Minimum PC System Requirements (OFFICIAL)

[homicide1550]

from Ronnie2K's twitter account
"For PC players, the minimum specs for #NBA2K12 are the same as last year."

With that here are last year's minimum requirements

Minimum System Requirements:
CPU: Pentium 4 2.4 Ghz Single Core processor or equivalent (2.8 Ghz for Vista)
RAM: 512 MB or more (1 GB for Vista)
Disc Drive: 8x or faster DVD drive
Hard Drive: 10.5 GB or more free space
Video: DirectX 9.0c compatible (see below)
Sound: DirectX 9.0c compatible
Input: Keyboard or dual-analog gamepad
Video card with 128 MB or more memory and one of the following chipsets is required:
ATI x1300 or greater;
NVIDIA 6600 or greater;
DirectX 9.0c compatible card with Shader Model 3.0 support.
Important Note: Game requires Internet connection for activation


Really happy with this, I don't need to upgrade my rig to play 2k12! Yey!

[Rugshtyne]

Hope to see EXACT same graphics as on the console versions. Not as LAST YEAR.

[Murat]

Yeah. No need to upgrade.

[Andrew]

No surprises there. In any case, good looking out.

[anastasis16]

why 2K not trying upgrade their graphics, using DirectX 11 maybe? so the game will look more ..

[benji]

Because the consoles use a DX9 feature set equivalent. They have more important issues with the PC port, namely the online actually working and the generic shoes/socks. Plus headbands.

[karlsanada10]

DX11 NBA 2k11. I'll pity myself and other people who don't have a strong PC.-.-

[Toaster]

What benji said...

minus the shoes (and plus the correct shading and menus)

[StormsWarning]

Hope to see EXACT same graphics as on the console versions. Not as LAST YEAR.

has this been stated or confirmed, cause the pics look good, but i find it hard to believe, the game will look like that for pc? last year version i think it was missing some kind of shaders or something, outside of the music editor? maybe someone can tweet Ron on this info?

[Murat]

Yeah! No upgrade needed. Just I need a bit improvement for my CPU.

[Rugshtyne]

Hope to see EXACT same graphics as on the console versions. Not as LAST YEAR.

has this been stated or confirmed, cause the pics look good, but i find it hard to believe, the game will look like that for pc? last year version i think it was missing some kind of shaders or something, outside of the music editor? maybe someone can tweet Ron on this info?

Well, last year, as i remember, there were missing shadows, music editor and, talking 'bout sound, the quality was awful.
Oh, yeah, the online graphics were only 'low'.

[karlsanada10]

LOL. They didn't even change the menu style. Same as 2k10.lol. Hopefully this year, it's different.

[Andrew]

They did it because they felt it was more PC friendly. I would've preferred the console's menu myself, if not something like the menus we had way back with the PC versions of NBA Live 2000 and 2001.

[deihatein]

What was the menu looks like in 2000 and 2001?

[shadowgrin]

It was awesome simplicity. Especially for Live 2001, even a caveman familiar with basketball and PC will get what those symbols mean.

[benji]

It was awesome simplicity. Especially for Live 2001, even a caveman familiar with basketball and PC will get what those symbols mean.

Yeah, I don't know what EA was thinking using the gibberish in 2000's menus.

[Lean]

But I definitely like Live 2001's menus.

[anastasis16]

the live 00 01 ss just bring back good ol memories, I miss those days ..

[nhike23]

will nba 2k12 run in a 64 bit OS? Cause i want to upgrade my os to 64 bit so that i can upgrade my ram to 8 gig

[karlsanada10]

Definitely sir.

[Tiapon4]

can i run it with this spec.???

Core 2 duo E4600 2.6ghz
GeForce 9400 GT 512mb
2gb ram

Tnx...

[HellBoy]

Well same as always, I like these Requirements

[karlsanada10]

@Tiapon: Yep. But on low-med settings.

[Laksis]

guys how do you think? i can play on hight 2k12 ?
RAM:2gb
Video card. GeForce GT 220
CPU:Genuine Intel(R) CPU 2160 @ 1.80GHz (2CPus)
2k11 runs without lagg on hight settings

[Andrew]

2k11 runs without lagg on hight settings

Then you should have no problems.