Predicted witcher 3 system specs? Can I run it .

[trippledouble]

Do you think a i3-2120 3.30GHz will be good enough for w3? Rest of my system is 8gm ram, Radeon R9 200
W2 runs with all settings maxed at 1920x1080.
I'm kind of nervous to pre-order because if my i3 cant run the game at 1920 then id rather just get it on ps4 despite playing the other two games on pc.

 

[GuyNwah]

Do you think a i3-2120 3.30GHz will be good enough for w3? Rest of my system is 8gm ram, Radeon R9 200
W2 runs with all settings maxed at 1920x1080.
I'm kind of nervous to pre-order because if my i3 cant run the game at 1920 then id rather just get it on ps4 despite playing the other two games on pc.

I couldn't say for sure, because nobody has much of a feel for how much this game (comparisons to other games don't shed any light on how this one might perform) is going to load the CPU. I'm going to be one of the first to find out when it comes out, since I have both that same Core i3 and a 2-core Haswell ready to run it, but I have to wait for general availability like everybody else.

Core i3's a better risk than dual-core "Pentium" processors, because the CPU uses the extra thread contexts efficiently.

 

[Dovah94]

Hello everyone...
I see that you discuss about PC requirements, and I'd love to hear your opinions about this.
Witcher 3 use the same engine as 2 am I right? The difference is that the new version of this engine supports an open world and more detailed graphic as we expected.
I dont know why, but something tells me that Witcher 3 dont be uber demanding If optimization be good. At one interview, member of CDPR said that if we have GTX 660 we can go on High quality. Here is the link, watch on 3:00 min when he say that: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEFBVIKrKco
So what do you think about this PC_ Understand that I do not have it but I plan to buy something similar if iI get money.
CPU: Intel i5 3570 (3,4 GHz) or AMD FX 8350 (4 GHz) I dont know.
MBO: I dont know
RAM: 16 GB 1600 MHz
GPU: GTX 770 4 GB - I think that this GPU is a beast and it will max out (just turn off ubersampling) Witcher 3 on 1920x1080 - 30 FPS for me is good but not under that.
Feel free to talk about this, I just hope that these CPUs are good enough for this card.

Why not more answers on this? 30 FPS is not enough for GTX 770 on 1920x1080 with Intel i5 3570, am I wrong? Will this PC be good for that? Dont be bottleneck on CPU-GPU?

 

[eskiMoe]

Why not more answers on this? 30 FPS is not enough for GTX 770 on 1920x1080 with Intel i5 3570, am I wrong? Will this PC be good for that? Dont be bottleneck on CPU-GPU?

 

[theLaughingStorm.108]

MFAA anti aliasing is available now with nvidia cards. It is the equivalent of 4x MSAA but with a smaller performance hit. Wonder if the witcher will support it? Would make maxing the game out easier.

 

[GuyNwah]

Why not more answers on this? 30 FPS is not enough for GTX 770 on 1920x1080 with Intel i5 3570, am I wrong? Will this PC be good for that? Dont be bottleneck on CPU-GPU?

No more answers because there are no public, reliable answers. I asked about possible resource bottlenecks recently. The answer I got was that my question can't be answered yet.

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MFAA anti aliasing is available now with nvidia cards. It is the equivalent of 4x MSAA but with a smaller performance hit. Wonder if the witcher will support it? Would make maxing the game out easier.

I'm not putting a lot of faith in MFAA. Wherever it's been implemented, it has caused objectionable artifacts, including the digital counterpart of rolling shutter distortion.

 

[trippledouble]

Hmm I hope preorder bonus's don't end before system requirements are announced lol

 

[theLaughingStorm.108]

I'm not putting a lot of faith in MFAA. Wherever it's been implemented, it has caused objectionable artifacts, including the digital counterpart of rolling shutter distortion.

Drats... I was sort of excited about this.

 

[tahirahmed]

Why not more answers on this? 30 FPS is not enough for GTX 770 on 1920x1080 with Intel i5 3570, am I wrong? Will this PC be good for that? Dont be bottleneck on CPU-GPU?

1) An i5 3570 has better gaming performance than FX 8350 so if gaming is your prime activity for this system then get i5.

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/701?vs=697

2) You don't know Mobo in this configuration or you want an advice ?
3) 16 GB Ram is a bit overkill at the moment, you should be safe with 8 GB.
4) GTX 770 with 4 GB vram is good but if you want to be more future proof then invest in a GTX 970 which is several times better than a GTX 770.

