{"id":82754,"date":"2015-10-23T13:30:14","date_gmt":"2015-10-23T11:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=82754"},"modified":"2015-10-23T13:36:10","modified_gmt":"2015-10-23T11:36:10","slug":"dooms-closed-alpha-pc-requirements-calls-for-gtx-780","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/82754-dooms-closed-alpha-pc-requirements-calls-for-gtx-780","title":{"rendered":"Doom&#8217;s closed alpha PC requirements: calls for GTX 780"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now that id is allowing a relative few to take part in a closed alpha build of <em>Doom\u2019s <\/em>multiplayer, they\u2019ve announced the PC requirements for the current build.<\/p>\n<p>Like the build itself, these requirements might not be representative of the final retail release of the game, as there is undoubtedly some optimising to be done, but we can\u2019t imagine the recommended specs changing all that much.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>Minimum Requirements (720p)<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>64-bit Windows 7\/Windows 8.1<br \/>\nIntel Core i5 @ 3.3 GHz or better \/ AMD FX-8350 @ 4.0 GHz or better<br \/>\n8 GB RAM<br \/>\nNVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 (2GB VRAM) \/ AMD Radeon HD 7870 (2GB VRAM)<br \/>\n6GB HDD space<br \/>\nSteam account<br \/>\nHigh speed internet connection<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>Recommended Requirements (1080p)<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>64-bit Windows 7\/Windows 8.1<br \/>\nIntel Core i7 @ 3.4GHz or better \/ AMD FX-8350 @ 4.0GHz or better<br \/>\n8GB RAM<br \/>\nNVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 (3GB or more VRAM) \/ AMD Radeon R9 280 (3GB or more VRAM)<br \/>\n6GB HDD space<br \/>\nSteam account<br \/>\nHigh speed internet connection<\/p>\n<p>While the GTX 780 doesn\u2019t quite match the performance of the newer GTX 970, and certainly not the GTX 980, it\u2019s still a fairly expensive card \u2013 if you can find one still on sale that is.<\/p>\n<p>Equivalent cards are going to be about as costly, but given <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/79955-your-pc-probably-doesnt-suck-steams-hardware-survey-suggests.html\" target=\"_blank\">recent Steam stats<\/a>, PC gamers by in large have the rigs for <em>Doom<\/em> at 1080p.<\/p>\n<p>And we\u2019re also confident that an i5 at 3.4GHz or better will perform just a well as an i7.<\/p>\n<p>For those unluckily enough not to receive an alpha key, which is most of us actually, id has released a gameplay demonstration of what to expect from the early build.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JTfe7V-_3r0\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It looks great, doesn\u2019t it? We can\u2019t wait to get our hands on the beta and eventual retail release of <em>Doom<\/em>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>Since we&#8217;re on the topic of hardware requirements<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/82242-fallout-4-wont-be-too-hardware-intensive.html\">Fallout 4 won\u2019t be too hardware intensive<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/82008-star-wars-battlefront-recommends-16gb-of-ram-and-skylake-cpu.html\">Star Wars Battlefront recommends 16GB of RAM and Skylake CPU<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/81574-capcom-recommends-r3000-plus-gpu-for-street-fighter-v.html\">Capcom recommends R3000 plus GPU for Street Fighter V<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fairly expensive card, but we have no doubt that PC gamers are ready for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":82758,"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":[165,16182,883,4894,4541,1969,15397,15920],"class_list":["post-82754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","tag-bethesda","tag-closed-alpha","tag-doom","tag-id","tag-minimum-requirements","tag-news-2","tag-pc","tag-recommended-requirements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82754","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=82754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}