2K15 PC System Requirements

[xKrNMBoYx]

These are my current system specs.

Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q8400 @ 2.66GHz (4 CPUs), ~2.7GHz

Memory: 3072MB RAM

Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium 32-bit (6.1, Build 7601) Service Pack 1

Video Card: GIGABYTE NVIDIA GTX 560 Ti OC 1GB DDR5

I'm going to upgrade RAM to 4 GB DDR2 for now and upgrade to 64-bit operating system. I believe with these specs I should be able to run at least NBA 2K15 on medium graphics. To be honest I'm quite happy to play 2K15 with 2K14 PC graphics, but simply have the self shadowing and player sweating details added. Currently I max everything out at 1920x1200 resolution for NBA 2K14 with constant 60 frames per second.

And since I'm mostly interested in playing NBA 2K15 & FIFA 15 this year, I'm not desperate to rebuild a new PC from scratch.
I will probably build a new computer in 1-2 years time. Since my GTX 560 Ti still runs most of the games really well, it's better to upgrade when it becomes obsolete. By then I will have a more powerful computer rather than rushing to upgrade now.

Good idea. If I had your computer I wouldn't be worrying too much. With the Q8400 you could probably overclock it 3GHz and above with a good motherboard, power supply, and ram. The 560Ti is still strong too. By the time you want to upgrade DDR4 will probably be readily available at lower prices if you choose to go with completely newer components or stick with DDR3 (current components) if they are better for budget.

[Vlad2010]

I don't now WTF, but i cant enter the game-debate.com. Is this site contains information about NBA2K15 sys specs? If yes, who entered the game-debate.com, please answer

[tsiakalos13]

@LKGPUR - Yes, like columbusbobby23 said waiting is the best. The A4-5000 (Kabini) is based off of AMD's Jaguar Core which the APUs in the NG Consoles are based off that too. So your APU is like a halved Console CPU. The reason why I said it would not be enough was because I saw that your APU struggled, in my idea and standards, to play games. For example.

Tomshardware Benchmark
F1 2012
Ultra Low/Low = ~30FPS AVG, ~20FPS MIN
Skyrim
Low = 25-32FPS AVG, 22-26FPS MIN
Tombraider
Low = 21-36FPS AVG, 17-24FPS MIN
Metro: Last Light
Low = 11FPS AVG, 3FPS MIN

Anandtech Benchmark
Bioshock: Infinte
Medium = 12FPS
Sleeping Dogs
Medium = 18FPS
Starcraft II
Medium = 5FPS

If the A4-5000 runs those games at those FPS I'm not sure it will do any better with 2K15. The only IGP GPU I would even think of recommending playing newer games would be the 7850K APU/7800 APU with a similar/identical to a HD 7750.

Sooo, these are the benchmarks that decide if 2K15 will be playable?
If so...then I'm...good(?)
I can play F1 2012 in ultra low with some noticeable lagging, and play Skyrim(Elder Scrolls, I suppose) without any lag.
Damn, I'm confused now.

[Hadley88]

Kids, wait for the Release. You can'T tell how good the Optimization will be or how many Settings there are. But if you can play 2K14 Maxed out 1920x1080/60fps you will be able to play 2K15.

[crazy_me_87]

@LKGPUR - Yes, like columbusbobby23 said waiting is the best. The A4-5000 (Kabini) is based off of AMD's Jaguar Core which the APUs in the NG Consoles are based off that too. So your APU is like a halved Console CPU. The reason why I said it would not be enough was because I saw that your APU struggled, in my idea and standards, to play games. For example.

Tomshardware Benchmark
F1 2012
Ultra Low/Low = ~30FPS AVG, ~20FPS MIN
Skyrim
Low = 25-32FPS AVG, 22-26FPS MIN
Tombraider
Low = 21-36FPS AVG, 17-24FPS MIN
Metro: Last Light
Low = 11FPS AVG, 3FPS MIN

Anandtech Benchmark
Bioshock: Infinte
Medium = 12FPS
Sleeping Dogs
Medium = 18FPS
Starcraft II
Medium = 5FPS

If the A4-5000 runs those games at those FPS I'm not sure it will do any better with 2K15. The only IGP GPU I would even think of recommending playing newer games would be the 7850K APU/7800 APU with a similar/identical to a HD 7750.

