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Bethesda has revealed the PC system requirements for The Evil Within, although the company chose to only release the recommended specifications rather than letting users know what bare minimum hardware they will need for the upcoming horror title.
Bethesda stated on its blog that it doesn't have a list of minimum requirements and has instead opted to only list recommended specs to ensure players get the experience that the developers intended:
“We do not have a list of minimum requirements for the game. If you’re trying to play with a rig with settings below these requirements (you should plan to have 4 GBs of VRAM regardless), we cannot guarantee optimal performance.”
“These specifications are listed as “recommended” as they are the settings we’ve determined ensure that your gameplay experience plays as intended by the development team.”
To play The Evil Within ‘optimally' you will need:
- 64-bit Windows 7 or Windows 8.
- Intel Core i7 CPU with at least four cores.
- 4GB of RAM.
- 50GB of free HDD space.
- Nvidia GeForce GTX 670 with 4GB VRAM or equivalent.
- “High speed” Internet connection.
The Publisher also notes that the 50GB free Hard Drive space requirement is just for the install, once that's complete the game will only take up 41GB of space. The Evil Within releases on the 14th of October.
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KitGuru Says: Those are some rather high and specific system requirements. I wouldn't worry too much about the VRAM requirement though, chances are if you have a 3GB GTX 780 or 780 Ti or even one of AMD's 3GB 7000 series cards, the game will still be playable. Are any of you guys looking forward to The Evil Within?
In other ridiculous port new. Shadow of mordor required 6GB VRAM for ultra textures at 1080p. In relation to this, it also has a ton of reused textures.
Mind posting the link to the Shadow of Mordor requirements? All I can find is recommended at GTX 670 and AMD 7970 both of which have no 6GB Vram models.
only article that goes on about the requirements are http://www.pcgamer.com/2014/04/09/middle-earth-shadow-of-mordor-system-requirements-announced-are-higher-than-watch-dogs/
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thats just stupid:/ , i wonder on what level of graphic ps4 version works …
High. Personally I call BS i think ULTRA is just high uncompressed to try and make people thing the PC version got something extra
It’s marketing gimmick to draw attention to the game. OMG wowzers 4gb!
Of course it doesn’t require that even as recommended. Less than 4% of PC gamers have 4gb VRAM on their gpu.
Seems it could have a detrimental effect rather than a positive one. It could easily cause players to be discouraged from the get-go, and they may simply choose not to purchase the game rather than risk having a poor experience.
I know it says video memory but couldn’t system memory be shared as video memory? Maybe these requirements take both on board graphics memory as well as shared system memory into use?? Otherwise this is total BS from Bethesda.
In regards to evil within someone on the steam forums posted a response from Bethesda customer support. They did indeed say that. Even then though the use is still BS as the engine does not use that much. Also I imagine there will be a bit of lag and stutter. Thing is after playing Ethan Carter at 1440p with 2x MSAA seeing it only uses 1.2GB of VRAM with literally the best textures I have ever seen in my life. All these RAM requirements by ports seem retarded
I agree. It is probably some sort of plot to hype up console gaming. Although we know what is really going on. Shoddy porting.
About time they started pushing basic specs out a bit.
Surely PC gaming is all about the hardware…..no matter the budget you have…..
At this rate were going to need $2000 dollars worth of Graphic Cards and Storage. Serious though when I installed Max Payne 3 I couldn’t believe what I was reading, 50GB of storage wow is all I said, but most of the storage was used for their stupid cut scenes.
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No.. there are 7970s with 6GB Vram. BUT that ultra vram requirements are for 4K, not 1080p. The great majoraty of modern games that need an i7 CPU and a GTX 680 or 7970 with 3GB vram or more dont actually need that. You can play almost at maxed out with a quad-core cpu and a mainstream GPU with 2GB of vram. So, don’t worry too much about the “system requirements” announced by developers!