The Deluxe Edition for Hogwarts Legacy will become available to those that have pre-ordered it later today. As such, we’ve decided to share an article and inform you about everything you need to know about the game’s PC version.
For starters, let’s take a look at the game’s PC graphics settings. As you can see, there are numerous graphics settings to tweak. The game supports all available PC upscaling techniques; from NVIDIA’s DLSS to AMD’s FSR and Intel’s XeSS.
Furthermore, the PC version features Ray Tracing for Reflections, Ambient Occlusion and Shadows. Contrary to other games, there is also an RT Quality setting that can improve overall performance when using these RT effects. Not only that, but there is support for NVIDIA’s DLSS 3 tech. My only gripe with the game’s settings is the lack of a fullscreen exclusive mode.
For those wondering, the game will compile its shaders the first time you launch it. Thus, you won’t be experiencing any shader compilation stutters. However, there are some traversal stutters. The good news is that they are not as annoying as those found in Dead Space Remake.
Now let’s talk about something that puzzled a lot of PC gamers, the recommended RAM requirements. Warner Bros and Avalanche recommended using 32GB of RAM. However, you won’t really need as much RAM as suggested. After one hour of gaming at 4K/Max Settings/Ray Tracing, our total PC system RAM usage never exceeded 14GB. So, if you don’t run any programs in the background (or have numerous tabs open in Chrome), you’ll be completely fine with 16GB of RAM.
Regarding VRAM requirements, I’ve seen the game using more than 15GB at 4K/Max Settings/Ray Tracing with DLSS 3 Quality. Therefore, we suggest avoiding 4K if your GPUs have 12GB of RAM. That is unless you drop the quality of Textures. We’ve seen reports of the RTX3080 performing horribly at 4K and this could explain this behavior. So, make sure to be reasonable with your settings. And for the love of God, make sure to disable all unnecessary background programs. If you have Chrome running with multiple tabs, it will affect both your RAM and VRAM usage.
In its current pre-release state, Hogwarts Legacy performs wonderfully on AMD’s hardware. However, there are currently some issues with NVIDIA’s GPUs. This is why you’ve seen some unusual GPU usage in our playthrough. We’ve already informed the green team about these issues, and we’re waiting for a Game Ready driver that should slightly improve things. In addition, Avalanche plans to release a performance patch when the game launches, on February 10th. This is the main reason why we haven’t posted yet our PC Performance Analysis.
Lastly, we didn’t experience any crashes or instability issues on both NVIDIA’s and AMD’s hardware. Moreover, and as with most other PC games lately, Hogwarts Legacy displays proper on-screen K&M prompts. And yes, the mouse movement is wonderful here, and does not suffer from any smoothing or acceleration issues.
Stay tuned for more!
John is the founder and Editor in Chief at DSOGaming. He is a PC gaming fan and highly supports the modding and indie communities. Before creating DSOGaming, John worked on numerous gaming websites. While he is a die-hard PC gamer, his gaming roots can be found on consoles. John loved – and still does – the 16-bit consoles, and considers SNES to be one of the best consoles. Still, the PC platform won him over consoles. That was mainly due to 3DFX and its iconic dedicated 3D accelerator graphics card, Voodoo 2. John has also written a higher degree thesis on the “The Evolution of PC graphics cards.”
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No proper fullscreen mode… MEH
I’ve also noticed every PS4 port suffers from this same fate: God of War, Uncharted 4, …
Something about console ports not offering fullscreen? I’m not sure what the reason is. But I frankly run all my games in exclusive fullscreen when possible.
Can anyone confirm If the game has any LGBTQ elements? If yes, Im def gonna skip this.
The author of the books retconned Dumbledore (head wizard of the school) to be gay years after the books originally came out, so I’d be surprised if that wasn’t present in the game.
my gawd, now that reminds me of Bill and Frank from the Last of US tv show on HBO Max.