Sooo, these are the benchmarks that decide if 2K15 will be playable?
If so...then I'm...good(?)
I can play F1 2012 in ultra low with some noticeable lagging, and play Skyrim(Elder Scrolls, I suppose) without any lag.
Damn, I'm confused now.

no if you reach those benchmarks or are even under it then you are not good


ok what i say now might sound a bit harsh and i dont mean to anger anybody but:

I think some here have still not understand that we are talking about a Next Gen game here

its ok if you never had to do anything with demanding games, but please be aware that this years jump in requierements will be extreme compared to last years

i dont know what the game will exactly need but i do know what other PS4 Ports need and thats alot more than im afraid alot of you think

as i said its ok if you never had to do with this and just dont know.. you can ask we will help as good as we can

but it has to be clear that if you DONT Have:

a CPU with at least a very strong!!!!!!!!! Dual Core

4gb Ram

a GPU(Graphics Card) with Directx 11 and 1GB intern Ram

you maybe will not even be able to start the Game!!!! and even if you can you likley wont be able to play it because it will stutter so bad.

i know this is bad news for some of you... but be prepared that you propably need either a massive upgrade or a new PC alltogether

dont take this the wrong way... i just try to help and clear some things up

[crazy_me_87]

Kids, wait for the Release. You can'T tell how good the Optimization will be or how many Settings there are. But if you can play 2K14 Maxed out 1920x1080/60fps you will be able to play 2K15.

no! thats propably false!!!

we are talking about a completly new engine here for 2k15

so no 2k14 is in no way a good benchmark!!!

i do agree though that it would be best to wait till at least the requierements are out..

[Hadley88]

Kids, wait for the Release. You can'T tell how good the Optimization will be or how many Settings there are. But if you can play 2K14 Maxed out 1920x1080/60fps you will be able to play 2K15.

no! thats propably false!!!

we are talking about a completly new engine here for 2k15

so no 2k14 is in no way a good benchmark!!!

i do agree though that it would be best to wait till at least the requierements are out..

Orly?

You don't have to play every Game on Ultra/1440p/120fps...

[crazy_me_87]

Kids, wait for the Release. You can'T tell how good the Optimization will be or how many Settings there are. But if you can play 2K14 Maxed out 1920x1080/60fps you will be able to play 2K15.

no! thats propably false!!!

we are talking about a completly new engine here for 2k15

so no 2k14 is in no way a good benchmark!!!

i do agree though that it would be best to wait till at least the requierements are out..

Orly?

You don't have to play every Game on Ultra/1440p/120fps...

no thats right but since its a PS4 Game you will need at least a comparable Graphics Dx11 Card and 4gb Ram

look... Watch_Dogs ,Battlefield 4, and other PS4 Ports are very scalable in terms of graphics but still need a Directx 11 Card and 4gb Ram

i cant say anything about the CPU or the quality of the GPU but why do some people assume the Game needs less than other PS4 Games?

do you really believe 2k will optimize this game so hard that it will magically run on any PC??



here look at Fifa 15 this is the best comparison we have since its also a next Gen Port and a Sports Game!!

http://www.game-debate.com/games/index. ... =FIFA%2015

[maximuspop]

i5-2500k,GTX 570,8gb ram

[ColumbusBobby23]

I don't now WTF, but i cant enter the game-debate.com. Is this site contains information about NBA2K15 sys specs? If yes, who entered the game-debate.com, please answer

It's working fine for me.

[timetravelprimer]

I ain't got no worries about my CPU or RAM. I'm little concerned over my GPU. I have GTX 650 1GB, you guys think it will be sufficient for high settings?

[crazy_me_87]

[quote="timetravelprimer"]I ain't got no worries about my CPU or RAM. I'm little concerned over my GPU. I have GTX 650 1GB, you guys think it will be sufficient for high settings?[/quote


propably some settings on medium some on high

depends a bit on what your CPU and Ram are?

