Spore System Requirements Released

Electronic Arts has released system requirements for Spore, designer Will Wright's much anticipated create-and-evolve-your-own-species simulator. Spore is being made by Maxis, the developer that brought us SimCity and The Sims. The technical specifications (originally posted at Spore.com) for the game are below:

Windows XP

- 2.0 GHz P4 processor or equivalent

- 512 MB RAM

- A 128 MB Video Card, with support for Pixel Shader 2.0

- At least 6 GB of hard drive space

Windows Vista

- 2.0 GHz P4 processor or equivalent

- 768 MB RAM

- A 128 MB Video Card, with support for Pixel Shader 2.0

- At least 6 GB of hard drive space

Supported Video Cards

ATI Radeon series

- 9500, 9600, 9800

- X300, X600, X700, X800, X850

- X1300, X1600, X1800, X1900, X1950

- 2400, 2600, 2900,

- 3650, 3850

NVIDIA GeForce series

- FX 5900, FX 5950

- 6200, 6500, 6600, 6800,

- 7200, 7300, 7600, 7800, 7900, 7950

- 8400, 8500, 8600, 8800

Intel Extreme Graphics

- GMA 950, GMA X3000, GMA X3100

For computers using built-in graphics chipsets, the game requires at least:

- Intel Integrated Chipset, 945GM or above.

- 2.6 GHz Pentium D CPU, or 1.8 GHz Core 2 Duo, or equivalent.

- 768 MB RAM

Mac System Requirements

- Mac OS X 10.5.3 Leopard or higher

- Intel Core Duo Processor

- 1024 MB RAM

- ATI X1600 or NVIDIA 7300 GT with 128 MB of Video RAM, or Intel Integrated GMA X3100

- At least 4.7GB of hard drive space for installation, plus additional space for creations.*

Supported Video Cards

ATI Radeon series

- X1600, X1900, HD 2400, HD 2600

NVIDIA GeForce series

- 7300, 7600, 8600, 8800

Intel Extreme Graphics

- GMA X3100

The full retail version of Spore releases on September 5 in Europe and September 7 in North America. You can purchase Spore's Creature Creator separately for $9.95 or download the scaled-down demo of it on June 17. For more information on Spore, check out our recent hands-on.

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