The system requirements of Stalker: Clear Sky vary widely depending on the chosen settings: From a P4 with 2.0 GHz to the Core 2 Duo E8500 and from a Radeon 9600 to a HD 3870 X2 almost everything is represented.
Next week the Stalker prequel Clear Sky will finally be released. PCGH had the chance to check a final version.
When reading the system requirements, one might notice the big variety of hardware necessary to display different settings. Below you will find all requirements and the equivalent graphical quality. Thereby we tried to adjust the hardware to the available graphics settings in Clear Sky.
• Minimal requirements: - Windows XP (Service Pack 2)/Windows 2000 SP4
- Processor: Intel Pentium 4 2.0 GHz / AMD XP 2200+
- RAM: 512 MiByte
- 10 GByte free hard drive space
- 128 MiByte Direct X 8.0 compatible graphics card / Geforce 5700 / Radeon 9600
Stalker: Clear Sky (minimal details) [Source: view picture gallery]
• Recommended requirements: - Windows XP (Service Pack 2)/Windows 2000 SP4
- Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E6400 / AMD 64 X2 4200+-
- RAM: 1.5 GiByte
- 10 GByte free hard drive space
- 256 MiByte Direct X 9.0c compatible graphics card / GeForce 7900 / Radeon X1950
Stalker: Clear Sky "recommended" (high quality, dynamic lighting) [Source: view picture gallery]
• Optimal requirements: - Windows XP (Service Pack 2)/Windows 2000 SP4
- Processor: Intel Core2 Duo E6700 / AMD 64 X2 5200+
- RAM: 2 GiByte
- 10 GByte free hard drive space
- 512 MiByte Direct X 9.0c compatible graphics card / GeForce 8800 / Radeon X2900
Stalker: Clear Sky "optimal" (high quality, enhanced dynamic lighting) [Source: view picture gallery]
• Extreme requirements: - Windows Vista (Service Pack 1 required)
- Processor type: Intel Core2 Duo E8500 / AMD 64 X2 6000+
- RAM: 4 GiByte
- 10 GByte free hard drive space
- Direct X 10 compatible graphics card with 512 MiByte VRAM / Geforce 9800 GX2 / Radeon HD 3870 X2
Stalker: Clear Sky "extreme" (extreme quality, enhanced dynamic lighting, more object details) [Source: view picture gallery]
More detailed benchmarks will be delivered soon.
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