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

[GabrieI]

This is how to programing a game! I love you CDPR! Not a waste Pc parts that requires 4GB VRAM for an unprogramed games. I have a GTX 680 PC, but I love playing games on my PS4, this means even Consoles can run this game on High setting for sure.

My PC spec:
i7 3960x 3.3hz
Ram: 16gb Gskill 1600mhz
Video: GTX 680 Zodiac
Board: Asus Rampage IV Extreme

 

[Ploutonas]

I live in Britain so the price is £1100 for me, plus it comes with a monitor and 3 years warranty.
Can you suggest somewhere else I could buy for better?

Can you built it in ur own? Thats the best option and you earn allot of money and more warranty for each part. For example some parts gives you 7 years warranty, others 2, others 3...etc There is also lots of guides on youtube How To built it, your self. I always built my pcs (always OEM) since the age of 15, now I am 35.

If you built it ur self, you also get higher quaiity stuff

 

[truthinoneword]

I live in Britain so the price is £1100 for me, plus it comes with a monitor and 3 years warranty.
Can you suggest somewhere else I could buy for better?

http://www.newegg.com/ buying the parts, and assembling it yourself is the cheapest.

http://www.ibuypower.com/ Have the computer built for you, and shipped to you with a similar warranty for half the price.

https://www.cyberpowerpc.com/ similar to Ibuypower

http://www.ecustompc.com/ another resource for building your own.

 

[ahtf]

Like some others before, i wonder what the requirments mean. Is recommended what you need to achieve high/ultra, like in a lot of games these days. Is minimum for low on everyhting, or around medium?.

I wonder since i have a radeon 7950, which is only slightly higher then minimum. While my cpu is the recommended one.

 

[Ploutonas]

there is also several forums in the UK for example OC3D and they also run shops, you can choose the parts and they built it for u.

 

[Geralt_and_Ciri]

Good, now i wish know to "graph options", witch can do use of higher specs, like Phycs or some new tech from Nvidia

 

[Guest 3770914]

http://www.newegg.com/ buying the parts, and assembling it yourself is the cheapest.

http://www.ibuypower.com/ Have the computer built for you, and shipped to you with a similar warranty for half the price.

https://www.cyberpowerpc.com/ similar to Ibuypower

http://www.ecustompc.com/ another resource for building your own.

Ibuypower does not ship internationally, and I can't find anything about Cyberpower's shipping but the forums tell me that the company is unreliable.

 

[truthinoneword]

Ibuypower does not ship internationally, and I can't find anything about Cyberpower's shipping but the forums tell me that the company is unreliable.

There is a company that is comparable to IBUY power, but I can't remember their name, and I believe they ship internationally. Still as I, and other have mentioned the best option is to build the PC yourself. Assembling a PC is the equivalent of assembling something like a vacuum cleaner. As long as all the parts are compatible it is extremely easy.

 

[Guest 3770914]

There is a company that is comparable to IBUY power, but I can't remember their name, and I believe they ship internationally. Still as I, and other have mentioned the best option is to build the PC yourself. Assembling a PC is the equivalent of assembling something like a vacuum cleaner. As long as all the parts are compatible it is extremely easy.

If I was to build a PC, I'd need to know what I need.

I don't lol.

I'd need a configuration of some sort on how to best maximize £1100 or in your case 2 grand.

 

[truthinoneword]

If I was to build a PC, I'd need to know what I need.

I don't lol.

I'd need a configuration of some sort on how to best maximize £1100 or in your case 2 grand.

Believe me with that kind of money you can make your self a machine that will last your till the next console generation, and probably then some. I would recommend you google the articles that explain how to do it in a high detail with a large amount of recommended, and compatible parts that go well together. All I will personally tell you is that I am preferential for Intel mother boards, processors, and invidia graphic cards.

 

[Ploutonas]

with 1100 I think you can get a 5820k cpu with ddr4... I would suggest you to open a topic just for it, "help me built a pc for witcher" or something similar, so people can help u out.

 

[GuyNwah]

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.

Anything much earlier than a Sandy Bridge i5 is so out of date that many users have already upgraded well past it. There isn't much point in stating a lesser CPU as the minimum. But I still say if a Phenom II x4 will run it, then a Core 2 Quad will do just fine.

 

[truthinoneword]

Anything much earlier than a Sandy Bridge i5 is so out of date that many users have already upgraded well past it. There isn't much point in stating a lesser CPU as the minimum. But I still say if a Phenom II x4 will run it, then a Core 2 Quad will do just fine.

I think I love you...

Seriously though man I hope so >:/ I don't want to upgrade mah rig.

 

[Jimbob_2.1]

I meet the recommended exactly with my cpu and ram but I only have a r9 270x. Could someone here please tell me how that compares with Radeon HD 7870? Also are there any effects that rely more on cpu and ram that I could turn up or is it all gpu?

One more thing: given the minimum specs, how do you think the consoles will compare to low settings? Because I'd be pretty happy if I get console graphics, hopefully with a smoother frame rate.

 

[yokokorama]

If I were you, I'd get an aftermarket cooler, OC that CPU and just focus on getting the best possible GPU. But even @ stock clocks it'll proly be more than okay for TW3.

I already have an aftermarket cooler installed (Hyper EVO 212). I just am one of those people who doesn't want to overclock unless absolutely necessary.

Another quick question since you seem well informed on this; will my GTX 970 be potentially bottle-necked by the i5 4690k (assume stock)?

 

[M4xw0lf]

I meet the recommended exactly with my cpu and ram but I only have a r9 270x. Could someone here please tell me how that compares with Radeon HD 7870? Also are there any effects that rely more on cpu and ram that I could turn up or is it all gpu?

One more thing: given the minimum specs, how do you think the consoles will compare to low settings? Because I'd be pretty happy if I get console graphics, hopefully with a smoother frame rate.

We already had that case earlier in the thread. R9 270 X is slightly superior to HD 7870 (~ 10% faster). The minimum reqs themselves are a little above PS4 hardware levels. So with some tweaking you should get PS4 graphics and framerates, hopefully.

 

[eisberg77]

I believe the R9 270x is = to the 7870, as in the 7870 was basically renamed to the R9 270x, you can even use 1 of each of those cards for Crossfire together.

 

[clst]

i have the recommended config all better than it only little fear about my gtx 780 who is near the recommended i think i need to upgrade it to gtx 970 or 980 . i was hoping nvidia card come sooner but gtx 980 ti and better will be pushed in 2016 so ><

 

[Phinnway]

Looks like my laptop will struggle with this one, sadly Ah well... I guess I don't need maxed graphics anyways :crybaby:

Ahhh... jk. If I wanted to run games on max graphics I wouldn't have bought a laptop :lol:

 

[M4xw0lf]

I believe the R9 270x is = to the 7870, as in the 7870 was basically renamed to the R9 270x, you can even use 1 of each of those cards for Crossfire together.

It's the same chip, only in the r9 270x, it's clocked a bit higher out of the box.