Need for Speed: Carbon system requirements
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- Developer:
- EA Black Box, EA Canada
- Publisher:
- Electronic Arts
- Release date:
- 31 October 2006 (15 years ago)
- Metacritic rating:
- 78 / 100
- Our user rating:
- 4.0 / 5
Official Need for Speed: Carbon system requirements
These are the PC specs advised by developers to run at minimal and recommended settings. Those requirements are usually very approximate, but still can be used to determine the indicative hardware tier you need to play the game.
Minimum system requirements
- Graphics card:
- A video card with 64 MB memory and one of these chipsets is required:
NVIDIA GeForce3 / NVIDIA GeForce4 (Ti series only) / ATI Radeon 8500.
Laptop versions of these chipsets may work but are not supported. - CPU:
- Pentium 4 or equivalent 1.7 GHz
- Memory:
- 512 MB
- File size:
- 4.7 GB for CD/DVD versions / 11 GB for EA Downloader version (5GB for download, 6GB for install)
- Operating system:
- Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 / Windows XP Service Pack 2
(64-bit versions are not compatible) - DirectX:
- DirectX 9.0c
Recommended system requirements
- Graphics card:
- 128MB DirectX 9.0c compatible video card (NVIDIA Geforce 6800+/ATI Radeon 9800+)
Laptop versions of these chipsets may work but are not supported. - CPU:
- Pentium 4 or equivalent 2.4GHz
- Memory:
- 1 GB
- File size:
- 4.7 GB for CD/DVD versions / 11 GB for EA Downloader version (5GB for download, 6GB for install)
- Operating system:
- Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 / Windows XP Service Pack 2
(64-bit versions are not compatible) - DirectX:
- DirectX 9.0c
Minimum system requirements
Recommended system requirements
- Graphics card:
- A video card with 64 MB memory and one of these chipsets is required:
NVIDIA GeForce3 / NVIDIA GeForce4 (Ti series only) / ATI Radeon 8500.
Laptop versions of these chipsets may work but are not supported.
- Graphics card:
- 128MB DirectX 9.0c compatible video card (NVIDIA Geforce 6800+/ATI Radeon 9800+)
Laptop versions of these chipsets may work but are not supported.
- CPU:
- Pentium 4 or equivalent 1.7 GHz
- CPU:
- Pentium 4 or equivalent 2.4GHz
- Memory:
- 512 MB
- Memory:
- 1 GB
- File size:
- 4.7 GB for CD/DVD versions / 11 GB for EA Downloader version (5GB for download, 6GB for install)
- File size:
- 4.7 GB for CD/DVD versions / 11 GB for EA Downloader version (5GB for download, 6GB for install)
- Operating system:
- Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 / Windows XP Service Pack 2
(64-bit versions are not compatible)
- Operating system:
- Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 / Windows XP Service Pack 2
(64-bit versions are not compatible)
- DirectX:
- DirectX 9.0c
- DirectX:
- DirectX 9.0c
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