Call of Duty Black Ops PC using Steam; system requirements leaked?

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Call of Duty Black Ops PC using Steam; system requirements leaked?

Posted Oct 19th 2010 10:00AM by John Callaham
Filed under: FPS, Multiplayer, Call of Duty: Black Ops

While Call of Duty: Black Ops has yet to show up for pre-orders on Steam as of the time of this post, the next game in Activision's first person shooter series is confirmed as not only coming to Valve's PC game download service but it will also be using Valve's Steamworks tools as well.

In a post on Call of Duty Black Ops' official message boards, developer Treyarch goes over the PC multiplayer features of the game and states, "Millions of Call of Duty fans are already on Steam. Their Friends are on Steam. Steam will provide the ease of auto-updating instead of manual patching." The PC port will also use Valve's Anti-Cheat system as well as the Steam Cloud for save games. As previously reported, the PC version will also have support for dedicated servers but PC players will have to purchase those servers from a third party rather than set them up themselves.

In related news the Direct2Drive PC game download site has set up a preliminary page to purchase Call of Duty: Black Ops. While you can't yet buy the game the page does show what the PC version's minimal system requirements will be. You can check them out after the jump:

Gallery: Call of Duty: Black Ops Screenshots

OS: Windows® Vista / XP / 7
Processor:Intel Core2 Duo E6600 or AMD Phenom X3 8750 or better
Memory: 2GB
Hard Drive:12GB
Video: Shader 3.0 or better 256MB NVIDIA GeForce 8600GT / ATI Radeon X1950Pro or better
Sound: DirectX 9.0c-compatible
DirectX: 9.0c

Tags: Activision, Activision-Blizzard, Call-of-Duty, call-of-duty-black-ops, call-of-duty-black-ops-pc, call-of-duty-black-ops-pc-system-requirements, STEAM, SteamWorks, Treyarch

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Pre-Order Canceled,

VAC didnt do anything to stop rampant aimbot and wallhacks. I was very excited for this game bc of dedicated servers. Guess ill just have to settle for the Xbox360 version! Bad Move, I knew somehow Treyarch was gonna blow their second chance.Posted at 11:52AM on Oct 19th 2010 by Doc McFish

You are probably going to get just as much or more cheaters on X360, might as well stick to PC.Posted at 4:51PM on Oct 19th 2010 by Unknown

Stick with PC. The best way to combat hackers are well regulated dedicated servers. It is easy to permanently banned the obvious wall hacks and aimbotters (especially with observation modes). The players that are really good at hiding their hacks aren't so disruptive that it effects gameplay enjoyment, but can be dealt with given enough time.Posted at 5:43PM on Oct 19th 2010 by AfflictedMed

They should have punkbuster for this.
And yes, I think its good that in Ded. servers there is admins and ban them, but, back in cod4 there isnt so many admins to ban people, even there is punkbuster, I still see like 2 hackers in a week, its little, but still, and they are not getting banned by admin, I just leave the server.Posted at 1:36AM on Oct 28th 2010 by ReMiiiX