The Witcher Sets Demanding System Requirements
By Shawn on Wednesday, September 26th, 2007 at 9:57 AM PST In Atari, Bioware, Computer, Game Companies, Games
PC gamers were taken aback when the system requirements for Stranglehold came out. The figures were extraordinary, and made buying a console version of the game very appealing.
The minimum and recommended system requirements for CDProjekt’s The Witcher RPG are up and they are also quite high. This is a game that I’ve been looking forward to for a while now, but it looks like I will have to upgrade my CPU to run it well. With everything I’ve seen about this game, those upgrades will be well worthwhile. It just goes to show that Stranglehold was just the first of many with Crysis soon to come.
Here are the Statistics:
Minimum requirements:
- Microsoft® Windows® XP Service Pack 2, Vista (Operating System must be up to date with the latest fixes)
- Intel Pentium 4 2.4GHz or AMD Athlon 64 +2800
- 1 GB RAM for Microsoft® Windows® XP / 1536 MB for Microsoft® Windows® Vista
- 128 MB Video RAM or greater with DirectX9 Vertex Shader/ Pixel Shader 2.0 support (NVIDIA GeForce 6600 or ATI Radeon 9800 or better)
- 8.5 GB available hard drive space
- DirectX 9.0c compliant soundcard, plus speakers or headphones
- DVD-Rom
Recommended requirements:
- Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2, Vista (Operating System must be up to date with the latest fixes)
- Intel Core 2 Duo 2.13 GHz or AMD X2 5600+
- 2 GB RAM
- NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GTX or ATI Radeon X1950 PRO
- 8.5 GB available hard drive space
- DirectX 9.0c compliant soundcard, plus speakers or headphones
- DVD-Rom
via The Witcher Official Website
I dont see how thats so bad.
That’s not bad at all, my former (just upgraded) 3 and a half year old PC would’ve run that smoothly at medium detail easily. There are already several games that have been released for some time now which require significantly more powerful PCs than that. Try Neverwinter Nights 2 (fully patched even), Supreme Commander or World in Conflict – now those games are reason to upgrade.
The recently released Crysis minimum specs (which were still higher than is anticipated for the final release) were far from hefty. Much milder than Neverwinter Nights 2 in any case. In that light it’s very hard indeed to see The Witchers’ specs as anything but ‘mild’, far from demanding in any case.
My PC will run it smoothly, but what the hell r u on about? Crysis’ specs r the highest in 2007, how are they far from hefty?
I think the key here is understanding that the Minimum specs are what most of us are used to seeing as Recommended specs on other games. Crysis is even more in this vein.
Granted most “hardcore” gamers will have rigs that don’t burp at the minimum specs but not all of us have 2GB of RAM or a Core 2 Duo on our gaming systems. Games and time march on and this highlights one of the downsides of being a PC gamer – the ever evolving money suck that is technology. Then again it also is one of the strengths.
Well put Shawn
Shawn’s right, but I wanted to mention something else here.
In the past, PC games running at medium detail were still a lot better looking than console games. This is no longer the case. As such, games are trying to push the graphics envelope even further. Unfortunately, the cost of this is that PC users are locked into a much faster upgrade cycle than our wallets are comfortable with.
When a PC gamer has to make the choice of spending $500-$1000 to upgrade their PC to play the newest game out, or pay $60 to play it on console, economics sometimes governs that choice.
I’m glad that so few games are pushing the specs really high, as that would only further shrink the number of gamers available to play them.
I’ll never go console.
PC forever for me whatever the $ spent.
Ty
-V
@adolf13
your last name isnt hitler, by any chance??
Nooooooooooo =(
How the hell am I supposed to play this on my 933Mhz Celerom? I just upgraded to 1gb rams but I dont think my grafix will take this kind of beating? (FX5900 ultra)
help
Yaay, I love my pc
i have now amdx2 5200 4gb of ram 2 10,000 rpm drives in raid with 2 x1950xtx in crosfire and my bord is overclocked to hell and back and i still need to upgrade for crysis
i have now amdx2 5200 4gb of ram 2 10,000 rpm drives in raid with 2 x1950xtx in crosfire and my bord is overclocked to hell and back and i still need to upgrade for crysis
realy? are you using a monitor or an IMAX cinema? oh and
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Maybe I can run the game at my Quad core???
I am gettting an error when i try to run the game. “Minimim System requirements not me” The processor I have is a:
AMD Anthlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor tk-57 1.90 ghz
32 bit operating system
Whats the problem?
i cant get the witcher to work to
and i relly want to play it
:cry
SOME ON REPLY
Seeing you need an Intel Core 2 Duo 2.13 GHz, which is nothing tbh, try an Intel Core 2 duo E7200, it runs @ 2,5GHZ which is more, and it only costs about 100 euros. You could go a bit more expensive and buy a quad core (Q6600) @ 170 euros. The 2gb ram is nothing; 35 euros. And since the geforce 7 series sucked balls, buy an 8600, 70 euros. You can get a 250 GB HDD for 45 euros, which is enough. My brother recently bought a comp with this stuff, and it was only 250 euros. Thats a far better price then 500-1000. Gg.
i have intel core 2duo CPU T7100 1.8ghz
RAM 2GB
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600
Plz can anybody tell me if i have the requirements to play THE WITCHER without having any problems?? i dont know shit about grafic cards
how do u upgrade cause i need help
Damn i want this game. too bad my graphics card is too low. All i got it 128 MB DirectX 9 video card with Vertex & Pixel Shader 2.0 support.
I just got The Witcher game and I installed it but when I click Launch Game it says minimum system requirments not met?? I don’t know much about computers so please HELP!!!