Man, things are getting ugly on Bethesda’s blog. Some PC gamers decided to express their frustration towards The Evil Within’s PC recommended requirements and Bethesda’s Community Manager has been doing his best to calm the crowd down, while at the same time provide new information about the PC version.
According to Bethesda’s Community Manager, The Evil Within PC is intended as a next-gen experience, basically confirming the fact that it will be based on the current-gen version of the game.
But what about the game’s minimum requirements? Well, Bethesda’s Community Manager claimed that the company does not want to share any because they want to gamers to ‘experience it the way it was meant to be played’
Here is the direct quote from Bethesda’s CM:
“Talking with folks on the team, you can give it a go with 2 GB VRAM, but it’s definitely not recommended. As mentioned in the blog post, we’re not posting minimum requirements, because we’re looking to share requirements that show the game the way it was meant to be played.”
Bethesda’s CM claimed that the development team hopes to support Crossfire and SLI, and is working on this. Now that will be really interesting as The Evil Within is powered by id Tech 5; an engine that has major compatibility issues with multi-GPUs (Wolfenstein: The New Order still does not support multi-GPUs).
The Evil Within releases next month and we’ll be sure to put it to the test!
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4GB of VRAM for a dated looking game with huge black bars covering 30% of the screen. Argh….
in same quality as consoles versions (that both have AMD APUs) but PC need few times more powerful HW. So much for any form of optimization.
Glad I didn’t pre-order. No SLI support is pure horseshit in my opinion. There are so many PC gamers out there running SLI/Crossfire setups now days. I bought dual 780’s to be able to max games out at 1440p. What non sense.
Oh well, I’ll wait for the reviews while playing the many other new games releasing in the coming month.
This is an ugly, dated looking game dude. Just switch to 1 card, and play @ 1080p, and you’ll be fine. Save the dual-card shlt for games that deserve/require it.
it better be bs then, because i dont get why this game would ever need all that power. its dated looking game liike you asid.
This is a “AAA Game” being released on all platforms….with no SLI support. Titanfall was the exact same way. That the game looks “ugly and dated” is completely irrelevant. What’s important is that developers are being lazy.
Oh yeah, and I’m not downgrading my resolution to 1080p to play any game, are you kidding me? LOL
Comeon ppl…an 760 even here in brazil is cheaper than a book for someone that has a regular job.
Next-gen games = i5 + 760 at least! just chill out!
dayONE anyway!
Like stated another game that won’t work at ultra textures with 2GB of vram at 1080P. If GTA5 is like this i’ll be selling my 770(that i just bought in june) for a 970 soon
by the looks of it, even 970/980’s 4GB wont help. shadow of mordor on ultra textures needs 6GB and we are talking about 2014. i guess we need cards with 32 or 64GB of v-ram for 2015, lol
Who wants to play a game with massive black borders, film grain all because they want it to look like a horror movie? I mean it’s made to be played on big TV’s for the cinematic look like The Order 1886.
It’s on my wishlist but won’t be a day one purchase.
Waiting to see if the forums erupt first when it gets released.
First thing i would do is edit inis to get rid of the black borders, by the looks of it this game will be a mess visual and technical wise. Now will the gameplay suck?
Me. its kinda have a good creepy feeling…so I gave it trust!
You buy just about everything on day one for some reason, silly thing to do in my view.
Nope. DayONE only for worthy(7 this year) RPGs, Stealth, Horror and some indies games(Sherlock, vanishing of carter)…
“Hoping to get SLI and Crossfire working” is just marketing speak. They want people buying the game in the false hope that SLI will work, and it never will.
I was watching tek syndicate, the guy played on ps4 he said the
loadings took forever, pewdipe pie played it on his channel, it lagged
like h3ll.
Seems to me the game will run like crap on all systems.
So the game has gone gold but they dont have time to iron out the pc requirments?
I smell something bad here.
Lol the last gen versions are 7 gb? How you go from 50 to 7gb?
about the last gen version, can’t remember where I read this but basically, they compressed textures to hell for the ps3 and 360, and used lower resolution textures. For the next generation version, like PC or Playstation 4 / Xbox one version, they were able to go a little bit more free with the texture sizes and other resources. However, it still doesn’t make sense to use 4gb as the recommended requirements. So I hope they are at least using 4k textures or something, but yeah I doubt it.
