If you were planning on running The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt on high on your PC, you may need to upgrade a component or two first.
CD Projekt Red – the team behind the game – has released the minimum and recommended system requirements for the open-world game. The verdict: your on-board graphics card won’t cut it.
Minimum System Requirements
- CPU: Intel Core i5-2500K 3.3GHz/AMD Phenom II X4 940
- GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 660/AMD Radeon HD 7870
- RAM: 6GB
- OS: 64-bit Windows 7 or 64-bit Windows 8 (8.1)
- Direct X: 11
- HDD: 40GB
Recommended System Requirements
- CPU: Intel Core i7-3770 3.4GHz/AMD AMD FX-8350 4GHz
- GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 770/AMD Radeon R9 290
- RAM: 8GB
- OS: 64-bit Windows 7 or 64-bit Windows 8 (8.1)
- Direct X: 11
- HDD: 40GB
From the early gameplay videos we saw, such as the one posted below, the title was always going to be demanding on the hardware of your respective platform – beauty of that nature does not come cheap.
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is due to release for the PC, PS4, and Xbox One on 19 May 2015.
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I just about make the recommended but I am certain it wont run at a smooth 60fps…