Something to look forward to: With each new generation of consoles, system requirements for high production value games inevitably jump (and that’s usually a good thing). That process may have slowed down this time around, but it might finally happen with a few games this fall that will leave the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One behind.
Asobo Studio released the system requirements for A Plague Tale: Requiem on Friday, and they seem to justify the game’s generational visual improvement over its 2019 predecessor. The minimum system requirements aren’t as hefty as the remake’s. from Dead Space, but it might be time for some users to consider an upgrade.
Console editions of both games will only support PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series, signaling a real shift in hardware specs. Many are probably used to 8GB of RAM being the minimum required for AAA games. Like Dead Space, Plague Tale Requiem goes up to 16 GB.
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In fact, the recommended system specs for the first Plague Tale game – Innocence – are precisely the minimum requirements for Requiem. These include a GTX 970 or Radeon RX 590, and an i5-4690K or AMD FX-8300 to play the game at 1080p and 30fps on low graphics settings. Requiem requires DirectX 12, Shader Model 6.0 and 55 GB of storage space.
To play the game at ultra settings at 1080p and 60fps, Asobo recommends an RTX 3070 or Radeon RX 6800 XT. This hardware class is closer to what many other recent games like Spider-Man recommend for 4K gaming.
Requiem’s recommended specs likely take ray tracing into account, although Asobo doesn’t explicitly state this like other developers. To increase the game’s graphics settings to 4K, DLSS (including Nvidia’s new DLSS 3 – exclusive to upcoming RTX 4000 GPUs) and AMD FSR will come in handy.
Minimum (30 ips, 1 920 x 1 080 and mode bass)
- Processeur : Intel Core i5-4690K (3,5 GHz)/AMD FX-8300 (3,3 GHz)
- Graphics: 4GB, GeForce GTX 970/Radeon RX 590
Recommended (60fps, 1920×1080 on Ultra)
- Processeur : Intel Core i7-8700K (3,7 GHz)/AMD Ryzen 5 3600 (3,6 GHz)
- Graphiques : 8 Go, GeForce RTX 3070/Radeon RX 6800 XT
Asobo’s recommended specs should approximate the performance gamers will get using DLSS or FSR in performance mode at 4K, as this passes from an internal 1080p resolution.
A Plague Tale: Requiem will launch on PC, Xbox Series, PS5, and Nintendo Switch (via the cloud) on October 18.