From what I see on newegg, there is not much difference between the prices of GTX 770 and GTX 970 so why not get a GTX 970 ? the amount you save by reducing 8 GB ram could be invested here.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...ATCH&Description=GTX+770+4+GB&N=-1&isNodeId=1

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...BESTMATCH&Description=GTX+970&N=-1&isNodeId=1

 

[Doctalen]

Why not more answers on this? 30 FPS is not enough for GTX 770 on 1920x1080 with Intel i5 3570, am I wrong? Will this PC be good for that? Dont be bottleneck on CPU-GPU?

I have a 770 2GB (Pretty sure the 770 can't effectively use 4GBs) and I can max out TW2 at 60FPS without ubersampling. With ubersampling I get about a stable 35FPS in the arena.

I'm confident about maxing out TW3 with no ubersampling at 1080p 60FPS. I think people are kind of blowing how the game looks graphically out of proportion. It certainly looks great, but it's not the next Crysis 1 like some people are acting like. At least, going from the screenshots it's not. Maybe those great looking PS4 shots are actually low settings and max settings is some amazing thing. I wouldn't get hopes up for that though

These are my full specs. I don't think you'll need 16GB of RAM unless you do certain types of work.

This is actually a 4690k, no idea why it doesn't display the K

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Also, yes. GET A 970. Same price but a better card. I'm happy with my 770 but take advantage of advancing technology. No reason not to get a 970 unless it costs more where you live.

 

[Dovah94]

1) An i5 3570 has better gaming performance than FX 8350 so if gaming is your prime activity for this system then get i5.

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/701?vs=697

2) You don't know Mobo in this configuration or you want an advice ?
3) 16 GB Ram is a bit overkill at the moment, you should be safe with 8 GB.
4) GTX 770 with 4 GB vram is good but if you want to be more future proof then invest in a GTX 970 which is several times better than a GTX 770.

From what I see on newegg, there is not much difference between the prices of GTX 770 and GTX 970 so why not get a GTX 970 ? the amount you save by reducing 8 GB ram could be invested here.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...ATCH&Description=GTX+770+4+GB&N=-1&isNodeId=1

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...BESTMATCH&Description=GTX+970&N=-1&isNodeId=1

Thank you for your answer.
1) I hear that Intel i5 3570 (not K) has better gaming performance than AMD FX 8350, but I dont know how? This AMD CPU has more cores, more GHz, more L2-L3 cache, and even its cheaper.
2) Any advice can help me. What about this MBO: Asus P8Z77-M, s1156?
3) If you say so. Witcher 3 has no loading screen and it looks better than everything that I see in my life, so I was thinking that more RAM could bee helpful.
4) GTX 970 is beast as I can see. What about MSI GTX 970? Is it much worse tha Asus for example?

 

[jediknight16]

You should take a look here http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-graphics-card-review,3107.html and there. Look over the internet there are plenty websites reviewing hardware, will help you decide what you want to buy.
Like I said previously, if you want to upgrade especially for The Witcher 3, I'd recommend you to wait until February before buying anything. Why ? Because in three months prices won't be the same first, and nvidia and amd might launch new gpus in December. By the time we'll probably have official required specifications and you'll have time to put money aside.

 

[Neeedles]

My question isnt really about the requirements coz i just dont care as i will get a GTX970 for this game and have an i5 4670, so im pretty sure it will run pretty well. My question is if there will be any ambient occlusion in the game. You know SSAO, HBAO+ and such, as these make games look a lot better to my eye, and from the screenshots and videos it seems that there is no such thing present in the game as of yet. Maybe it will be added later? Does anybody know?? Its not really that important but id just like to know, thanks.

 

[Vigilance.492]

Considering that CDPR is implementing a lot of Nvidia technology in TW3... I'd be willing to bet money that at the very least HBAO+ will be an option.

 

[GuyNwah]

Thank you for your answer.
1) I hear that Intel i5 3570 (not K) has better gaming performance than AMD FX 8350, but I dont know how? This AMD CPU has more cores, more GHz, more L2-L3 cache, and even its cheaper.
2) Any advice can help me. What about this MBO: Asus P8Z77-M, s1156?
3) If you say so. Witcher 3 has no loading screen and it looks better than everything that I see in my life, so I was thinking that more RAM could bee helpful.
4) GTX 970 is beast as I can see. What about MSI GTX 970? Is it much worse tha Asus for example?

The AMD FX's 8 "cores" are not much more real than the 8 hyperthread "cores" of the Intel Core i7. They share too many resources to be counted as separate cores. They are basically two integer units and everything else (including the instruction decoder) shared. They can't be scheduled as separate cores.

So we're talking about competitive 4-core systems. Now the Core i5 has _much_ faster L2 and L3 cache, and faster instruction execution overall. A 4 GHz FX is much slower than a 3.4 GHz Core i5. Hell, it's slower than a Core i3.

