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Ubisoft revises Watch Dog's PC specs (even more demanding ones, 6GB RAM minimum)

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Glorified G

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2GB VRAM recommended for a cross gen game is great.New consoles, the bar has been raised. At least they got rid of that 8 core nonsense. lol worthy
 
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DerZuhälter

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Battlefield 4 and Watch Dogs just flipped the switch and turned my "Plays everything (except Crysis 3/Metro) in FullHD full details"-rig into a "Bare Minimum"-rig.
 
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Salex_

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Fried Food said:
There better be demos for games next gen. Or I can find other ways to try the game for myself.
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antitrop

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Damaniel said:
Or, as in my case, if you have a Noctua NH-D14 blocking the RAM slots and you're too lazy to take it out and replace the 4 4GB RAM sticks with 4 8GB ones... :)

(At this rate, I might have to soon anyway. Not that I'm complaining!)
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I have the same heatsink. It really does make it hard to fit the RAM into the slots. I did manage to get 4x4GB on there, though.
 
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CHC

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Got a 780 when it released a few months back, should be great for this. My 2500k is getting some sweat on its brow though... For what everyone says it'll be OK I guess.
 
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Durante

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KINGofCRA5H said:
Wat

I fail to see how any game can even use more than 4GB of ram
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Psh. Open world games should have been using up to 8 GB RAM on PC for years now, for caching if nothing else. We just never had any developer with the balls to make a game 64 bit only.
 
TGO

TGO

Hype Train conductor. Works harder than it steams.
I could be wrong but I thought PC specs include overheads (ie the game don't use 6GB but is required for both the system & game to run together)
 
Vigilant Walrus

Vigilant Walrus

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DerZuhälter;85182634 said:
Battlefield 4 and Watch Dogs just flipped the switch and turned my "Plays everything (except Crysis 3/Metro) in FullHD full details"-rig into a "Bare Minimum"-rig.
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Your right. The last time we had one of these jumps was at the dawn of the console entry of this last generation of consoles in 05-06. Game releases like Oblivion increased significantly what it would take. And then came Crysis in 07. And I think that was the last time we had a big leap forward.


I wonder what GTA5 specs will be like compared to Watch Dogs. At UHD resolutions with all the eyecandy? Let's see!
 
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IcyRhythms

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PC can be lead platform and the game can still be very poorly optimized. This is Ubisoft...

Splinter Cell Conviction and Blacklist both have problems running on a very dated Unreal Engine 2.5.

I feel even worse for 360 and PS3 owners planning to buy this. Game probably droped into the high teens.

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and from what I can tell, Sleeping Dogs looks better than Watch Dogs IMO. Much better
 
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KKRT00

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dLMN8R said:
Look at the original Crysis - it still has more impressive terrain destruction, dynamic environment changes, and persistent massive levels than any of its sequels or any other current-gen game on any platform. It's primarily because of concessions being made to current-gen console platforms.
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Awful example. Not only Crysis was ported to consoles, but its Lower settings look awful in comparison to many open world games on current gen consoles.

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Durante said:
Psh. Open world games should have been using up to 8 GB RAM on PC for years now, for caching if nothing else. We just never had any developer with the balls to make a game 64 bit only.
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Maybe finally i will have a reason to buy next 4gb ram chip to my 8gb :)
 
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PetrCobra

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My PC should be okay but unless Ubi pulls some bullshit as they like to I'll probably play this on Wii U just to be safe.
 
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kswiston

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Durante said:
Psh. Open world games should have been using up to 8 GB RAM on PC for years now, for caching if nothing else. We just never had any developer with the balls to make a game 64 bit only.
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Steam suggests that 75% of windows gamers are running 64bit OSs. Most of those who aren't are playing on PCs that would never run this game, even if it was a 32bit application. Seems like the right time to ditch 32bit.
 
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SparkTR

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kswiston said:
Steam suggests that 75% of windows gamers are running 64bit OSs. Most of those who aren't are playing on PCs that would never run this game, even if it was a 32bit application. Seems like the right time to ditch 32bit.
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We should have ditched 32-bit back in 2011.
 
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McLovin

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I want to play this on pc, but I don't have a good enough one. Can one of you guys spec me one of those $500 gaming pcs I hear so much about. I'm probably gonna need an OS so don't forget to include that in the price~! :D
I can't wait join the master race!
 
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Sothpaw

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EZPZ for my PC. Bring it on until Rockstar gets their shit together and releases their game on a platform that isn't 8 years old.
 
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antitrop

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McLovin said:
I want to play this on pc, but I don't have a good enough one. Can one of you guys spec me one of those $500 gaming pcs I hear so much about. I'm probably gonna need an OS so don't forget to include that in the price~! :D
I can't wait join the master race!
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polyh3dron

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Think I'll be getting PS4 versions of multiplats and waiting for the next-gen dust to settle before building a monster gaming PC now.
 
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Smokey

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With this and RAM prices continually creeping up.. Glad I went ahead and got 16GB of RAM 2 years ago when it was so cheap.
 
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kswiston

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SparkTR said:
We should have ditched 32-bit back in 2011.
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A large number of people went with the 32bit Windows 7 OS, even though almost every new processor has been 64bit since 2004 or 2005, and 64bit Windows worked fine with Vista. I can see why devs were hesitant, even if that hesitation should have subsided before now.
 
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Nugg

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I wanted the superior version, but if the whole thing is a nightmare to run properly, I might as well switch my preorder to the PS4 version
 
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antitrop

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Smokey said:
With this and RAM prices continually creeping up.. Glad I went ahead and got 16GB of RAM 2 years ago when it was so cheap.
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Didn't know there was an upward swing in RAM pricing. Last year you could pretty much get as much as you want for a drop in the bucket.
 
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bee

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hahahha claiming poor optimization when it's not even out, we're pc gamers we expect our games to look twice as good as yours but still run flawlessly on a q6600, gtx570, when they don't it's obviously laziness on the dev side apparently
 
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