Are you trolling or just stupid?
The game has a trans teacher as well as multiple gay students. Not to mention the character creation and leftist lame commentary in the dialogue.
yes there is a trans character you meet early on and it lets you create nonbinary characters. Game is woke.
Can anyone confirm If the game has any LGBTQ elements? If yes, Im def gonna skip this.
Have you ever seen a straight person who’s into Harry Potter?
There’s your answer
I’m perfectly straight and like Harry Potter. And the friends I had that also liked Harry Potter were also straight. Some of the movies are among the top grossing movies of all time. The books are among the best selling book series of all time. That’s called wide appeal
no you gay, you like saying gay stuff while you swing your wand and throw glitter around to simulate spell effects, you gay.
There’s a tr**ny in the game
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwiA469leUQ
I bought a 3080 a few months after launch for MSRP, and while I’m overall very happy with it, the 10GB of VRAM has always been an anchor around its neck. It’s generally not an issue, but as ray tracing gets better and more next gen only games get developed, it will continue to be an issue.
And before anyone asks why I didn’t get a 6800 XT, because there weren’t any in stock when I was buying in Jan 2021. You were lucky to get anything at MSRP back then.
Yea i also owns a rtx 3080 10gb that i paid a fortune for and i thought that as long as im on 1440p i should be fine, and now we have games that use 12gb vram even at 1080p
Same
sell it and get a 4090
I could sell it for $500-$600 at most, and the 4090 costs $1600+. I bought the 3080 because it was in my price range, I have no interest spending over $1,000 on a GPU. Plus all the games I play run great on my card, why upgrade if I’m happy with what I have?
Why you people buy cards as expensive as consoles to play sht games?
Because you were complaining about VRAM? I don’t know, do you.
You’re going to spend +$1000 on a GPU soon enough.
AMD doesn’t purposefully sabotage the VRAM in their cards. Anyone remember the GTX970 3.5GB?
Nvidia is doing this knowing about the handicap they are putting on their cards and know people will have to upgrade to 4000 or latter.
Brilliant, thank you for letting us know, John. ?
Those VRAM requirements seem completely unjustified.
All you need to know: It has Denuvo.
Also, from what I’ve seen on YouTube RTAO seems completely broken and regular SSAO looks better. Can you comment on it, John?
Yeap, RTAO appears to be broken in most places. There also major pop-in issues with RT Shadows. Currently, only the RT Reflections are working correctly. We’ll talk more about these issues in our PC Performance Analysis.
Buying this game just to spite the snowflakes that calls to boycott this
Looks like a marketing stunt to me, and you’re falling for it.
Have you been hiding under a rock?
All the woke pro trans are calling to boycott this game reeeesetera banned any discussion about this game no matter the topic a french gaming website called gamekult completely refused to review the game because of JK Rowling statement about trans…
So if it is a marketing stunt then its quite an elaborate one
The game is super woke, and they even added a tr*nny.
Yet there are people buying it to to stick it to the man? How does that make any goddamn sense?
When have you ever known a woke person to operate on logic, at all?
Lol, WB is simply not that smart.
I thought people were mad because it was the other way around.
Regardless, Harry Potter universe is very gay.
JK Rowling is as far left as you can get, except for the fact that she believes in basic biology. To her credit, she has been very outspoken against things like men in women’s prisons and locker rooms.
Her other lefty views don’t merit forgiveness for Klu Klux Trans activists, and they tried a boycott campaign against this game to spite her. Needless to say it’s failed miserably.
game is woke, they fired the lead designer for making videos criticizing Anita Sarkeesian, they could ignore them, the game lets you create trans characters and it has a trans character. But because JK rowling agrees with them 99% and is pro trans and would march with them but doesnt agree that trans women are biological women, they are not…..they started this whole crusade and boycott, these people are insufferable, if they ignore them them the industry would still be great and nothing bad would happen, instead they bend over backwards to appeal to them.