I just don’t understand why requirements are so high when graphics in this game don’t even look that good.
Psst if you dont have a gtx670 and a i7 they cang gurrantee optimal perfomance.
Fck this game.
I7 for resident evil 4 with slightly better graphics? lol
I smell a bad port….
Rage was a bad port. Wolfenstein: The New Order was a bad port. So yeah, I think you’re right.
Rage and Wolf didnt was bad ports to max it at all…even a 760 can max it out…
Bad port for me is cant extract all power from high end rigs…
Cool, but the 700 series wasnt released until 2 years after Rage. Rage was absolutely a bad port, in fact it was one of the worst. The game was massively plagued by texture streaming bugs.
Cant comment on Wolfenstein as I never played it since I stopped buying id games after Rage …because it was a really bad port.
That’s not fair, they fixed it with a patch with the transcoding option and Carmack admitted they made a mistake with the PC version. Last time I played it, Rage ran just fine and that was on a GTX460.
Its was poorly optimised either way. Sure a patch fixed it eventually but it doesnt excuse how it was on release. I remember waiting at least 2 weeks for that patch too.
I don’t know, hardly a new thing, it’s not like Ubisoft or others fix their games after. LOL
yeah, it didn’t fixed for me too. they patched it, frame rate was 60 for me but texture streaming issues were there even post patch. less than before but still noticeable. man that patch was huge back then, lol it was 1gb ? 3gb ? 5gb ? it took me 1.5 days with slow speed
Yeah! Everything was fixed after the patch. it ran well on my rig!
They weren’t bad ports.
Ign review shadow of mordor and the pc version has a setting the ulta textures want 6bg of vram gpu..
lol i cant believe tha game got a high score.
I don’t even… 6gb VRAM for Ultra settings in 1080p. Seriously?! They really need to stop this sh*t.
Holy!?! so that’s why WB weren’t showing any PC footage until the Nvidia event.
Side note : I can’t believe how many people are buying the reviews on IGN. Seriously!?! IGN ?
but dude its polygon too and we all know those 2 are reliable, only kotaku is mising when they post their review we will know for sure the game is awesome.
/SARCASM
:))))) lmao. what happened this past 24hr to v-ram requirements ? it’s like they telling us not to buy their games or they are lying their a*s off or they are trying to say that consoles are powerful :))
at least someone compare that ultra textures to high. if nvidia’s game 24 footage was on ultra then it really doesn’t have much difference
The devs are stupid, or brought into NVIDIA’s go buy a Titan just for it’s VRAM.
6GB for ultra? Are those people on crack?
Seriously guys its not even a graphically impressive game.
IGN = bought liars!
PC Equals To Next-Gen . Next-Gen Equals to Last-Gen . Game looks dated, Black bars, noise effect, the frame rate is awful in all videos i saw and it needs 4GB v-ram ? lol . it’s not a bad port, it’s a bad engine and i guess they used that crappy ultra low quality MEGA TEXTURES again
Hope this F*CKN turd for an engine dies allready, should never had seen the light of day as Carmac lost it way back!
Im glad he have given up on developing games engine and went to Oculus VR as he clearly is worthless when it comes to game engine these days!
“Hope this F*CKN turd for an engine dies allready, should never had seen the light of day as Carmac lost it way back!”
I am propably gonna get flamed but i couldnt have said it better myself.
STOP using this engine. Buy unreal engine 4.
Yeah it’s kind a sad as Carmac was one of the absolute best way back then but something happen, he started his crap Armadillo or what it’s called and just wanted to fly to the moon ..LOL!
Well atelast now he can fly to the moon and other worlds with VR so it’s good he dont develop game engines anymore, let that to those who can. Other then that im sure he are doing a hell of a job at Oculus as the guys really smart or so they say heh.
But yeah let this crap die, Unreal/Cryengine and some more will do fine I belive!
It is combination of all. Bad engine, unoptimized API, poor development (compensate with high requirements). I hope only people meet requirements will buy that game!
