OK, thanks, that's what mine says too. My spec is P4 3Ghz HyperThreading CPU, X1950Pro 512MB, 2GB RAM, M-Audio Revolution, on AGP platform. Now you and others may claim this to be inadequate spec, but it in fact easily exceeds the requirements EA lists in the readme and passes the only requirements even shown on System Requirements Lab (which are derived from the developers), of which minimum spec are the only ones mentioned.
I feel this is likely a case where the M-Audio sound card I use was either not part of the beta testing, or it was and they had no problem with the 1 out of 100 or so people using M-Audio cards having terrible stuttering problems. My spec plays other games just fine, including Crysis with Med shaders and shadows and it looks much better and plays more smoothly even at 1200x900. I use only 1024x768 in this game and it's choppy as hell.
At the very least this is fraudulent advertising to list the spec as shown below if in fact that is the problem. IMO developers should be held accountable for such deception.
From the readme:
System Requirements
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Dead Space™ requires at least the following:
FOR WINDOWS XP (SP2) or Vista
* 2.8 GHz processor or equivalent
* 1 GB RAM (XP), 2 GB RAM (Vista)
* NVIDIA GeForce 6800 or better (7300, 7600 GS, and 8500 are below minimum system requirements)
* ATI X1600 Pro or better (X1300, X1300 Pro and HD2400 are below minimum system requirements)
* 256MB Video Card and Shader Model 3.0 required
* The latest version of DirectX 9.0c
System Requirements Lab results:
