Brace yourself: GTA IV PC specs revealed

Amazingly low-level. I'm really surprised, the game engine must be able to handle the huge draw distances with minimal impact.

Now let them REALLY get it right and do it with a first-person mode, or, please can some clever bastard hack one up for the PC version. How SUPREME would GTA IV be then...?!

...without to many upgrades.  I was psyched when I saw it was coming out in November.  I mean, I knew it was coming out on PC, it was inevitable, but I was still psyched.  Don't get me wrong, I have it on Xbox 360 and it's great on there too, but everyone knows it'll be better on PC.  Wish the specs weren't so general though.  Like, "Dual-Core Processor"...ummm, obviously, but what speed?  And a 512MB DX103d compatible graphics card but also pretty general.  18GB of hard drive space is going to be the biggest thing I've installed on my computer to date I think.  I mean, I've installed games that are around 9 or 10 gigs, but never 18 gigs.  That should be interesting, but I have plenty of room so no big deal.  Hoping this will work better with Vista than San Andreas did.  Loved that game on my PC, but when I installed Vista it never worked quite the same.  Still worked, just a few problems.  2GB of RAM was expected as you usually see that for most any games that are coming out, though it's usually 1GB for XP and 2GB for Vista.  Anyway, my system specs are below.  Anyone think I might be able to play it?  Not a great system, but here's to hoping...

-AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ 2.6GHz
-2GB PC6400 RAM
-512MB 8800GT
-20x DVD Drive
-500-Watt Power Supply
-22" Widescreen Monitor @ 1680x1050
-250GB Seagate Barracuda - Main Drive
-320GB Western Digital Caviar - Extra Drive
-500GB Western Digital Caviar - Backup Drive


Anyway, hoping that that will be enough.  If those are truly recommended specs above, and not required, I should hope I'd be fine.  And I have to agree that, all things considered the specs could've been much higher.  I was really worried they were going to ask for something like 4GB RAM, 9800GT, and a Quad-Core processor.  Of course, they'd never do that for the lack of consumers that have that good of a rig, but I was still worried.