+ paid to bad port and show the game only to a specific platform. i believe this will happen to lords of the fallen too and happened to watch dogs
I wouldn’t say the game looks bad, i see some pretty nice lightning, awesome atmosphere and textures. I’m so ready for this game. Stop the excuses, most of you seem butthurt by the fact that it’s asking for 4GB VRAM, although it hasn’t released yet so that could be an exaggeration. The ID Tech is known for it’s mega textures which you know, makes the game use a lot of disk space but also creates really large and crisp textures, so that could be one of the reasons for the 4 gb vram need.
It looks like a deliciously horrifying gameplay experience, so what if the game looks “dated” to you, why does that even matter?
Yeah no, the game graphics are old, like something from the ps3.
Also the requirements are insanse, a 2gb gpu should max it and idtech is just making the textures look blurry not crisp.
Its a pathetic engine especially on lighting, notice how none of the game using it has flaslights or other light sources, thats because the engine doesnt use lights and shadows but instead it has HDR darkenening effect.
The engine has been designed for weak systems so the developers in japan must have messed with it to produce this mess and propably dont know anything about pc or bethesda is just trolling.
The fact they cant gurrantee the game will run well with less than 4gb vram is downright riddiculus.
“has been designed for weak systems” what kind random statement is that? Please source some of those horribly blurry textures because all the videos, given they all had some lag.. showed crisp textures and good lightning. You don’t design an engine, or for that fact anything with that kind of goal. You still haven’t played the game yet, only heard or seen from others, so you can’t really justify the graphics in detail yet. The models does not look highly detailed in texture but that doesn’t mean the models itself could be potential high polygon (don’t think they are) but whatever… it does not really matter what i say because it is obvious that most of already jumped of the bandwagon.
“you can’t really justify the graphics in detail yet”
actually he can, and he did. judging by their previous games with that engine and these kinds of requirements everybody can. to me it’s you who jumped on the bandwagon. do you work at id or bethesda ? don’t you ?
even skyrim with those 12GB+ textures per cities doesn’t need that much requirements and those textures are phenomenal
Nope i don’t but i ENJOY horror, gore games and everything that reminds of resident evil series. Personally i couldn’t really care less about the graphics because i’m getting it no matter what. I’m not bound to judging games by its graphics only, i’m not judging on game requirements nor its engine.
me too, but when they release such a requirements for the game i judge it by it’s graphics, i too prefer a nice gameplay in games more than graphics
For 4 freaking gb, this better have some kind of black magic with 4k textures. 😛
“. Personally i couldn’t really care less about the graphics because i’m getting it no matter what.”
Thats the thing, if you dont care about graphics then you dont have a powerfull pc, which means you propably not gonna be able to run this because of the INSANE requirments.
Why does “not care about graphics” mean not powerful PC? how are they related… I have a i7 2600k 4 Ghz, GTX 670 4GB, 6 gb ram. That has been plenty for all my games so far presumably this too.
I’m a retro gaming person, i play all kinds of graphical games, old and new. It doesn’t matter to me, as long as the games are good.
Because why the h3ll would you spend all that money for a high end pc if you dont care about graphics????
Littearly,
the only reason to do so is because you care about graphics. If you
dont then why buy such espensive hardware? You can still play the game
at decent settings.
1. because i can
2. smooth framerate with intended game graphics for satisfaction
3. Image manipulation, 3D rendering, compiling
You are ignorant to believe you buy expensive hardware for good gaming experience only.
I’m a “gamer” so of course does the overall experience matter to me, but game graphics is not the deal breaker for me. I play with intended graphics, that means so it looks just as good as the gameplay trailers, if i can go higher than that and still have a smooth gameplay experience then that’s a plus.
You’re wasting your time arguing with him, there’s really no point in arguing with him as all he likes is arguing for some reason.
Me? yes i like to discuss or argue in a matter that is valid and is kept on a respectful level. I’m not arguing to argue… but when the internet as it does today, flames, cries and hates about every little detail, without an actual reason. Except for “the rest hates, so should i” or they expect equal performance from everything because they are playing on PC, and payed for their godly machine. Then i do indeed feel it is necessary to discuss. If you think your reason is more valid than my arguments, then don’t comment.
