Publisher Deep Silver has announced the official "minimum, recommended, and optimum" PC specifications for upcoming first-person shooter Metro: Last Light. While you can read the necessary requirements below, there's a far easier way to see if your PC is ready to run the highly anticipated sequel to Metro 2033: Run the NVIDIA GPU Analyzer.
Simple enough? Don't worry, for you PC enthusiasts who love to look at numbers, the complete specifications guide is below.
Minimum
- For 3D Vision Support:
- Graphics Card: DirectX 9, Shader Model 3 compliant e.g. NVIDIA GTS 250 (or AMD equivalent e.g. HD Radeon 4000 series) or higher
- Direct X: 9.0c
- RAM: 2GB
- CPU: 2.2 GHz Dual Core e.g. Intel Core 2 Duo
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Windows: XP (32-Bit), Vista, 7 or 8
- NVIDIA GTX 275 or higher
- 120Hz Monitor
- NVIDIA 3D Vision kit for Windows Vista, 7 or 8
Recommended
- For 3D Vision Support:
- Graphics Card: NVIDIA GTX 580/660 Ti (or AMD equivalent e.g. 7870) or higher
- Direct X: 11
- RAM: 4GB
- CPU: 2.6 GHz Quad Core e.g. Intel Core i5
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Windows: Vista, 7 or 8
- NVIDIA GTX 580/660Ti or higher
- 120Hz Monitor
- NVIDIA 3D Vision kit for Windows Vista, 7 or 8
Optimum
- Windows: Vista, 7 or 8
- CPU: 3.4 GHz Multi-Core e.g. Intel Core i7
- RAM: 8GB
- Direct X: 11
- Graphics Card:
- NVIDIA GTX 690 / NVIDIA Titan
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For 3D Vision Support:
- NVIDIA GTX 690
- 120Hz Monitor
- NVIDIA 3D Vision kit for Windows Vista, 7 or 8
Metro: Last Light is due out on May 14, 2013 in North America for Xbox 360, PS3 and, of course, PC.