Quake Wars specs revealedPlay on a 9800 - yes, the old oneBy Wily Ferret: Friday 07 September 2007, 12:13THE MINIMUM SPECS for upcoming massive-scale shooter Quake Wars have been revealed - and there's good news for those not quite sporting enough hardware to make Crysis a realistic option for the next six months.Splash Damage has managed to keep the hardware requirements to a minimum, despite the upgrades to the Doom 3 engine, which include John Carmack's famed megatexturing algorithms. The demo, released on Monday, requires a mere GeForce FX 5700-class card, with the ATI-heydey card Radeon 9700 the minimum from the red team.On the processor side, a Pentium 4 2.8GHz, or Athlon XP 2800+ is the name of the day - although up those figures by another 200MHz if you're running on Windows Vista. Vista owners lose out again when it comes to RAM requirements - 512MB for XP, 768MB for Vista. So much for Vista being the ultimate gaming platform.The demo contains just one map, called Valley, set in a Strogg-strewn Yosemite. This has been balanced and tweaked since the beta earlier this year. It's out on Monday - so watch out for numerous benchmark comparisons from the usual gaggle of hardware fanbois on Tuesday.Whilst it's easy to write off PC games development, it surely isn't an easy job to manage to write code that scales to 8800 Ultra SLI down to FX 5700. More to the point, isn't it a little sad that the Radeon 9700 is still everyone's favourite ATI card to date? µ