The pc requirements are really sad

[Vd65_63RUS]

I imagine my gtx 1650 and amd ryzen 5 5600H are gonna explode from this. Not to mention the ridiculous price, it's over.

[I'm cucked]

Originally posted by shoveen1:

Originally posted by space:

go upgrade

Your life is quite sad, i see that. lol

His life is sad because he's telling someone to upgrade their incredibly underpowered, out-dated GPU?

You have an anime profile picture.

[alirezA]

I have 6600 but I'm not sure i can run the game smoothly
Hopefully it is as optimized as Doom Eternal

[🔻Jill Valentine🔻]

The requirements are not sad, they are totally normal and what you would expect from a 2025 game that uses ray tracing, this is a new generation game, you cannot expect to play it with an outdated GTX 1650

[Hardshot Dave]

Just built a budget PC with a 5600X thinking it was still good enough to play anything for a while, and then I see this.

[Chillin]

AMD users are gona be screwd.

[H]

Originally posted by I'm cucked:

Originally posted by RedWithTheObviouslyLongUsername:

Developers hate optimization nowadays

Doom Eternal is one of the most well-optimized games I have literally ever seen.

true but we will see how well that translates to the latest title considering the requirements are so insane rn they might make it better optimized or most will have to wait to play it with upgrades later on it really depends on what ID wants to do, this game might not succeed based purely on optimization like cyberpunk or it might be flawless like the past games from them after launch

[Defective Dopamine Pez Dispenser]

The hardware RT requirement is an expense for anyone hoping for fully rasterized options for everything in the game, but honestly, the RT transition is inevitable. Every console's SoC and every GPU and APU coming to market is going to have some kind of hardware RT from now on. You won't be able to buy a new GPU, even an entry level one, without these features.

Fully RT pipelines at least where lighting is concerned means no baked lighting workflow bottlenecks for devs, and all their tech stacks are going to have these resources in mind going forward. It makes sense for them to exploit that, and it's overdue frankly.

The actual requirements aren't that intensive in terms of raw performance either, if you really look at it. The 2060 Super, RT aside, is about 15% faster than a 1070 Ti, and is six years old at this point.

Zen 2 is three microarchitecture generations old, and has way less IPC than more recent Zens and was limited to DDR4. In that context, along with the fact that the game is going to be on Xbox Series S, I actually think these specs suggest it will scale surprisingly well both up and down. But we need benchmarks to be sure.

The specs are reasonable for what the game appears to be doing, though.

[pauldiazberrio]

Originally posted by Ω Yukich:

I get it now why this game called The Dark Ages

So do I. If you save for 6-8 years on a good salary without buying any other modern games, you could probably afford to start purchasing the individual components for a gaming pc that could run Doom DA at recommended settings.

[mjordan79]

Originally posted by RedWithTheObviouslyLongUsername:

Developers hate optimization nowadays

Supporting a 5 years old card which is also in the low end segment and that is cheaper than the game itself is not optimization. It's necromancy. Stop being ridiculous.
Doom has never supported such a low end hardware. Not even in the nineties.

[Epicurus]

Originally posted by Vd65_63RUS:

I imagine my gtx 1650 and amd ryzen 5 5600H are gonna explode from this. Not to mention the ridiculous price, it's over.

In my case, the only thing I can hope for is that 8GB VRAM isn't a hard cap. My gpu has only 6GB VRAM, but my CPU, SSD and regular RAM all meet the requirements.

Yes, I acknowledge this is a me problem, but I cannot justify to myself buying a new (expensive) GPU just to meet the minimum requirements of just one game. It would be different if I had other demanding titles in my library that also require that amount of VRAM, but I don't. So I guess I'm out.

Although, I think it should be possible to play this game with less than 8GB VRAM if they allow people to at least boot the game with GPUs that don't meet the requirments for 1080p but who are willing to play it on lower resolutions like 720p (which is far from great, but what should not require 8GB VRAM or more).

[HellsBells]

Everything but my CPU meets...hoping I can back off settings enough to play

[Chillin]

i think i should be fine with this game if i end up getting it