Mon, Apr 23, 2012 | 18:01 BST

Max Payne 3 PC requirements announced

Rockstar’s announced the minimum PC requirements for Max Payne 3.

The developer’s said on its official site that the PC version was developed “in parallel” with the console versions of the game. The game’s also “optimised to run across a wide range of PC setups,” but still comes packed with DX 11 features.

Here’s the list:

  • Operating System: Windows 7 32/64 Service Pack 1, Windows Vista 32/64 Service Pack 2, Windows XP 32/64 Service Pack 3
  • Processor: Intel Dual Core 2.4 GHZ – i7 3930K 6 Core x 3.06 GHZ / AMD Dual Core 2.6 GHZ – FX8150 8 Core x 3.6 GHZ
  • RAM: 2GB – 16GB
  • Video Card: NVIDIA 8600 GT 512MB VRAM – NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 2GB VRAM / Radeon HD 3400 512MB VRAM – Radeon HD 7970 3GB VRAM
  • Sound Card: 100% Direct X 9.0 compatible – Direct X 9.0 compatible supporting Dolby Digital Live
  • HDD Space: 35 GB
  • DVD Drive: Please refer to your hardware manufacturer and www.rockstargames.com/support for current compatibility information. Some system components such as mobile chipsets, integrated, and AGP graphics cards may be incompatible. Unlisted specifications may not be supported by publisher.

Max Payne 3 is out May 15 on PS3 and Xbox 360 and May 29 on PC.

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34 comments

#1

Charlie Sheen
23/04/12, 6:03 pm

to low for me, no buy

#2

DSB
23/04/12, 6:03 pm

An optimized Rockstar game? On da PC?

Get outta toooown.

#3

Debabrata Nath
23/04/12, 6:08 pm

These are the MINIMUM system requirements, obviously most of the game’s awesome Direct X 11 features will be a distant dream if you actually plan to run the game on such a PC.

#4

Sini
23/04/12, 6:08 pm

the maximum are listed too, and it looks like unoptimized piece of shit to me.

#5

klewd
23/04/12, 6:09 pm

@1
are you serious? low is good.

#6

Maximum Payne
23/04/12, 6:21 pm

Not sure if R* is real 35 gb for hard drive ?
16gb of ram ?
Amd with 8 cores and Intel i7 with 6(12) cores ?
REALLY ?

#7

Maxey
23/04/12, 6:25 pm

Those maximum specs only mean the game is optimized for those, not that it’s the only way to run the game maxed out.

They simply listed the complete range of spec configurations the game will run well on, they are not specific.

#8

Hunam
23/04/12, 6:46 pm

16GB is recommended for ultra top end. 35GB is just the reality of PC games I guess :P

#9

Neuromancer
23/04/12, 7:05 pm

And yet still no PC video gameplay or screenshots?

#10

Sadismek
23/04/12, 7:13 pm

God damn it, this sealed the deal for me then. PS3 version. 16GB RAM? I know, I know, the minimum are ok, but if I want to play a game on PC, I usually want to run it on maximum settings.

#11

Maxey
23/04/12, 7:14 pm

It’s necessary to note that Rockstar has confirmed that those are not specific minimum and recommended specs but just simply the complete range of specs that the game has been tested on.

So no, you don’t need all that expensive hardware to actually max it out.

#12

Patrick Garratt
23/04/12, 7:17 pm

35Gb? What?

#13

Talkar
23/04/12, 7:23 pm

Why are people so surprised by the HDD requirement? o.O

#14

Emperor Rosko
23/04/12, 7:27 pm

Dammit… Only got 300gb left on my WD velociraptor drive and 2 GTX580′s in SLI, looks like im only gonna be able to run it MAXED THE FUCK OUT OOOHHHHHH YEEEEAAAAAAHHHHH lol

#15

AHA-Lambda
23/04/12, 7:28 pm

@13 – because its bloody huge, perhaps?

#16

Erthazus
23/04/12, 7:30 pm

For fuck sake stop whining. Rockstar always release it’s specs not because of “unoptimized piece of shit ” but because these SPECS will support Max Payne 3. These specs are not requirements.

Damn people or you really think that this game will require 16 GB of ram? LOL?

@9, every video that was released was a PC version.

#17

Colin Gallacher
23/04/12, 7:30 pm

@13 Because it’s more than double of what GTA IV needed on the PC. Even more than RAGE :D

#18

Da Man
23/04/12, 7:41 pm

It’s ‘ for fak‘s sake ‘, dumb ass…

For fak’s sake.

