NBA 2K15 PC specifications released!

After watching gameplays im almost sure that middle-low computer should handle 60fps. Middle in fhd, low in hd reso.

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

I don´t understand that!
How can i play with an DirectX 10.1 card, when you need DirectX11?

Can i run this game with an ATI radeon 4870 with 512MB?

Last edited by AND1manimal on Sun Oct 05, 2014 11:36 pm, edited 1 time in total.

After watching gameplays im almost sure that middle-low computer should handle 60fps. Middle in fhd, low in hd reso.

Man I thought exactly the same.. I still believe I won't need to upgrade my oldie GTX 460

All i want to say, nba 2k15 isnt graphical milestone, maybe in close ups. From skybox or stadium camera it looks very similar to k13/14. I must mention that now our pc run with gbytes of better textures and game still run smooth with 60fps.

If you only want to play 2K15 you can even go lower than a 285.

Really? like what? I'm in the Philippines and building a good desktop is not that pocket friendly.

A 270x for example should be fine, depending on your resolution.

just go to http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/ find a game which you wanna test if you computer will run. Simple , easy , fast

Main problem for many not upgraded computers will be hair physics, this can take many many frames but if there will be an option to turn off only this one thing i see no problem to run this game smooth on cheaper configurations.

Just a question how do you think this rig will fare? I'm planning to build this.

Motherboard: ASRock H97M
Processor: Intel Core i5-4590 up to 3.70GHz (Quad Core) Haswell Refresh Processor
Graphics: Sapphire R9-285 DUAL-X OC 2GB DDR5 256bit
RAM: Gskill RipjawsX 8GB Dual 1600 CL8
Harddrive: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB
Power Supply: FSP Raider 550W 80Plus SILVER Power Supply
Casing: Aerocool GT Black Gaming

You might want to go with a higher wattage power supply so you won't have any problems upgrading in the future. I would also go with the new nVidia 900 series of graphics cards. The 970 is much,much better than that video card at about the same price.

Just a question how do you think this rig will fare? I'm planning to build this.

Motherboard: ASRock H97M
Processor: Intel Core i5-4590 up to 3.70GHz (Quad Core) Haswell Refresh Processor
Graphics: Sapphire R9-285 DUAL-X OC 2GB DDR5 256bit
RAM: Gskill RipjawsX 8GB Dual 1600 CL8
Harddrive: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB
Power Supply: FSP Raider 550W 80Plus SILVER Power Supply
Casing: Aerocool GT Black Gaming

You might want to go with a higher wattage power supply so you won't have any problems upgrading in the future. I would also go with the new nVidia 900 series of graphics cards. The 970 is much,much better than that video card at about the same price.

Bullshit! 550W us nore than enough for anything, 970/980 would be absolutly fine.

Just a question how do you think this rig will fare? I'm planning to build this.

Motherboard: ASRock H97M
Processor: Intel Core i5-4590 up to 3.70GHz (Quad Core) Haswell Refresh Processor
Graphics: Sapphire R9-285 DUAL-X OC 2GB DDR5 256bit
RAM: Gskill RipjawsX 8GB Dual 1600 CL8
Harddrive: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB
Power Supply: FSP Raider 550W 80Plus SILVER Power Supply
Casing: Aerocool GT Black Gaming

You might want to go with a higher wattage power supply so you won't have any problems upgrading in the future. I would also go with the new nVidia 900 series of graphics cards. The 970 is much,much better than that video card at about the same price.

Bullshit! 550W us nore than enough for anything, 970/980 would be absolutly fine.

I said so he won't have any problems upgrading in the future. I have a GTX 770 and the minimum power requirements is a 600W power supply. The 900 series from nVidia are a lot more efficient, but that doesn't mean a 550 is going to be all he needs for the future. Trust me dare, if I was building a new gaming rig I would get at least a 600W or 650W power supply. Particularly if your PC is always on. A PSU will lose some of its wattage capacity as the capacitors begins to age over time. Also, if you can, try to go modular. It's usually worth the little bit extra price to have better airflow and less clutter in your case. Always important with a gaming PC.

Just a question how do you think this rig will fare? I'm planning to build this.

Motherboard: ASRock H97M
Processor: Intel Core i5-4590 up to 3.70GHz (Quad Core) Haswell Refresh Processor
Graphics: Sapphire R9-285 DUAL-X OC 2GB DDR5 256bit
RAM: Gskill RipjawsX 8GB Dual 1600 CL8
Harddrive: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB
Power Supply: FSP Raider 550W 80Plus SILVER Power Supply
Casing: Aerocool GT Black Gaming

You might want to go with a higher wattage power supply so you won't have any problems upgrading in the future. I would also go with the new nVidia 900 series of graphics cards. The 970 is much,much better than that video card at about the same price.

Bullshit! 550W us nore than enough for anything, 970/980 would be absolutly fine.

I said so he won't have any problems upgrading in the future. I have a GTX 770 and the minimum power requirements is a 600W power supply. The 900 series from nVidia are a lot more efficient, but that doesn't mean a 550 is going to be all he needs for the future. Trust me dare, if I was building a new gaming rig I would get at least a 600W or 650W power supply. Particularly if your PC is always on. A PSU will lose some of its wattage capacity as the capacitors begins to age over time. Also, if you can, try to go modular. It's usually worth the little bit extra price to have better airflow and less clutter in your case. Always important with a gaming PC.

