Maybe I am underestimating how good they are, maybe they can work miracles. I'm just going on experience, which has taught me that these things don't happen. Better hardware down the line won't make any difference, there will always be better hardware, the required specs won't change. My fear is they are keeping quiet because the requirements are so high, most people with current hardware won't get to enjoy the game the way the developers intended.
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I am not going to state that we should expect miracles but I do assume that a several month delay and the fact that it is their engine does help a fair bit optimisation wise. The required specs would indeed not change but a new line of gpu's would make reaching said requirements a fair bit easier/cheaper than now, so why not wait? That fear may very well be true, I remember when the original Crysis came out and there simply was nothing on the market that could truly max that game. I am not saying that it will be similar here but I would not count it out either.
Oh I remember Crysis! It was two years after the games release before the hardware finally caught up, and that was SLI crossfire rigs, not single cards.
Yeah, but releasing the requirements now won't make any difference if there is new hardware available by release date, whether they release it now or not, the costs will still be the same. I just feel they could tell us already, at least then it might not be such a disappointment for anybody not running a 780Ti tri-SLI rig, when they get a slideshow on max settings.
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And where does this 780Ti SLI comming from?
Even if its true, it doesnt mean that you will need those to run the game at that level...
I'm speculating, this should be obvious. Without the requirements being released, that's all anybody can do, hence why I would like to have them.
Although all we can do is guess, it is fair to assume that two very expensive gpu's might be a bit much.
I hope so, as I said, I have to wait for the GTX 880s, and they may not be released before Witcher 3. My SLI 580s are easily more powerful than the consoles GPUs, so hopefully I'll be able to max it out at a reasonable resolution.
I wonder if my i5 2500k 4.5Ghz, 8GB ram and my future 780ti will manage to run this game at high settings at least.
These are my PC specs:
CPU: Intel Core i7-3770 3.40 GHz
GPU: GeForce GTX 660 MSI OC 2GB
MB: MSI ZH77A-G41
RAM: 8GB DDR3 1600 MHz (2x4GB Kingston HyperX)
HDD: 1000TB Seagate 7200rpm
I can run Witcher 2 at 1080p and maximum settings(without ubersampling) at 60 FPS (and possibly more, FRAPS won't go over 60 FPS) at almost all times.
With ubersampling turned on though it dips to only 20-25 FPS.
What are my options for Witcher 3 with my current PC configuration?
Also I was planning on replacing the GPU with GTX 860 or GTX 860 Ti next year. Would that be enough to run W3 at near top settings?
CPU: Intel Core i7-3770 3.40 GHz
GPU: GeForce GTX 660 MSI OC 2GB
MB: MSI ZH77A-G41
RAM: 8GB DDR3 1600 MHz (2x4GB Kingston HyperX)
HDD: 1000TB Seagate 7200rpm
I can run Witcher 2 at 1080p and maximum settings(without ubersampling) at 60 FPS (and possibly more, FRAPS won't go over 60 FPS) at almost all times.
With ubersampling turned on though it dips to only 20-25 FPS.
What are my options for Witcher 3 with my current PC configuration?
Also I was planning on replacing the GPU with GTX 860 or GTX 860 Ti next year. Would that be enough to run W3 at near top settings?
We don't know when we will get the second-generation Maxwells, so planning on them is just as risky as guessing the game's requirements.
The 660 is a cut-down design; even a 670 or 760 is a step up. But this talk of needing a 780Ti or 780's in SLI is making me nervous. It's all based on guesses, but I hear people talking about spending six hundred to more than a thousand dollars because others have convinced them that that is what they need to be prepared for a game whose requirements have not been announced, and this makes me very, very nervous.
Talk is cheap when you're telling somebody else how to spend their own money. I'm not going to do it, and I'm going to suggest that others do the same.
The 660 is a cut-down design; even a 670 or 760 is a step up. But this talk of needing a 780Ti or 780's in SLI is making me nervous. It's all based on guesses, but I hear people talking about spending six hundred to more than a thousand dollars because others have convinced them that that is what they need to be prepared for a game whose requirements have not been announced, and this makes me very, very nervous.
