Rockstar’s revealed the official system requirements for Max Payne 3, touting that it is optimized to scale to a wide range of hardware. The PC edition will boast a “number of additional advanced graphics options” and leverages the DirectX11 API for tessellation.

Hit the break for the complete list of system specifications.

Max Payne 3 PC System Specifications

Operating System:
Windows 7 32/64 Service Pack 1, Windows Vista 32/64 Service Pack 2, Windows XP 32/64 Service Pack 3

Processor:
Intel Dual Core 2.4 GHZ – i7 3930K 6 Core x 3.06 GHZ / AMD Dual Core 2.6 GHZ – FX8150 8 Core x 3.6 GHZ

RAM:
2GB – 16GB

Video Card:
NVIDIA® 8600 GT 512MB VRAM – NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 680 2GB VRAM / Radeon HD 3400 512MB VRAM – Radeon HD 7970 3GB VRAM

Sound Card:
100% Direct X 9.0 compatible – Direct X 9.0 compatible supporting Dolby Digital Live

HDD Space:
35 GB

There’s really no guideline as to what is “recommended” here — only that Max Payne 3 will indeed take advantage of 6-8 core CPU, 16GB RAM, and a top-of-the-line graphics card if you have it. Considering what’s listed at the low-end, it seems MP3 will scale quite well. Initially, GTA IV and LA Noire both shipped with a myriad of performance issues on the platform, so it’s reassuring that Rockstar has taken strides to improve the efficiency of its engine.

The game’s out May 29 on PC, trailing the console debut by two weeks.

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