The Far Cry 2 developers blog has posted the official minimum and recommended system specifications for playing the upcoming open-world shooter set in Africa.

According to their post, you will need a minimum Pentium 4 3.2GHz or a Pentium D clocked at 2.66GHz; if you’re part of the AMD camp then an Athlon 64 3500+ is required. Minimum 1GB RAM is required, with a NVIDIA 6800 or ATI X1650 the lowest choice of graphics cards. You will also need at least 12GB of space on your hard drive, though the final space requirement is still being decided at the moment.

Hit the jump to see the recommended system specs.

Recommended
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo Family, AMD 64 X2 5200+, AMD Phenom or better
RAM: 2 GB
Video card: NVidia 8600 GTS or better, ATI X1900 or better
    512 Mb of graphic memory
Sound: 5.1 sound card recommended
Supported Video cards:
NVidia 6800, NVidia 7000 series, 8000 series, 9000 series, 200 series. 8800M and 8700M supported for laptops. ATI X1650 – 1950 series , HD2000 series , HD3000 series , HD4000 series .