Dragon Age Specs Revealed...WOW!

Ok so I know I haven't been in the PC game a long time, but these specs scare the crap out of me. If I'm not mistaken this is the first game to have a Quad Core as a recommendation...

Windows XP Minimum Specifications
OS: Windows XP with SP3
CPU: Intel Core 2 (or equivalent) running at 1.4Ghz or greater
AMD X2 (or equivalent) running at 1.8Ghz or greater
RAM: 1GB or more
Video: ATI Radeon X850 128MB or greater
NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT 128MB or greater
DVD ROM (Physical copy)
20 GB HD space

Windows Vista Minimum Specifications
OS: Windows Vista with SP1
CPU: Intel Core 2 (or equivalent) running at 1.6Ghz or greater
AMD X2 (or equivalent) running at 2.2GHZ or greater
RAM: 1.5 GB or more
Video: ATI Radeon X1550 256MB or greater
NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT 256MB or greater
DVD ROM (Physical copy)
20 GB HD space

Recommended Specifications
CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad 2.4Ghz Processor or equivalent
RAM: 4 GB (Vista) or 2 GB (XP)
Video: ATI 3850 512 MB or greater
NVIDIA 8800GTS 512 MB or greater
DVD ROM (Physical copy)
20 GB HD space

4 GB of Ram and a Quad Core for recommended specs blows my mind. Unless Bioware decided to do recommendations right and put down specs that won't run the game at bare minimum, then these are quite high. The GPU is the least most offensive thing in the list, but damn, an 8800GTS? The game looks good, but it's not Crysis for God sake hahaha.

For those of you who are buying this game, what do you think? I know that personally I'm a bit worried as my Wolfdale is only a Dual Core, and I'm running 4 Gigs of RAM, not to mention I'm skimming past the 8800GTS mark with SLI 9800GTs. I'm sure I'll be fine, but I wanted to max everything out! Who knows though, I might still be able to, only time will tell.

If you're not buying the game, still, let me know what your take on this is, I'd love to hear it!

Have a good one,

CP1

Ok so I know I haven't been in the PC game a long time, but these specs scare the crap out of me. If I'm not mistaken this is the first game to have a Quad Core as a recommendation...

Windows XP Minimum Specifications
OS: Windows XP with SP3
CPU: Intel Core 2 (or equivalent) running at 1.4Ghz or greater
AMD X2 (or equivalent) running at 1.8Ghz or greater
RAM: 1GB or more
Video: ATI Radeon X850 128MB or greater
NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT 128MB or greater
DVD ROM (Physical copy)
20 GB HD space

Windows Vista Minimum Specifications
OS: Windows Vista with SP1
CPU: Intel Core 2 (or equivalent) running at 1.6Ghz or greater
AMD X2 (or equivalent) running at 2.2GHZ or greater
RAM: 1.5 GB or more
Video: ATI Radeon X1550 256MB or greater
NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT 256MB or greater
DVD ROM (Physical copy)
20 GB HD space

Recommended Specifications
CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad 2.4Ghz Processor or equivalent
RAM: 4 GB (Vista) or 2 GB (XP)
Video: ATI 3850 512 MB or greater
NVIDIA 8800GTS 512 MB or greater
DVD ROM (Physical copy)
20 GB HD space

4 GB of Ram and a Quad Core for recommended specs blows my mind. Unless Bioware decided to do recommendations right and put down specs that won't run the game at bare minimum, then these are quite high. The GPU is the least most offensive thing in the list, but damn, an 8800GTS? The game looks good, but it's not Crysis for God sake hahaha.

For those of you who are buying this game, what do you think? I know that personally I'm a bit worried as my Wolfdale is only a Dual Core, and I'm running 4 Gigs of RAM, not to mention I'm skimming past the 8800GTS mark with SLI 9800GTs. I'm sure I'll be fine, but I wanted to max everything out! Who knows though, I might still be able to, only time will tell.

If you're not buying the game, still, let me know what your take on this is, I'd love to hear it!

Have a good one,

CP1

Holy shit. Is all I can say, I won't be playing this for a looooong time.

lol, thats about as bad as Crysis, It better be impressive visually!!

Wow is right.  It seems to be a pretty demanding game.  Console it is, for me then.

I don't understand this shift in requirements. Here I am with a 7900GS, 2 gigs of ram, and a pentium D945 and playing Crysis at alright; medium settings. Now games are saying, "Yeah, now you're playing minimum." At the same time, the games haven't evolved at all in terms of graphical superiority or technical brilliance. It makes me wonder if developers, in the wake of the i7 and larabee, are just ignoring my rig. If this is how things are giong to be, I'm giving up PC gaming.

20 gigs is pretty epic. Wonder what its all for.

Word on the street is that its 3 gigs worth of game, the other 17  would mostly be badly realised porn, but  by using a  new soft filtering engine science effect, said sex scenes will be really intense.

yeah dang recommended is out of this world...