Sega has published the minimum system requirements needed to run Empire: Total War:
- Windows XP 32 (Service Pack 2), Windows Vista 32
- 2.4 GHz Single Core Intel-, AMD- processor or similar
- 1 GByte RAM (XP), 2 GByte RAM (Vista)
- DirectX 9.0-compatible 256-MByte-graficscard
- DirectX 9.0-compatible soundcard
- Windows-compatible mouse and keyboard
- 15 GByte of uncompressed memory
