The Crew’s PC Specs Revealed

Ubisoft has revealed the PC requirements for its upcoming racing game The Crew.

The company revealed the specs through a post on the Ubiblog, including lists of minimum, recommended and optimal builds.

Minimum
Supported OS
Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8/8.1 (64bit)

Processor
Intel Core2 Quad Q9300 @ 2.5 GHz or AMD Athlon II X4 620 @ 2.6 GHz (or better)

RAM
4GB

Video Card
NVIDIA GeForce GTX260 or AMD Radeon HD4870 (512MB VRAM with Shader Model 4.0 or higher)

Recommended
Supported OS
Windows 8/8.1 (64bit)

Processor
Intel Core i5-750 @ 2.66 GHz or AMD Phenom II X4 940 @ 3.0 GHz (or better)

RAM
8GB

Video Card
NVIDIA GeForce GTX580 or AMD Radeon 6870 (1024MB VRAM with Shader Model 5.0 or higher)

Optimal
Supported OS
Windows 8/8.1 (64bit)

Processor
Intel Core i7-2600K @ 3.4 GHz or AMD FX-8150 @ 3.6 GHz (or better)

RAM
8GB

Video Card
NVIDIA GeForce GTX670 or AMD Radeon 7870 (2048MB VRAM with Shader Model 5.0 or higher

Along with the specs, Ubisoft also included some “general notes” in order to give players some more information on what else The Crew will support when it launches.

The Crew only supports 64-bit operating systems.

DirectX
DirectX June 2010 Redistributable

Sound
DirectX Compatible Sound Card with latest drivers

Peripherals
Keyboard required, Xbox 360 controller optional (or compatible controller)

Supported Video Cards at Release Time
NVIDIA GeForce GTX260 or better, GTX400, GTX500, GTX600, GTX700, GTX900 series; AMD Radeon HD4870 or better, HD5000, HD6000, HD7000, R7 and R9 series;

The Crew requires that a driver more recent than 14.6 is installed for Windows 7 and 8/8.1. Performance issues may arise when using inferior versions of the video driver (14.4 and below) on these operating systems.

Laptop correspondent models of the above desktop specifications, as well as newer CPU and Video Cards, may work but have not been exhaustively tested.

Recently, Ubisoft revealed that The Crew had been pushed back into December, after originally being slated to come out this month. The game will now launch on PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, Xbox One and Xbox 360 on December 2nd.

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