The most damning mark of an Xbox 360-to-PC port is poor performance on the PC side, a trait that Jericho exhibits. It takes some serious hardware to drive the custom graphics engine at an acceptable framerate. The limited graphics options leave little room for performance tweaking, and playing at anything less than the highest settings results in blurry, washed-out visuals. As a point of reference, an Intel Core 2 Quad processor overclocked to 3.55GHz with 2GB of RAM and an NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX video card could barely muster a frame rate of 25 fps at 1920 x 1200. At a more reasonable resolution of 1280 x 1024, an AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ or Intel Core 2 Duo E6420 with 1GB of RAM is a good start. Toss in an ATI Radeon X1800 XL or NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT with 256MB of video memory, and the game will run at a mostly smooth 30 fps (though expect some drop in framerate when the on-screen action gets busy). Again, it's possible to drop below this YouGamers' minimum system by scaling back graphics options, but the results aren't pretty in the least.
The highest detail settings, on a YouGamers' recommended system.
Visual settings at their lowest. No shadows, blurry textures and limited lighting effects
If your system borders on the YouGamers' minimum requirements, you may have to tone down the shader and texture quality
If you're fortunate enough to be playing on a widescreen display, you may be used to the higher requirements that come with higher resolutions. Jericho requires a relatively greater leap in CPU and GPU power at these resolutions, however; a trait that all too often follows console ports which were coded with 720p HDTVs (1280x720 in PC resolution) in mind. To run the game at 1680 x 1050 or higher, you'll need a system with at least 2GB of RAM and either an AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ or Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 processor. If these requirements seem steep, they are; you'll need some serious cycles to avoid a CPU bottleneck, since the GPU requirements are equally as high, with an emphasis on video chipsets with plenty of shader processing power.
Very few graphics options means no meaningful performance tweaking
Lighting effects tend to be overdone
For a video card, an 512MB ATI Radeon HD 2900 Pro or 640MB NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS will do, though the recently released NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT (with 512MB of video memory) is likely an excellent option as well (note that the game wasn't specifically tested on an 8800 GT-based card, but performance results and specifications indicate that this card should have no problem with Jericho and other GPU-intensive games). As always, drivers play a crucial role in game performance. I did my testing with NVIDIA's ForceWare 169.04 beta drivers and with ATI's most recent Catalyst drivers, 7.10. Since newer drivers (particularly NVIDIA drivers) have tweaks which improve performance in the latest games, it behooves you to go through the upgrade process.
ESRB:
Blood and Gore,Intense Violence,Sexual Themes,Strong Language
Games: Clive Barker's Jericho
Intel Core 2 Quad