[Hadley88]

look... Watch_Dogs ,Battlefield 4, and other PS4 Ports are very scalable in terms of graphics but still need a Directx 11 Card and 4gb Ram

All Cards since 2009 are DX11...

[Vlad2010]

My opinion is that the requirements should not be too high (about will be the same as FIFA 15) for one simple reason - because it is clear that 2k expect good sales, including PC version, as well as the majority of PC gamers do not have high-end PCs (Middle-end majority, I think), then 2k is simply not profitable it would be to release NG version, if it was too demanding.

[crazy_me_87]

look... Watch_Dogs ,Battlefield 4, and other PS4 Ports are very scalable in terms of graphics but still need a Directx 11 Card and 4gb Ram

All Cards since 2009 are DX11...

yeah but here are still people with Geforce 8800s and GTX 260s and simillar non Directx 11 cards

look you are feeding propably wrong hopes here its better to assume the requierments a bit to high than to low

its a full Next Gen game even Battlefield ,Watch Dogs where on 360 and PS3 too so Fifa 15 is still our best guess

and here are quite some people who dont meet that requierements:


FIFA 15 PC Next Gen Port

Minimum Required Specifications:

OS: Windows V/7/8/8.1 -64-bit
CPU: Intel Q6600 Core2 Quad @ 2.4Ghz
RAM: 4GB
Hard Drive Space Required: 15.0 GB
Minimum Supported Video Cards: ATI Radeon HD 5770, NVIDIA GTX 650
DirectX: 11.0

Recommended Specifications:

OS: Windows V/7/8/8.1 -64-bit
CPU: Intel i5-2550K @ 3.4Ghz
RAM: 8GB
Hard Drive Space Required: 15.0 GB
Supported Video Cards: ATI Radeon HD 6870, NVIDIA GTX 460
DirectX: 11.0

[crazy_me_87]

My opinion is that the requirements should not be too high (about will be the same as FIFA 15) for one simple reason - because it is clear that 2k expect good sales, including PC version, as well as the majority of PC gamers do not have high-end PCs (Middle-end majority, I think), then 2k is simply not profitable it would be to release NG version, if it was too demanding.

well youre propably right but even the Fifa 15 Requierments are too high for some here

i am just afraid that some here will be in for a shock

sadly its clear that if you just played lets say the NBA 2k Series and some less demanding games maybe MMOs or other F2P Games then your PC never needed that much power.. but now it suddenly must keep up with a PS4 wich equals ad least a Middle End GAMING PC

[djherokiller]

ronnie said that they would release it really soon and still hasnt been released but its gonna be released this weekend or on tuesday cause ronnie and ld2k always releases news on tuesdays on there weekly livestreams just like this tuesday it was the pc info and just like last tuesday the my league and crew mode.

[ebucemag]

I'm not too worried about the specs needed to run the game.
Just look at the ports that have occurred thus far (minus Ubisoft ports which have been an abomination).
They have all not needed significant horsepower above that of the XBO or the PS4 to max them out.
Battlefield 4, Sniper Elite 4, Titan-fall all run on max settings on PC with frame-rates and visuals equal to or greater than the consoles offering on a GPU like an AMD HD 7850.
I think a lot of people are woo'd by the graphics in next-gen NBA 2K1X think you need a PC with SLI TItans and a hexacore... Sure the graphics look good but there is very little scale to the images being rendered.

Think about this.
When NBA 2K9 was released for PC I thought the graphics were fantastic and I was worried I couldn't run it properly in its full glory but to my surprise I could max it out with a single Nvidia 250 GTS @ 1080p.

[xKrNMBoYx]

@tsiakalos13 - No my post was aimed/for LKGPUR, which is why I used @LKGPUR. If you wan't to be safe you want to be able to play those particular games a bit smoother. Even then you're only playing at minimum settings with lag.

@Vlad2012 - It's not official Specs/Requirements but what Game-Debate's thinks the Requirements will be.

@maximuspop - You probably have nothing to worry about either.

@timetravelprimer - I'm not sure if you could play at high settings. The GTX 650 is a higher clocked GT 650M/GT 640M. I'm sure you and my similar gaming laptop can play 2K14 on Max (which should be high) but not sure about 2K15. Just wait and try the game or at least wait for the actual requirements to be released.

