The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt system requirements will test even the biggest of rigs - Sensationalist Headlines

Welp, time to uninstall some games.

[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;46878496]I wonder what they need 40gig of space for, I really hope it's just a LOT and LOT of content and not OH LOOK YOU CAN SEE THE BACTERIUM ON THIS TEXTURE, mainly when since it's a Witcher game there's going to be a brutal sharpening filter over everything anyway.[/QUOTE] They said hundreds of times the world is going to be massive with more than 100 hours of content. Compare that to COD games that have 5-6 hour campaigns and you have no reason to complain about 40 GB. Witcher 1 was 10 GB and it was just one town and its outskirts.

recommended is only a 770? I guess the downgrade was real

why do games recommend i7s? is tw3 really gong to make use of hyper threading? If not then my 980/i5-3570k are ready

[QUOTE=redBadger;46878460]No ones bitching about 40 gig of storage? That's a first[/QUOTE] Typically it's less than advertised. But also W3 is a huge world, tons of detail. Kind of reasonable it would be a big game.

40GB is nothing new. AC Unity was that, and some other, older games too.

Dammit, I was really looking forward to this but I have a 6870 :(

Does anyone else think these "requirements" are exaggerated? Everything I've played on my new computer runs perfectly and I can even run some games at 4K, with only a i5 and a 970.

I'm all for beefy games that push hardware limits. But come on, why make a game that even a mini reactor can't run out of the gate.

[QUOTE=The Janitor;46879730]Does anyone else think these "requirements" are exaggerated? Everything I've played on my new computer runs perfectly and I can even run some games at 4K, with only a i5 and a 970.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=Richardroth;46879794]I'm all for beefy games that push hardware limits. But come on, why make a game that even a mini reactor can't run out of the gate.[/QUOTE] I don't see what is the problem here ? FX-8350 is a relatively cheap old processor now from 2012 and the recommended GPUs are from late 2013. I think you can build a new PC for under 800$(not counting Windows) to run this on recommended. I'm not saying 800$ is not much, but it's not 2000$ much.

[QUOTE=The Janitor;46879730]Does anyone else think these "requirements" are exaggerated? Everything I've played on my new computer runs perfectly and I can even run some games at 4K, with only a i5 and a 970.[/QUOTE] It's better to overstate the requirements than to understate them and get a lot of angry people who can't play the game that the box says they can play.

I just hope my 7850 can pull through. At least new video games look really good running on lowest settings. Even just looking like TW2 is really good

I meet all of these requirements and I have been considering that it's time for an upgrade LOL

[QUOTE=redBadger;46878460]No ones bitching about 40 gig of storage? That's a first[/QUOTE] It's fine for open world games to have large size requirements. There's usually a lot of stuff in them. When a short linear game requires 40GB *cough*CoDGhosts*cough* there's a problem.

[QUOTE=redBadger;46878460]No ones bitching about 40 gig of storage? That's a first[/QUOTE] It's a big open world game so it's justified. I bitch when linear FPSes take 50 GB for no reason.

Tbh I expected heavier requirements

These requirements don't really make any sense to me. What does minimum requirements even mean these days?

I'm glad I upgraded my computer, I'm over the recommended requirements and I've got the collector's edition pre-ordered. Gonna be a good day when it's released.

[QUOTE=The Janitor;46879730]Does anyone else think these "requirements" are exaggerated? Everything I've played on my new computer runs perfectly and I can even run some games at 4K, with only a i5 and a 970.[/QUOTE] Tbh a 970 is quite high end right now. Note these benchmarks, for the [URL="http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/gpu.php?gpu=GeForce+GTX+970"]970[/URL] versus their ~[URL="http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/gpu.php?gpu=GeForce+GTX+770"]recommended[/URL]~

I find it weird that the i5-2500k is the minimum. I have mine OC'd to 4.4GHz and it trucks along extremely happy and I've yet to have a CPU-related FPS drop.

[QUOTE=Scratch.;46876732]number means nothing much post Ghz[/QUOTE] what. don't post about things when you're absolutely clueless [editline]9th January 2015[/editline] [QUOTE=Protocol7;46885771]I find it weird that the i5-2500k is the minimum. I have mine OC'd to 4.4GHz and it trucks along extremely happy and I've yet to have a CPU-related FPS drop.[/QUOTE] yeah, unless it absolutely relies on a massive amount of threads, it'll handle it more than good oh, and by the way for those who wondered, a GTX 760 = ~ GTX 660Ti, so just barely above the minimum requirements in this case. A GTX 770 = ~ GTX 680

Damn.i i have the first 2 for steam. well looks like i have to get it for consoles then since I am still running e8500 with a 750

I'll be just fine with my GTX 780, but my FX 8150 will be somewhere between minimum and recommended. If I'm to guess TW3 will run mostly medium @ 1080p.