News - Demanding Watch Dogs PC specs appear, disappear, appear again

[HEXUS]

Minimum quad-core CPU, 6GB of RAM, DirectX 11 GPU and 64-bit OS required.

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[Devastater6194]

Is it wrong that I'm not interested in this game but I'm tempted to buy it on sale to give my pc a good thrashing?

[realstock]

You are not interested in this game?! From the videos alone I am proper excited about Watchdogs, and luckily i won't need to update my PC to play, brilliant.

[hackerDON]

Very high requirements

[DeAnt28790]

I was really excited after the first video preview. But then they started releasing video after video. I've skipped most of the videos but I still feel like I've seen too much of this game and have lost a lot of interest. Please can game companies learn to tease and excite us and not show us the whole game before release. Rockstar did that amazingly with GTA 5. I know GTA is a proven title and it was always going to sell well, but my point stands.

[YazX]

CPU requirements are pretty expected from an open world game with alot of NPCs and AI around, this game is different than any open world game, NPC calculations are pretty massive. but they should have made an option for lower end PCs to cut down most of demanding things, at least to be able to play it of Dual Core PCs.

According to my system specs, i have enough to run this on Ultra @ 2560 x 1440, but still feel bad for lower end PC users that might not be able to run this game.

[shaithis]

It's finally starting to happen, the next gen consoles are pushing the PC gaming industry forward.
About bloody time.

I think this will become more and more commonplace for system requirements.

[ChinesePate]

It's finally starting to happen, the next gen consoles are pushing the PC gaming industry forward.
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rotfl

[Ferral]

Already been looking at the 8 Core FX CPU's and motherboards on Scan this morning, going to cost around £160 but still cheaper than a PS4 at launch. Graphics and ram I currently have sit nicely above recommended but below the Ultra settings. Don't mind though as I do my gaming at 1080p so what I currently have is ok for that, may update graphics card next year.

Not forgetting I can offset the cost by selling the current board and CPU I have

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Already been looking at the 8 Core FX CPU's and motherboards on Scan this morning, going to cost around £160 but still cheaper than a PS4 at launch. Graphics and ram I currently have sit nicely above recommended but below the Ultra settings. Don't mind though as I do my gaming at 1080p so what I currently have is ok for that, may update graphics card next year.

Not forgetting I can offset the cost by selling the current board and CPU I have

What motherboard are you look at??

[crossy]

CPU requirements are pretty expected from an open world game with alot of NPCs and AI around, this game is different than any open world game, NPC calculations are pretty massive. but they should have made an option for lower end PCs to cut down most of demanding things, at least to be able to play it of Dual Core PCs.

Leads to wonder how the heck they're going to manage to shoehorn it onto a PS3 or Xbox.

My rig doesn't meet the cpu part of the "recommended" spec and, if has been suggested elsewhere, it's been heavily optimised for NVidia cards then I'll pass. Even ignoring the backlog of XBox games I've still to finish, with CoD, BF4 and Rocksmith2/2013 due out shortly I'm not going to be bored anyway.

So if Ubi's going to get any of my hard earned this year then it'll be for AC not this.

[scaryjim]

tbh, the specs don't look that demanding to me. I've always found CPU specs tend to be slightly overstated, so I reckon pretty much any quad-thread machine should be able to play it. I also love how they say it needs a 5850+, or any 6000 series card - because as we all know the 6770 was so much faster than the 5850 If it'll play on a 6770 it'll play on a 5770, so not sure what that's all about

The big requirement there is a DX11 GPU. Anyone who's built a computer for gaming with a DX11 GPU really should have a quad core (or quad thread, at least) CPU by now - the last time I built a gaming computer with a dual-core CPU was prior to the HD 5000-series release, and on a tight budget.

But if anyone wants to know for sure, feel free to gift me a copy and I'll have a run on it with my Phenom II 905e and HD 7750 - should give us a pretty good indication of performance

[Ferral]

What motherboard are you look at??

Been looking at the £40 ASRock one they have just listed.

Also had a look at a few of the MSI and ASUS ones, I need to have 4 ram slots as I have 4 2Gb sticks.

Thinking on the £113 FX 3.5Ghz 8 Core CPU which seems good value for money, I may decide to get the more expensive 4Ghz 8 Core for £146.

Just looking at the minute though, if you do have any AMD only recommendations pleased to hear them (Intel stuff is way overpriced)

[Otherhand]

Leads to wonder how the heck they're going to manage to shoehorn it onto a PS3 or Xbox.

My rig doesn't meet the cpu part of the "recommended" spec and, if has been suggested elsewhere, it's been heavily optimised for NVidia cards then I'll pass. Even ignoring the backlog of XBox games I've still to finish, with CoD, BF4 and Rocksmith2/2013 due out shortly I'm not going to be bored anyway.

So if Ubi's going to get any of my hard earned this year then it'll be for AC not this.

Simply enough, a console doesn't have to run as many background processes as a PC, and its OS is almost entirely geared towards the games.

They're really not that big a deal as specs go. I'm a little above minimum requirements on the CPU with my five-year-old Q9550, even if it ran on stock speed. By now, everyone ought to be able to find a safe overlock setting for those old quads that will keep them safely higher still. If you need a new graphics card to play this, then you'll need a new card next year regardless, and you can pick up something perfectly competent for less than £100 if you shop around. I got a GTX 650 Ti back in July for £79.95 - that's fine to have a playable experience out of this game at 1080p.

I'm actually pleased to see that my computer is bumping around the minimum spec area for the near future, and that Ubisoft is daring to push things forward. It won't cost me that much to buy a new system, and it's about time I did. This one's served me very well for five years with very little upgrading.

[Hardware_Elite]

Money is nice and all, and so is advertising what game "runs" better with what specs, but to say that AMD 8-Core CPUs run VIDEO GAMES any better than a Quad from Intel is just wrong. We all know that even BF3 which is "Hex-Core" optimized didn't run any faster on the FX-8350 than the i5-2500K. Oh well.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Been looking at the £40 ASRock one they have just listed.

Also had a look at a few of the MSI and ASUS ones, I need to have 4 ram slots as I have 4 2Gb sticks.

Thinking on the £113 FX 3.5Ghz 8 Core CPU which seems good value for money, I may decide to get the more expensive 4Ghz 8 Core for £146.

Just looking at the minute though, if you do have any AMD only recommendations pleased to hear them (Intel stuff is way overpriced)

What is the model number of the ASRock??

If you are overclocking an FX8320,you need to spend around £70 to £80 on a motherboard. If not this motherboard looks OK:

http://www.scan.co.uk/products/gigab...-%28x16%29-atx

It has VRM cooling.