Need for Speed: Most Wanted Reboot Gets PC System Requirements

Even if the new Need for Speed: Most Wanted Reboot is set to launch in October, Electronic Arts and Criterion Games have already posted the minimum and recommended PC system requirements for the new racing title.

The last entry in the Need for Speed series, The Run, hasn’t impressed fans all that much, but EA hopes to draw them back with this year’s Most Wanted, a reimagining of the classic experience from 2005, coming from veteran developer Criterion Games. We already saw the game in action thanks to two impressive videos last week as well as a series of screenshots that showed off all sorts of supercars engaged in high speed pursuits against cops. Now, EA has set up a page for the game on its Origin digital distribution platform for the PC, complete with the minimum and recommended system requirements.

As you can see below, a computer capable of the new racing game doesn’t need to be that powerful, but you do need a hefty 20GB of hard drive space in order to install the title, as well as at least 2GB of RAM, not to mention Windows Vista or 7 operating systems. Check out the minimum and recommended PC system requirements for Need for Speed: Most Wanted below.

Minimum Specifications

OS: Windows Vista (Service Pack 2) 32-Bit

Processor: 2 GHz Dual Core (Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHZ or Althon X2 2.7 GHz)

Memory: 2 GB

Hard Drive: 20 GB

Graphics Card (AMD): DirectX 10.1 compatible with 512 MB RAM (ATI RADEON 3000, 4000, 5000 OR 6000 series, with ATI RADEON 3870 or higher performance)

Graphics Card (NVIDIA): DirectX 10.0 compatible with 512 MB RAM (NVIDIA GEFORCE 8, 9, 200, 300, 400 OR 500 series with NVIDIA GEFORCE 8800 GT or higher performance)

Sound card: DirectX compatible

DVD ROM Drive

Recommended Specifications

OS: Windows 7 64-Bit

Processor: Quad-Core CPU

Memory: 4 GB

Hard Drive: 20 GB

Graphics Card: DirectX 11 compatible with 1024 MB RAM (NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 560 or ATI RADEON 6950)

Sound Card: DirectX compatible

DVD ROM Drive

Need for Speed: Most Wanted is out later this year, on October 30 in North America, and November 2 in Europe, for the PC, PS3 and Xbox 360.

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