Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown PC system requirements revealed

by Mark Tyson on 27 September 2018, 13:11

Tags: Codemasters, Bandai Games, Namco (TYO:7832)

Quick Link: HEXUS.net/qadxya

Add to My Vault: x

Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown

Nvidia is promoting Bandai Namco Entertainment's Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown in a recent post on the GeForce Blog. We covered this game in the HEXUS news earlier this month, as a great looking Sony PSVR version of the title was teased at the Tokyo Game Show. While there was nothing mentioned by Nvidia regarding a VR version for PCs/Oculus/Vive, it has shared the first 4K video demo of the game (recorded on PC) alongside a developer interview. Furthermore, it has shared the Nvidia-flavoured PC system minimum and recommended specs to enjoy Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown.

In the tech talk above you will hear Kazutoki Kono, Brand Director for Ace Combat 7, reveal that the new game is rendered with 8K supersampling in this PC demo, then downscaled to 4K. The faster your PC the better, we are told, as there is also an uncapped frame rate on PCs. Another new detail is the way that clouds are more realistically rendered and can provide cover for you, or your enemies.

In Nvidia's video the settings are maxed out with "options for Anti-Aliasing, Bloom, Effects, Motion Blur, Post-Processing, Screen Space Reflections, and Shadows all cranked up". On PC you will have lots of choice with regard to controls, with the developers catering for Flight Systems, controllers, flight sticks, keyboard and mouse control, and key remapping.

Nvidia implies that the 4K demo video was recorded on a GeForce GTX 1080 Ti and ran at a steady 60fps+. If you don't have this level of graphics card performance, the configurations tabulated below will get you 60fps+ in 1080p and 1440p respectively.

Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown Minimum PC

Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown Recommended PC

  • CPU: Intel Core Intel Core i3-7100, or equivalent
  • GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 (Legacy GPU: GeForce GTX 750 Ti, or equivalent)
  • RAM: 4GB
  • OS: Windows 7, Windows 8.1 or Windows 10 (64-bit versions)
  • HDD: 60GB free space
  • DirectX: Version 11
  • CPU: Intel Core i5-7500, or equivalent
  • GPU: GeForce GTX 1060 3GB, or equivalent, or higher
  • RAM: 8GB
  • OS: Windows 7, Windows 8.1 or Windows 10 (64-bit versions)
  • HDD: 60GB free space
  • DirectX: Version 11

Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown is released on PC in February next year. There are pre-orders open on Steam right now, with some bonuses for the faithful.

Dirt Rally 2.0

Meanwhile, for those who prefer (mostly) ground-based speed thrills, Codemasters has announced Dirt Rally 2.0 is in development. The game will feature six rally locations around the world (New Zealand, Argentina, Spain, Poland, Australia and the USA), and eight official circuits from the FIA World Rallycross championship, driving modern and historic rally cars. While the original Dirt Rally was PC only, Codemasters have gone multi-format this time around.

You can get an idea of the game in action in the video above (video plays at up to 1080p 60fps). Codemasters says that the gameplay includes a new authentic handling model, tyre choice and surface deformation. In the game you will be able to develop your team and cars around race strategies, and progress through a varied selection of Events and Championships in both a single player Career Campaign and a competitive online environment. Dirt Rally 2.0 will be available from 26th Feb 2019, but you can pre-order now if you wish.



HEXUS Forums :: 5 Comments

Login with Forum Account

Don't have an account? Register today!
I hope Codemasters do a better job on this than the first one. Really wanted to play it but it doesn't work with high core count systems and so I had to get a refund from Steam for the first time ever!
I have Dirt Rally and run a i7 6950X 10 core and it works fine.
DX v11 in pre W10, doh !
I love how hard its getting to figure out if your CPU is good enough - Minimum spec i3-7100 - My i5 3570k with slight overclock probably beats that quite easily but without benchmarks no idea thanks to all the changing core counts, hyperthreading and increased performance at similar Ghz. Gone are the days of specs just saying something like Intel Dual core at 3ghz…

Edit: Looked it up - Yes my old i5 does win but only at multithreading. The i3 has faster single thread performance. Guess my CPU is finally beginning to age…
is it 100% stick only?