Thankfully, it turns out that you don't need a Crysis like rig to play Spore on your PC or Mac.

Mac OS X
Mac OS X 10.5.3 Leopard or higher
Intel Core Duo Processor
1024 MB RAM
ATI X1600 or NVidia 7300 GT with 128 MB of Video RAM, or Intel Integrated GMA X3100
At least 4.7GB of hard drive space for installation, plus additional space for creations.


Windows Vista
2.0 GHz P4 processor or equivalent
768 MB RAM
A 128 MB Video Card, with support for Pixel Shader 2.0
At least 6 GB of hard drive space

I've never bought a game for my Mac but I'm happy now that if I decide to buy Spore I have a machine to handle it.


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I'd say that requirements are actually very low compared to some of the new games coming out on PC platform. I can only imagine the delay on highest graphical setting with that min specs

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I think they expect Spore to be the new Sims basically so it has to have reasonable requirements.

Memory usage on Mac is a bit crazy though and 6GB of hard drive space on Vista!!

That's a lot of space :-/

This is a must have though, can you buy it via Steam I wonder?

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Thats for minimum possible, aka 640*480 at 1FPS lol.

Ill be getting this yoke and should run it fine, it will be CPU and RAM heavy though, GPU wont matter much.
And if it says 756mb ram on vista, then thats less on XP ^_^

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