I have an RTX 30-series GPU and its only half of the minimum GPU, I’m hoping its a 1440p spec list given the Series S version will be 1440p.

If it can run at 1440p on the XS|S, it should run on my RTX-3050 (laptop 85W).

There’s no way those specs are right. Their games are notoriously CPU dependent, I refuse to believe a R5 3600 can get stable 60fps gameplay out of this engine but a 6700xt cannot.

But if they’re right, there’s gonna be a lot of complaints surrounding optimization around launch, and the 30fps BS on console will make a lot more sense.

Edit: In fact, your GPU does meet recommended spec, because it outperforms the “recommended” 2080 in every benchmark I’ve seen, and has 50% more VRAM. Ignore this garbage, wait for reviews.

It does make me wonder what awful things they’re getting that poor creation engine to do.

To be fair I remember Fallout 3 being a bit of a nightmare to play at launch too.

I won’t be getting it day1 as I have an RTX 30-series GPU that is half the performance of the minimum requirement, hopefully this is a case of them being overly cautious.

as an rx 580 user, i feel you

Those recommend gpu reqs are fucking ridiculous lol. If people are getting anything less that 60 with a 6700xt, then m$ and Bethesda fucked up again.

Also, 125gb? What the fuck?

Probably have to install separate mods to give it PS2 graphics to even get it to work at 20fps lol.

Based on the recommended specs, it likely won’t run, at least not without some serious compromises.

I simply think they won’t care much about it, as it seems from the requirements :/

Wouldn’t that need Windows 11?

I’m speculating using a physical hard drive will be a poorer user experience - ie: being slow to stream the world data causing pop in, texture loading issues etc

Possibly, but not necessarily.

Many video games contain multiple versions of assets to place them near each other when a new level gets loaded. This wastes a lot of space, but it makes loading the game on hard drives a lot quicker. With SSDs, you don’t need those multiple copies. In fact, fragmented files are theoretically faster than linear loads. You can just pack the assets once and load them in when necessary, even if the assets go through RAM first. However, hard drives will suffer significantly in their load times and possibly pop-in or video/audio stutters.

Loading from SSD is also fast enough that it’s possible to use less intensive compression for the same loading speed. On hard drives compression can quickly benefit loading time as the CPU is faster at decompressing content than the hard drive can serve raw files. On SSDs, less densely compressed files should cause fewer CPU overhead provided there’s enough RAM bandwidth available.

It’s also possible that hard drive optimisations were just deemed not to be worth the effort with modern gaming systems. With SSD prices what they are, I would certainly appreciate it as a developer if my boss would tell me not to bother with testing and optimising one specific slow configuration.

It will probably work with proton

This is my fear as well. Considering their targeting 30fps for the consoles, I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s what these specs are targeting as well.