If you were wondering if your ageing rig will be able to handle the upcoming spiritual sequel to the undersea Rapture adventure, Bioshock Infinite, then today you’ll be able to get a rough idea as the recommended and minimum specs have been released.
With the mimum specs, pretty much everybody should be able to get the game running, so it’s nice of Irrational to make it playable by all, though you’ll have to step things up a bit if you want to pass the recommended specs. On top of having over 30GB free – presumably the extra 10GB is for hi-res textures – you’ll need a 6950, which while a little old at this point, still isn’t cheap.
Minimum
- OS: Windows Vista Service Pack 2 32-bit
- Processor: Intel Core 2 DUO 2.4 GHz / AMD Athlon X2 2.7 GHz
- Memory: 2 GB
- Hard Drive: 20 GB free
- Video Card: DirectX10 Compatible ATI Radeon HD 3870 / NVIDIA 8800 GT / Intel HD 3000 Integrated Graphics
- Video Card Memory: 512 MB
- Sound Card: DirectX Compatible
Recommended
- OS: Windows 7 Service Pack 1 64-bit
- Processor: Quad Core Processor
- Memory: 4 GB
- Hard Drive: 30 GB free
- Video Card: DirectX11 Compatible, AMD Radeon HD 6950 / NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560
- Video Card Memory: 1024 MB
- Sound Card: DirectX Compatible
As with these sorts of recommendations however, they should be taken with a small grain of salt and a few caveats. The minimum will play fine but probably look pretty awful, while recommended will likely get you about half way up the graphical ladder and look pretty nice, but perhaps won’t have the greatest frame rates. This can differ from game to game, but it’s a good rule of thumb: outstrip the recommended specs and you’re fine.
Irrational recently allowed gamers to choose the reversible cover art for Bioshock Infinite.
On top of the specs though, Irrational also released a list of additional features for the PC. Nice to see a developer taking the time out to make a game PC friendly.
- Remappable keys
- Mouse smoothing
- Gamepad support
- Widescreen resolutions
- Support for multiple monitors
- Six graphics presets. Including Ultra
- DX-11 and DX-10 support
- High resolution textures
- Steam Cloud support
- Steam Big Picture mode support
- And both V-sync and FOV support
The guys over at PCGamesN were pretty excited about this too. Thanks to them for the heads up.
KitGuru Says: I’m excited for this one guys, though I will need to upgrade my graphics card. Read my stories a bit more, maybe I can convince the higher ups to give me a raise. Or send me an ex-review sample. That’s more likely.
