Fallout 3 PC system specs revealed

Posted Oct 9th 2008 4:00PM by John Callaham
Filed under: Hardware, RPG, Fallout 3

With Fallout 3 now gold and heading for replication, the game's official web site has posted up both the minimal and recommended system specs for the PC version.So now you should know whether or not your rig will be able to run Bethesda Softworks' long awaited post-apocalypse RPG:

Minimal System Requirements

Windows XP/Vista
1GB System RAM (XP)/ 2GB System RAM (Vista)
2.4 Ghz Intel Pentium 4 or equivalent processor
Direct X 9.0c compliant video card with 256MB RAM (NVIDIA 6800 or better/ATI X850 or better)

Recommended System Requirements

Intel Core 2 Duo processor
2 GB System RAM
Direct X 9.0c compliant video card with 512MB RAM (NVIDIA 8800 series, ATI 3800 series)
Supported Video Card Chipsets:
- NVIDIA GeForce 200 series
- NVIDIA Geforce 9800 series
- NVIDIA Geforce 9600 series
- NVIDIA Geforce 8800 series
- NVIDIA Geforce 8600 series
- NVIDIA Geforce 8500 series
- NVIDIA Geforce 8400 series
- NVIDIA Geforce 7900 series
- NVIDIA Geforce 7800 series
- NVIDIA Geforce 7600 series
- NVIDIA Geforce 7300 series
- NVIDIA GeForce 6800 series
- ATI HD 4800 series
- ATI HD 4600 series
- ATI HD 3800 series
- ATI HD 3600 series
- ATI HD 3400 series
- ATI HD 2900 series
- ATI HD 2600 series
- ATI HD 2400 series
- ATI X1900 series
- ATI X1800 series
- ATI X1600 series
- ATI X1300 series
- ATI X850 series
Gallery: Fallout 3

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Hardware question - My machine meets all the requirements, but I am not sure about my video card. I have a Radeon X1300 Series [Display adapter] (2x). Is that the equivalent of the ATI X1300 series mentioned above. Hope so. Can't wait for the game, but I don't want to upgrade my pc just to play it. Anyone know if Diablo 3 has similar requirments?Posted at 9:12PM on Oct 9th 2008 by Justin

About Fallout 3, yes, you meet the system requirements. The 'Radeon' brand is just removed from the names of those cards. Those are model numbers, not product names. :DPosted at 10:02PM on Oct 30th 2008 by Etriaph