Red Faction: Armageddon PC Specifications: GeForce GTX 400 Series or Better
If you like third-person action game with complete features like sandbox and fully destructible environments, then you can consider to play Red Faction: Armageddon. I think this is a very good video game, which according to the schedule will be released on 7th and June 10th, 2011. Before you buy and install this game, it is advisable to you to know the power of your PC, whether can run Red Faction: Armageddon smoothly or not. If your PC specs are not too high, at least have to meet the minimum system requirements of Red Faction: Armageddon. If you have a PC / laptop with high specifications, you can play this game with high settings and resolution.
This game is compatible with DirectX 11, meanwhile, DirectX 9 can still be used to play this game with a pretty good picture quality. Below are the minimum and recommended system requirements from Red Faction: Armageddon, for both DirectX 9 and DirectX 11.
Minimum system requirements:
* OS: Windows XP
* Processor: 2 GHz Dual Core Processor (Intel Core 2 Duo or Athlon X2) or higher
* RAM: 2 GB
* VGA: 320 MB Video RAM with Shader Model 3.0 support (GeForce 8800 series, GeForce 9800 series, or better – Radeon HD3000 series or better)
* DirectX: DirectX 9.0c
* Hard Drive: 7.5 GB
* Sound: 100% DirectX 9.0c compliant sound card or equivalent onboard sound
Recommended specs for DirectX 9
* Operating system: Windows XP or Vista
* CPU: Any Quad Core Processor (Intel Core i5 or AMD Phenom II X4) or 3.0+ Dual Core CPU
* RAM: 3 GB
* VGA: 1 GB RAM with Shader Model 3.0 support (GeForce GTX 200 series or better – Radeon HD4000 series or better)
* DirectX: DirectX 9.0c
* Hard Drive: 7.5 GB
* Sound: 100% DirectX 9.0c compliant sound card or equivalent onboard sound
Recommended system requirements for DirectX 11
* OS: Windows 7
* Processor: Any Quad Core Processor (Intel Core i5 or AMD Phenom II X4) or 3.0+ Dual Core CPU
* Memory: 4 GB
* Graphics: 1 GB Video RAM with Shader Model 4.0 support (GeForce GTX 400 series or better – Radeon HD5000 series or better)
* DirectX 11
Meanwhile, according to Wikipedia, the minimum system requirements of Red Faction: Armageddon are:
CPU: Intel Core 2.93 GHz or AMD Athlon(TM) 64 9400+
RAM: 2 GB
Video cards: 1024MB Geforce GTS 250 or Radeon R600
No doubt, Red Faction: Armageddon is a game that is very heavy, in theory, the Pentium 4 processor can not run this game. Even, the GeForce 8800 or 9800 series (or even the GTS 250) which usually can play any game with high settings, will only be able to run Red Faction: Armageddon with minimum to medium settings.
And also, this information should only be used as a guideline only, because in reality there may be significant differences.