Please stop, you have no idea what you are talking about. First I use a 770GTX myself and it does not even use 300W. So with CPU and all the shit 400-450W is more than enough. Secondly, the W number is irrelevant, its all about the efficiency. 550W will be always enough, unless you are useing more than one VideoCard.

Just a question how do you think this rig will fare? I'm planning to build this.

Motherboard: ASRock H97M
Processor: Intel Core i5-4590 up to 3.70GHz (Quad Core) Haswell Refresh Processor
Graphics: Sapphire R9-285 DUAL-X OC 2GB DDR5 256bit
RAM: Gskill RipjawsX 8GB Dual 1600 CL8
Harddrive: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB
Power Supply: FSP Raider 550W 80Plus SILVER Power Supply
Casing: Aerocool GT Black Gaming

You might want to go with a higher wattage power supply so you won't have any problems upgrading in the future. I would also go with the new nVidia 900 series of graphics cards. The 970 is much,much better than that video card at about the same price.

Bullshit! 550W us nore than enough for anything, 970/980 would be absolutly fine.

I said so he won't have any problems upgrading in the future. I have a GTX 770 and the minimum power requirements is a 600W power supply. The 900 series from nVidia are a lot more efficient, but that doesn't mean a 550 is going to be all he needs for the future. Trust me dare, if I was building a new gaming rig I would get at least a 600W or 650W power supply. Particularly if your PC is always on. A PSU will lose some of its wattage capacity as the capacitors begins to age over time. Also, if you can, try to go modular. It's usually worth the little bit extra price to have better airflow and less clutter in your case. Always important with a gaming PC.

Please stop, you have no idea what you are talking about. First I use a 770GTX myself and it does not even use 300W. So with CPU and all the shit 400-450W is more than enough. Secondly, the W number is irrelevant, its all about the efficiency. 550W will be always enough, unless you are useing more than one VideoCard.

lol, You are the one that doesn't know what he is talking about. The W number is irrelevant? You must be slow. The W number as you put it, is the wattage the power supply can put out continuously if need be. Just because you were able to use some cheap power supply with a lower wattage than you should have had, does not mean it's a good idea, so good luck with that. Secondly efficiency doesn't have anything to do with output. Efficiency is how much current the PSU will need to operate normally. You could have 2 500W power supply's performing the same function, but if one is more efficient than the other it will use less current(electricity). Cheaper electric bill. You should do some reading before you comment on something you know very little about.

columbusbobby23: So on friday, when I get the game I'm ready to do the benchmarking to satisfy your curiosity

columbusbobby23: So on friday, when I get the game I'm ready to do the benchmarking to satisfy your curiosity
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Cool, looking forward to it. I'm guessing around 12 to 15 FPS. The card looks pretty cool.

Edit: Although they should have kept the "Windforce" tab at the top of the card.

It now on the side instead of the "geforce" it's led illuminated and customizable via geforce experience.

It now on the side instead of the "geforce" it's led illuminated and customizable via geforce experience.

You lucky bastard.

But change of the card somehow erased my previous cpu overclock so I've just quickly set it up to 4.27GHz/core and RAM now runs around 1850MHz.
Time to test this.

Just a question how do you think this rig will fare? I'm planning to build this.

Motherboard: ASRock H97M
Processor: Intel Core i5-4590 up to 3.70GHz (Quad Core) Haswell Refresh Processor
Graphics: Sapphire R9-285 DUAL-X OC 2GB DDR5 256bit
RAM: Gskill RipjawsX 8GB Dual 1600 CL8
Harddrive: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB
Power Supply: FSP Raider 550W 80Plus SILVER Power Supply
Casing: Aerocool GT Black Gaming

As some people already said here, go with the GTX 970. It a total bargain in the current market as it's only 330USD and performs better than most GPU's.


I myself have:
CPU: intel i7 4790 / Quad Core 3.60GHz
GPU: Gigabyte GTX 770 Windforce / 1137MHz Clock - 1189MHz Boost / 2GB DDR5
RAM: 2x8GB / 1600MHz
Win 8.1 x64

Can my laptop run NBA 2K15 on minimum setting? thank you

Processor AMD A6-3420M APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics
Video Card 1 AMD Radeon HD 7400M Series
Video Card 2 AMD Radeon HD 6520G
Memory 5.6 GB
Operating System Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate Edition Service Pack 1 (build 7601), 64-bit

Yes.

So I obviously cant run the game on max settings, I am on medium and I turned off special effects, what else I can do to increase preformance?

my specs are:

CPU: i3 3.10 GHz
GPU: AMD Radeon HD 6670
RAM: 6GB

Beside obvious stuff like cleaning you PC both software and hardware wise (yeah, it helps a little)...
Check Catalyst CC - you might be forcing some stuff like ambient occlusion on default.

What's your FPS on medium?

Beside obvious stuff like cleaning you PC both software and hardware wise (yeah, it helps a little)...
Check Catalyst CC - you might be forcing some stuff like ambient occlusion on default.

What's your FPS on medium?

fps is 35-45

everything seems smooth but I feel like there is a bit of lag when the camera moves

is that i3 of yours dual core or quad core?

is that i3 of yours dual core or quad core?

quad core