System Requirements Released for The Crew

Ubisoft has now revealed exactly how much PC you’ll need if you want to play it’s upcoming MMORPG racer. Hope you’ve got a 64-bit operating system.

The requirements are:

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

In addition to these specs, there are some other notes on what you’ll need below, leading off with the fact that The Crew will require a 64-bit operating system to run:

General Notes

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.

So can your PC make it go? If not, don’t worry, The Crew is also coming to PS4, Xbox One and Xbox 360. It’ll be out Dec. 2. A closed beta for Xbox One and PS4 is also starting Nov. 6, you can find out more about that and sign up here.