NBA 2K15 PC specifications released!

Not sure if this has been posted, but the system requirements have been released!

http://store.steampowered.com/app/282350/ Check them out for yourself.

System Requirements
Minimum:
OS: Windows 7 64 bit or higher
Processor: Intel Core2 Duo or better
Memory: 2 or more GB RAM
Graphics: DirectX 10.1 compatible (512 MB) or better
DirectX: Version 11
Network: Broadband Internet connection
Hard Drive: 50 or more GB available space
Sound Card: 9.0c compatible
Additional Notes: Keyboard or dual-analog gamepad


Recommended:
OS: Windows 7 64 bit or higher
Processor: Intel Core i7 or better
Memory: 4 or more GB RAM
Graphics: DirectX 11.0 compatible (2 GB) or better
DirectX: Version 11
Network: Broadband Internet connection
Hard Drive: 50 or more GB available space
Sound Card: DirectX 9.0c compatible
Additional Notes: Dual-analog gamepad

Last edited by Hopsin on Wed Sep 03, 2014 12:49 pm, edited 1 time in total.

ohhhh this is huge huge news, they really optimized this very well!!!!

edit - this means anyone with a mininum of a 512 card and atleast a dual core will be able to play this game, if you wanna run everything on high and completly maxed out thats prolly when i7's and very high end cards kick in. such awesome news! 2k you rock!

I7 + a top GPU to max a game that can run on X1 and PS4? My God... TURRIBLE!

WOW! This shouldn't be hard to run at all. EASY 60 fps.

I wouldn't call 2GB of VRAM "Top GPU." For a desktop, you can get one for under $150.

Yeah but not all 2GB VRAM GPUs are equal. There are lots of video cards with 2GB of VRAM, it's basically the norm or even smaller than the norm now. But what's 2GB of VRAM going to do when some of the video cards have Small Memory Bus speeds, or tiny amount of CUDA/Stream Cores. At least for NVIDIA you probably need the "GTX" in the video card name to think about maxing the game.

I have a question though, when this says 2 GB under graphics memory are they talking about your total avaible graphics memory or dedicated video memory ? i have a GTX 570 card, quad core 2.66 ghz, 8 gig ram, so i think id fall into the medium catogory? but my total memory says 4095 and 1280 for dedicated memory ?

My experience tells me that if your card is one of those that are insided the recommended ones doesn't mean that you can max the game out AT ALL. There are lots of examples, but I remember that GTA IV recommended was a 512 Mb GPU, and I can't max it out or even play at continuous 60 fps with my 780 OC.

Recommended CPU requirements are ridiculously high too for a sports game.

great news if accurate but a bit confusing

minimum GPU Directx 10.1 but minimal Directx 11 o.o this doesnt makes any sense

either you need Directx 11 or not

Holy shit, they outdid themselves.
That's a HUGE span.

This basically means that at minimum the game will look kinda like 2K14 with huge amount of scaling up to the max (which will be probably graphic orgy with lot of details).


I'm seriously impressed. Leftos, please compliment the whole team for this.

HolyShit DX11 here i come

@StormsWarning - The VRAM in System Requirements usually mean the dedicated VRAM embedded/attached to your actual video card. The shared memory includes your actual RAM in case the game needs more VRAM. But normal RAM is not as fast as the VRAM so it's not the same as having enough Dedicated VRAM.

@seanbarkley - I think requiring a i7 on anything except crazy FPS or crazy Open-World RPG games is a bit high. They probably choose a high requirement CPU so they don't get complaints when someone complains a "Phenom II X4 or i5" didn't have smooth gameplay even though it was recommended.

@crazy_me_87 - No need to be confused. Games can be designed to use DX10 and DX11. This is up to the developers and most games have not done this from my memory. For example Dragon Age II can be run in DX11 mode or in DX9/10 mode. Hopefully allowing DX10 did not hold back the game from being even better on DX11

My experience tells me that if your card is one of those that are insided the recommended ones doesn't mean that you can max the game out AT ALL. There are lots of examples, but I remember that GTA IV recommended was a 512 Mb GPU, and I can't max it out or even play at continuous 60 fps with my 780 OC.

Recommended CPU requirements are ridiculously high too for a sports game.

GTA IV is a REALLY BAD EXAMPLE when talking PC benchmarks. That's one of the worst porting jobs in recent history lol.

any chance to run it smooth with an Intel Core I3 530 OC'ed at 3.4GHz

plus i got a R9 270 2GB OC and 8 gigs or RAM DDR3

Processor AMD A4-5000 APU with Radeon(TM) HD Graphics
Manufacturer AMD
Speed 1.5 GHz
Number of Cores 4
Video Card AMD Radeon HD 8330
Manufacturer ATI
Chipset AMD Radeon HD 8330
Dedicated Memory 512 MB
Total Memory 3.0 GB
Memory 5.5 GB
Operating System Microsoft Windows 8.1 (build 9600), 64-bit
Service Pack 0
Size 64 Bit
Edition
Display Maximum Resolution 1366 x 768

RAM 6GB

I need to upgrade or i can run it?