Where the AMD FX can catch up is in two kinds of application: applications that are intentionally written to make full use of its facilities (so forget any games or just about anything written for Windows), and applications that are memory-bound and not compute-bound.

Sandy Bridge (2xxx) and Ivy Bridge (3xxx) need socket LGA 1155 (not LGA 1156, which is only for the now-obsolete Nehalem). The ASUS P8Z77-M you mention is actually LGA 1155 and will take a 3570 just fine. It's a nice motherboard, if you want or need the micro-ATX form factor.

 

[Jimbob_2.1]

Hey guys, I'm relativity new to PC gaming (i made the switch not long after the next gen consoles were released).

Looking through this thread recently i haven't got a clue what you're on about sometimes but i'm really interested in learning more. I just get my brother to sort all my computer stuff out for me at the moment but obviously i can't rely on him forever.

So does anyone know any good websites or you tube channels that could just teach me a bit more about pc gaming or just computers in general so i can handle everything myself. I'd prefer not to pay for anything but I wouldn't mind paying a bit if you know it's pretty good.

 

[Tracido]

The AMD FX's 8 "cores" are not much more real than the 8 hyperthread "cores" of the Intel Core i7. They share too many resources to be counted as separate cores. They are basically two integer units and everything else (including the instruction decoder) shared. They can't be scheduled as separate cores.

So we're talking about competitive 4-core systems. Now the Core i5 has _much_ faster L2 and L3 cache, and faster instruction execution overall. A 4 GHz FX is much slower than a 3.4 GHz Core i5. Hell, it's slower than a Core i3.

Where the AMD FX can catch up is in two kinds of application: applications that are intentionally written to make full use of its facilities (so forget any games or just about anything written for Windows), and applications that are memory-bound and not compute-bound.

Sandy Bridge (2xxx) and Ivy Bridge (3xxx) need socket LGA 1155 (not LGA 1156, which is only for the now-obsolete Nehalem). The ASUS P8Z77-M you mention is actually LGA 1155 and will take a 3570 just fine. It's a nice motherboard, if you want or need the micro-ATX form factor.

This, this is why I had to go Intel this time, they (AMD current CPU tech) just got way too far behind, and my games needed dependable processing power. However, because I use my PC's for a lot more than games and multitask like crazy, it had to be a CPU I could count on, which is why I went for 6 multi-threaded cores this time. Have not once regretted that decision.

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Hey guys, I'm relativity new to PC gaming (i made the switch not long after the next gen consoles were released).

Looking through this thread recently i haven't got a clue what you're on about sometimes but i'm really interested in learning more. I just get my brother to sort all my computer stuff out for me at the moment but obviously i can't rely on him forever.

So does anyone know any good websites or you tube channels that could just teach me a bit more about pc gaming or just computers in general so i can handle everything myself. I'd prefer not to pay for anything but I wouldn't mind paying a bit if you know it's pretty good.

Here's a good site to see if parts are even basically compatible, and to update sale prices...

I mean, not sure what you can do other than become close to google on each part, but just offering an attempt to help. https://pcpartpicker.com/

It helped me on this last build, but I also had to just flat out research like mad, all there is to it. Good luck.

 

[serxho92]

i couldn't agree more. I see people exaggerating with the graphics expectations for the game.

 

[Jimbob_2.1]

https://pcpartpicker.com/[/url]

It helped me on this last build, but I also had to just flat out research like mad, all there is to it. Good luck.

Thanks for the reply but i have a PC, i used pc specialist witch tells you if the parts are compatible before you buy it.

I was thinking of something that could just give me a better understanding of PCs that i could apply to gaming in order to better maintain my pc, make better purchasing decisions in the future , or understand what the people are are talking about sometimes that kinda thing.

you know about anything that can help with that?

 

[Tracido]

Thanks for the reply but i have a PC, i used pc specialist witch tells you if the parts are compatible before you buy it.

I was thinking of something that could just give me a better understanding of PCs that i could apply to gaming in order to better maintain my pc, make better purchasing decisions in the future , or understand what the people are are talking about sometimes that kinda thing.

you know about anything that can help with that?

Oh, I wish, I wished I could have waited a little bit, as the R9 290x's came way down in price and Nvidia released the 980 at a ridonkulous price compared to when I might have jumped, they were charging hundreds more for the equivalent, not even a few months later, this. My point here is very simple, it changes so damn fast you can never be 100%, just know there's always something competitive around the corner and the only thing you will need to be certain of is CPU, for now, it is Intel, and done, but that's why the price will not be nice, monopolies do that... Just find out all you can, and try to look at updates. That' s the best advice I can give.