Shattered Horizon system requirements bypass Windows XP

Posted Oct 22nd 2009 1:00PM by John Callaham
Filed under: Downloads, FPS, Multiplayer

Futuremark Games' upcoming downloadable first person shooter Shattered Horizon has joined the still small group of PC games that cannot be run on Windows XP and DirectX9. The just announced system requirements for the game reveal that it will be running excluisvely on DirectX10 which means only PCs with Windows Vista and the just launched Windows 7 will run the game.

While this is still the exception rather than the rule the launch of Windows 7 today will likely be the beginning of the end for Windows XP as a PC gaming platform as more developers move onto making DirectX10 and DirectX11. You can check out the full system requirements for Shattered Horizon after the jump:

Gallery: Shattered Horizon

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS
Shattered Horizon requires DirectX 10 on Windows Vista or Windows 7. There is no support for Windows XP or DirectX 9.

CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 / AMD Athlon64 X2 5600+
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce 8800GT / ATI Radeon HD 3870
GPU MEMORY: 256MB
HARD DISK SPACE: 1.5 GB
RAM: 2GB
SOUND: Windows Vista compatible sound card

RECOMMENDED REQUIREMENTS
Shattered Horizon requires DirectX 10 on Windows Vista or Windows 7. There is no support for Windows XP or DirectX 9.

CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 / AMD Phenom II X4 940
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 / ATI Radeon HD 4870
GPU MEMORY: 512MB
HARD DISK SPACE: 1.5GB
RAM: 2GB
SOUND: Windows Vista compatible sound card

Tags: directx10, futuremark, futuremark-games-studio, shattered-horizon

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

fuck that, move to OpenGL so when Microsoft's foothold is slipping you are already on your way to developing for most other platforms that will most likely support OpenGL as DirectX is a Microsoft piece of crap.Posted at 2:19PM on Jan 8th 2010 by Si

You can have DX10 on XP with the alky project. Google away my friends.

Now to get around that pesky OS table... something tells me it won't be as easy as editing it with orca like we do with msi files. Posted at 5:43PM on Jan 7th 2010 by Dave