[quote="xKrNMBoYx"]@StormsWarning - The VRAM in System Requirements usually mean the dedicated VRAM embedded/attached to your actual video card. The shared memory includes your actual RAM in case the game needs more VRAM. But normal RAM is not as fast as the VRAM so it's not the same as having enough Dedicated VRAM.

oh then i should fall in the medium to high settings ?

guys i found the number one example for nba 2k15 which is max payne 3 so if you can run max payne 3 then you can run nba 2k15 i can run max payne 3 on low settings 30-40 fps on my old computer that had a amd athlon x2 6000 processor which was actually pretty bad cause amd processor are not that great but i can run max payne 3 on low - medium settings 30-40 fps on my current intel dual core pc. so i will be fine

LOWEST TESTED SPECS

WINDOWS 7/Vista/XP PC (32 or 64 bit)
INTEL Dual Core 2.4 GHZ or AMD Dual Core 2.6 GHZ, or better
2GB System RAM
NVIDIA® GeForce 8600 GT 512MB RAM or AMD Radeon™ HD 3400 512MB RAM

LOW RECOMMENDED SPECS

Windows 7/Vista/XP PC (32 or 64 bit)
Intel Dual Core 3GHz or AMD equivalent
3GB System RAM
NVIDIA® GeForce 450 512MB RAM or AMD Radeon™ HD 4870 512MB RAM

HIGH RECOMMENDED SPECS

Windows 7/Vista (32 or 64 bit)
Intel i7 Quad Core 2.8Ghz or AMD equivalent
3GB System RAM
NVIDIA® GeForce 480 1GB RAM or AMD Radeon™ HD 5870 1GB RAM

HIGHEST TESTED SPECS

Windows 7/Vista (64 bit)
Intel i7 3930K 6 Core x 3.06 GHZ or AMD FX8150 8 Core x 3.6 GHZ
16GB System RAM
NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 680 2GB RAM or AMD Radeon™ HD 7970 3GB RAM

@StormsWarning - The VRAM in System Requirements usually mean the dedicated VRAM embedded/attached to your actual video card. The shared memory includes your actual RAM in case the game needs more VRAM. But normal RAM is not as fast as the VRAM so it's not the same as having enough Dedicated VRAM.

@seanbarkley - I think requiring a i7 on anything except crazy FPS or crazy Open-World RPG games is a bit high. They probably choose a high requirement CPU so they don't get complaints when someone complains a "Phenom II X4 or i5" didn't have smooth gameplay even though it was recommended.

@crazy_me_87 - No need to be confused. Games can be designed to use DX10 and DX11. This is up to the developers and most games have not done this from my memory. For example Dragon Age II can be run in DX11 mode or in DX9/10 mode. Hopefully allowing DX10 did not hold back the game from being even better on DX11

i do know that games can be developed that way but the minimal req. reads:

Graphics: DirectX 10.1 compatible (512 MB) or better
DirectX: Version 11

thats the point i dont get

if you need at least Directx11 then a Directx 10.1 card cant be enough or can it?

Well, hope, recommended reqs (taking into account the minimum requirements) just needed for not very important things such as newest anti-aliasing types, tessellation etc.

Nice. I expect to run at Medium then? (Medium is usually console quality).

i3-3220 @ 3.3 ghz, 2 gb 7850 XFX Radeon AMD Card

if so, which i assume so, then I'm happy.

Also, if anyone could help me sell the i3 (how to package it and where to sell it, I'm really bad at this) that would be greatly appreciated. I wanted to sell it for like $95 someplace. And then on black friday go down to microcenter and buy their annual $200 i7-4770k $199 deal.

My experience tells me that if your card is one of those that are insided the recommended ones doesn't mean that you can max the game out AT ALL. There are lots of examples, but I remember that GTA IV recommended was a 512 Mb GPU, and I can't max it out or even play at continuous 60 fps with my 780 OC.

Recommended CPU requirements are ridiculously high too for a sports game.

GTA IV is a REALLY BAD EXAMPLE when talking PC benchmarks. That's one of the worst porting jobs in recent history lol.

True, here you have some other examples of recommended settings and how my I7 3770K + GTX 780 OC deal with them:

Far Cry 3: recommended 1024 Mb GPU -> I run it 50-75 fps.

The Witcher 2 recommended Geforce 260 1mb -> I run it at 45 fps average.

Metro LL recommended GTX 660 ti -> average 45-50.

Seeing this and the recommended GPU for 2k15 we'll see what combination can run the game maxed out at continuous 60 fps.

As I see minimum specs on Steam...
OS: Win 8.1 64bit, so no problem (wait, minimum Win 7? No Vista anymore? )
Processor: Intel Core i5-3210M (yeah, laptop) - should be good?
Memory: 6GB - should be enough for a while...
Graphics: Good question. I hope my 630M with 1GB will be enough...
DirectX - well, I'll skip that.
Hard Drive: Funny part - 50+ GB needed - Titanfall anyone? Anyway, IMO that's quite correct, because, you know, Next-Gen (or Current-Gen, doesn't matter how you call it).
Sound-card: you must be joking...
Additional notes: Gamepad w/ dual analogs FTW! Guess I'll just need to buy a new gamepad, the one I have is quite broken...

My result: Should be okay for me. OMG, why so much games are released in October? (COD:AW, NBA 2K15, F1 2014) I won't know what to play...
Praise 2K for optimized game (looks like)!

So graphically, this might be up there with Far Cry 3 and Crysis 3 or nah?

@crazy_me_87 DirectX is backwards compatible. The game will need DirectX 11 installed to be able to communicate with your PC the way it was designed. But if you have a DirectX 10.1 video card it will not be able to use the extra features and functionality as a DirectX 11 video card could.

Direct3D 11 is basically Direct3D 10.1 with more features and functionality.