{"id":82242,"date":"2015-10-12T14:30:09","date_gmt":"2015-10-12T12:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=82242"},"modified":"2015-10-12T14:56:12","modified_gmt":"2015-10-12T12:56:12","slug":"fallout-4-wont-be-too-hardware-intensive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/82242-fallout-4-wont-be-too-hardware-intensive","title":{"rendered":"Fallout 4 won&#8217;t be too hardware intensive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Frostbite_(game_engine)#Frostbite_3\" target=\"_blank\">Frostbite 3<\/a> engine, the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Creation_Engine\" target=\"_blank\">Creation Engine<\/a> is not.<\/p>\n<p>According to a recent announcement by Bethesda, <em>Fallout 4<\/em> is going to be a reasonably accommodating game on the PC.<\/p>\n<p>By that we mean, it won\u2019t ask for something absurd like 16GB of RAM and a Skylake processor like <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/82008-star-wars-battlefront-recommends-16gb-of-ram-and-skylake-cpu.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Star Wars Battlefront\u2019s<\/em> recommended requirements<\/a> do.<\/p>\n<p>8Gb is far more reasonable, and we sort of expected a GTX 780 (which is very nearly a GTX 970 performance wise) or R9\u00a0290X. That said, we wouldn\u2019t be surprised if you could get away with slightly less graphical grunt, especially if you lower a few settings from Ultra to High \u2013 something we doubt most of you will notice anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Here are those specs for you \u2013 notice that 8GB of RAM is the minimum requirement as well:<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Minimum<\/strong><br \/>\nWindows 7\/8\/10 (64-bit OS required)<br \/>\nIntel Core i5-2300 2.8 GHz\/AMD Phenom II X4 945 3.0 GHz or equivalent<br \/>\n8 GB RAM<br \/>\n30 GB free HDD space<br \/>\nNVIDIA GTX 550 Ti 2GB\/AMD Radeon HD 7870 2GB or equivalent<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Recommended<\/strong><br \/>\nWindows 7\/8\/10 (64-bit OS required)<br \/>\nIntel Core i7 4790 3.6 GHz\/AMD FX-9590 4.7 GHz or equivalent<br \/>\n8 GB RAM<br \/>\n30 GB free HDD space<br \/>\nNVIDIA GTX 780 3GB\/AMD Radeon R9 290X 4GB or equivalent<\/p>\n<p>Just keep in mind that you\u2019re almost certainly going to be able to play the game with 4GB of RAM, but expect some stuttering or a less than ideal performance as a result.<\/p>\n<p>The game has been developed with the consoles in mind, both of which sport 8GB of RAM and a lot less programs and applications running in the background.<\/p>\n<p>For those who want to play <em>Fallout 4<\/em> at 4k, you\u2019re probably going to need something like a GTX 980, and keep in mind that inevitable graphics mods are going to require considerably more raw performance before they play nicely.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<h4><strong>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/bethesda.net\/#en\/events\/game\/prepare-for-the-future-fallout-4-important-release-info\/2015\/10\/08\/35\" target=\"_blank\">Bethesda.net<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>More Fallout news<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/80929-fallout-4-has-more-dialogue-than-fallout-3-and-skyrim-combined.html\">Fallout 4 has more dialogue than Fallout 3 and Skyrim combined<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/78959-bethesda-announces-the-fallout-anthology-at-quakecon-2015.html\">Bethesda announces the Fallout Anthology at QuakeCon 2015<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/77284-fallout-4-arrives-november-10th-everything-you-need-to-know.html\">Fallout 4 arrives November 10th: everything you need to know<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though it will require 8GB of RAM irrespective of your settings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":82244,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[165,6316,4541,1969,15397,15920],"class_list":["post-82242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","tag-bethesda","tag-fallout-4","tag-minimum-requirements","tag-news-2","tag-pc","tag-recommended-requirements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}