The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - PC System Requirements are here!

[Geralt_of_bsas]

Alright then, from what i understand in the Reqs and some comments:

My i5- 2500k will be just fine.

8gb system RAM is good.

Should totally dump this pair of HDs 6850s I have in crossfire, but I should've done that years ago anyway

So I need to look for a new GPU, and a new monitor if possible since i run games at 900p now and I suffer aliasing a bit too much, but overall not so bad.

 

[GuyNwah]

So I guess it's confirmed that TW3 takes advantage of more than 4 CPU threads since an i7 and FX-8350 are recommended compared to their 4 core little bros.

X99 owners should be pleased, right, @Guy N'wah ?

Yeah, that should make the big-iron jocks who run LGA 2011 and Xeons happy. My biggest iron is a Core i7 2700K, but for anything short of advanced floating point, the differences from Sandy Bridge to Ivy Bridge to Haswell are fractional, and Sandy Bridge actually has the best memory subsystem.

 

[Aditya]

My body is ready. And my Alienware PC more than just ready. Now merely waiting for my mind to be blown.
BRING IT ULTRA ON!

 

[BroccoliSouP]

Just for somone who is wondering if it would not be better to buy concole instead of building new pc, how are minimal compared to console power?

 

[humbug01]

Long shot here! Do you reckon my Gigabyte 460 GXT (SOC) will be able to run the game at all? The rest of my rig meets/exceeds the recommended.

 

[M4xw0lf]

Just for somone who is wondering if it would not be better to buy concole instead of building new pc, how are minimal compared to console power?

Similar, slightly above PS4 level.

 

[kevokoma]

I'll admit that to this day I really don't know how to read this requirements.

So if anyone is willing to help me, can they tell me whether my system is good or not?

Spoiler

Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4570 CPU @ 3.20GHz
Manufacturer Intel
Speed 3.2 GHz
Number of Cores 4
CPU ID BFEBFBFF000306C3
Family 06
Model 3C
Stepping 3
Revision 09

Video Card 2 AMD Radeon R9 200 Series
Manufacturer ATI
Chipset AMD Radeon R9 200 Series
Dedicated Memory 2.1 GB
Total Memory 1.7 GB
Pixel Shader Version 5.0
Vertex Shader Version 5.0
Hardware T & L Yes
Vendor ID 1002
Device ID 6810
Plug and Play ID VEN_1002&DEV_6810&SUBSYS_E271174B&REV_00

Memory 8.1 GB
Display Maximum Resolution 1440 x 900

 

[Geralt_of_bsas]

I have one small doubt, my two cards have 1gb of VRAM each, I've heard that doesn't equal to having 2gb of VRAM, based on the minimum specs and other modern specs for different games, is there a chance I can't even run the game without massive stuttering or another bad condition?

 

[M4xw0lf]

I'll admit that to this day I really don't know how to read this requirements.

So if anyone is willing to help me, can they tell me whether my system is good or not?

Spoiler

Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4570 CPU @ 3.20GHz
Manufacturer Intel
Speed 3.2 GHz
Number of Cores 4
CPU ID BFEBFBFF000306C3
Family 06
Model 3C
Stepping 3
Revision 09

Video Card 2 AMD Radeon R9 200 Series
Manufacturer ATI
Chipset AMD Radeon R9 200 Series
Dedicated Memory 2.1 GB
Total Memory 1.7 GB
Pixel Shader Version 5.0
Vertex Shader Version 5.0
Hardware T & L Yes
Vendor ID 1002
Device ID 6810
Plug and Play ID VEN_1002&DEV_6810&SUBSYS_E271174B&REV_00

Memory 8.1 GB
Display Maximum Resolution 1440 x 900

CPU is very good, more detail is needed concerning the GPU - R9 200 series is very unspecific. The 2GB Ram on the card indicate that it's a 7870 / R9 270X at best; it could be a lot slower than that still.

Edit: a bit of googling makes me quite sure it's an 270X - not too bad, but not a lot above minimum requirements (the 7870 is the same chip running at a lower core frequency).

For the full graphics glory, you'll probably need a b it more horsepower, although your display resolution with only 1440x900p will give you a bit more headroom, exchanging pixel amount for higher graphics settings.