No I meant that for you. That you shouldn’t waste your time arguing with Durka durk… It’s just a downward spiral. I mean I agree with your points, but he won’t see it any other way than he wants just to argue, ;P
Come on, he thinks super pcs are only for gaming… -.-
” smooth framerate with intended game graphics for satisfaction”
Well by the looks of it you are not gonna get this.
“You are ignorant to believe you buy expensive hardware for good gaming experience only.”
I am ignorant that some guy posts on a gaming site in an article about requirments “i dont care about graphics” and logically replying “why did you buy the high end pc then?”
“but game graphics is not the deal breaker for me.”
The graphics is no ones deal breaker the insane requirments are and crappy ports.
Without having any knowledge about the infrastructure of the game, the engine etc.. you judge the game being a “crappy port”, that is not wise. Something being a crappy port today is used way too often and frequently in context where it does not even make sense. It is possible that it might run like sh*t, but you can’t be certain of that before playing the actual game. There is no logic in replying why i would buy a high end PC, when it is not for graphics only, when there could be thousand of reasons, just because we are on a gaming board, doesn’t mean we have to own a high end PC for gaming. The developer recommend these specs but that doesn’t mean it will not run decent with lower specs.
“Without having any knowledge about the infrastructure of the game, the engine etc..”
The engine is idtech 5, known to be a mess, the requirments are insane and the game is being made by a japanesse studio. Also when pewdiepie played the ps4 vesrion it had horrible framerate issues.
I dont know for a fact how it turns out and i hope all this are wrong but by the looks of it, this is where its headnig.
“Something being a crappy port today is used way too often”
It happens often. blackflag, dead rising 3, watchdogs. Its not as bad as 2008-2010 though.
“you can’t be certain of that before playing the actual game.”
Thats why i havent preordered despite wanting the game i wate for john to inform us.
Hey people uvoted me when i replied to you, so i cant be the only one thikning that.
“The developer recommend these specs but that doesn’t mean it will not run decent with lower specs.”
No the official statment was that if you dont have a gtx670 they cant help you if the game run like crap.
Because why the **l would you spend all that money for a high end pc if you dont care about graphics????
Littearly, the only reason to do so is because you care about graphics. If you dont then why buy such espensive hardware? You can still play the game at decent settings.
“hat kind random statement is that?”
Its no secret that idtech 5 has litteraly half the affects other engines do and the reason for that was to hit 60 fps on consoles. Everything is lackster the lighting and shadows especially.
“Please source some of those horribly blurry textures”
I was speaking for rage not evil within.
“showed crisp textures and good lightning.”
Crispt textures? well no, most of the character clothing and doors have textures equivilant to ps3/x360 game.
As for good lighting? i dont know how can you be serious, the lighting is no diffirent than any x360/ps3 game and nowhere near as good as the best looking ones.
” You don’t design an engine, or for that fact anything with that kind of goal.”
The goal was to maintainig 60 fps by changing resolution and unload r textures outside your field of view. Carmack even admited that if you turn around really fast you could see the textures poping.
” You still haven’t played the game yet, only heard or seen from others, so you can’t really justify the graphics in detail yet”
Thats like saying that the game would magically look amazing to justify the insane requirments…looking at watchdogs, its highly propable the opposite while happen, the game would end up a mess.
I dont want this game to be a mess i want it to live up to RE4.
But by the looks of it one of this happened.
1)bethesda posted nonsense…really the game has gone gold (finished development ahead of time) and you cant even take the time to figure out the minium requirements.
2)The japs who made it fcked up the pc port.
3) The game is a techinicaly disaster since so far it lags alot on all systems.
We will see whats what when its out.
“i see some pretty nice lightning, awesome atmosphere and textures.Stop the excuses”
you want to see better than that ? play crysis 3, it has all of them but miles better, actually the best even by tomorow’s standards and it runs smooth on 2GB vram.
“The ID Tech is known for it’s mega textures”
and it’s infamous for that.
“crisp textures”
did you ever seen a crisp textures ?
“that could be one of the reasons for the 4 gb vram need.”
