Total War: Shogun 2 system requirements revealed

[sertorio67]

The Creative Assembly have just released the system specs for Total War: Shogun 2. Read on to find out if Shogun II: Total War will run on your PC.
Minimum Specs (Required for playing Total War: Shogun 2):

• 2 GHz Intel Dual Core processor / 2.6 GHz Intel Single Core processor , or AMD equivalent (with SSE2)
• 1GB RAM (XP), 2GB RAM (Vista / Windows7)
• 256 MB DirectX 9.0c compatible graphics card (shader model 3)
• 1024×768 minimum screen resolution
• 20GB free hard disk space

Recommended Specs (Recommended for optimum game play of Total War: Shogun 2):

• 2nd Generation Intel® Core™i5 processor (or greater), or AMD equivalent
• 2GB RAM (XP), 4GB RAM (Vista / Windows7)
• AMD Radeon HD 5000 and 6000 series graphics cards or equivalent DirectX 11 compatible graphics card
• 1280×1024 minimum screen resolution
• 20GB free hard disk space

http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/01/06/total-war-shogun-2-system-specs-revealed/

 

[a tw player]

I'd already posted this

 

[Fev]

Funny how you chose the exact same title. Coincidence?

 

[Abspara]

And yet, it will probably still stutter along at 15 FPS on systems that exceed the recommended specs.

 

[Greve Af Göteborg]

And yet, it will probably still stutter along at 15 FPS on systems that exceed the recommended specs.

Just like Napole.. oh wait that's not true.

 

[The Hedge Knight]

Quite frankly thats ridiculous...

 

[The Juggernaut]

Abspara, is your graphics card overheating? Mine used to do that all the time, found out my card was running hot. Increased airflow and now everything runs beautifully.

 

[fd7s]

i gotta radeon 9200 pro (0x5960) is that good enough cause i got no idea

 

[JohntheKern]

i gotta radeon 9200 pro (0x5960) is that good enough cause i got no idea

 

[Greve Af Göteborg]

i gotta radeon 9200 pro (0x5960) is that good enough cause i got no idea

Not even close, I'm sorry.

 

[Maizel]

Just like Napole.. oh wait that's not true.

For some people it is. The performance was still pretty inconsistent with napoleon. I hop they fixed that.

 

[James1613]

I can run Empire maxed out at 40-60 fps so i shouldn't have any issues with shogun.

 

[Rhaegar1]

Awwww, not unexpected but that settles it. No Shogun for me on my old pc

 

[Fireright]

Been peeking at those minimum requirements:

• 2 GHz Intel Dual Core processor / 2.6 GHz Intel Single Core processor , or AMD equivalent (with SSE2)
• 1GB RAM (XP), 2GB RAM (Vista / Windows7)
• 256 MB DirectX 9.0c compatible graphics card (shader model 3)
• 1024×768 minimum screen resolution
• 20GB free hard disk space

I'm no techie but they seem 'extremely minimum' to me. I thought Win7 required 2gig ram just to get the OS show on the road??.Players capable of playing a decent game with everything on low ??

Extra bit; also wondering why game makers don't release videos showing 'this is what you get on min requirements'

 

[Fev]

Extra bit; also wondering why game makers don't release videos showing 'this is what you get on min requirements'

Because that would look awful. Try setting all of your ingame settings to low (including shaders) and play a battle. That pretty much causes headaches.

 

[Greve Af Göteborg]

Been peeking at those minimum requirements:

• 2 GHz Intel Dual Core processor / 2.6 GHz Intel Single Core processor , or AMD equivalent (with SSE2)
• 1GB RAM (XP), 2GB RAM (Vista / Windows7)
• 256 MB DirectX 9.0c compatible graphics card (shader model 3)
• 1024×768 minimum screen resolution
• 20GB free hard disk space

I'm no techie but they seem 'extremely minimum' to me. I thought Win7 required 2gig ram just to get the OS show on the road??.Players capable of playing a decent game with everything on low ??

