Microsoft has just revealed the official PC requirements for Gears of War 4. According to the specs, PC gamers will need at least an AMD FX-6300 or an Intel i5 with 8GB of RAM, Windows 10, 80GB of free hard-disk space and a Radeon R7 260X or an NVIDIA 750Ti. You can view the full PC requirements for Gears of War 4 below.
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80GB of free hard-disk space :O what the hell ??
Halo 5 on Xbox is bigger – 87.3 GB.
wtf
My Tinfoil Hat says it’s part of a Microsoft conspiracy to get people to buy bigger Microsoft-authorised Hard Drives! ;D
*polishes Tinfoil Hat.*
lol
Yeah, I was half-joking 😛
On the other hand, nice, you’re probably right……
Someone note to chalk up yet another “Next-Gen” Console fail 😀
Well loved playing 1 and 2 on the Xbox360 back in the days but this still isn’t enough for me to justify a jump onto Windows10 even tho I could easily squish it on my 4TB. What can I say, I love sticking with things that work the way they should. #killUMP
80GB…80…wow.
80……………………………………………………………………..gigabytes…………………………………………………………..
Windows Anniversary update broke Steam and Windows overall for me. Rolled back and I’ve been delaying it ever since.
Anniversary update burnt out my PC and killed my dog.
And the cake was a lie!
Hey guys, remember when that guy from Epic Games said they were planning on breaking Steam?
*polishes his Tinfoil Hat.*
I’m making a bank on that polisher!
Windows 10 Ahhh… It’s a no go then
You say that as if you were expecting it to run on anything but Windows 10.
It’ll be on Steam and 75% off by the next summer sale.
Maybe, maybe not.
This one’s a Microsoft-owned IP we’re talking about, after all.
Maybe if Halo actually reaches Steam, but otherwise, meh.
80 GB of joy. I think that single player campaign will be long in this game. Its nearly as big as Halo 5 Guardians (87.3GB)
Used to not think you were that bad then i noticed you own a xbox one, even being a PC gamer i can not understand why one would buy a xbox one over a PS4 unless you really do enjoy your exclusives. I personally own Nintendo and PC as i find the exclusives on both the PS and Xbox to be too similar to PC for me to spend that much money. Heck even starting to think anything over 200$ isn’t worth my money for Nintendo either.
Actually this console gen is the weakest one in term of exclusives there are less and less consoles only games and exclusives are getting more sparse and are most of the time beaten by other multiplatform games…but the most useless console to get for the pc gamer this gen is the xbox one
Agreed 110% i mean even for my Wii U the exclusives have been sad and IMO i basically bought it to have it as a collector, not once did i recommend one to anyone and i never would have.
I guess like you said xbox one makes no sense for a PC gamer even a PS4 makes more sense but for some reason we aren’t seeing any major exclusive like the PS3 gen. Last of us i still want to play lol.
Oh well to many games already with just my PC and Wii U/3ds.
Haha devs say 10 hour campaign, so in reality that means 6-8 hours. Pathetic.
80gb?!?! Why is it an open world 4 time larger and as detailed as gta5?!
And ssd for the recommended?! Why the f*ck it need an ssd?! Its a linear scripted corridor shooter what are those BS hardware selling requirements?!? I did not see nothing spectacular from this game to require an ssd or 80gb hard disk space
4 times larger than GTA? I checked my Xbox:
– GTA5: 66.3 GB
– Halo 5: 87.3 GB
– Halo MSCC: 62.4 GB
How is it possible that you GTA is less than 20GB? Do you have Xbox 360 version?
We people of DSOGaming are tired of your microsoft, windows s**t.
I was exaggerating my gta 5 is also at 67 gb chill
Ya right…
what do you mean by that? doubting?
hey check the steam id on the same name im using here let me help you
http://steamrep.com/profiles/76561198011083586
as for my pc if you want i can do a userbenchmark run and send you a link to my hardware the moment im home so you can stop doubting people i have no reason to hide what i got i just never liked bragging about my hardware like all the shows off on forums that put their system in their signature
The exageration was part of the point. It was humoristic ;).
He doesn’t mean the size in GB he means the size of the game itself. The answer to his question would have probably been reused textures. GTA5 has a lot of them.
Larger uncompressed textures and sounds are the bulk of why games are requiring more space. I’m sure they’re trying to gear it for 4k, regardless if it’ll look amazing or not. Sorry for the pun.
ok i might dig the size(i still think its lazyness on their part to not compress more) but still why an SSD? its linear and probably got loadings between each levels or at least hide their loadings in pre rendered cutscenes anyway and even if it is in engine all the time dont tell me a 7200 rpm HDD cant run it smoothly expect a slight hitch at autosave but if i get stutters because of my storage well that sucks
SSD’s (for this I’m referencing SATA III) have a good read/write performance, however where they excel ist he lower 4kb random block, even though its still very very low in speed, its light years ahead of what platter drives can allow. This would essentially allow texture streaming and merely loading up VRAM much faster, in theory. It requires the devs to be smart about it. Even with textures out of the loop, loading maps and the like would be significantly faster, IIRC Xbox 360 had some horrendous load times due to reading off the discs, SSD’s do teh same thing when loading maps, however much much quicker. A 7200 RPM or SSD wouldn’t affect the game play perse, however loading maps is much faster with the SSD, and I’m assuming they have an issue with the map sizes, and events therein, taking quite a while to load.
