PC Red Dead Redemption 2 up for pre-order, rec-specs shared

by Mark Tyson on 10 October 2019, 11:11

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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.

Minimum Specifications:

Recommended Specifications:

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.

Minimum Specifications:

Recommended Specifications:

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.

Minimum Specifications:

Recommended Specifications:

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



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I'll wait until it's out and had chance for the reviews to drop. I can't understand why anyone would pre-order a digital product, it's not like they're going to sell out!
Most of the time these days it's better to just wait because the top AAA titles are in the bargain basement bin within 2 months anyway.
My old ivy bridge still in the game.

Just


CPU bench shows my OCd i5 3570k is only 10% off the rec spec. But no hyper threading… So only 4 cores.
I've not pre-ordered a game in ages, and never pre-ordered a digital game. But good to see that my PC will be able to play it when I do get it (on Steam if/when it gets released there). Although it might be time to upgrade my RAM to 32GB… as I like to multi-task when I play games.
Those rec specs look like 1080p medium to me.