The latest development blog entry over at the official community site for Splash Damage's Enemy Territory: Quake Wars sheds some new light on the PC demo set to arrive Monday, September 10.

Containing the rebalanced Valley Map--complete with myriad of tweaks based on beta feedback--the demo includes bot support as well as online and LAN functionality. It also features the same XP, weapons balance, player movement, and vehicle handling properties that will be in the final game when it hits Europe on September 28 and North America on October 2.

The system requirements for the demo are as follows:

SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS

• Microsoft(R) Windows(R) XP/Vista (Windows 95/98/ME/2000 are unsupported)
• Microsoft DirectX(R) 9.0c (included)

HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS

• CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 2.8 GHz or AMD(R) Athlon(TM) XP 2800+ processor (Pentium 4 3.0GHz or equivalent for Windows Vista)
• RAM: 512MB RAM (768MB for Windows Vista)
• Video Card: 128MB NVIDIA(R) Geforce(TM) 5700 or ATI(TM) Radeon(TM) 9700 (full list of supported chipsets below)
• Sound Card: 100% DirectX 9.0c compatible sound card
• HDD Space: 750MB of free hard drive space, plus 200MB for Windows swap file
• Internet: Broadband connection and service required for full gameplay and downloads. Features may change without notice.

SUPPORTED VIDEO CHIPSETS

• NVIDIA GeforceFX Series (5700 or higher, not including 5700LE and 5700VE)
• NVIDIA Geforce 6 Series (6200 or higher) NVIDIA Geforce 7 Series (7300 or higher)
• NVIDIA Geforce 8 Series
• ATI Radeon 9700 or higher
• ATI Radeon X700 or higher
• ATI Radeon X1650 or higher