NO
“deliciously horrifying gameplay experience”
horrifying ? yes, delicious ? no. it’s mediocre at best. let me give you and example: when monsters are close to you, you can aim them, your aim goes behind them but your weapon stands infront of them, then shoot, baaam you missed. even in old games like GTA IV when you get too close to enemies you can’t shoot them, instead it hits them with melee automaticly. and those frame drops wont help it to achieve a nicer gp experience either
“so what if the game looks “dated” to you, why does that even matter?”
first: it’s REQUIREMENTS
second: because WE CAN
“Delicious” is subjective and not based on the graphics exclusively. I haven’t seen gameplay from the PC version yet, so the textures might be different, and there are indeed some really blurry textures in the trailers, granted. I somehow missed them.
Which means the PC version was downgraded because of Almighty Next Gen. Classic Bethesda, no love for PC gamers here.
seems to me the game is another dead rising and by that i mean it runs like crap on consoles too.
No, as usual the PC version will be better, devs just can’t admit it because of marketing and ‘we want our game to look the same on all platforms’.
IT will not be better to justify this kind of requirements!
Move over guys another useless pc port to play I dont know if I have problems with my eyes but the game look sh*t compare to those required
Theres this magical thing called – Settings?
If the game lags, we simply lower them untill it stops? Plus anyone with a card 560 ti plus should be able to play this ugly looking game. The selling point for this game is how crazy/scary and weird it looks. It’s not the gfx lol.
Me with my 760/770 should be able to max it from the videos/pictures i’m looking at.
“Settings?” like Hype_Dogs ? yeah, that helped
The problem is not how it looks (graphics). It’s that the requirements are too high for a “not-that-good” looking of a game. If they’re going to require high requirements, it should be justified. Many games that have textures that are way better than this game only require 2GB of VRAM on max while this game requires double that when textures looks like it’s from PS2 era (I’m not exaggerating here. When they showed the first trailer and I saw the metal door texture, I thought “WTF!? is that door from PS2 or something ?”)
Ouch. Going closer to my TV, i just notice how blurry it looked. 😛 Damn..
judging by those videos and screens, not only you can Max it but you can Max it on 4K, but you know…
Yeam man, i mean wtf? This game should be 1080p 60 fps on freaking xbone. It should run maxed out on 5 year old pcs.
the guy below covered it fine
“The problem is not how it looks (graphics). It’s that the requirements are too high for a “not-that-good” looking of a game”
So that means the game is gonna run like crap no matter what settings you set it on.
As to be expected from the previous id Tech 5 games, I just hope id Tech 6 will have SLI support for Doom.
Promoting Nvidia’s Gtx 970/980…. WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
in one of anandtech’s forum posts i found it is part of nvidia’s it’s meant to be played. this and shadow of mordor 😀 they both use fictional vram, lol . god helps the witcher 3
Haha…. but we are gonna get screwed! u’ve already pre-ordered Witcher 3. right?
yeah 😀 . i’m not going to get angry about witcher 3, if it wants to use 6GB vram if it runs crappy on my hardware i’m cool with that, it’s witcher 3, it has the looks and it will be phenomenal and i’m still happy to support them but this sh*t don’t even look like a last gen game
haha! Hell Yeah! I agree. Bethesda guys are drunk. Everybody knows these specs requirement are crap, game will run just fine on middle end- hardware even on low end hardware with 720p
and the party of bullsh****ing hype continues! *sigh*
another shitport
id tech 5 is a shity engine no body know how to optimize it on pc
it a sh**ty engine in general.
QUIT WHINING & UPGRADE YOUR RIGS!
