Predicted witcher 3 system specs? Can I run it .

[GuyNwah]

Hard to say. Not many multithreaded programs actually manage core affinity: they make a thread ready to run, and the next available core runs it. To keep eight cores busy enough that the game will perform better with eight cores than with four, you need to have 5 to 7 (or more) compute-bound threads working.

Before DX11 and Mantle, there wasn't support for multiple threads communicating with the GPU (OpenGL experts will correct me if I'm wrong, but I think OpenGL is still restricted to drawing from one thread at a time). DX11 and Mantle provide multiple thread-parallel contexts on the GPU, allowing more than one thread to send rendering commands to the GPU. This means, for example, you can render background, foreground, actors, and lighting from different threads and let the driver and the GPU integrate them.

This opens up a lot more potential for generating enough multithreaded load to keep 8-bogocore or 8-real-core CPUs fully occupied. Whether the game will take advantage of that is a question only the engine developers could answer directly.

 

[belegdol]

How about 680M? This is the best I can upgrade my P150HM to. The alternative is to get an entirely new laptop, but because of Haswell/20 nm Maxwell delays it seems unlikely anything worthwhile will be available before 2015.

 

[SEBZxELITE]

How about a GTX 770 (maybe SLI in the future)
amd fx8350 (may overclock)
8gb ddr3 1600mhz

I really hope this game will use 8 cores, and judging on the fact that the PS4 uses 8 cores this only increases the chances that the PC version will.

 

[SEBZxELITE]

How about 680M? This is the best I can upgrade my P150HM to. The alternative is to get an entirely new laptop, but because of Haswell/20 nm Maxwell delays it seems unlikely anything worthwhile will be available before 2015.

Dude, ditch your laptop and custom build/
//Join the master race

 

[pulseangel666]

Not everyone have to Money to do that matee

 

[Elegast7]

Not everyone have to Money to do that matee

Custom build desktops are a lot cheaper then laptops, you can get a gaming pc that can run TW3 for less then 500 euros.

 

[tommy5761]

Come now fellas let`s not turn this into a PC vs laptop debate . Some prefer laptops while others desktops .

 

[Trevonn]

Can I run the game?
GPU HD 5870 1GB
4GB RAM
CPU I5 2500

 

[GuyNwah]

Can I run the game?
GPU HD 5870 1GB
4GB RAM
CPU I5 2500

I would think it will run it handily. The 5870 was stronger than any except the top-of-the-line nVidia cards (480, 580, 680) and about the equal of the current 7870 and R9 270. If there's anything you might want to do, it's raise system RAM to 8GB and make sure you run a good optimizing defragmenter over your disk.

 

[kay019]

How badly will my dell xps do?

GPU processor: GeForce GT 420M
CPU: Intel Core i3
RAM: 4Gb

 

[metaldog601]

With the information you gave, i dont think you will able to run it at medium. Depend the clock speed of your CPU i'd say between low and med.

(Sorry if my english is bad, im not very familiar with)

 

[kay019]

Well under "Processor" on dxdiag it says M370 @2.40GHz (4 CPUs). Frankly I'll just be glad to run it at all. Thanks.

 

[metaldog601]

Ok just for you information, your processor dont have 4 "real" CPUs. Its have two "physical" core and two "logical" core in. So the total of power you have is equal to : 2.4GHz * number of physical core(2) = 4.8GHz of power. Another exemple, my Processor is an I7-3820 3.6GHz. It have 4 "physical" core and 4 "logical" core. Using the same mathematic formula : 3.6GHz * number of physical core (4) = 14.4GHz of power.

But to return with your question i think you will be able to run it, but it will be at low. If CDPR make a really good optimization, maybe you wil get between low and medium. If you have any other question, feel free to ask!

 

[ezhlol]

@metaldog601 This is BS, sorry but there's no such thing as core number * frequency = cpu power.
A 14.4 GHZ CPU would be really fast to execute a task, but would get slower for multitask use. Your 4 core 3.6 ghz would be way faster in a multitask context.
so 3.6 * 4 cpu != 14.4 cpu
Logical core only mean his cpu can execute 2 extra threads at the same time (+2 from the 2 physical core).

Core number and cpu frequency don't have the same purpose

 

[metaldog601]

Yea sry about that, after reading again my post, i dont even understand why i wrote this xD. The thing that i wanted to say was 2 core at 2.4GHz would be sufficient for low settings or maybe between low and medium if well optimize. But seriously i REALLY dont understand what i've wrote so sry for the misunderstanding!

 

[GuyNwah]

The processor (Core i3 370M) is the lesser concern here. (Literally, it's a 2-core 4-thread CPU, because Intel hyperthreading can interleave 2 threads onto 1 core.)

The GPU (nVidia 420M) is the one that concerns me. That's a GF108 chip with only 4 output processors and a 500 MHz core clock. It's just a fraction of even the playable minimum for TW2, and I don't think it will come close to the minimum for TW3.

 

[kay019]

I'm able to run TW2 at medium settings with a decent framerate. Would suck if I can't run TW3 at all but maybe its time to upgrade anyway. I've had my laptop for 4 years now.

 

[GuyNwah]

I'm able to run TW2 at medium settings with a decent framerate. Would suck if I can't run TW3 at all but maybe its time to upgrade anyway. I've had my laptop for 4 years now.

That's better than I thought you could get out of that GPU. Maybe TW3 would be a decent risk. I can't say for sure until I have my hands on the game and can test it with some lesser GPUs.

Your CPU is a bit old and slow, but I've had TW2 working well with much less. Good luck.

 

[SEBZxELITE]

PC optimization - 8 cores - SLI - Crossfire - RAM

So do you guys think that the game will use any of these things?
-8 Cores (at least 6)
-A lot of ram or vram
-SLI or Crossfire

I think so. The Witcher is known to be very well optimized.
-Since the PS4 has 8 cores i think the PC version will use 8 too.
-Vram seems to be very crucial these days. (Battlefield 4, Metro)
-Most AAA games support at least 2 way SLI.

Opinions ?? I personally cant wait for the 3rd Witcher game

 

[GuyNwah]

No; I think they will try to make the game run on PCs that people don't have to spend a thousand (dollars, euros, pounds) to outfit for the game. I think the game will run well on systems that have 8 cores, 16 GB RAM, 4 GB VRAM, or SLI or Crossfire, but none of these would be required for anything short of highest settings and a high to ultra-high resolution display.

Spending a lot of money on big iron is easy. It takes no thought; it only takes money. There are two problems with doing so: one, you don't have the money anymore, because you spent it; two, you get in the mindset of thinking the developers must cater to you because you spent all that money.

I strongly doubt they would develop anything that would run poorly on 4 cores compared to 8, or even on 1GB VRAM compared to 2.