Total War: Rome II system specs released

Creative Assembly has released the minimum and recommended system specs for the upcoming PC historical strategy sim Total War: Rome II.

The minimum specs for the game have been designed to stay the same as predecessor Shogun 2's, requiring only a 512MB graphics card, 2GB of RAM, and a 2GHz dual core processor.

• OS: XP/Vista/Windows 7/Windows 8
• Processor: 2GHz Intel Dual Core processor / 2.6 GHz Intel Single Core processor
• Memory: 2GB RAM
• Graphics: 512MB DirectX 9.0c compatible card (shader model 3, vertex texture fetch support).
• DirectX: 9.0c
• Hard Drive: 35GB HD space
• Screen Resolution: 1024x768

Meanwhile, the full recommended specs require a slightly loftier rig:

• OS: Windows 7/Windows 8
• Processor: 2nd Generation Intel Core i5 processor (or greater)
• Memory: 4GB RAM
• Graphics: 1024MB DirectX 11 compatible graphics card.
• DirectX: 11
• Hard Drive: 35GB HD space
• Screen Resolution: 1920x1080

Total War: Rome II will be released worldwide on September 3. Creative Assembly says the game notched up six times more preorders in its first week than Shogun 2..