DarkSpore System Requirements

FOR WINDOWS XP

• 3.0 GHz P4 or Intel® Core™ 2 Duo 2GHz or equivalent or faster
• 2 GB RAM
• A 256 MB Video Card with support for Shader Model 3.0
• The latest version of DirectX 9.0c
• Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 3
• Up to 10 GB of hard drive space
• Broadband Internet Connection Required

FOR WINDOWS VISTA

• 3.0 GHz P4 or Intel® Core™ 2 Duo 2GHz or equivalent or faster
• 2 GB RAM
• A 256 MB Video Card with support for Shader Model 3.0
• Microsoft Windows Vista Service Pack 2
• Up to 10 GB of hard drive space
• Broadband Internet Connection Required

FOR WINDOWS 7

• 3.0 GHz P4 or Intel® Core™ 2 Duo 2GHz or equivalent or faster
• 2 GB RAM
• A 256 MB Video Card with support for Shader Model 3.0
• Up to 10 GB of hard drive space
• Broadband Internet Connection Required

For Macintosh Computers

• An Intel-based Mac with the latest firmware (Early Intel Macs require an EFI firmware update for BIOScompatibility).
• A Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard or Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard installation disc or Mac OS X Disc 1 included with Macs that have Leopard or Snow Leopard preinstalled; this disc is needed for installation of Windows drivers for Mac hardware
• 10 GB free hard disk space (16 GB is recommended for Windows 7)
• A full version of one of the following OSs:
  • Windows XP Home Edition or Professional with Service Pack 2 or higher (32-bit editions only)
  • Windows Vista Home Basic, Home Premium, Business, Enterprise or Ultimate RTM or higher (32-bit and 64-bit editions)
  • Windows 7 Home Premium, Professional, Enterprise or Ultimate (32-bit and 64-bit editions)

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11 Comments

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   Vernon Burt

   Posted February 9, 2011 at 5:47 PM

   That’s a high CPU requirement. I wonder how high we will need if we have a quad core?

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     ManagerJosh

     Posted February 9, 2011 at 6:40 PM

     If you have a Quad Core, I doubt you will have to worry much . It requires at minimum a 6-7 year old Pentium 4 3GHz Processor.

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   Elliot

   Posted February 17, 2011 at 10:55 AM

   I got my beta key and downloaded darkspore but the .exe file comes up as a text document. Am I missing something?

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     ManagerJosh

     Posted February 17, 2011 at 1:26 PM

     What browser/download client are you using to download the file? Furthermore, some information about your computer would be helpful too.

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   Will

   Posted March 28, 2011 at 2:18 PM

   So I guess that darkspore isn’t coming out for Mac but I thought that EA did usually multi-platform games so why not this one? (or is it just the beta that isn’t?)

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     ManagerJosh

     Posted March 29, 2011 at 9:09 PM

     It is hard to say, but it could be the lack of development time.

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   Miggy

   Posted June 14, 2011 at 7:15 AM

   I got a 2.66GHz P4, so i need to upgrade that.
   I also gotta get that shader model thing sorted. I’m using Windows Xp
   How to get the stuff sorted?

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   Somebody

   Posted June 14, 2011 at 11:51 AM

   I got a windows 7 and a triple core… Does that mean the RAM and/or Hard Drive space needed changes?

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   Somebody

   Posted June 14, 2011 at 11:52 AM

   I have a windows 7 and a triple core. Does that mean the RAM and/or Hard Drive space required decreases?

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   Somebody

   Posted June 14, 2011 at 11:53 AM

   (sorry for the double comment)

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   My name is not important

   Posted November 19, 2011 at 6:28 AM

   I have a Intel (R) Celeron (R) CPU 900 2.20 GHz will that run this right?