a E6800 rather than a E6400, you will never see it on a box for a game for many years to come.

Also, these predictions are often inaccurate, since what we view as high end today will likely be replaced by a newer technology, and our standards will change. Dual core is a perfect example of this. If someone asked you to make a similar prediction 4 years ago, it would have probably included 2gb of DDR-400 memory, a 256mb graphics card, and an athlon 64 3200+ (single core). As we all know, much of this prediction is irrelevant and obscure by todays standards of DDR2, dual/quad core, and 640mb/768mb geforce8 DX10 graphics cards.

Sorry if I got carried away with that response. But it's fun to think about the future isn't it? :-)

Answer 4

I'd say the only thing right now that comes close is Flight Simulator X. It does require a FAST processor and eats up RAM like no other. I have a P4 3.0 GHZ with 2GB DDR RAM and a 1GB video card and it's still not the smoothest visually, but anything less than that and it's like trying to fly in a "slideshow". It does use an impressive 14.1 GB of HDD space.

Answer 5

Ram is memory - Ram is like writing stuff down on a piece of paper beside you so you can look at it quickly, rather than filing it away in a filing cabinet(hard drive). and have to search for it then read it. More ram you have the faster your computer can read data. ----- Graphics card and video card are the same thing. They also have difference amounts of memory they can hold. They are like a a mini processor in itself. However Most games don't get that specific on graphic card memory requirements. ------- As for the GB requirement I'm guessing it says something like need 8 Gb free of hard drive space? thats is space needed on your hard drive to store the game.

Answer 6

The games I'm aware of that have very high (though not as high as the ones you listed) requirements are:

Doom 3, Quake 4, Halflife 2, Far Cry, Halo 2, Fear and Elderscrolls Oblivion.

They don't have super high requirements listed to make the game play, but to make them play smoothly and with all the features turned on, you need a pretty beefy rig. The one you described should play the games in this list really well.

I have 2GB of RAM, a 3Ghz Pentium 4ht, 500 GB HD, and a Geforce 7800 with 512 mb of DDR2 ram and Doom 3, Quake 4, Halflife 2, Fear and Oblivion are playable on my pc, but I have to turn the settings down a bit to get smooth framerates.

Answer 7

you missed the boat on the most important factor ... and thats the video card processor speed and thats all u need to worry about, of course u want a decent processor/fast ram/ and maybe some el-scorcho harddrives in raid to speed load times... all high-end late-model videocards have enough onboard memory and 2 gigs of ram is all XP will recognize without patching it with the right tweaks ... im sure more rquirements will be in the future but for now ... 2 7950s' in sli will handle anything maxed and 2 slied 8800s' puts u in the green for awhile ... another thing to consider is that most games that have high system requirements do not actually need to be written that way ... they code them that way so you will buy new hardware ... graphics are looking great these days but alot of older games that look almost as good will run on a card half the speed of a late one ...

Answer 8

No because they wouldn't have much of a market for it. Not to mention the support nightmare it would create when idiots tried to load it on their Dell or Laptop.

When? 3-5 yrs.