Lets see how that worked out for ubisoft who literally censored 4-5 games because of woke morons complaining on twitter..oh wait, Ubisoft is collapsing. GOOD.
Ubisoft recently cancelled 3 games and delayed Skull & Bones yet again. This is the 6th time that they have delayed this game. The game has been in development for 10 years now.
They are too busy shooting themselves in the foot to bother caring. Their stock price has fallen 62% in the past year. Investors are not happy with Ubisoft’s performance.
does anyone care about that game? Also 62% and its not “RED ALERT” how much more it needs to fail? How much has cd project red fallen? Anyway the “grift” has to run out some point, you cant make the same game over and over again and expect the same results, only in these case they really thought they would get the same results, FOREVER.
Think UBI’s performance is down mainly due to tree reasons…
1. Poor management
2. Quota before skills
3. Team’s where beliefs and values tear the team apart so they can’t agree on anything – A natural downside of adding all kinds of people into the mix when work is about creativity.
I don’t know anything about the quality of Skull & Bones but I do know that 10 years is a heck of a long time to be in development. If they are just going to keep delaying it then the project becomes a money pit and should just get cancelled.
The old saying is “sh*t or get off the pot”.
Lol, they put a tr@nny in?! Haha, I knew it’d be woke but didn’t expect that.
why not cybermess 2077 had one.
ultrawide support ?? 3440×1440
I see that dagoat is still embarrassing himself. https://media2.giphy.com/media/wh4f9iW5vCjgQ/giphy-downsized-medium.gif
he is a troll dont feed him.
I will stop feeding him. Lol
No mention that JK Rowling is transphobic, despite she agrees with the left 99% but she doesnt thing trans women are biological women, they are not and despite the fact the game has a trans character, gamespot put up a article “how to support trans people in these trying times”
LMAO 😀
Seriously no one cares.
GS can’t stop embarrassing themselves.
Gamekult, the second biggest video game site in France after JeuxVideo, said yesterday they refuse to review Hogwarts Legacy.
Due to JK Rowling. (they used the Gamespot article as their argument, where Gamespot argued you shouldn’t buy the game due to JK rowling)
Gamekult got mass trashed for it on social media.
And JeuxVideo, that did review it, gave it a 18/20.
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LMAO the cowards hid replies, why everyone does that, its not like you cant see them by clicking the icon on the FAR RIGHT…get it? Those are the FAR RIGHT comments, coincidence? I dont think so.
See thats my issue man, JK Trolling agrees with the left 99% she isnt a terf, she is a woke loon that drew the fcking line on trans women, who are biologically male….not being biologically female, and this is why these brainwashed npc sheep are doing this. They fired the lead designer who made videos criticizing Anita Sarkeesian, not being a jerk or anything like that, but gaming sites calling him the usual austrian painter supreme authoritarian spiel.
He said he was gonna leave a that time so he wasnt fired he left but i dont believe him, the timing is too convenient, these subhuman and i am not gonna apologize for the term npcs ARE subhuman, so these subhuman scum said that is basically Adolf and because he was pro gamergate or something and that was “the worst it can get folks” according to zoe quiin’s boy toy who wrote for rock paper hipster i dont remember the name, one of the “five guys”. If this is the worst it can get what happens if you are right wing? What happens if what happens to the EX ceo of tripwire who made the killing floor games, he came out in support of texas heartbeat law after it was found constitutional and said how important it was for people in the industry who are pro life to speak up and they started attacking him calling misogynist and porting and quality assurance studios said they wont work with the studio unless he is removed and he was forced to step down….out of his own studio…that he founded, Tucker Carlson interviewed him. Dude was OG he started as a modder for unreal tournament 2004. Now he is blacklisted from this gay industry.
