Fri, Oct 23, 2009 | 19:43 BST

Force Unleashed PC requires “3D Hardware Accelerator Card”

Lucas released the minimum system specs for the PC version of The Force Unleashed tonight, bringing the shock news that the game requires a graphics card to be playable.

That’s as funny as this story’s ever going to be. Full thing after the break. Via BigDownload and Joystiq.

Minimum System Requirements

* Operating System: Windows XP SP3, Windows Vista SP2. Windows 7
* CPU Processor: 2.4 GHz Dual Core Processor (Intel Core 2 Duo or AMD Athlon X2)
* Memory: 2 GB RAM
* Hard Disk Space: 23.8 GB + 1 GB Swap File
* Sound Card: DirectX 9.0c compatible sound card
* Video Card: 3D Hardware Accelerator Card Required – 100% DirectX 9.0c compatible 256 MB Video Memory with Shader 3.0 support
* Video Card (ATI): Radeon HD 2900
* Video Card (Nvidia): Geforce 8800
* Media Required: 8X DVD-ROM drive
* Windows XP/Vista compatible mouse and keyboard or Microsoft Xbox 360 Wired Controller

This product does not support Windows 95/98/ME/2000/NT.

Recommended System Requirements

* Intel Core 2 Duo 2.8 GHz or AMD Athlon X2 Dual-Core 5200+
* 512 MB 3D Hardware Accelerator Card
* Video Card (ATI): Radeon HD 4870
* Video Card (Nvidia): Geforce 9800 GT
* Memory: 2 GB RAM

NOTICE: Some 3D accelerator cards with the chipset listed here may not be compatible with the 3D acceleration features utilized by Star Wars: The Force Unleashed. Please refer to your hardware manufacturer for 100% DirectX compatibility.

Supported Desktop Chipsets

* ATI RADEON HD 2900, 3850, 3870, 4850, 4870
* NVIDIA GEFORCE 8800, 9600, 9800, 260, 280

NOTICE: This game contains technology intended to prevent copying that may conflict with some disk and virtual disk drives.

7 comments

freedoms_stain
23/10/09, 7:48 pm

Why bother?

Unless they’ve given it a major overhaul we’ve seen what console gamers thought of it, and it was a resounding “meh”

loki
23/10/09, 9:38 pm

Boring PC sucks

DarkElfa
23/10/09, 10:25 pm

I had no idea they were working on a PC version of unleashed.

blackdreamhunk
24/10/09, 2:40 am

I find it funny that $300 pc can run that game, there is no need for a $5000 dallor pc.

Santa Clause
24/10/09, 6:02 am

http://www.vg247.com/2009/10/23/ms-xbox-division-sees-nearly-double-profits-in-q1/

Hey BDH, you’re wanted here.

Gekidami
24/10/09, 7:10 am

I find it even more funny that you can get a console and the game for under 300$ and have played it LAST YEAR.

Kalain
24/10/09, 10:08 am

Hmm.. by those specs I would say that they are either:

A: unable to optimise the code, or unwilling to do so, so that they can then turn round in the future and say ‘Hey, it takes more to make a PC game than a console game’

B: They really don’t know how to spec and will turn around in the future and say ‘Hey, you need this spec of PC to be able to play a game which is comparable to a console game’

Either way, those are rediculous specs for a game, not even Empire Total War or Crysis had those crazy specs.