Here is a video that enhances its peculiarities.
Coming out the same day as the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 36 console versions, Sleeping Dogs for Windows PC can count on specific features created specifically for the Personal Computer version in order to bring the island of Honk Kong to life.
Thanks to the increased data flow bandwidth that next generation video cards pass to the CPU, the Windows PC version enjoys noticeable visual enhancements, hardware optimization and support for the latest AMD and NVidia cards.
The high resolution is not only a noticeable leap over the console versions, there are more detail, objects, which make the settings more real than ever.
Sleeping Dogs is available starting August 17, 2012 on Windows PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 platforms.
Here are the official system requirements:
System Requirements
- Windows Vista (with Service Pack 2) and Windows 7 Supported
- DirectX10, 10.1, and 11 Supported
- 32bit and 64bit Operating Systems Supported
Advanced PC Features
- Nvidia 3D Support
- Nvidia Multi Screen Monitor Support
- AMD EyeFinity Multi-Monitor Gold Status Support
- Window and Full Screen Mode Support
- Benchmark Mode
DirectX11 Specific Features
- Contact hardening shadows
- HD-AO
- Use of Direct Compute
Performance Enhancements
- Enhanced Performance on Dual Core and Quad Core Processors
- Enhanced Performance on Nvidia SLi
- Enhanced Performance on AMD Crossfire
Mouse, Keyboard, and Controller Support
- Xbox360 Controller Support
- Keyboard and Mouse Support including Key Remapping
- Auto Pad, Mouse and Keyboard Switching
Advanced PC Graphic Features
- Increased Small Object Detail
- High Resolution Texture Support
- High Resolution Shadows
- High Quality Shadow Filters
- Soft Particles
- High Quality SSAO (Screen Space Ambient Occlusion)
- High Quality Motion Blur
- Super Sample Anti-Aliasing
Steamworks Features Supported
- DLC Support
- Achievements
- Auto Patching
- Pre-Download
- Store Save Games to the Cloud
- Player to Player Chat
Minimum requirements
- OS: Windows Vista or Windows 7
- Processor: Core 2 Duo 2.0 GHz or Athlon X2 2.4 GHz
- RAM: 2GB
- Graphic card: DirectX 10 or 11 compatible Nvidia or AMD ATI card, ATI Radeon 3870 or higher, Nvidia GeForce 8800 GT or higher.
- Graphics card memory: 512 MB
- Sound card: DirectX compatible sound card
- Hard drive: 15 GB
Recommended system requirements
- OS: Windows 7 64-bit
- Processor: Quad-core Intel or AMD CPU
- RAM: 4GB
- Graphics card: DirectX 11 Nvidia or AMD ATI card, Nvidia GeForce GTX 560 or ATI Radeon 6950.
- Graphics card memory: 1 GB
- Sound card: DirectX compatible sound card
- Hard drive: 15 GB