Extra bit; also wondering why game makers don't release videos showing 'this is what you get on min requirements'

Actually Windows 7 is extremely good at managing memory.
I even had it installed on my oooold laptop with 256MB RAM and it worked like a charm.
So that stereotype is wrong.

 

[Fireright]

Because that would look awful. Try setting all of your ingame settings to low (including shaders) and play a battle. That pretty much causes headaches.

Aye, true enough the game probably be a headache job. But I'm looking at things from the buyers perspective really, the game makers make the product and are seeking our pennies, so it would save folks from 'taking a gamble' with their money if they could actually see "what they are going to get" playing on minimum requirements.

Maybe thats why game makers don't release such videos so as to leave us, the buying public, clueless as to what to expect.

 

[Greve Af Göteborg]

Aye, true enough the game probably be a headache job. But I'm looking at things from the buyers perspective really, the game makers make the product and are seeking our pennies, so it would save folks from 'taking a gamble' with their money if they could actually see "what they are going to get" playing on minimum requirements.

Maybe thats why game makers don't release such videos so as to leave us, the buying public, clueless as to what to expect.

This hasn't really been a problem in the gaming industry.
People who are unsure about how it's going to look will just have to wait until some other player shows them or until a demo comes out.

 

[Lord Dakier]

20gb... seems the formats aren't getting any smaller :/

 

[Maizel]

I don't get why everybody is so surprised about the game being 20GB's big.

 

[a tw player]

Is 20GB meant to be big? On my 3 year old PC I still have 529GB of space remaining and I'm not using any external drive or anything...Aren't the memory drives reasonably cheap now anyway?

 

[CerealGuy]

20gb... seems the formats aren't getting any smaller :/

More GB more stuff packed into the game....I think napoleon is 21 GB

 

[James1613]

20 GB is bigger than most games but most large games are 15 gb plus now.


Hopefully i will be able to max out shogun.

 

[Basileos Leandros I]

I don't get why everybody is so surprised about the game being 20GB's big.

When a game is so damn big it makes it harder for people with lower specs (particularly processors) to load up properly and enjoy the game...

Not as much of a surprise but more of a pain.

 

[Maizel]

When a game is so damn big it makes it harder for people with lower specs (particularly processors) to load up properly and enjoy the game...

Not as much of a surprise but more of a pain.

I don't see the relation. But then again, I'm no expert.

 

[Lil Jazzer]

Im glad they released the specs. My computer should be able to max out the settings, i7 pro 2.66 and a 9800GT (not the best), and 4GB.

 

[Dragooon]

When a game is so damn big it makes it harder for people with lower specs (particularly processors) to load up properly and enjoy the game...

Not as much of a surprise but more of a pain.

Processor actually has little to do with loading a game, hard disk's speed has more relation to that. And Napoleon is a 22GB download, empire was like 17? So I don't see whats the big thing with 20GB.

And I couldn't max out Napoleon with a HD5850, C2Q Q9550 3.1 GHz I ain't maxing this out .

 

[LinoraN]

They should have a max settings specs as well. Or is recommended max? Anyone know?

 

[Heiro de Bodemloze]

Does anyone know of good pc´s which acctually can run this smoothly, might be getting a new one, but I aint good at pc stuff.

 

[Maizel]

Processor actually has little to do with loading a game, hard disk's speed has more relation to that. And Napoleon is a 22GB download, empire was like 17? So I don't see whats the big thing with 20GB.

And I couldn't max out Napoleon with a HD5850, C2Q Q9550 3.1 GHz I ain't maxing this out .

Maybe you will.

My machine is much more powerful than yours, and I couldn't max it out either. Some of my friends however, have slower rigs than the one you listed, but could pretty much max it out on almost all usual resolutions.

E:TW and to a lesser extent N:TW seemed really dinky and inconsistent, when it comes to performance.

Who knows, if S2 improves as much as N:TW did from E:TW, you might get further down the settings than you'd think.