Hot on the heels of Far Cry 3’s minimum specs earlier today, Ubisoft has revealed the minimum system requirements for Assassin’s Creed III. According to a post on Ubisoft’s customer support site, the following specs will be required to run Assassin’s Creed III properly:
Supported OS: Windows Vista (SP2) / Windows 7 (SP1) / Windows 8
Processor: 2.66 GHz Intel Core2 Duo E6700 or 3.00 GHz AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ or better recommended
RAM: 2 GB (4 GB recommended)
Video Card: 512 MB DirectX 9.0c-compliant with Shader Model 4.0 or higher (see supported list)*
Sound Card: DirectX 9.0c-compliant (5.1 surround sound recommended)
DVD-ROM: Dual-layer drive
Hard Drive Space: 17 GB
Peripherals Supported: Windows-compatible keyboard, mouse, optional controller (Xbox 360 Controller for Windows recommended)
Multiplayer: 256 kbps or faster broadband connection
Supported Video Cards at Time of Release:
AMD Radeon HD 3870 / 4000 / 5000 / 6000 / 7000 series or better
NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT / 9 / 100 / 200 / 300 / 400 / 500 / 600 series or better
Ubisoft notes that “laptop versions of these cards may work, but are not supported. These chipsets are the only ones that will run this game.”
Assassin’s Creed III will launch on consoles on October 30th, and the PC version will follow on November 23rd. Ubisoft recently confirmed that it will no longer use always-on DRM for its PC titles.
For more on Assassin’s Creed III, check out our hands-on impressions from earlier this week, plus what the game’s achievements tell us about the plot. For all the other details we know so far, look no further than our Assassin’s Creed III wiki guide.
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