If we were talking about a game that was graphically impressive (like the Witcher 3), I would agree with you. The visuals in this game do not justify 4gb of vram. Crysis 3, BF4, and Metro:LL all look way better than this game and they do it with lower specs.
upgrading for what ? this ? in reality you need a gtx 280 to max this sh*t out 1080p and still gets 60fps. it’s not people’s rigs that have any problems, in this point, it’s consumerism at it’s climax
everyone pretty much knows that I am really looking forward to this, and they actually wanted to play it on a PC because I prefer horror games up close to the monitor. Unfortunately, I will have to settle for the PlayStation 4 version as I have no idea if this will be a good port or not. I really don’t know how they can justify the 4gb recommended requirements unless they are using 4k textures, however they have mentioned nothing about it and it is disturbing.
also, even though the game is looking amazing, it does not justify those requirements. It looks good but not that good. Furthermore, I have been kind of shook up by how horrible the port for Dead Rising 3 was. It didn’t even run until yesterday, when they finally decided to patch it. It really taught me a lesson to be more weary of the PC port of any game.
another thing that bugs me is, how normal they think 4 GB of vram is. I barely know anyone with a card that supports above 2gb of video ram. who are they trying to market this towards? Because it definitely isn’t the main bulk of pc gamers. In fact, even those that have beefy systems have only 3 GB of vram. Seriously, how much do you guys personally have? I find it really baffling, that their attitude towards minimum requirements is so lazy. PC is known for scalability and thus, optimization for a wide range of PCs should be a priority as not everyone has a powerful system. So, I at least hope that there are in depth options for the graphical features.
I understand that the really want users to run the game without any problem, however just basing everything off on recommended requirements is not a good idea.I hope that closer to the release we get actual minimum requirements that make sense, because like son of Rome these look like the optimal requirements rather than the recommended ones. If you want to play it at Full HD resolution, by which I mean 1080p, you really shouldn’t need these heavy requirements. Unfortunately though, if you do need it, that definitely means that the port is a bad one which I really hope isn’t the case. The game itself looks promising and let’s hope that it actually runs for a lot of people, otherwise a new IP like this isn’t really gonna take off on the PC market.
You bought a ps4 instead of upgrading your pc that runs sleeping dogs in 1280x720p. You play indie games on your vita instead of your pc.
Why do you even come here?
Anyway i also look forward to this but now i keep my distance after hearing all that stuff. The requirments how some previews said the game run bad and controlled bad. People who played it at pax thought it was meh. People say its not scary. The ps4 version that pewdiepie played lagged alot, horrible framerate. Some guy who played it on quake con said the ps4 version loadscreens took forever to load.
I am waiting for the release and reviews and dsog and digital foundry analysis before buying this because i get the feeling its gonna be a disaster, which pisses me off because it was the game i was betting on for goty on 2014.
first of all, I am glad that you can afford to keep a desktop pc. however, since I am a student over here and work pretty much 7 days a week, I am moving around a lot. Honestly I don’t even have a desktop, I have to make due with a laptop. however, it isn’t really a weak laptop, and I’ve gamed quite big titles at full settings 1080p. Including Sleeping Dogs or the occasional games like murdered, and for some reason you assumed sleeping dogs runs 720p for me.
secondly, it really isn’t up to you whether I come here or not. In fact, I have been here since the website started and have contributed quite a fair amount. In fact, all these banners you see are always designed by me and my friend Bruno. if you don’t believe me, try to save the banner you will see my name Harris. I love this website, absolutely respect John, and most people have become my friends.
again, I have to unfortunately rely on more transportable modes of gaming so I really don’t have the resources or the space to keep my equipment. I would love to get a good gaming system next year when I have settled down. At the moment though, I game what I can on my PC and leave the rest on to my consoles.
“I am glad that you can afford to keep a desktop pc.”
6 year old pc, my gtx 275 died i got a gtx 660 for cheap, got plenty of money for upgrades i dont see any reason to upgrade yet.
The gtx 275 did run sleeping dogs on 60 fps so…….. maybe your desktop sucks balls and you should invest on a budget desktop in 2015?
” I have to make due with a laptop. ”
Laptops are more expensive and significantly weaker.
“I’ve gamed quite big titles at full settings 1080p”
A 1080p laptop is expensive.
I read somewhere that you run the game 720p on a old gpu.
I am simply pointing out that you spend a whole lot money on consoles than on pc. But i didnt know you spend your money on a expensive laptop….that explains it.
Thing is I study software engineering and videogame development, so a portable power machine is pretty handy for me. Makes my life easier to be honest. 🙂
my laptop specs are pretty much to this,
i7 (can’t remember exactly how many get but it’s well past 3 will check when I’m home)
8gb ram
gt 660m 2gb vram
17″ display.
