Is your PC ready for Metro: Last Light? Check out the required specs

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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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.