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ggrobot · Elite Member Joined: 28 May 2004 Posts: 45816

CD Projekt RED has just issued a press release, revealing the PC requirements for its highly anticipated RPG, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. According to the official specs, PC gamers will need at least 6GB of RAM, a DX11 GPU and 40GB of free HDD space.

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - PC Requirements:

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gx-x · Elite Member Joined: 02 Jul 2007 Posts: 2545

with system requirements rising like this, soon developers will exhaust all available hardware, and customers.

Csimbi · Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2015 9:23 pm Post subject:

Well, requirements like this made the PC business boom.
Too bad that nowadays the HW prices are through the roof and very few will be able to afford a decent PC.

gx-x · Elite Member Joined: 02 Jul 2007 Posts: 2545

Csimbi · Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2015 11:52 pm Post subject:

gx-x · Elite Member Joined: 02 Jul 2007 Posts: 2545

Csimbi · Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2015 1:56 pm Post subject:

Well, I guess that they'll be using that extra RAM for caching.

amra · Junior Member Joined: 11 Aug 2004 Posts: 148

Yeah, I preordered it, but these specs mean I will not only wait until the game is out, I will also wait until I upgraded my rig. :/

Did that two years ago by switching from P4 to a Q6600 with a GT 9800, but from beginning with 8GB RAM. For semi pro gamers and up 8GB are pretty normal I think. I have them because of VMware and the simple reason I love lots of RAM. Companywise 8 is the minimum per machine, times of less RAM are over. For home- / endusers with a stock machine from best buy 2 or 4 are fine, depending on the use, although I would never recommend a machine with less then 4 anymore.

I can play Skyrim on my current rig like a charm, so I expected Witcher to do the same, but... life's a bitch. Maybe in 2016 I upgrade again, until then I put it into my shelf.

gx-x · Elite Member Joined: 02 Jul 2007 Posts: 2545

amra · Junior Member Joined: 11 Aug 2004 Posts: 148

6 years? Man time goes by.
Compared to the PS3 I have 6 years left before I upgrade. ^^

Although I never played any of the Crysis games I can imagine the engine of Witcher is more demanding through the more complex environment (not physics but scripts). Its not a shooter, but with a monster count of all kind of processes, similiar to GTA imho, and surely a very high polygon count per object too.

From the point of fancy graphics the videos looked stunning, don't know if Crysis (1,2 or 3) beats that. But I'm clearly no one who can judge this. ;)

WTNO and now Witcher... I need to save money during 2015 to upgrade, then GTA V runs too. My wife will not be happy. :D

gx-x · Elite Member Joined: 02 Jul 2007 Posts: 2545

amra · Junior Member Joined: 11 Aug 2004 Posts: 148

Erm, maybe?

If a friend of mine gets me someday to get D3 at 10 bucks I can talk more about that, for now I'm too lazy to google about the engine, but blizzard did surely a good job.

But when it comes to complex algorithms I doubt hack'n'slash with small roleplay elements need the same cpu power.
Not sure how interactive a D3 level is with physics, assigned attributes, NPC ownerships, usage possibilities and so on, but enginewise you can save a lot of "overhead" and use these resources on the "real monter count", if you keep these things low.

Anyways it doesn't really matter. It is like that with different engines... maybe CD Project finalised the engine now and did not care about hardware.

Why should they? The AC titles selled well, and their engine had the same core since Prince of Persia from a simple point of view of mine.
Call of Duty? GTA? The Elder Scrolls, it is what it is with these reqs raising, but in some months a good gpu/cpu/ram/mainboard-combo will be much cheaper. Times is on my side. :)

gx-x · Elite Member Joined: 02 Jul 2007 Posts: 2545

what complex elements have you seen in witcher games? Mobs have mindless AI scripts no more advanced than a ghoul in diablo 3. I played all the witcher games and enjoyed them much but AI is not really a big part of the experience. Every larger fight is scripted and there is literally no AI involved, and executing a script is far easier on CPU than having AI decide what to do. Skyrim has more scripts and AI going on than any Witcher game so far and it runs as good as the engine allows it to run. Then look at Sleeping Dogs, GTA etc, there is a living world controlled by scripts and AI and it runs just fine.

I don't know what they did, I guess we will soon see.

As for AC, their optimization was always shit. Last installment is just the worst offender. Thankfully, I don't like that game series at all. I do like The Witcher games for their story and flavor and I hope they haven't ruined that. The previous one was very very boring at the last level. It was like a totally different game, a game that I wouldn't play so I never finished it but that's fine, I am content with everything that led to that point.

PS. Blizzard did piss poor job with D3 engine. I think they just used SC2 engine for it and added a bunch of stuff on it.

Csimbi · Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2015 7:20 pm Post subject:

@gx-x
Fully agree.

amra · Junior Member Joined: 11 Aug 2004 Posts: 148

Very old post, but somehow clicked on it during browser cleanup... ^^

I clearly need to step back here, I never played one of the witcher nor Diablo games (two I tried, but it wasn't fun, I'm a Baldurs Gate guy).
From that point I really can't talk about their engines and what their level is. ;)

About AC I only read because Ubisoft with their shitty DRM isn't a buying option. Steam, enough, no Origin or other bullshit. GOG Galaxy will work.

So now with W3 out, did they do a better job? A worth final round?