I want to get a desktop next year. Still though, my area ain’t the hail Mary estate, so gotta be careful with the expensive stuff I keep.
i see your situation best luck to you with your studies, focus on software the videogame industry is a mess right now.
Thank you so much, wish you the best too. I’d love to focus on software, but have great experiences to share through gameplay! ^_^
You have a Lenovo laptop right? y580? Anyway, I have the same specs. Did you try playing this game? I am not meeting official requirements, yet am getting a solid 30 FPS on 720p. What’s up with games these days with their crazy requirements?
it’s a Dell actually. Got it around 2 years ago. I didn’t get it on pc actually, just settled for the ps4 version. Do want to give the demo a go though on the pc to test it out.
Again, the game doesn’t use textures in the sense of tiling them. It’s one big 16/32k texture per level because that’s what mega textures does. VRAM requirements are high because the one big texture is much higher quality, so needs more VRAM. However, the artists have much more flexibility like this.
“Unfortunately, I will have to settle for the PlayStation 4 version”
this is exactly what they want and it’s the main point. it happenes on games that shows PS4 footages, Watchdogs,this,Shadow of mordor and soon Lords of the fallen. i call them paid to bad port. reason ? console manufacturers see PCs as a big threat and they trying too hard to force those people to buy their product. they do this to force desperate people to buy them
id Tech 5 kinda sucks…
It seems like most current-gen ports are dogs**t in terms of optimization : Watch Dogs,Dead Rising 3,COD Ghosts,NFS Rivals,AC IV just to name a few.
and they said ports will be easier than before this gen and they will have more quality, which we clearly can see the opposite
This has got bad port written all over it. Couldnt even be bothered to test for minimum specs…
I thought ps4 and xbox one were based on the similar architecture as pc. the optimization works should be negligible. that’s just my noob thought
They are lying…I can’t believe that just to play at 1080p you’ll need that amount of vRAM. Is just silly…this is just a marketing bullshit strategy that they put on us…probably because Nvidia released their new GPU’s (4GB vRAM models excluding the old Titan with 6GB) so people won’t buy the old “cheaper” 700’s series (3GB models) or whatever. “Buy the new ones…those with 4GB+ vRAM because we say so”. (though the new ones are better and the 970 has a good pricing I must admit)
Anyone with a brain knows that to run a regular game even with high resolution textures like Metro Last Light or Crysis 3 at 1080p, you won’t need more than 2GB of vRAM…and even Open World games don’t use such massive vRAM.
More vRAM is used when you are using higher resolutions way above 1080p. I bet that my GTX560Ti OC 1GB will run this crap at 60FPS or even more without problems with everything in High. Same as RAGE or Wolfenstein the New Order.
Heck, this is a corridor type of game not even open world…I bet I’ll run this at 120FPS…
Do the console versions run in 1080p 60fps? No? That is the bare minimum of PC specs and they tell people it’s as good as PC. Seriously this sh*t needs to stop, how much are Sony and Microsoft paying them?
Wait what .? Is it April 1st already .?
Guys. It’s their SALES and reputation at stakes. If they treat us like this then fk em. Dont buy their game or just download it. We dont need their stinking cr@p.
And that line “PC Equals To Next-Gen” made me laugh. As if PC version needs to match the console peasant version. LOL WUT?!?!?
PC version is or should always be superior. If not then that’s lazy porting, idiot devs. Either way il wait for some benchmarks before i buy or download.
ok they fixed it, they announced 4GB total avaliable video memory, which all of the 2GB cards are ok with it and have 4gb TAGM. any 670+ cards with 2gb vram can max it. 4gb shared 2gb dedicated. i guess thats the case with shadow of mordor too
john. EGX videos:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCejV0ECovLMARGaPwzaRoOA/videos
That i7 requirement will be pure BS. I got Wolfenstein TNE running maxed out with no VT compression on my i3 with 4gb ram and a GTX650Ti without it so much as dropping a single frame past 60 for the most part; when the stated ‘requirements’ were stupidly, unrealistically high.
So basically I don’t understand what crack Bethesda were on, but I’ll eat my damn hat if those recommendations are anything other than total bunk.