Red Dead Redemption was only announced for Windows PCs just ahead of the weekend and today it has gone up for pre-order, with the actual release scheduled for 5th November. Alongside this news, Rockstar Games has spilled a big dollop of information about the PC version of the game including details of enhancements and the minimum and recommended hardware specs to play the game.
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On suitably equipped PCs, gamer will benefit from; increased draw distances for better navigation, higher quality global illumination and ambient occlusion for improved day and night lighting, higher quality snow trails, improved reflections and deeper, higher resolution shadows at all distances, tessellated tree textures and improved grass and fur textures for added realism in every plant and animal. Additionally PC users can enjoy HDR visuals, with appropriate GPU/monitor, 4K and multi-monitor gaming - as well as the fastest frame rates. As an example of the refined graphical indulgence available on PCs, Rockstar has shared a number of 4K screenshots on its blog.
Beyond technical enhancements, RDR2 on PC introduces 3 New Bounty Hunter Missions, 2 New Gang Hideouts, 2 New Treasure Maps, a new mission dubbed 'To the ends of the earth', plus new weapons, trinkets and horses for story mode.
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OS: Windows 7 - Service Pack 1 (6.1.7601) Processor: Intel Core i5-2500K / AMD FX-6300 Memory: 8GB Graphics Card: Nvidia GeForce GTX 770 2GB / AMD Radeon R9 280 3GB HDD Space: 150GB Sound Card: DirectX compatible |
OS: Windows 10 - April 2018 Update (v1803) Processor: Intel Core i7-4770K / AMD Ryzen 5 1500X Memory: 12GB Graphics Card: Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 6GB / AMD Radeon RX 480 4GB HDD Space: 150GB Sound Card: DirectX compatible |
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
Activision has just announced the minimum and recommended hardware specs to play Call of Duty: Modern Warfare on PC. Again this game is up for pre-order, but this time from Battle.net. Infinity Ward's reimagining of the iconic Modern Warfare series from the ground up is described here. It will be released on 25th October.
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Operating System: Windows 7 64-bit (SP1) or Windows 10 64-bit Processor: Intel Core i3-4340 or AMD FX-6300 Video: Nvidia GeForce GTX 670 / Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650 or AMD Radeon HD 7950 - DirectX 12.0 compatible system Memory: 8GB RAM Storage: 175GB available hard drive space Internet: Broadband Internet connection |
Operating System: Windows 10 64-bit latest update Processor: Intel Core i5-2500K or AMD Ryzen R5 1600X Processor Video: Nvidia GeForce GTX 970 / Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660 or AMD Radeon R9 390 / AMD Radeon RX 580 - DirectX 12.0 compatible system Memory: 12GB RAM Storage: 175GB available hard drive space Internet: Broadband Internet connection |
Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order
Another AAA game which went up for pre-orders this week was Star Wars: Jedi - Fallen Order. EA has the details of the PC release published on its Origin Store page and it includes all you need to know, including the minimum and recommended hardware specs to play the game on PC. The game, developed by ReSpawn, will be released on 15th Nov on PC, PS4 and Xbox One.
EA originally listed the recommended PC spec with 32GB of RAM as the suggested quota, a figure which has since been updated to a more reasonable 16GB.
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OS: 64-bit Windows 7/8.1/10 Processor (AMD): FX-6100 or Equivalent Processor (Intel): i3-3220 or Equivalent Memory: 8GB Graphics card (AMD): Radeon HD 7750 or Equivalent Graphics card (Nvidia): GeForce GTX 650 or Equivalent DirectX: 11 Compatible video card or equivalent Hard-drive space: 55GB |
OS: 64-bit Windows 7/8.1/10 Processor (AMD): Ryzen 7 1700 or Equivalent Processor (Intel): i7-6700K or Equivalent Memory: 16GB Graphics card (AMD): RX Vega 56 or Equivalent Graphics card (NVIDIA): GTX 1070 or Equivalent DirectX: 11 Compatible video card or equivalent Hard-drive space: 55GB |
