Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor PC requirements revealed

By Matthew Bennett, Associate Editor
Posted on April 8, 2014 AT 03:48am

The minimum and recommended PC specifications for Monolith and Warner Bros. Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor have been revealed.

The requirements were released via the game’s official Steam page and are pretty much what you’ve probably come to expect from new PC releases, requiring a 64-bit OS, an i7 processor, and 8GB of RAM. The only odd thing is the massive jump in required hard drive space between minimum and recommended, 25GB and 40GB respectively.

You can check out the full rundown below:

Minimum

OS: 64-bit: Vista, Win 7, Win 8
Processor: Intel Core i5-750, 2.67 GHz | AMD Phenom II X4 965, 3.4 GHz
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 | AMD Radeon HD 6950
DirectX: Version 11
Network: Broadband Internet connection
Hard Drive: 25 GB available space

Recommended

OS: 64-bit: Win 7, Win 8
Processor: Intel Core i7-3770, 3.4 GHz | AMD FX-8350, 4.0 GHz
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 | AMD Radeon HD 7970
DirectX: Version 11
Network: Broadband Internet connection
Hard Drive: 40 GB available space

Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor is scheduled to release October 7 for PC, Xbox 360, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, and PlayStation 4.

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