Saints Row 2 PC system requirements revealed; will use Steam for DRM

Posted Dec 27th 2008 11:00AM by John Callaham
Filed under: Hardware, Action

THQ's PC port of their open world action game Saints Row 2 is due for release in the first week of January and while the publisher hasn't given the PC version of Volition's latest game a lot of PR the game's official message boards have revealed its final system requirements.

The forums have also revealed that Saints Row 2 will use Steam for the game's DRM to authenticate the game. Volition's community manager states, " Essentially, Steam will be a verification system for the retail version. Steam will also have an offer to digitally download SR2 to a player's system if they don't want to leave the confines of their house. If you have a retail version, Steam is only going to verify that you have a real copy of the game when you are first installing and launching the game. We're trying to use a very low impact DRM here, since we've seen some of the headaches faced by other major game releases in recent months."

Check out the minimum and recommended system specs for the game after the jump:

Minimum Requirements:
- Windows XP / Vista
- 2.0 GHz Dual-Core Processor (Intel Core 2 Duo or AMD Athlon X2)
- 1 GB Available System Memory
- 15 GB Available Hard Drive Space
- 128 MB 3D Video Card w/Shader Model 3.0 Support (Nvidia GeForce 7600 / ATI Radeon X1300)
- DirectX Compatible Display Capable of 640x480 16-bit Color Resolution
- DirectX 9.0c Compatible 16-bit Sound Card
- Broadband Connection for Internet Multiplayer

Recommended Requirements:
- Windows XP / Vista
- 3.2 GHz Dual-Core Processor (Intel Core 2 Duo or AMD Athlon X2)
- 2 GB Available System Memory
- 256 MB 3D Video Card with Shader Model 3.0 Support (Nvidia GeForce 8800 / ATI Radeon HD3850)
- DirectX Compatible Display Capable of 1024x768 in 32-bit Color
- DirectX 9.0c Compatible 16-bit Sound Card
- Recommended System Requirements Required for 2-12 Player Multiplayer or Co-Op

Tags: drm, saints-row-2, stream, thq, volition

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Steam DRM is so minimal, I've never even thought about it as DRM.
Good to see they're not using SecuROM.Posted at 11:39AM on Dec 27th 2008 by Klink258

DRM is never about piracy, it's about stop you from buying second hand.Posted at 2:12PM on Dec 27th 2008 by joeybeast

"DRM is never about piracy, it's about stop you from buying second hand."

...which is something I don't give a damn about, as the secondary market for games is so crappy. And I can live with the notion that what I purchase is a licence to use the game and nothing more. At least I can if that licence is unrestricted as to when and how I choose to use that licence, and Steam works for me in that regard. I have move countries several times, and having a large portion of my PC game collection archived on Steam serves me well.Posted at 3:15PM on Dec 27th 2008 by paralipsis

That's pretty cool. I hope more publishers do this. Steam is a really nice service to have since you can play your games on any PC.Posted at 7:42PM on Dec 27th 2008 by Einhanderkiller

Steam is interesting idea, but their recent step to change software prices in dollars to euro for european countries with assumption that 1 USD = 1 EUR is very disappointing...Posted at 10:03PM on Jan 3rd 2009 by hyeroglyph.pl

i need cd key for my saint's row 2 game help me pls.. :(Posted at 3:57PM on Feb 3rd 2009 by halil

my 2 i need cd key for saint's row 2Posted at 1:28PM on Mar 17th 2009 by anyzet

Online verification is a big problem for me. My games machine is a stand alone (I'm not into multiplayer), and I have the internet on my laptop. So, I can't verify games like Saints Row or NFS Undercover. I'm a law-abiding citizen who purchases all her games via retailer and I feel like I'm being singled out and punished. I understand why THQ is doing this, and I don't blame them, but Two Worlds also gave you the option of calling an 0800 number and getting a verification key to activate the game if you didn't have the internet. Why can't games companies also give us this option as well?Posted at 10:56AM on Mar 19th 2009 by Syren_932