Mass Effect 3 Minimum and Recommended PC Requirements

If you were wondering whether your PC can handle Mass Effect 3 then you shouldn’t, because even the recommended PC specs for Mass Effect 3 should be within your range unless you haven’t upgraded in almost 2 years.

Bioware Community Manager, Chris Priestly revealed the minimum and recommended specs for the demo in an official forum post here and they are as follows:

Minimum PC Specs:

• OS – Windows XP SP3/Vista SP1, Win 7
• *Supported chipsets: NVIDIA 7900 or better; ATI X1800 or better. Please note that NVIDIA GeForce 9300, 8500, 8400, and 8300 are below minimum system requirements, as are AMD/ATI Radeon HD3200, HD3300, and HD4350.
• CPU – 1.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo (equivalent AMD CPU)
• RAM – 1GB for XP / 2GB RAM for Vista/Win 7
• Disc Drive – 1x speed
• Hard Drive – 2.5 GB of free space
• Video – 256 MB* (with Pixel Shader 3.0 support)
• Sound – DirectX 9.0c compatible
• DirectX – DirectX 9.0c August 2009 (included)

Recommended PC Specs:

• OS – Windows XP SP3/Vista SP1, Win 7
• CPU – 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo (equivalent AMD CPU)
• RAM – 2GB for XP / 4GB RAM for Vista/Win 7
• Disc Drive – 1x speed
• Hard Drive – 2.5 GB of free space
• Video – AMD/ATI Radeon HD 4850 512 MB or greater, NVidia GeForce 9800 GT 512 MB or greater
• Sound – DirectX 9.0c compatible

Only difference between full-game specs and demo would likely be the hard-drive space required. Bioware will release Mass Effect 3 demo on February 14 with full game slated for March 6 on all platforms.