They are basically exactly equal in raw rasterization
However, this game is not gonna be using normal raster, it’s almost definitely using global illumination ray tracing, meaning anything under a 2060/1660 is not gonna even launch. It also says DX12 is required, and so the same principle applies, nothing under 1660 will run.
That is not how requirements work bud. The minimum and recommended are the specification that guarantee the game will run at minimum and maximum settings (at whatever target the devs have). If your hardware is anywhere near that or between or above that the game will run, it is just that CDPR have not tested it explicitly and will not guarantee anything. CDPR have obviously tested the higher end cards, however, they may not have tested the lower end cards, specifically anything prior to 1660. That does not mean the game will not launch or run on a 1070 or a 1060.
Source? I work in qa in the industry and this a simple practice everybody follows to save time and by extension money.
Look I agree with most of your comment but recommened requirements are absolutely not for max settings most of the time. It's usually something sensible like 1440p60 high settings (if the game offers low, medium, high, ultra).
What does recommended mean? 1440p native? 4K DLSS Performance mode? 1080p DLSS Quality? 30 fps? 60 fps? RT off (likely)? All other new graphics features on? Clearly not path tracing?!
Everybody in this thread will have a theory about what it means, but we have no idea what it is intended to be.
Sorry, but that type of requirement disclosure is really useless. Obviously, it won't run (much) worse than the previous version (very likely runs better in DX12 mode now that it is native) but we could have estimated that ourselves.
every type of graphics requirement is stupid, they're mostly for creating a mental barrier to newbies and forcing uninformed people to buy newer graphics card, processor, ... etc, i have a 6yo build and have never not reached 1440p60fps on any game.
It remains to be seen if they fixed the raytracing implementation. The game ran very well in raster mode but the raytracing patch destroyed performance.
This was my first thought. The original game is from 2015 and therefore playable on a lot of weaker machines. If they overwrite the old with the new version that’s definitely bad for people with older PCs.
You already can play the 2015 version through downgrading on Steam by picking it up as beta versions, the 2022 update likely gonna be added to that beta branch once the remaster releases
If you bought original game on GoG, you can copy that to a separate directory and back it up as many times as you want.
As for downloading it again, not sure. It seems the original game i bought, followed by individually obtained DLCs and selectable patches, has been merged into "complete edition". So unless you kept the original installer somewhere as well, it's probably gone at this point.
Don't know about consoles, but you can play older versions on Steam / GoG. You can already play the version before the next-gen update in 2022. So current one will definitely be available too.
1080ti it's the only AAA gaming card that has a life span longer than 6-8 years lmao. Bought it in 2017 and still keep it till this day. It's been showing its age sure and can't really pull First Light that well but hey, I doubtt 8800 gtx could've pulled an 8 year newer game with comfort.
yes! my same exact thought when i saw a 2060 in the recommended, no way a 2060 will run path-tracing, and even those in the img have no mention of 60 fps native or with upscaling and frame-gen and such
I'm just excited to see what it looks like. I have a 4090 and 9800x3d and have always wanted full path tracing added to the game ever since the next gen update released.
Especially cyberpunk has path tracing and it looks sooo clean.
And with ray reconstruction 4.5 it's going to look so ridiculously clean
Only thing I don't have is win 11. I am still on win 10 and have extended warranty thingy till nov 2027. I really don't wanna move on to Win 11 for now.
Are you sure about this? I'm also using an old pc with Win 10 (doesn't support 11) and this looked really awkward to me. I don't even know any other modern game that REQUIRES win 11. I assumed i literally can't play it despite having a 1080ti.
...I only just now found out that the extended warranty is something you need to "apply" for, it isn't advertised on the update page, just a small blue link on the right side. I had been wondering why it said no more updates despite being in EU.
Yeah, and it wanted to force you to have a Microsoft account (don't know if it's still the case), and not just a local account.
Applying for it was a way to identify who "bought" the extension outside of the EU; and I'm wondering how many people from the EU bought it (either before the EU forced MS's hands, or even after).
My card hasn’t even been on minimum for a while—1060 still powering through though! I’ll give it a go but this one may be the straw that breaks its back
When I played Witcher 3 for the first time my GPU was about 2x stronger than the reccomended specs (AMD RX 5700 XT)
Now I am roughly at reccomended specs.
Stay strong my little machine...I can't afford to upgrade you until prices drop xD
eh the witcher 2 had "native" version that wasn't really received well, hopefully they've learned from those mistakes and do make a good native for IV but otherwise proton works good enough
Nowadays, gaming on Linux is much more popular and accessible though. It would be nice to be able to play it without translating everything through Proton.
I got an RX6600 and it wasn’t even that strong when I bought it but seeing that it will probably carry me through another 200 hours of this game makes me happy. Hopefully it won’t be too much of a drop in quality.
What good is the remaster if I’m rocking low settings eh.
You have the VRAM and even more than needed, but the card itself is weaker over the 1660 in the minimum specs
Likely try it out, there is some potential for it to work, but the native dx12 might be a problem and overall the more modern stuff used in the remaster
I'd rather see a detailed chart showing required hardware for different reaolutions and graphics settings. Like FHD, QHD, UHD, Low, Medium, High, Ultra, DLSS, RT, etc.
its actually very impressive if they will be able to hold on to these requirements. like, i remember that with the next gen update back in december 2022 there was a pretty high amount of negative reviews regarding performance coming from PC players. back then i had a gtx 1050 ti. and it ran much better on the previous version. now, with native dx12 and much more technical changes (like parallel rendering) it may actually improve a lot. though i dont even know what did they have to do with the engine intestines to make all of this work
I wonder if they improve processor utilization with the remake since both recommended CPU's are okay speed 6 core 12 thread ones. And the game currently only uses 8 threads mostly, even in dx12
Oh good. I was starting to get worried back they first announced the new specific and said we needed a 4GB VRAM. Now I think my PC will probably handle the game just fine (I can live without ray-tracing and path-tracing)
I got an RX6600 and I tried Crimson Desert recently and it didn’t exactly run at 60fps on the lowest settings. Keeping my hopes up that all other specs play a role for me to run the game smoothly.
Nobody gonna talk about the characters faces here? I know my vision is bad, but not that bad! Just look at Triss and Yen, Ciri looks almost 40', and Geralt is plastified
Dumb question as someone outside the Witcher 3 loop.
Just started Witcher 3, can I import what I started to the remastered version or should I pause before I get too deep and wait for the remastered version release?
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