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These Are Your Mass Effect 3 PC Specs

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by Jim Reilly on January 19, 2012 at 11:37 AM
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Have you started wondering if your computer can handle Mass Effect 3? BioWare has now published the minimum and recommended specifications.

Community man Chris Priestly recently posted the PC specs of the demo, so the only requirement below that will likely change between now and when the full game releases is the hard drive space needed.

The Mass Effect 3 demo hits on February 14 with the full game on March 6.

Minimum Spec:

OS - Windows XP SP3/Vista SP1, Win 7
*Supported chipsets: NVIDIA 7900 or better; ATI X1800 or better.  Please note that NVIDIA GeForce 9300, 8500, 8400, and 8300 are below minimum system requirements, as are AMD/ATI Radeon HD3200, HD3300, and HD4350.   Updates to your video and sound card drivers may be required.

CPU - 1.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo (equivalent AMD CPU)

RAM - 1GB for XP / 2GB RAM for Vista/Win 7

Disc Drive - 1x speed

Hard Drive - 2.5 GB of free space

Video - 256 MB* (with Pixel Shader 3.0 support)

Sound - DirectX 9.0c compatible

DirectX - DirectX 9.0c August 2009 (included)


Recommended Spec:

OS - Windows XP SP3/Vista SP1, Win 7

CPU - 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo (equivalent AMD CPU)

RAM - 2GB for XP / 4GB RAM for Vista/Win 7

Disc Drive - 1x speed

Hard Drive - 2.5 GB of free space

Video - AMD/ATI Radeon HD 4850 512 MB or greater, NVidia GeForce 9800 GT 512 MB or greater

Sound - DirectX 9.0c compatible

[Source: BioWare]

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  • by Thursday, January 19, 2012 at 11:47 AM
    FIRST
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    by Thursday, January 19, 2012 at 11:55 AM
    Those specs... surprisingly mild.
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    by Thursday, January 19, 2012 at 11:56 AM

    I want to build a PC, but I wouldn't build it for ME3. Those are some fairly low specs though, I think my laptop's graphics card only misses the min specs by a little bit. The i7 it has is actually over kill based on the Recommended Specs.

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    by Thursday, January 19, 2012 at 11:59 AM
    fourth
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    by Thursday, January 19, 2012 at 12:02 PM
    Not taking advantage of DX 10 or DX 11 in such a huge game for PC players is practically a death shot.
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    by Thursday, January 19, 2012 at 12:04 PM

    Looks like it is a console port. Thankfully though, the Unreal Engine 3 looks pretty great on consoles, and thus will look even better on a PC. I'm not complaining, ME2 looks fantastic on PC and runs at 60fps all the time, seriously excited for ME3.

  • by Thursday, January 19, 2012 at 12:11 PM

    awesome. should be able to max it out with 30 frames easily.

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    by Thursday, January 19, 2012 at 12:17 PM

    I thought battlefield 3 owners were supposed to get the demo early is this the early one??

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    by Thursday, January 19, 2012 at 12:18 PM
    Oooooh that's awesome, it's fantastic, it's....wait. It won't be on Steam. NO SALE!
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    by Thursday, January 19, 2012 at 12:25 PM

    OMG, for the first time in my life, my computer exceeds the recommended requirements. Today is a good day.

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    by Thursday, January 19, 2012 at 01:02 PM

    Wasn't expecting anything spectacular in terms of specs since they aren't reworking the graphics much like they did ME1 to ME2.

  • by Thursday, January 19, 2012 at 01:11 PM
    not having to deal with specs as a console gamer ftw!
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    by Thursday, January 19, 2012 at 01:15 PM
    those arent very high
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    by Thursday, January 19, 2012 at 03:49 PM

    Wow, these are excellent specs. I'm getting it.

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    by Thursday, January 19, 2012 at 03:59 PM
    Why are the recommended so much lower then a game like BF3? Or would the recommended specs for BF3 just run the game higher then these...
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    by Thursday, January 19, 2012 at 05:17 PM
    Only 2,5 GB of HDD space? Mass Effect 2 required something like.. 12 GB.
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    by Thursday, January 19, 2012 at 05:23 PM

    I hate these Recommended Specs things. A 9800 GT would run like on medium with ~30 fps

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    by Thursday, January 19, 2012 at 07:02 PM
    I wouldn't wanna game on a PC. Becuase 1) you always have to keep upgrading in order to play new games 2) multiplayer is so rigged because of hackers
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    by Thursday, January 19, 2012 at 08:00 PM

    While I would have liked to see DX11 in the recommended specs, Mass Effect 2 still looks good so as long as 3 doesn't somehow look worse, I'll be happy.

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    by Thursday, January 19, 2012 at 08:02 PM

    I'm so glad that I can run this.  When the original Mass Effect came out, my PC was high end.  Now, being a 2.1 GHz dual core, it can barely run a lot of modern games.  It's good to know that I can finish the story with the character I've been working on for well over 60 hours, instead of having to buy a console version and start from scratch.

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