#19

Talkar
23/04/12, 8:14 pm

@15
Not really no. If i have to for some reason get the newest version of an application or game i’m collaborating on, it can easily get past those 35 gigs, since that is uncompressed.
@17
Yeah but GTA IV was released 4 years ago, the development of computers has improved a lot since then, so personally it is no surprise that a newer game requires more than an older game…

#20

Erthazus
23/04/12, 8:27 pm

@19, “so personally it is no surprise that a newer game requires more than an older game…”

a port from 360/Ps3 is not a newer game.

#21

ManuOtaku
23/04/12, 8:38 pm

#20 I dont know but for me a port from a PC game, one that i never played before, like torchlight for instance on 360, for me is a new game, even if in reality is an old one on PC, we have a half full/ half empty glass of water situation here, depends on the eye of the beholder, and this works the other way around too, i mean for ports from 360/ps3 to PC, i dont understand the complain about it.

p.s iam under the impresion you are talking about GTA IV and not Max payne, right?, because it releases on the same date, therefore even if it is a port, is a new game indeed.

#22

Edo
23/04/12, 8:39 pm

@7 How can something be “optimized” for 16 GB of RAM if there is no game in the world now that fully takes advantage of more than let’s say 6 GB of RAM nor there will be a game in the future(for next 5 years)that will take a full advantage of more than 8 GB of RAM!?!?That’s just preposterous,so no,this only proves that this game has not been properly tested on PC and is poorly optimized just like GTA IV was.

#23

jacobvandy
23/04/12, 8:42 pm

Yeah, those are the most confusing system specs for a game ever released… They aren’t actually listing MINIMUM and RECOMMENDED like most people do, they’re just listing a full range of hardware that will work. I’m assuming you could treat the low end of that as the minimum, in which case it looks like this:

Dual-core CPU, 2.4GHz for Intel or 2.6GHz for AMD
2GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT or AMD Radeon HD 3400 w/ 512MB VRAM
35GB hard drive space

The high end of their range there is NOT the recommended; they’re just being insanely lazy by listing what is mostly the best hardware out there right now, which OBVIOUSLY would be good enough to run their damn game… It reflects negatively on them to the PC community that they have no fucking idea how to communicate this kind of thing properly (system requirements).

#24

xxJPRACERxx
23/04/12, 8:53 pm

Since there won’t be a 64-bit exe the 16 GB RAM is a joke.

I still think I’ll cancel my pre-order of the 360 version and get the PC one.

#25

Maxey
23/04/12, 8:57 pm

They basically listed the whole range of specs in which the game was tested and will correctly work on, because, let’s be honest, system requirements are mostly there just to give you a general idea of what type of computer build will run the game with no issues, as they are not specific about resolution or individual graphical settings.

Many times I’ve been able to run games at decent performance and graphical quality with some PC specs beneath the minimum ones.

Although, yes, they could’ve been a bit more clear about it.

#26

deadstoned
23/04/12, 9:13 pm

35GB? :o

#27

Maximum Payne
23/04/12, 9:18 pm

@24
This. While 6+ cores is to much I can imagine that work ,GTA4 is still one of best game that use full potential of cores.

#28

Erthazus
23/04/12, 9:21 pm

@21, It’s not a newer game in terms of visuals and etc. I mean that 16 GB of ram and 35 GB is too much for the PC because game is developed specifically for consoles and then ported to PC’s.

Consoles are 7-8 years old so no one understand why game require a lot of specs.
If game was developed specifically for PC and required these specs then people would understand why game want that much of system specs.

#29

loki
23/04/12, 9:32 pm

boriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiing
PC port will fail and sux like all Rocksrtar’s PC ports

#30

Maximum Payne
23/04/12, 9:35 pm

@28 I called that lazy.35gb hard drive ? Crysis 1 witch look better technically ,have mp and sandbox was 8 gb.
That is two times bigger then GTA 4 !
Also, 16gb like guy above said is waste on 32 bit.exe
Not even Arma 2 use that much ram for one of biggest game.

#31

Hunam
23/04/12, 10:20 pm

I have 16GB RAM so I’m finally set!

#32

xxJPRACERxx
23/04/12, 10:25 pm

I see the 35 GB of HD requirement as a good thing. This mean PC will (probably) have better texture resolution and un-compressed sound and music.

#33

On2wheels
23/04/12, 10:27 pm

Absolutely no incentive to preorder this.

#34

Hunam
23/04/12, 11:12 pm

Although I think this might be a retail purchase tbh. I don’t have nearly enough internets to be downloading that much.

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