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DiRT Showdown System Requirements
Written by: Felix
Published on: May-01 15:31

Key game: Dirt Showdown
Related: Dirt Showdown

Dirt Showdown Requirements

DiRT Showdown is going to be available on the new "Codemasters Racing" label following their announcment last month that they are only going to focus on their racing franchise.

Codemasters launch a Showdown demo today to get racing gamers into the swimg of what to expect from this fast paced derby racing simulator. Lets take a look at the DiRT Showdown system requirements to see if your rig has got what it takes to play DiRT...

DiRT Showdown Minimum System Requirements

OS: Windows Vista / Windows 7

CPU: AMD Athlon 64 x2 / Intel Pentium D @ 3.2GHz

RAM: 2 GB

GPU: AMD HD2000 Series / Nvidia 8000 Series

HDD: 15 GB Hard Drive Space

DX: 11

AUDIO: DirectX Compatible Sound Card

OTHER: Dual Layer Compatible DVD-ROM Drive

DiRT Showdown Recommended System Requirements

OS: Windows Vista / Windows 7 64 bit

CPU: AMD Bulldozer / Intel Core i7

GPU: AMD HD6000 Series / Nvidia GTX500 Series

DX: 11

RAM: 4GB

Supported Graphics Cards

ATI Radeon HD2000 Series, HD3000 Series, HD4000 Series, HD5000 Series, HD6000 Series, HD7000 Series

Nvidia GeForce 8000 Series, 9000 Series, GTX200 Series, GTX400 Series, GTX500 Series.

Thanks goes to our own cham0d for getting this info

Aparently you can access the demo on Steam , although we cant see it there at the moment and the full DiRT Showdown has a release date of May 24th across mainland Europe, May 25th in the UK and ships to stores across North America on May 29th.

One other oddity we noticed is that the game suggests that it has a minimum direct X requirement of DX 11 and yet they also advise us that certain cards that do not have DX11 are acceptable as the minimum requirement.

So drop a message below if you have any further thoughts on this or if you spot the demo available on Steam. As always once you have played the game/demo add your FPS to DiRT Showdown Ratings page.


Add your comment, score and Frames Per Second (if you know it) by visiting our Dirt Showdown ratings page
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Deano50
16:36 Jun-25-2012

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Hi When I Play Dirt Showdown
Keep Getting This Problem
Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: Blue Screen
OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.48
Locale ID: 2057
Additional information about the problem:
BCCode: 124
BCP1: 0000000000000000
BCP2: FFFFFA8008DD38F8
Tero
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"One other oddity we noticed is that the game suggests that it has a minimum direct X requirement of DX 11 and yet they also advise us that certain cards that do not have DX11 are acceptable as the minimum requirement." :D :D I guess they know their hardware at the Codemasters :D :D
goliathus115
17:07 May-01-2012

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the system requirements seem to be a fail from codemasters xD
Tero
17:11 May-01-2012

Yeah :D Let's hope they won't fail with the game also :D Looks very promising ;)
goliathus115
17:12 May-01-2012

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yeah right ;) pretty much seems like a must buy title like Dirt 3 ;)
MattBuzzy89
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This looks so awesome after the amazing Dirt 3, I'm really looking forward to a destruction derby game built on this engine.
Felix
18:23 May-01-2012

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And you have the beast to play it now matt. Nice. Let us know how it plays out and what FPS you get. Can anyone find the Demo yet?
Tero
18:35 May-01-2012

Found this: "The 1.16GB Xbox 360 demo is available now, though it is of course initially exclusive to Live Gold members. The PS3 demo will arrive with the PlayStation Store update this afternoon, and the PC demo will come via Steam whenever it jolly well pleases." I think that explains it :D
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Seems like the Demo is out now :D
Tero
22:13 May-06-2012

I'll just try the demo on my PS3 and judge the game from that :) Offcourse graphically it'll be a lot better on the PC but I'll see the gameplay and other really important things from the PS3 demo ;)
goliathus115
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so to be honest i guess the i7 is just Codemaster exaggeration ;)
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