Assassin's Creed III PC specs revealed

Don't trust minimum/recommended requirements, it's best to check out benchmarks for your video card on the games or games using a similar engine.

These are minimum requirements, aren't they?

The difference between DX10 and 11 as well as Pixel Shader 4 and 5 cannot be really told unless you look really deep in the details. But if the game runs on DX9 and Pixel Shader 3 only, it wouldn't look as good as we expect.

Even the first Assassin's Creed was released in both DX9 and DX10. These must be for sure minimum requirements.

mwwwahahaha direct x 9? lol my pc will chew this up

Cool! My old laptop can still run this game! :)

Why are people with good computers complaining that the specs for this game are not high enough? Aren't you glad that such a beautifull, open-ended game does not need much hassle to make it work.? Would you rather have to put another 100-200 $ in your PC so that you can play this game? Or are you just so self-centered and have to brag about the fact that your PC is so powerfull that you have to write about it in a comment? There alot of people that do not own a console or such a powerfull PC to play this game and they might have to pass on playing this game. Why complain ? 

damn it, Im using XP...

One thing I don't understand...How come that AC 3 needs minimum ATI 3870 and

it's using new engine,on the other hand Dishonored needs ATI 5850 as minimum to run on Unreal Engine 3 which is in use for quite some time. Both games are open ended.Help?

http://steam-games-free.com/?i=m5rGQv5ab

Even min specs aren't always to be trusted.  Certain ones are dealbreakers if you don't have them....like if you need Win 7 but only have XP.  Or if you need 2 GB's of ram, but only have 1 GB.  If it's DX11 only, and you don't have a DX11 game (but that usually is tied with Win 7).  Pretty sure the shader model might be here too, but not entirely.

When it comes to what processor and sometimes vid card, not entirely.

I remember running plenty of games at under spec at the low settings.  Hell I remember running Madden 04 which needed something like 800-1200 mhz, and I only had a 400 mhz.  So if there's a demo, try it.  Don't just go by specs, but also don't be blind to the specs. 

So when they say 3870 and indeed that is a good deal more raw power than the 360, but probably around even or a little less in terms of actual performance, it means it's pretty similar.  (due to lower latencies in the architecture of consoles vs pc's...console's will always be faster than pc's if they had the same raw tech inside.)

Remember for most 360 titles, they only try to run at 30 fps, and usually are on the low settings of today's games....sometimes medium. 

Thus 3870 definitely is probably pretty optimized.  

I don't get why people are bagging that it isn't good enough.

Do people not know that AC III will be DX11 on PC? 

The AC series on PC looks a lot better than the 360 already, and already had higher res textures and crap.  Now it'll have DX11 features, and even better textures than it did before.

AC3 on 360 vs PC will be an even bigger difference than any of the AC2 themed titles.

People need to start reading a bit more I guess.  Because DX11 features WILL NOT be on 360, and the higher res textures can't be run on the 360/ps3.

Among the other specs should be included a grafx card capable of rendering gore and giblets in emotionally-disturbing perfection, since they'll need to anticipate and work against the ever-steepening desensitization curve in it's fan base.

what the fuck i got a  laptop that is ballshit! so pc laptops people cant really play this game! 

And Ubisoft continue to trash us.....

5year old gpu looking to be more than enough

My money is ready ... My PC is ready ... 

low specs mean more people will be able to play the title. Doesn't anyone remember when there was a min spec, a recommended spec, and then a premium specification, and you traded off the frills and details for performance, should your system be a slower one? Why the aggro out there?

definitely torrenting this shit. lost all respect for ubisoft

Low system specs but that is to be expected for a multiplatform title. Still, It wouldn't hurt throwing one PC specific feature in there. On the flip side you could say the game is well optimized for PC which is a good thing. You could not say the same about the terrible Black Ops port which had my older PC going at 20-30 fps. Then MW3 was back to fluid 50-60 fps (WTH?).