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BioShock Infinite's PC Specs

Developer Irrational Games has just posted the minimum and recommended PC specs for BioShock Infinite.

In a blog post, Chris Kline, the game's technical director, also explains some of the PC version's spec features relating to its controls, graphics, and more.

Requirements

MINIMUM

OS: Windows Vista Service Pack 2 32-bit

Processor: Intel Core 2 DUO 2.4 GHz / AMD Athlon X2 2.7 GHz

Memory: 2 GB

Hard Drive: 20 GB free

Video Card: DirectX10 Compatible ATI Radeon HD 3870 / NVIDIA 8800 GT / Intel HD 3000 Integrated Graphics

Video Card Memory: 512 MB

Sound Card: DirectX Compatible

RECOMMENDED

OS: Windows 7 Service Pack 1 64-bit

Processor: Quad Core Processor

Memory: 4 GB

Hard Drive: 30 GB free

Video Card: DirectX11 Compatible, AMD Radeon HD 6950 / NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560

Video Card Memory: 1024 MB

Sound Card: DirectX Compatible

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Comments
  • Mine? Easily!!!

  • Still need to buy a new PC but a new car comes first
  • Anyone know what the extra 10GB of disk space is used for?
  • so, pretty much the same as every other PC game that's come out for like 2 years lol xD

  • My rig could run this at max asleep, tied up, and blindfolded.
  • can't handle that personally. All I have is my laptop, and my graphics card is just terrible for gaming (stupid Intel), as I recently found out trying to take advantage of a recent Steam sale. Too bad, because otherwise, it could handle at least the minimum requirements. I'll just have to get a console version.
  • Cant wait until this is release

  • Nothing ridiculous. I can even run this on my laptop which has an Intel HD 4000 series integrated GPU. Do a little bioshock infinite on trips.

  • Good ol' 8800 GT... more than 6 years old and still hanging on as the rock bottom for gaming. Hanging by a very thin thread obviously... the graphical concessions one has to make to get most any modern (from the past 3 years even) game to run on one are many.

    It's especially funny when you consider the 360 is running on the equivalent of a 7800... and that "current" consoles are still being adamantly defended by many as non-antiquated.
  • My computer may not be up to spec, but it does not need to be with my 360.
  • Wow, i can actually run this game! With my laptop even! but then again, the keyword being 'Run' i cant max it out on my laptop lol

  • Finally get to play a Bioshock game on PC. Can't wait for it to be this one.

  • My laptop can handle this noooo probleeeeem.

  • 4 years later and my baby still can pull that off with a laugh, HA!!

  • Hopefully when the Next Gen consoles finally come out I will actually need to upgrade my PC to run games! Used to be every 6 months my PC would go out of date and I'd be buying something new, but it's been stagnant for probably about 5 or 6 years now. I wonder why?!

  • I love these posts. All the mentally challenged appear to compare e-penises. Thanks for the info though, looking forward to playing it.
  • I wish they would release the Max specs required...

  • The rig I'm building right now should handle this and most games easily at max settings. I'll probably have to bump up to SLI-ed video cards at some point during the coming generation. I'm going with a 660Ti (best performance to price ratio based on my research) probably just throw one of those in SLI when they 700 series cards inevitably come out.

    To all those saying their laptop can handle this I say: Probably not, unless is specifically built with gaming in mind and is designed to minimize background activity while gaming. Mine is rocking a Core i7 mobile with 8 threads and a 435M graphics card and it only runs most games on all low settings. Those specs are about as good as you're going to get from a non-gaming laptop, new XPS laptops have a 500M series graphics card if I'm not mistaken, which may get medium on some games and is probably the tip top of what you'll find. That Intel HD 3000 series integrated is not going to run this game at a playable frame rate, at least not consistently. If you have a console and you're one of those people I'd suggest going console.
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