Speaking of the heartbeat law, i just remembered a video of dumb feminists with their milkers hanging out protesting, wait for it….that a law… in texas…in america, was voted…while they are in france, where the anti abortion laws are more “extreme” than the “if the baby has a heartbeat you cant kill it” mild law that texas voted. PEAK NPC.
So in the insane illogical left wing CLOWN WORLD that we live in, it is impossible for anyone who is not left wing and constantly bent over towards the ever more insane demands of these people or you get attacked like JK Rowling and you are denounced with “Death of the author”. If these SUBHUMANS, no i wont stop calling them that, find anything in your game that isnt woke, they attack you and go in your discored server. So only solution is to ignore them and keep silent, hope you slip under the radar, or go balls to the wall like the dominus dev did who decided to rename the game to domina and make a steam update mocking the idea of transgenderism and keffals saying “honestly i dont think dominus ever existed, it was always domina” Daily reminded that “many a true nerd” call that person the usual german nword and said he wont cover his games anymore because, wait for it, in one of his updates he said “take off the mask and smile” after covid ended.
I swear shoving these nerds in lockers was too kind. They deserved worse.
I am now openly rooting for “hard times” and bankrupting this industry by defunding it.
Paris and journalist companies are cosmopolitan as f*ck. If not downight owned by an American company they’ll repeat anything stated and thought by Americans just to be trendy.
LGBT people are now harassing streamers for playing this game. They’re going mostly after smaller streamers. They literally brought some chick streamer to tears by harassing her.
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Thanks for the write up John, I’m not in a hurry to play the game so I’ll hopefully get a patched up version on Friday.
Awesome. Most PC games do it right nowadays.
If they detect controller input, the screen help-tips immediately switch to A-B-X-Y.
If they detect keyboard input, the screen help-tips immediately switch to keyboard inputs.
And it all happens seamlessly on the fly now.
What a change a few years make, it used to be a nightmare using a controller on PC. It works great now.
@John What about 8 GB of RAM for those of us that have older pc’s? Will it work decently? By capping to 30, lower settings, etc.?
There’s a perfect solution for you: upgrade to 16GB. Even if you have to buy a whole new kit, the cheapest 2x8GB DRR4 kit on PCPartPicker is $38. My first PC that I built a decade ago had 16GB ffs.
Sounds good but can’t afford it right now.
But you can afford a $60 game?
RAM is dirt cheap right now. It may stay that way or some crisis which is real or engineered could drive the price way up. The best thing to do is buy the 16GB now.
One more thing you need to know is that around 90 percent of Harry Potter fans have homosexual tendencies which is a cool fact to know.
lol
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IGN has objective standards, crazy
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LGBT groups are now harassing streamers for playing this game. They’re going mostly after smaller streamers. They literally brought some chick streamer to tears by harassing her.
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Yeah but no DLSS and awful drivers… Don’t get me wrong, AMD indeed IS more consumer friendly that Ngreedia but each time I had an AMD card I ended up regretting it.
And if you care about RT at ALL you’re screwed because rt performance is terrible on AMD hardware
Seems like a damn fine pc version. To bad the faggotry Wokeism, thats killing all good things lately!
About bloody time to rid the world of the antiwhite manhating globalist cabal. These satanist woreshippers paedohiles needs to be blown to hell – all of these lowest creeps, that walk the earth!
F*k em all and the NWO trash!
stfu AMD cultist idiot. VRAM is overrated and just look at how 12GB 4070 Ti is on par with the 3090 Ti which has 24GB. Get it? VRAM is a carrot on a stick for idiotic AMDrones like you. Only a tiny fraction of gamers play on 4K so VRAM is literally fools gold. 8GB is currently perfectly enough for normal gamers. brainlet
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It… precompiles shaders? Thank you God almighty. I wonder how hard that is to do for devs whose games struggle with the stutter.
No, I don’t want to play a game half-way through so “it gets better” to just have a new GPU driver or game patch making it worse again.
Way more games should do it like HL. Micro stutters are annoying as f*ck.