Yes, I have been able to run the game without mods. And my equipment specs are: AMD Dual-Core Processer A4-3305M 2.50GHZ. AMD Radeon HD 6480G (512 MB) 4 GB DDR3 Ram And the only backround programs I usually have open is STEAM, Teamspeak, and or Firefox http://i39.tinypic.com/nnuxpc.png.