It has been confirmed several times now that Supreme Commander 2 will be a lot less demanding when it comes to system requirements than Supreme Commander and Forged Alliance have been. While many computers struggled to display Supreme Commander fluently Supreme Commander 2 will be playable even on older computers.
Steam's official system requirements:
Minimum System RequirementsOS: Windows XP/Vista/Windows 7
Processor: 3.0 GHz or better, AMD or Intel CPU
Memory: 1GB RAM (XP) 1.5GB RAM (Vista / Win 7)
Graphics: 256 MB VRAM with Pixel Shader 3.0
DirectX®: DirectX 9.0
Hard Drive: 4-5 GB for full install & DirectX
Sound: No accelerated sound hardware required
RecommendedOS: Windows XP/Vista/Windows 7
Processor: 2.6 GHz or better, Dual Core AMD or Intel CPU
Memory: 2GB RAM (XP) 2GB RAM (Vista / Win 7)
Graphics: 256 MB VRAM DX9 compliant with Pixel Shader 3.0
DirectX®: DirectX 9.0
Hard Drive: 4-5 GB for full install & DirectX
Sound: No accelerated sound hardware required
Other requirements: Internet Connection with Cable / Broadband
Sorian, Associate Content Engineer for
Gas Powered Games, has tested the game on his home computer now and even though he said that the game is far from being polished, it ran very fluently on his system despite it really not being a new one.
- OS: Windows XP
- CPU: Pentium D 3.2 GHz
- Memory: 2GB RAM
- Graphics: ATI X1900
Furthermore, it has been reported that
Gas Powered Games have been testing the game on a system as low as a GeForce 6800/ 1GB RAM/ 2.8 GHz single core.
After seeing the system requirements for the game I was curious just how accurate they are. So, I built a retail build on my machine to try it out. It ran at +10 sim speed from start to finish, but I have a Core i7 machine with 6 GB of ram, so it wasn't really a accurate test and Gordon called me on it. So, he took his FA dev machine, synced up to the latest build, and ran a 1v1 on Seton's Clutch. As expected, the performance was awful. So, we synced up SC2 (which does not have his or my optimization changes yet) and ran a 1v1 on a similar map. Smooth as glass. We even turned the graphics up to high, which did cause some graphics lag because of his old video card, but sim speed was full on the whole time.
Source: Sorian's BlogSupreme Commander 2 is expected to be released on March 2nd, 2010.
