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Need for Speed: Most Wanted (commonly abbreviated to as NFS: MW or simply Most Wanted) is a 2012 open-world racing video game, developed by British games developer Criterion Games and published by Electronic Arts. Announced on 4 June 2012, during EA's E3 press conference, Most Wanted is the nineteenth title in the long-running Need for Speed series and was released worldwide for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PlayStation Vita, iOS and Android, beginning in North America on 30 October 2012, with a Wii U version following in 2013. The game picked up on the Most Wanted IP, as opposed to the Hot Pursuit reboot that Criterion developed previously.

Need For Speed: Most Wanted 2 System Requirements

3 Mar 2013 - Specs reviewed

Official Minimum Requirements

Minimum Specifications
OS: Windows Vista (Service Pack 2 and all available windows updates) 32-bit
Processor: 2 GHz Dual Core (Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHZ or Althon X2 2.7 GHz)
Memory: 2 GB
Hard Drive: 20 GB
Graphics Card (AMD): DirectX 10.1 compatible with 512 MB RAM (ATI RADEON 3000, 4000, 5000 OR 6000 series, with ATI RADEON 3870 or higher performance)
Graphics Card (NVIDIA): DirectX 10.0 compatible with 512 MB RAM (NVIDIA GEFORCE 8, 9, 200, 300, 400 OR 500 series with NVIDIA GEFORCE 8800 GT or higher performance)
Sound card: DirectX compatible
Keyboard and Mouse

Official Recommended Requirements

Recommended Specifications
OS: Windows 7 (Service Pack 1 and all available windows updates) 64-bit
Processor: Quad-Core CPU
Memory: 4 GB
Hard Drive: 20 GB
Graphics Card: DirectX 11 compatible with 1024 MB RAM (NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 560 or ATI RADEON 6950)
Sound Card: DirectX compatible
Keyboard and Mouse

PC System Analysis For Need For Speed: Most Wanted 2 Requirements

Need For Speed: Most Wanted 2 will require Radeon HD 6950 graphics card with a Core 2 Quad Q6400 2.13GHz or Phenom 9550 Quad-Core processor to reach the recommended specs, achieving high graphics setting on 1080p. System memory required for Need For Speed: Most Wanted 2 is 4 GB performance memory. Don't try and play Need For Speed: Most Wanted 2 without 2 GB, which helps get the 30FPS Your graphics card will need to be capable of running DirectX 11. Recommended needs around a 10 year old PC to run.

FPS System Benchmark

200+ FPS

High

Graphics Card

GTX 1060

How well optimised is Need For Speed: Most Wanted 2 for PC? Need For Speed: Most Wanted 2 is excellently optimized

8.1

Where does Need For Speed: Most Wanted 2 rank in the list of the most demanding games?

100+

Genres: Action, Racing, Sim

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7.5

4.3

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8.4

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Need For Speed: Most Wanted 2 System Requirements

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Minimum Requirements

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Core 2 Duo E4600 2.4GHz

Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 5400+

GeForce 8600 GT

Radeon HD 3650

256 MB

2 GB

Win Vista 32

DX 10

20 GB

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GeForce GTX 560

Radeon HD 6950

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20 GB

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Need For Speed: Most Wanted 2 PC Release Date:

2 Nov 2012

Alternative Game Tags: NeedforSpeed:MostWanted, Need for Speed: Most Wanted requirements, nfs most wanted 2, nfs mw2, nfs: mw2, need for speed most wanted 2

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Core I7-5775R 4-Core 3.3GHz

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Radeon RX 480X 4GB

271%

RAM

13GB

225%

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