@Vlad2010 - Many of us would like the requirements to be not high, but a time will come when optimizations can go only so far for old hardware. Games are designed for the current hardware and the future hardware in mind. Newer games will need more resources as they will improve in graphics and other ways. I can't imagine how hard it would be to make a minimum/base game that 6-8 year old hardware can play yet the high settings are good enough to work the newer high end components. It's true that majority of the PC gamer are on lower-end PCs and on older laptops. That's also probably holding back games too. If you pay the same money a Core 2 Duo laptop probably costed when released ($1000+ for me) you can build a Desktop that could probably last a good 5 years. How would you feel If you were one of the numerous people who paid $800-2000+ on a computer and the games are held back by the rest that stick with their 10 year old PC. 2K lack in PC profit because of the pirating of the games. If 2K15 turns out to be ~50GB maybe less people will pirate the game if they have a Data-Cap. My idea of a Middle-End PC is a Intel i3/AMD Quad-Core CPU, with 4-8GB of RAM, and Mid/Entry-Level DX11 GPU. If optimizations don't take a turn for the worst I feel all middle-end PC will be able to run the game. This is once again a speculation.

@ebucemag - From memory wasn't Battlefield 3 a huge upgrade from the previous game. I don't think 4 was much of a upgrade compared to 3 from my experience. Same with Titanfall. It's a game that was released for NG Consoles, BUT its based off of the Source engine which I think is for Counter Strike Source (which is OLD). I don't think there is anyone who thinks we need a hexa-core or SLI Titans. That's only for Ubisofts badly optimized games and gaming near the 4K resolution. As for 2K9 you have to keep in mind that your GTS 250 (9800 GTX) is stronger than the GPU in the 360 which is said to be similar to a GT(X) 7800...

As Hadley88 said, if you can max out 2K14 with everything on including AA, it's almost safe to say you'll be able to play the game. If you installed all sorts of texture mods, lighting/enb mods, sweet fx, etc along with max settings you will probably be able to play smoothly in medium at the least (a guess with hope). For the people who are using older hardware, no one will pressure you to upgrade. Wait for the game and try it. With the game having a chance of being so big I don't know how 2K would release a Demo. For normal usage once you go SSD it's hard to go back to a HDD slower than 7200RPM (especially laptop HDDs). For gaming once you try out a i5/i7 coupled with a good video card you can't go back to a old Dual-Core with a entry level video card.

I passed down my strongest CPU to my brother, leaving me with a Dual-Core. I would like nothing more but to see 2K15 not be CPU intensive. Let's see if 2K releases the requirements on Tuesday. Everyone who posted here probably got some feedback, no reason to keep asking now until the requirements are released. Newer users are free to ask as I will answer.

[ColumbusBobby23]

@xKrNMBoYx - If they were to release a demo, It would be just one quarter of last years finals teams. It would be stripped of everything that's not needed to play the actual gameplay.
The music,commentary,sounds,video,presentation,pictures,MyCareer,association,other teams and everything else would be stripped. If I had to guess I would say 2-5GB for a demo. Although I doubt we do get a demo this year.

It would be a nice way to test our hardware against the game though.

[princemuga]

Can I run it on High-Ultra Settings?
Intel Core i5-3330 3.0Ghz
Palit GEFORCE GTX 750 Ti StormX Dual 2GB
6GB Ram
I'm running on Windows 7 64bit and on a 1080p monitor.

[JBulls]

High, maybe. Ultra, probably not but not sure.

[thelead]

Can I run it on High-Ultra Settings?
Intel Core i5-3330 3.0Ghz
Palit GEFORCE GTX 750 Ti StormX Dual 2GB
6GB Ram
I'm running on Windows 7 64bit and on a 1080p monitor.

Probably medium to high would be my guess depending on what you deem as an acceptable FPS rate. Ultra probably won't be happening on those specs.

[crazy_me_87]

its a sports Game there likley wont be an "Ultra" Setting just Low-Medium-High

[djherokiller]

yeah but this is next gen we are talking about crazy me 87 so there could be a very low and ultra setting