 

[kevokoma]

CPU is very good, more detail is needed concerning the GPU - R9 200 series is very unspecific. The 2GB Ram on the card indicate that it's a 7870 / R9 270X at best; it could be a lot slower than that still.

Edit: a bit of googling makes me quite sure it's an 270X - not too bad, but not a lot above minimum requirements (the 7870 is the same chip running at a lower core frequency).

For the full graphics glory, you'll probably need a b it more horsepower, although your display resolution with only 1440x900p will give you a bit more headroom, exchanging pixel amount for higher graphics settings.

Thanks a lot mate. Does this mean I can handle high but not Ultra?

 

[M4xw0lf]

Thanks a lot mate. Does this mean I can handle high but not Ultra?

I cannot make predictions that accurate based on the public hardware requirements (noone outside of CDPR can at this moment), but I think medium settings (so still a pretty game ) are within reach.

 

[frynse]

I'm not sure if this has been pointed out yet, but recommending an i5, especially the goddamn 2500k as the minimum, with an i7 as apparently the optimal, smells like bs to me. The improvement you get from upgrading between those CPUs would be extremely minimal, especially if you've OC'd it.

So unless CDPR are using some sort of techno sorcery, I don't get what's happening here. Would be extremely disappointed if they inflated the system requirements or made the game less optimized on purpose and cut a deal with intel, like Ubisoft did before with nvidia. We've already seen them getting cuddly with microsoft so who knows.

 

[Doctalen]

Wow, I'm like almost exactly on the recommended except for the i7 (I have a i5 4690k). Everything else is the same. i7 is a bit weird, lots of games say that but 99% of them don't need it.

 

[ztki]

Now my only hope is that it will eventually run also on dual-cores. If not, do you guys think that the extreme injector might help again? It is already used by folks with two core CPUs for playing FC4 or DA:I. If yes, then I will just improve on RAM (an maybe HDD? du and be a happy man and possibly even hope for medium settings. If not, guess I will just have buy a new CPU though my G3258 is quite new. Wonder what would I do with it than.
My rig:
Intel Pentium G3258
4GB RAM (I plan to add more 4GB )
GTX 750TI
HDD with SATA II

 

[Senteria]

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[eisberg77]

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Where did you do that test at?

 

[Senteria]

Where did you do that test at?

http://www.game-debate.com/games/index.php?g_id=3443&game=The Witcher III

 

[tahirahmed]

The FX-6300 isn't anywhere close to any Core i5, especially Sandy Bridge, but the minimum in AMD is an x4 940, and it's comparable to a Phenom II x6, so it's fine.

It depends on the game, in synthetic benchmarks FX-6300 will certainly look bad compared to 2500k and AMD is failing in single threaded performance from a long time but in gaming it depends on whether a game is being CPU bound or GPU bound. Anyway I have no personal experience with FX-6300 so my opinion was based on these charts (they look far away but fps difference is small).

 

[prince_of_nothing]

I'm not sure if this has been pointed out yet, but recommending an i5, especially the goddamn 2500k as the minimum, with an i7 as apparently the optimal, smells like bs to me. The improvement you get from upgrading between those CPUs would be extremely minimal, especially if you've OC'd it.

So unless CDPR are using some sort of techno sorcery, I don't get what's happening here. Would be extremely disappointed if they inflated the system requirements or made the game less optimized on purpose and cut a deal with intel, like Ubisoft did before with nvidia. We've already seen them getting cuddly with microsoft so who knows.

The CPU requirements lead me to believe two things. The game is going to be CPU heavy, which I always suspected it would be as open world games of this magnitude tend to be.

Second, the game will be capable of using multiple threaded CPUs very well. I also expected this, because even the Witcher 2 had good multithreading support and it was only a DX9 game, so it was limited in that respect.

If the engine has good support for multithreading, hyperthreaded CPUs should get a nice boost over the Core i5, and be far less prone to being maxed out. Also, you can't expect CDPR to factor in overclocking into their system requirements..

 

[M4xw0lf]

http://www.game-debate.com/games/index.php?g_id=3443&game=The Witcher III

You can choose the minimum CPU, the Phenom II X4 940, and it returns 80% of minimum requirements fulfilled.... yeah, right.