SHIFT PC System Requirements

[Bojan]

The official Need for Speed SHIFT PC system requirements as posted on the official website.

Required – Internet Connection
OS - Windows XP (Service Pack 3) or Windows Vista (Service Pack 1) / Windows 7
Processor – Intel Core™2 Duo 1.6 GHz or faster
Memory – XP: 1 GB RAM; Vista/Windows 7: 1.5 GB RAM
Hard Drive – 6 GB
DVD Drive - 8 SPEED
Video Card – 256 MB Video Card, with support for Pixel Shader 3.0*
Sound Card - DirectX 9.0c compatible
DirectX - DirectX 9.0c compatible
Online Multiplayer – 512 Kbps or faster; 2-12 Players
Input - Keyboard, Mouse
Optional – USB Steering Wheel / Dual Analogue Gamepad

[SLJ]

wao... decent specs...

[Summ]

Rather low requirements

[Acura]

Windows XP (Service Pack 3)

We can't play Shift whit Service pack 2?

Really low System Requirements

[skyline95]

WHOAAAA O.o Really low req's... Strange... I'll play this baby with no problem!

OS: Windows Vista (Service Pack 2)
Processor: AMD Phenom 9550 Quad-Core 2.20 GHz
Video Card: ATi Radeon HD 4850 (512MB, Pixel Shader 4.0, DirectX10 Compatible)
Memory: 4GB RAM
Hard Drive: 500GB

[Nismo-Skyline]

ah no prob for my pc

Windows Vista Service Pack 2
Intel Core i7 920
Nvidia GeForce GTX260
6GB RAM

[SLJ]

same... can run on my comp..
didn't noe the specs are consider low. maybe due to my exam...

[Hydro_PT]

Nice requirements. I won't have problems running this game, even though I don't have much RAM and my graphics card is outdated. Btw are those the minimum system requirements or recommended?

My PC:

CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 3.0Ghz - no problems at all
Graphics card: NVIDIA XFX 9600GT 512MB DDR3 - I need to update this thing...
RAM: 2 GB DDR2 PC8500 - I need to add 2GB

[2furio]

Nice requirements. I won't have problems running this game, even though I don't have much RAM and my graphics card is outdated. Btw are those the minimum system requirements or recommended?

My PC:

CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 3.0Ghz - no problems at all
Graphics card: NVIDIA XFX 9600GT 512MB DDR3 - I need to update this thing...
RAM: 2 GB DDR2 PC8500 - I need to add 2GB

Those are the minimum requirements.

[T0MMY]

the minimum is quite low, good for weak computers

[SP4RCO]

Those are for 640x480 and uberlow gaming.

Don't expect to play decently on a "256mb card" like 7300LE lol.

[krazyammo]

Required – Internet Connection

Damn EA and their DRM.

[Summ]

Hydro - your computer is fine. It should be able to run games for the next year or two at the highest of settings. More ram always helps, but the graphics card is fine, imo. What would you upgrade it to? A dual-pcb one?

[Hydro_PT]

@2furio: Thanks. I thought those were the recommended... still I shouldn't have any problem.

@Summ: I bought this computer (well, parts of it, since I had most of the hardware already) in April 2008, so all of this is more than one year old. I expect to do a major upgrade in 2010 only (end of the year). Everything is performing fine since I bought it, and there's no reason to upgrade things now (specially with all those new technologies coming out at the end of 2009/beginning of 2010). I still run almost all games perfectly fine at the highest settings (exception is GTA IV and Crysis).

I really need more RAM, 2GB isn't enough nowadays. I feel my computer a bit slow sometimes, so 4GB wouldn't hurt, specially for gaming. The graphics card, well, if I would buy a new one, I would probably choose the GTX 285 or the GTX 275. But that's not probable, because: I don't have enough money for one of those at the moment ( ); there's no need to, the 9600GT is still performing fine. It's outdated, that's all, and I'm afraid it won't handle the next games how I want it to handle them.

[Kimba]

Those requirements are really nice, but when will they release the demo so we can test our machines on the game and the game itself?

[Strafer]

Yeah I can run this baby...

[Danyutz]

Fair enough.

[TRANSFORMER]

Customer-friendly 4 Me!

[DMNBT]

Well, it seems my laptop will at least be able to run shift at minimum settings. Good.

[elie8]

No Probs with my mean machine !! NFS SHIFT : HERE I COME !!

[SP4RCO]

@2furio: Thanks. I thought those were the recommended... still I shouldn't have any problem.

@Summ: I bought this computer (well, parts of it, since I had most of the hardware already) in April 2008, so all of this is more than one year old. I expect to do a major upgrade in 2010 only (end of the year). Everything is performing fine since I bought it, and there's no reason to upgrade things now (specially with all those new technologies coming out at the end of 2009/beginning of 2010). I still run almost all games perfectly fine at the highest settings (exception is GTA IV and Crysis).

I really need more RAM, 2GB isn't enough nowadays. I feel my computer a bit slow sometimes, so 4GB wouldn't hurt, specially for gaming. The graphics card, well, if I would buy a new one, I would probably choose the GTX 285 or the GTX 275. But that's not probable, because: I don't have enough money for one of those at the moment ( ); there's no need to, the 9600GT is still performing fine. It's outdated, that's all, and I'm afraid it won't handle the next games how I want it to handle them.

I strongly suggest you upgrade to 4GB, and if you feel you need a better gfx card, try ATI HD4870 or maybe 4890 if its not too expensive. They perform as GTX260 and GTX275 respectively, while are cheaper. 4870 is 130€ in spain.

anyway the next ATI generation 5xxx is about to be launched these weeks, so I would wait and see.

[elie8]

Hey Hydro_PT : My PC is A little similar to yours

CPU : Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 3.0 Ghz \\ No Problems @ All
RAM : 4GB DDR2 Kingston 800 MHZ \\ Great Performance
VGA : Geforce 9800 GTX+ 512 MB DDR3 \\ Amazing Graphics
HDD : 1TB Seagate \\ A Warehouse ...
Power Supply : 650 W