Then again I am speculating in this regard, so keep that in mind.
No you’re right about the loading times thing etc, but you’re missing one major detail;
We’re talking about an Xbox One port here, with seemingly mediocre (at best) graphics, not the next Crysis game, so there’s really no reason they should be recommending SSD’s.
Especially considering the low-speed HDD’s they’re using in their Sh*t Boxes.
4K pre-rendered cutscenes
Awwhhhh! Anyways my specs rape the ideal nvidia ones by a huge margin
good for you i have actually the ideal specs nailed but unlike you im not bragging not every pc gamers out there got i7’s or titans or TI gpus most got i5’s and gpu’s like 970/960 or amd equivalent as for ssd most got 240-256gb(windows on it) ssd and 2tb regular HDD as for 16 gb ram well ram is cheap so most gamers have 16 or minimum 8…so yea most pc gamers are around the recommended and im good placed to say that since i work in computer store so i see the average gaming pc builds i sell and assemble for my customers the like i said my only complaints are hard disk space and the fact it “needs” to be on an ssd
What are you so pissed about? Those with a “970/960” and “2tb regular HDD” will be able to play the game just fine. It’s no mystery that a SSD allows for a better gaming experience. The “Ideal” recommendation simply states this fact. Nowhere does it state that you can’t play this game without a SSD… And if in fact you do “nail” the Ideal spec then why do you seem soooo butt-hurt about it? I don’t see why you are so offended by a games recommended specs. It’s entertaining though!
because when i see hardware requirements nowaday saying lets say for recommended you need a 970 but then the game release and people with 980 complains about performance you know you cant trust hardware requirements or recommended means medium at 30fps(check quantum break recommended and tell me how a 970 perform in this game)
I have 64GB, i7-6700k, M.2 SSD, 2 GTX 980Ti cards. I’m all about future proofing my specs and since that’s my first ever build i have the right to freely brag about it. My cpu is also water cooled and Overclocked at 4.6ghz and both gpus are water cooled as well and Overclocked. Pc master race has taught me one thing and one thing only, brag brag brag 🙂
so you are in the elite minority good for you i was there too in 2012(the same pc im using now but almost every parts apart the cpu and mobo has been changed) and i didn’t brag because there is always something better around the corner and unlike owning a ferrari a pc gets old so even your top of your line pc will soon be obsolete hell there is already better hardwares out there so i dont see the reason to brag about the fact you spent much more than is needed unless you compensate for something
Yeah it’ll soon become obsolete, in 2020 lol if not 2022
And yeah obviously its gonna be 20 times as detailed as gtav
I just watched the 4K gameplay and i have to say it looks kinda meh tbh..
Feel the same.
Microsoft is raising the bar for it’s bullshit games… 80GB of free hard-disk space…WTF!!
Cr***p port incoming. And also Top Kek,ideal spec: A 980ti, 1080 and Fury X!
Ideal spec is most likely for 4K.
Yep they said the same thing with Quantum Broken, and look how it turn out on Pc. Can’t trust Microzozz
Ironically, Quantum Broken doesn’t even ask for 70 (68, to be precise).
No reason for it to be 80gb
80gb so what? There are 60tb hard drives on the market lol ;). People wanted 4k texture etc well, it does that, becomes beefy.
You seem to be forgetting some people haven’t got the best of Internets. Slow speeds or/and bandwidth caps.
True. Forgot about that.
Recommended is 970/1060. 1080 is for ideal, which I’m assuming is 4K60.
If it looked closer to Doom textures then maybe, but not even close. This is just another sleazy marketer illusion to give the impression of weight, and I am passing on all UWP games. Other games have huge hdd footprints and look awful – i.e. Fallout 4 textures are massive, bloated file sizes and look like blurry crayola crayon crap (another MS “preferred” game). File size does not mean bigger is better quality. These textures are not worthy enough to claim that 80GB footprint even for 4k. It is way too much.
“80GB of free hard-disk space”
This is a mistake right?
why windows 10?
I think this game uses their store and Directx 12 only.
Other than the size of the game the specifications could well be ripped verbatim from any AAA release you could pick at random. They really shouldn’t surprise anyone at this point.
Same specs as Quantum Broken and probably will have the same issues. And 80 gigs?! I won’t even bother, looks boring anyway.
LOL!!! 80gb. Considering windows 10 apps refuse to let me choose my secondary HDD as a target drive (i’ve tried over and over to set this). This is going to be a pass.
I tried. i set it to my second drive and when i click apply it defaults to my SSD. I just dont have enough space on my SSD drive tbh. I use it for OS, main programs and 2-3 staple games. everything else is put on a 4tb HDD.
Damn, games are so big now… Where are 10TB HDD’s when we need them?
They exists. There are 60tb hard drives.
They are expensive as hell, though.
no win 7 64bit?? no steam?? thx, but no thx, microshit…. ^^