Depending on your playstyle, Dishonored will rely more heavily on CPU or GPU: play it super stealthy, combining together a lot of powers affecting your vision (such as Blink or Dark Vision) not to get caught, and you'll find yourself GPU bound pretty quickly on lower end cards. On the opposite, play it the brutal way, alerting and fighting every single AI on a map at the same time, and your CPU will suffer, especially if the game runs with 2 threads only.

The min spec were quite high on purpose, so that people experience a constantly smooth and stable game. Most of the time, the game will run great on lower systems for sure - especially if you give a try to lower display resolutions such as 1280x720 (720p) or 1280x800 - but you may experience framerate drops in some spots, which might end up hurting your gaming experience.

Edit: Our goal was to ensure 100% that if you have these specs, you will not only be able to launch the game but it will run smoothly on your PC. We're fighting against the legacy of min specs being the specs at which the game launches but then runs miserably for some of the users.

For curiosity sake what do you think I will be able to run it on. I have an imac but I have windows on it specs are

intel i5 2.5ghz quad core
4GB ram
Amd Radeon 6750M 512MB

So will this game run on XP or not? or is it just not supported but it can still run the game fine? i have dualcore 3,2ghz, 3gbram and a gtx 460 1gb so this should not be enough to run the game even at minimum? it lists directx9 graphics card so if its not support xp it makes no sense to me..

if you have an xbox, I'd just get if for that. I'm sure the game will run on XP, but there will probably be frequent crashes or freezes while you play.

I'm wondering how Dishonored will run on CF/SLI I have two 6870's I doubt I will need to use CF, but in case I do will there be any problems? Or is that up to AMD?

Also, will the game run DirectX 10/11 or is it only made on 9?

Regardless of that I already pre-ordered and am impatiently awating the game.

Will Dishonored support the Intel HD 3000 Graphics? The only computer I can play games on has this integrated card. Since I don't own any console and I can't buy a new pc, I want to know if the Intel HD can play this game.

I will wait until the game is released and for people to test it.

Wonder if I'll get stuttering with my 1100t when on a massacre and for the naysayers of AMD CPUs....sure the benchmarks are embarassingly one sided...but gaming is still very much so not only passable but still very smooth for most games nowadays on them. It's simpy a cheaper alternative for those hard pressed to let go of those extra dollars.

They only thing that worries me is the graphics card. Way too powerful of a requirement.

I'm sure the game will at least "run" on lower spec cards. I can't imagine the absolute minimum to be THAT demanding.

Yeah, of course, but dude...GTX 460...OUCH!

Will Dishonored support the Intel HD 3000 Graphics? The only computer I can play games on has this integrated card. Since I don't own any console and I can't buy a new pc, I want to know if the Intel HD can play this game.

what are the rest of your specs? just because your running on integrated graphics doesn't mean there isn't a PCI-e slot on your motherboard that you can plug a card into. if the rest of your pc is up to specs, then you could probably find a card that will run the game decent for less than $100

Before buying one though he would still need to make sure his Power Supply is up to the task as video cards do have power requirements.

I found that out the hard way. I recently got a GTX 560 and my PSU exploded. So I bought another one, and that exploded as well!