Talk is cheap when you're telling somebody else how to spend their own money. I'm not going to do it, and I'm going to suggest that others do the same.
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Crysis 3 is not a good example anymore, imo; it's kinda old now
my laptop can run Crysis 3 High/Very High settings too, but I have to play Watch_Dogs at low setting
intel(R) core(TM) i7-3630QM CPU @ 2.40GHz
8GB RAM, Win7-64 bit
GTX 660M 2GB
For which quality? Ultra settings in 4k?
You definitely won't need a setup like that for being able to play Witcher 3 on high-ultra settings in 1080p. I will guarantee you that.
I agree with you, though I and many others make a habit of stating in every post that it is our opinion and not based on facts of any kind. I would also assume that people do more research than just a few forum peeps before making a thousand dollar purchase of any kind. This thread is about speculation and not giving your opinion/advice out of fear that somebody might agree and act upon it makes for a difficult discussion. Your point is valid but at some point you have to trust the readers of this topic too.
@501105 Speculation itself may do no harm, but we see a lot of posts from people coming here asking for advice and being told it WILL require (insert some crazy big iron requirement).
Nothing about speculating, nothing about it being an opinion, nothing about the fact that the specs haven't been revealed yet, just a statement presented as fact. Those posters are doing their fellow gamers, and CDPR, a disservice by making this kind of comment, and I, like Guy, wish that they wouldn't.
If you want to help, help us to make sure that opinions are indicated as such.
Nothing about speculating, nothing about it being an opinion, nothing about the fact that the specs haven't been revealed yet, just a statement presented as fact. Those posters are doing their fellow gamers, and CDPR, a disservice by making this kind of comment, and I, like Guy, wish that they wouldn't.
If you want to help, help us to make sure that opinions are indicated as such.
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Well, you still have to watch recent games. Watch_Dogs dips under 60 FPS even on a i7 with a 780Ti and also has stutter since it uses more than 3 GB of Vram in some situations. (1080p)For which quality? Ultra settings in 4k?
You definitely won't need a setup like that for being able to play Witcher 3 on high-ultra settings in 1080p. I will guarantee you that.
You could now say "but CDPR is better than Ubisoft"... but since TW3 seems to look a lot better than WD and also is a bigger game, you might run into similar problem though. Optimization cant make up everything.
It is very well known that Ubisoft is just terrible at PC ports and all they release is poorly optimized(if at all) games, it's been like this for several years and Watch_Dogs performance was no surprise.
That's stretching it a bit too thinly. You really can't compare the two, at all.
I hope hat I can run it at least like Witcher 2 Graphics (~ low-mid setting) with my current hardware:
HD6870
Core 2 Duo E8400
4GB RAM
until I can upgrade it next year (summer), depending on what new GPU and CPU are coming, hopefully I won't have to wait long after W3 release if I have to wait at all.
HD6870
Core 2 Duo E8400
4GB RAM
until I can upgrade it next year (summer), depending on what new GPU and CPU are coming, hopefully I won't have to wait long after W3 release if I have to wait at all.
The thing atm that really worries me and is making me hold off upgrading my PC is the current situation with CPUs (and RAM).
With the new consoles having 8-core CPUs I don't want to end up with an obsolete Quad core i5/7 and in a year or two needing to replace mobo, memory & CPU because of it.
But at least Broadwell is coming before Christmas:
http://www.itpro.co.uk/mobile/22111/intel-broadwell-release-date-specs
Ayone else in the same boat?
With the new consoles having 8-core CPUs I don't want to end up with an obsolete Quad core i5/7 and in a year or two needing to replace mobo, memory & CPU because of it.
But at least Broadwell is coming before Christmas:
http://www.itpro.co.uk/mobile/22111/intel-broadwell-release-date-specs
Ayone else in the same boat?
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