Empire: Total War System Requirements

Empire: Total War Minimum System Requirements

Windows XP Service Pack 2 or Windows Vista
CPU: 2.4 GHz Intel Pentium (or AMD Athlon equivalent CPU)
RAM: 1 GB RAM ( for XP) or 2 GB RAM (for Vista)

Video: 100% DirectX 9.0c compatible hardware accelerated video card with shader version 2.0 support, 256 MB video memory / minimum screen resolution of 1024 x 768 pixels
Directx9.0c compatible sound card 
HDD: 15 GB