Today Ubisoft announced the minimum requirements and recommended configurations to play Far Cry 2 on the PC.
The official press release quotes Dominic Guay, Lead Technical Director, saying "It has always been our intention to make Far Cry 2 as accessible to everyone as possible, and we have worked continuously to optimize Far Cry 2 to achieve this goal" ; but the game's system requirements tells a different story.
Minimum requirements
CPU: Pentium 4 3.2 Ghz, Pentium D 2.66 Ghz, AMD Athlon 64 3500+ or better
Video card: NVIDIA 6800 or ATI X1650 or better
Shader Model 3 required
256 Mb of graphic memory
Memory: 1 GB
Media reader: DVD-ROM
Recommended
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo Family, AMD 64 X2 5200+, AMD Phenom or better
Video card: NVIDIA 8600 GTS or better, ATI X1900 or better
512 Mb of graphic memory
Memory: 2 GB
Sound: 5.1 sound card recommended
Media reader: DVD-ROM
Supported Video cards:
NVIDIA 6800, NVIDIA 7000 series, 8000 series, 9000 series, 200 series. 8800M and 8700M supported for laptops.
ATI X1650 - 1950 series , HD2000 series , HD3000 series , HD4000 series .
