{"id":31281,"date":"2012-01-23T15:28:14","date_gmt":"2012-01-23T13:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=31281"},"modified":"2012-01-24T12:07:22","modified_gmt":"2012-01-24T10:07:22","slug":"alan-wake-pc-launch-window-system-specs-confirmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/31281-alan-wake-pc-launch-window-system-specs-confirmed","title":{"rendered":"Alan Wake PC launch window, system specs confirmed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hold onto your flashlights and flare guns, thrill seekers &#8211; <a title=\"Company Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/20169-Remedy-Games\">Remedy<\/a>&#8216;s announced a February launch window for the <a title=\"System Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/21037-PC-Gaming\">PC<\/a> version of Alan Wake, as well as the minimum system specs required to run it without anything&#8230; <em>unexpected<\/em> happening.<\/p>\n<p>Also, the game won&#8217;t be using Games For Windows LIVE, so that&#8217;s good news.<\/p>\n<p>According to the post over on the official forums, the PC specs include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>OS:<\/strong> Windows XP, Windows Vista or Windows 7<strong><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>PROCESSOR:<\/strong> A dual core processor is required:<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>AMD: Athlon X2 2.8GHz<\/li>\n<li>Intel: Core 2 Duo 2GHz<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li><strong>MEMORY:<\/strong> 2 GB<strong><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>HARD DRIVE:<\/strong> 8 GB<strong><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>VIDEO CARD:<\/strong>DirectX 10 compatible or later with 512MB RAM<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>AMD: ATI Radeon 3650, 4450, 5550, 6450 or higher (per series)<\/li>\n<li>NVIDIA: GeForce 8600GT, 9500GT, GT120, GT430, GT520 (per series)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li><strong>SOUND CARD:<\/strong> DirectX 9.0c compatible<strong><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>INPUT:<\/strong> Mouse and keyboard, Xbox360 controller also supported<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To run the game at &#8220;solid&#8221; settings, Remedy recommends &#8220;a modern quad-core CPU and a graphics card with around 2000 in 3DMark Graphics Score&#8221;, and &#8220;a top of the line graphics card and CPU&#8221; if you want to dial everything up to 11.<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/forum.alanwake.com\/showthread.php?t=7667\" target=\"_blank\">Alan Wake forums<\/a><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The light at the end of the tunnel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":29600,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[31,1544,1671],"class_list":["post-31281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-pc","tag-active","tag-alan-wake","tag-remedy-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31281"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31285,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31281\/revisions\/31285"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}