Min. specs for Final Fantasy XIV?

[Goldenboko]

Has this ever been released?

[oddler]

This was just posted not long ago in Omecle's thread about the release date.

The site was unsure, but it said that the recommended specs were:

Windows XP/Vista/7, Intel Core 2 Duo 2GHz or AMD Athlon X2 2GHz, 2GB of RAM, 15GB HDD space, NVIDIA GeForce 9600 512MB or ATI Radeon HD 2900 512MB and DirectX 9

Seems like a big difference from the benchmark, or maybe my geekanese is off. :/

[Rostum]

I'm not sure if they're minimum or recommended specs. Either way, they are much lower than I anticipated!

[nirojan]

those are min...My brother's laptop's specs (Windows 7 64bit, intel core i-7, Radeon HD card) throws that to the curb and it only touched 3000 on the benchmark. Of course they could down the specs it for the actual game, but i read somewhere they wanted it to appeal to higher end computers so it would last on the market longer and not have to use the shameless tactics WOW uses.

[Loony BoB]

Like any MMORPG that aims to be a "big one", they will realistically be marketing towards every damned person they can market it towards.

The specs mean I may need to upgrade my graphics card, but that's about it, it seems. Good. Still, if it plays like a dog even after that then I'll probably upgrade a component per month. Problem is, I have to upgrade two PC's, not just mine.

[Goldenboko]

After reviewing the specs of the computer I plan on purchasing for college, I'll definitely be able to run this