The developers of Rome 2 have finally revealed the generic system requirements of Total War: Rome 2. These will give gamers a rough idea though of how well their system will be able to run this beast of a strategy game.

The official page can be seen here and are the same specs as I will list below.

The minimum specifications are:

- OS: XP, Vista, Windows 7 or 8

- CPU: 2 GHz Intel Dual Core or 2.6 GHz Intel Single Core

- Memory: 2 GB

- GPU: 512 MB DirectX 9.0c compatible card with shader model 3 and vertex texture fetch support

- HDD: 35 GB free space

- Minimum resolution: 1024x768

The recommended specs are:

- OS: Win 7 or 8

- CPU: 2nd Generation Intel Core i5 or stronger

- Memory: 4GB

- GPU: 1 GB DirectX 11 compatible card

- Recommended resolution: 1920x1080

A few things about these specifications, usually the recommended does not mean you can max out the game, but this really depends from developer to developer what "recommended specs" means. In the case of Total War it so far has almost always meant you can max it out and still run it smoothly.

One odd thing with these specifications though is that as I mentioned above, they are "generic", meaning they do not actually specify an exact GPU card for either the minimum or recommended specs and GPU memory space means very little in relevance to the chip that is in the card. For example, you can have a really strong card with just 1 GB, while you can have a weaker one sold with 2 GB. As such these specs will not actually tell you much. I do in fact have a DX11 compatible card, but this does not mean I will be able to run Rome 2 even close to maxed out, as my DX11 compatible card with 1 GB memory just won't cut it. In addition, it only lists the Intel specs, leaving AMD users in the dark for their CPU requirements; though fortunately a 2 GHz Intel CPU will have roughly the same performance as a 2 GHz AMD CPU with the same amount of physical cores. However, this is not always the case.

In any case, hopefully these specs do help some of you with your concerns about running Rome 2 and to help you all further, Rome 2 is already on "Can You Run it?" So if in doubt then click here and run the test on your PC after selecting "Total War: Rome II" as the game.

And to really wet your appetite, click here for a brand new, jaw dropping naval panorama, which you can see in teaser form below.