Minimum System Requirements are the *very* minimum specs that your computer needs to run the software. If you try to use the program when your computer does not meet the minimum system requirements, you will experience a wide array of unpredictable results.

Minimum:

• Operating System: Windows 98/ME/XP with DirectX: 8.1
• Processor: Pentium III 800MHz or 100% compatible processor
• RAM: 256 Mb
• Hard Drive Space: 200/500 MB Free (online/box version)
• Drives: 4X CD-ROM
• Display: 256 Colors or Higher
• Graphics Card: 32 MB 3D Video Accelerator with T&L and DirectX 8.1 compliant video drivers (Recommended: 32 MB 3D accelerator with DirectX 8.1 compliant video drivers)
• Sound Card: DirectX 8.1 compatible sound card
• Other: Mouse

• New generation of Prism3D engine is used, with a lot of improvements and total overwrites of several areas.
• The game world covers continental US from coast to coast, and several locations in Canada and Mexico.
• Border checkpoint included in game
• One big map is available in the game. The map is quite bigger than the one in Across America.
• The number of cities has increased (30) as well as the mesh of connecting roads, and the resulting world is really huge.
• You can choose up to 35 trucks.
• You can dispatch 45 cargo types.
• The roads more or less is based on real road network.
• The hidden roads, short cuts are available.
• The improved world editor is once again a part of the game's executable.
• Police AI and car AI was rewritten.
• Dashboard HUD has "Motor Brake" indicator now.
• Eight camera viewpoints.
• Weather forecast is included on the map.
• Low beam and full beam mode inluded by pressing [L] key.
• New physics and collision system is rewritten.
• The handling of the trucks has been completely redone for the new game.
• You can be an employee driving for another company, and the AI boss would command you around. You can become independent owner-operator in control of your fortune, and you can also progress to become an owner of your own big trucking business with other drivers working for you.
• Sleeping time come back but only as an option to switch on/off based on the player's preferences, just as several other simulation features that can be toggled on and off.
• Vast majority of the elements in the environment is rebuilt from scratch, so you can indeed expect to run into a whole lot of new things.