Hardware requirements revealed for PC Star Wars: The Force Unleashed

Posted Oct 22nd 2009 9:30PM by John Callaham
Filed under: Hardware, Action

Last year, when LucasArts released the console version of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, the publisher claimed the game couldn't be released on the PC because the system requirements would be too high. That was disproven earlier this summer when LucasArts announced (shocker) a PC port of the game.

Now the PC version's developer, Aspyr Media, has revealed the PC system requirements for Star Wars: The Force Unleashed Ultimate Sith Edition. As we have reported before, the PC version will have all of the content of the original console game plus some extra missions. You can check out the system specs after the jump:

Gallery: Star Wars The Force Unleashed Sith Edition

PC Minimum System Requirements

Operating System: Windows XP SP3, Windows Vista SP2. Windows 7
CPU Processor: 2.4 GHz Dual Core Processor (Intel Core 2 Duo or AMD Athlon X2)
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Hard Disk Space: 23.8 GB + 1 GB Swap File
Sound Card: DirectX 9.0c compatible sound card
Video Card: 3D Hardware Accelerator Card Required – 100% DirectX 9.0c compatible 256 MB Video Memory with Shader 3.0 support
Video Card (ATI): Radeon HD 2900
Video Card (Nvidia): Geforce 8800
Media Required: 8X DVD-ROM drive
Windows XP/Vista compatible mouse and keyboard or Microsoft Xbox 360 Wired Controller

This product does not support Windows 95/98/ME/2000/NT.
Recommended System Requirements

Intel Core 2 Duo 2.8 GHz or AMD Athlon X2 Dual-Core 5200+
512 MB 3D Hardware Accelerator Card
Video Card (ATI): Radeon HD 4870
Video Card (Nvidia): Geforce 9800 GT
Memory: 2 GB RAM

NOTICE: Some 3D accelerator cards with the chipset listed here may not be compatible with the 3D acceleration features utilized by Star Wars: The Force Unleashed. Please refer to your hardware manufacturer for 100% DirectX compatibility.

Supported Desktop Chipsets

ATI RADEON HD 2900, 3850, 3870, 4850, 4870
NVIDIA GEFORCE 8800, 9600, 9800, 260, 280

NOTICE: This game contains technology intended to prevent copying that may conflict with some disk and virtual disk drives.

Tags: aspyr, lucasarts, star-wars-the-force-unleashed, star-wars-the-force-unleashed-ultimate-sith-edition

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Wow, those requirements are a bit high, I hope it's just looks really good. I have the ATI 4850, so I was a bit shocked with the 4870 was the recommended.Posted at 9:51PM on Oct 22nd 2009 by Alex

"Now the PC version's developer, Aspyr Media"

Hooray for another unoptimized, half-assed attempt to port a game over. Just look at Guitar Hero 3, and Guitar Hero: World Tour. They look ugly, and run as slow as Crysis on modern computers.

Not to mention that anybody can pick this up if they ave a console for dirt cheap anyway. Posted at 10:13PM on Oct 22nd 2009 by Sonic

Holy hell, 23.8 GB? I have a 1 Terabyte hard drive, but 23.8 GB is twice as big as my next largest game. Why so big? Even my MMORPGs don't take up half as much space.Posted at 11:21PM on Oct 22nd 2009 by RogueJedi86

Holy shit I know! I have a 4850 1GB too, and yes 23.8 is unreasonable!!Posted at 11:27PM on Oct 22nd 2009 by Cheesus Crust

I don't know about World Tour, but GH3 wasn't bad. It ran at 60fps at 1280x720 on my 2GHz C2D laptop with an 8600M GT GPU. That's higher res than the console versions, with inferior hardware.Posted at 11:49PM on Oct 22nd 2009 by Mike Sylvester

WOOOOOOOOHAAAA !!! I KNOW THAT IT WOULD PORTED TO THE PC, I SENSED THE FORCEPosted at 12:14PM on Nov 1st 2009 by Jedi

dude, 23.8 is really wild. Posted at 12:39AM on Nov 3rd 2009 by enef

I have beyond those specs but what pisses me off is that I have 8 gigs of memmory and I'm FORCED to turn on the virtual drive. Like WTF?

As well I have to have an XBox controller.
Honestly, I used to enjoy Star Wars but this game was a total let down when it was released for the consoles. The Wiki review is a bunch of fucking lies. Just ggole what people really felt along with the youtube video's.

A lot of hype for Wolfenstein and the thing kept breakind down. Solution, delete from hard drive and never play.

Ghostbusters...Let down, delete from hard drive.

Far Cry 2, repetative...delete from hard drive.

Most new Activision games, buggy as crap...delete from hard drive.

The developers don't give a shit anymore and 25 gigs of pain in the ass to play disappointment means decreased sales.

Especially when they limit your options.

KP
Posted at 1:27AM on Nov 12th 2009 by kevin preston

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