Dead Space

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System Requirements

Minimum:

CPU: Intel Pentium 4 2.8 GHz or AMD Athlon 64 3000+
RAM: 1 GB
HDD: 8 GB free space
Video: nVidia GeForce 6800 GT or ATi Radeon X1600 Pro
Audio: DirectX 9.0c compliant sound card, speakers/headphones

Recommended:

CPU: Intel Core 2 2.0 GHz or AMD Athlon 64 x2 4200+
RAM: 2 GB
HDD: 8 GB free space
Video: nVidia GeForce 8600 GT or Radeon HD 2600 XT
Audio: DirectX 9.0c compliant sound card, speakers/headphones

Patches

There are no patches available for Dead Space on PC.

Mouse Lag issues

Disabling V-Sync in the Graphics options will solve this issue, at the expense of image quality. There is a second option: using D3DOverrider will maintain V-sync at the cost of a minimal amount of mouse lag.

Changing the FOV

There is no in-game option to modify the FOV value, and a config edit method doesn't seem to be available either. Dead Space supports multiscreen however, which means that using an appropriate custom resolution on a single monitor will result in a FOV change.

This will allow the player to regain some sense of peripheral vision. The artistic intent of the game makers will somewhat be preserved as well: the main character will still occupy a sizeable portion of the display area.

The disadvantage of this method is that black bars at the top and bottom of the screen will appear.

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default resolution (1920*1200)
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custom resolution (1920*817)

Standard Image Quality Adjustments

Should a system comfortably exceed the recommended requirements listed below, forcing anisotropic filtering via the video driver will yield substantial image quality improvements.

Even though the antialiasing method provided by the game seems adequate, it can have a tendency to blur the image. Disabling it and forcing antialiasing in the video driver should improve image quality.