In order for the game to run properly, your PC MUST meet or exceed these minimum requirements:

Operating System: Windows 2000 / XP (Only)
Processor: Intel Pentium III or AMD Athlon, 1.4 GHz (Pentium IV or Athlon 2.2 GHz recommended)
RAM: 256 MB (512 MB recommended)
Graphics Card: 64 MB DirectX 9.0c compliant graphics card (128 MB recommended) ***see supported chipsets list***
Sound Card: DirectX 9.0c compliant sound card (EAX 2.0 or higher recommended)
DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c (Included on disk)
DVD-ROM: 4x or better DVD-ROM drive
Hard Drive Space: 4 GB free hard drive space
Peripherals: Windows compatible mouse and keyboard, joystick for Solo and Co-op modes
Multiplay: Broadband with 64 Kbps data transfer upload rate (128 kbps recommended)

Supported video cards at time of release:

ATI Radeon 8500/9000/X families
NVIDIA GeForce 3/4/FX/6 families (GeForce 4 MX not supported)

Laptop versions of these chipsets may work but are not supported

NOTICE: This game contains technology intended to prevent copying that may conflict with some CD-RW, DVD-RW, and virtual drives.

wait this game already out? wow...i din see any official news. lol...this cannot be! I've been tracking the game! lol...
maybe they will release a patch to disable SM3 for lower end cards? lol...ubi games are full of suprises...

Sorry if this has already been posted and debunked i just did a quick search on the forums. Anyways as with all splinter cell games i usually try to tweak the ini file to get the best visual quality i can but it seems with Double Agent im trying to get the best performance Smile. Well looking through the ini file (C:\Program Files\Ubisoft\Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Double Agent\SCDA-Offline\System\SplinterCell4.ini) i found a line near the top called SimpleShader the default value is set to false so i just quickly turned it to true. I noticed a increase in performance but you do disable some nice eye candy like the reflections on the ice in the first mission (but i can live with that). So i was hoping that someone on the community with a 2.0b shader card can give this fix a little shot and see what comes out of it. Also to anyone who has a widescreen monitor you can manually change the res in the ini as well just do a search for (FullscreenViewportX, FullscreenViewporty) and change it to desired resolution. well hope that helps some of you out.

His problem was solved in the very first reply.

Now, let's continue the derailment

i using 7300gt also can't install langsung..ahiz

why this occur ?

so far i dont get any crash or lag  but    i cant get the sound sumhow the sound juz faded when i start the game any ideas wat 2 do? the sound only at the title screen after that pusss...GONE!
my rig:
Intel Core Duo E6600
Gigabyte DS4
512 x 2 Corsair XMS DDRII
MSI 7600GT

Apparently the game cannot be installed on any drive other than C:

I uninstalled it from my main game drive and installed it in its default location on C: and now I have all sound and audio.

no use still no sound..  

Medium to high-range PC owners are used to geting way better looking games vs. console versions. Previously this was because PC games were boosted PS2/XBOX ports.

That era is over and PC games are now ports of X360 versions and can't look as good as them because the difference in hardware is huge.

However PC users should not throw themselves out the window yet, as usual with every console cycle, PC will gain back their technological advantage. It's just a question of time.

Back to SCDA PC, the job of the team consisted in two main goals:

1 - Be as close as possible to the X360 version on high end configurations. The end result is that the PC game is identical in content to the 360. No cut scenes, missions or gameplay elements have been cut from the version. Running on a high end PC the two game versions are VERY similar. Keep in mind that the 360 has 3 CPU's at 3.2Ghz and that the PC game runs on 1 CPU at 3Ghz.

2 - Bring the minimum specs as low as possible without losing too much of the X360 game experience = result is we could achieve the attached min specs. If you compare those specs to X360 specs, you can understand the work that was accomplished. There's been lots of questions about the SM 3.0 only support, well the answer is no, we could not have supported those cards without altering the X360 game experience. We wish we could have though, but no. And no, there will be no patch to enable this, because it's about redoing all the shaders of the whole game...