Activision has revealed the official PC system requirements for Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War. According to the publisher, PC gamers will need 175GB of free hard-disk space in order to install of the game’s modes. Ironically, that’s not the max free hard-disk space that the game requires. For gaming at Ultra RTX, PC gamers will need 250GB of free hard-disk space.
For gaming at high FPS with Ray Tracing in 4K resolution, Activision recommends using an NVIDIA GeForce RTX3080. The publisher also recommends using an Intel i9 9900K or AMD Ryzen 3700X with 16GB of RAM.
For gaming at a high FPS with a high refresh rate monitor, Activision suggests using an NVIDIA GeForce GTX1080 or RTX3070 or AMD Radeon RX Vega 64.
Below you can find the game’s full PC system requirements.
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You can’t even buy a 3080 how the hell are they recommending one for games already…
I swear, I look forward to reviews on the Radeon 6900XT. If Nvidia doesn’t do anything about inventory that can be my next GPU upgrade.
But why would you get the 6900XT and not the 6800XT?
There is like 5% difference.
At this rate in 5 year we need 1tb ssd to play cod
EXACTLY what I was gonna say!
why those games are above 100gb!? why!?
the textures are not that amazing,the levels and maps are not as big as battlefield 3 maps and dont tell me its the sound…
those kind of games should be 60-80 max the fact there are open world games out there with better visuals that are not going above 100gb while those crap scripted adhd friendly games have the audacity to be above 100gb is mindboggling!!!
uncompressed sound if titanfall is anything to go by.
It’s probably the uncompressed audio. MW 2019 is at around 250gb.
Because it’s a console port !!! Consoles are weak & can’t compress/decompress as fast as PC, in consoles they directly stream textures from DVD/HD/BD to memory and then GPU, in this case we don’t need a huge CPU Horsepower, another issue is the “IWD engine” itself which is an evolution of “IDTech 3 Engine” , since 2005 they kept enhancing it but apprently it inherint some weakness of the original engine !!
ID tech engine has been out of COD since AW, soon consoles will not have this problem so ports will not be harsh
It’s absolutely the size of the Battle Royal map(s). It’s not audio, FFS. It’s nothing to do w consoles. Look at the install sizes of EVERY other CoD that didn’t have BR mode. You’re talking 40-65GB Max. Cod MW, and now BO Cold War. (I don’t remember the last BO install size bc I never owned it), have these huge sprawling Warzone maps, which requires massive storage.
its not the battle royal mode, black ops 3 had over 100+GB install size
Didn’t it also have a BR mode? Like I said, I never played it.
is this always online?
most likely.
battlenet crack?
The biggest problem with UWP is that even if they crack it it will work only for the specific Windows version, e.g. only on Windows 2004.
I hope UWP cracking gets better over time because this sh?t is mind blowing, they trying to get rid of .exes ffs
They are trying to get rid of the exe?
Yes as Latex said, they have been trying to get rid of .exes for a LONG time now hence their failed attempts aka Windows 10 S etc. which only run Microsoft Store apps (UWP) and no .exes
That is crazy…I do not support DRM I switch over the GOG…Warzone is free but I hate the fact that you need to have the latest GPU driver to optimize shaders and play the dam game…the size of the game is stupid
Don’t advise people to “google”. Don’t use that bloated biased search engine.
I agree with you, sadly this is how the situation is and where is heading, glad someone else is knowledgeable in these boards.
sorryasss anti piracy measure
A quarter of a terabyte for a CoD game!
250gb for 4k, does it have some ultra texture pack?
Treyarch BETTER follow IW’s lead and allow us to uninstall Co-op, Campaign, AND ADDITIONALLY Warzone/Multi, if we want. 175GB? GTFO
the last Cod wasn’t cracked. so chances seem slim aF
Hmm, 250GB is a little worrying,
Not that I would buy it but it would take me about 8 days to download, Have to split it into 30gb segments a day otherwise ISP might cap/throttle me for the rest of the month, Even though they say “unlimited”.
Most ISP’s will have some BS “fair use” policy that limits your “unlimited monthly data”.
Games getting a little too big to download in one go.
That some BS ISP. Cut it off and switch.
Seriously… can companys stop putting video card brands as the minimum requirements and actually put some hard numbers. so annoying
What do you mean by hard numbers? How is it hard to determine how you’ll perform by looking at brand and model listed?
so I have to download 200gbs for a 4 hour campaign, no thanks.
Wtf are these specs:
Minimum:
-GTX 670
-GTX 1650
-HD 7950
Wtf is Activision smoking? 670 and 7950 are 1050 tier cards with choked 2 GB and 3 GB VRAM respectively, meanwhile 1650 = ~1060, that’s already a tier higher than 670 and 7950….
Recommended:
-1660 Super
-970
Doesn’t make sense again… 1660 Super is significantly faster than 970, so why put in the same spec recommendation list?
“i5 2500K or 1600x”
Again, 1600x is much faster than 2500K…
Competitive:
-3070
-1080
basically 2060 vs 2080Ti lmao….
I think they just have a bunch of names of products and then randomly put them in random places.
2500K vs 1600X after looking online its not that hardcore away…since AMD only starting to have good single threaded performance around that time over Intel but… I do agree that its mess up
Bigger size=better game… https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/e8019bfbed978ea327b7950f1708e8fe136bfc2fc3fb16486177c7a81470cce4.gif