If i rely on last year’s course of events, i foresee that the FIFA 2009 Demo will be released sometimes during August, and then we will be able to publish the official FIFA 2009 system requirements for PC. Until then you can look into the FIFA 2008 system requirements, that will provide a rough estimation of what it’ll take to run FIFA 09. I suggest that you give special attention to the supported video cards, as that was the main system compatibility issue in previous versions.

Here’s the link: FIFA 08 Joystick Controls

Here are the minimum system requirements for running FIFA 08:

• Operating Systems: Windows XP SP2, Windows 2000 SP4 or Windows Vista (Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME and Windows NT 4.0 are not supported)
• Processor: 1.3 GHz
• RAM:  512 MB   
• Video Card: DirectX 9.0c Compatible 3D accelerated 64 MB video card or equivalent . Here’s the list of supported chipsets (note that laptop versions of those chipsets were not tested and thus not officially supported):

NVIDIA GeForce3
NVIDIA GeForce3 Ti200/500
NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti4200/4400/4600/4800
NVIDIA GeForce FX series
NVIDIA GeForce 6xxx series
NVIDIA GeForce 7xxx series
NVIDIA GeForce 8xxx series
ATI Radeon 8500
ATI Radeon 9xxx series
ATI Radeon Xpress 200
ATI Radeon X300
ATI Radeon X550
ATI Radeon X600
ATI Radeon X700
ATI Radeon X800/850
ATI Radeon X1300
ATI Radeon X1600
ATI Radeon X1800
ATI Radeon X1900
ATI Radeon X1950
ATI HD 2900 XT
Intel 915
Intel 945/950
Intel GMA 3000
S3 Graphics DeltaChrome S4
S3 Graphics Chrome S27

• Hard Disk: 3.5 -4  GB free hard disk space (depending on the version)
• Sound Card: DirectX 9.0c Compatible
• DirectX 9.0c installed
• MS compatible mouse
• Keyboard

If you are not sure about whether your PC can run FIFA 08, i suggest that you:

• Download and install the free FIFA 08 PC demo. Check if it runs ok. The most common issue you might have is with the Video card, so check it carefully.
• Install and run the system requirements testing utility and verify that your PC can handle FIFA 08.

Enjoy!

If you didn’t have the chance to grab the demo yet, then i fully recommend you to do it. Although the demo includes one level and one car (the Volkswagen Golf GTI), it provides with a good overview about what we should expect from the full product.

As i always do, i reviewed the minimum Sega Rally Revo system requirements your PC needs to meet in order to run Sega Rally Revo. Here they are:

• Operating System:  Microsoft Windows XP (SP2) or Vista.
• Processor:2.0 GHz Pentium 4 or equivalent AMD Athlon 64
• RAM: 1 GB  
• Video Card:128 MB Graphics Card supporting Shader Model 2.0 – 100% DirectX 9.0c compatible. Supported Chipsets: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5 series,GeForce 6,7 and 8 series.ATi   Radeon 9600 pro and above
   RadeonX200, X300, x550, x600, x700, x800, x850, x1300, x1600, x1800, x1900 and HD2000 series. Limited support (don’t ask me what they meant by limited ) for Intel Graphics i945 series,Intel Graphics i965 series.
• Sound Card: DirectX Compatible
• Free Hard Disk Space: 600.0 MB 
•  DirectX 9.0c (Included on the disc)

Pretty moderate requirements aren’t they?

Enjoy!

If you still didn’t hear about Hellgate London, here’s a quick summary: The year is 2038, and post apocalyptical London is ruled by a bunch of diabolic creatures who destroyed the city. The few survivors should join forces and try to save the world from the daemons. 

If would like to try the Hellgate London Beta, or considering purchase the full version, i recommend you to look into the minimum Hellgate London System  requirements:

• Operating Systems: Windows XP with SP2 or Windows Vista 
• Processor: 1 .8GHz or faster (2.4GHz for Vista) 
• RAM: 1GB or more (2GB for Vista) 
•  Video Card: DirectX 9.0c/10 compatible device w/ 128MB RAM or better and Pixel Shader 2.0 – NVIDIA GeForce 6200/ATI Radeon 9000 chipset or greater
• Audio: DirectX 9.0c compatible device 
• Hard drive: 6 GB or more

Enjoy Hellgate

via: HellgateLondon

Gears of War is a Games for Windows title. Therefore, although the Gears of War official system requirements haven’t been published yet, I feel we can provide a good estimate based on the BioShock system requirements.

Here’s my estimation for the minimum system requirements, which i will be updating once official word will be available:

• CPU – Pentium 4 2.4GHz Single
• RAM - 1GB
• Video Card – Direct X 9.0c compliant video card with 128MB RAM (NVIDIA 6600 or better/ATI X1300 or better, excluding ATI X1550).
• 5-6 GB free Hard disk space
  Sound Card – 100% direct X 9.0c compatible sound card

Don’t forget that as we approach November, you’ll be able to ensure that your PC can run Gears of War by using the gaming system requirements test utility.

Enjoy!

I thought of putting together a review of the PES 2008 demo, however, yesterday I spotted over a very thorough PES 2008 review made by fellow blogger Madhur Kapoor. Madhur’s PES 2008 review is well worth reading before you download the PES 2008 PC demo.

Enjoy PES!

Demo files weights 1.05 GB and should download in around 1.5 hours if you have a broadband connection.

You’ll play Captain Devin Ross, who leads the Jericho squad, a team of 7 members, each possessing paranormal abilities.  Capt. Ross most interesting feature is that he can take over other members bodies and talents. I read over at the Jericho web site that in the demo you’ll be leading only 3 of your squad members, as rest of the squad is presumed lost following a deadly attack.

The full version will be on the shelves on 10/23 (will also be available for XBOX 360 and Playstation 3).

Sounds quite cool. I am going to start downloading

Update: Clive Barker’s Jericho minimum System Requirements

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Konami also published the Pro Evolution Soccer 2008 minimum system requirements. These differ from recommended PES 2008 system requirements that i published i while ago. Here they are:

Minimum Pro Evolution Soccer 7 (2008) system requirements:
OS: Windows XP
Processor: Intel Pentium IV 1.4GHz or equivalent processor
RAM: 512 MB RAM
Disk Space: 4.0GB free hard disk space
4x DVD-ROM Drive
Video Card: DirectX 9.0c compatible video card. 64MB Pixel Shader 1.1 (NVIDIA GeForce 3 or
ATI Radeon 8500 video card or better)
Sound Card: DirectX 9.0c compatible sound card
Others: DirectX 9.0c or higher (included on Disc)
Multiplayer: TCP/IP 192 kbps or higher
Windows compatible keyboard
640 x 480 monitor resolution

Looks like some people are having issues when installing PES 2008. I will look into this later on today, however my wild guess is that the root cause of those issues is the fact that they try to run PES on PCs with video cards which are not DirectX 9.0c compatible.

Enjoy!