Call of Duty: Ghosts and Watch Dogs Need 6GB RAM, 64-bit

[rohitbaran]

Lol. Turns out nVidia was telling the specs just to sell their cards. Activision said that the specs by nVidia aren't official. Nice try nGreedia.
http://www.gamespot.com/news/call-of-duty-ghosts-pc-specs-from-nvidia-not-official-6415481

 

[bemused_fred]

Lol. Turns out nVidia was telling the specs just to sell their cards. Activision said that the specs by nVidia aren't official. Nice try nGreedia.
http://www.gamespot.com/news/call-of-duty-ghosts-pc-specs-from-nvidia-not-official-6415481

IT'S LIKE I'M ACTUALLY BROWSING /g/!!

 

[chaospower]

It seems pretty obvious to me, they need the extra RAM to support the advanced AI of all the fish in the game!

 

[soldier44]

No reason for the recommended to not list the sandy bridge i7-2600K really.

Solid, engaging gameplay trumps graphical prowess.

I disagree, Graphics and hardware are first and foremost in my world then gameplay is secondary. Must be pretty first then the rest will follow.

 

[soldier44]

I think the GTX 780 recommendation is intended for users running 4K displays...not for 1920x1080 (which I assume is display resolution that the majority of gaming PCs are utilizing).

4K displays really? More like 2560 x 1600 30 inch diplays not quite 4K just yet but getting there. A GTX 780 is overkill if your gaming on a single 1080p display yes.

 

[Trialbalance]

6gb of ram is a fairly cheap and shouldn't be a leap for most users. Also, 64 bit operating systems have been around for numerous years as well. The console push is just forcing the lower end gamers to upgrade their computers.

 

[Trialbalance]

6gb of ram is a fairly cheap and shouldn't be a leap for most users. Also, 64 bit operating systems have been around for numerous years as well. The console push is just forcing the lower end gamers to upgrade their computers.

 

[DamZe]

These system requirements are BS! A HD 5870 is twice as fast as a GTX 550 Ti. These are only placeholders, or they have managed to make the most unoptimized game in existence with requirements set higher than Crysis 3 and Battlefield 4. Also CoD Ghosts is coming to Xbox 360, PS3 and Wii U which don’t come close to having 6 GB of RAM.

 

[Obie327]

I'm not really surprised about needing or having more ram, I Started a while back upgrading rigs and new builds with 8 or more gigs of ram a while ago. Code can be sloppy, hoggish and or leaky. Having more system memory makes for a good investment and future proofing.
I don't see why not a current rig like Ivy bridge i5 3570k and Evga Classified gtx 560 ti 448 couldn't run this game well enough at 1080p at semi decent settings. (64bit win 7, and 8 gigs of ram) Of course more video ram is needed and a gtx 760, 680,670 and gtx 660 should be enough to have some fun with this game.

 

[universal remonster]

These system requirements are BS! A HD 5870 is twice as fast as a GTX 550 Ti. These are only placeholders, or they have managed to make the most unoptimized game in existence with requirements set higher than Crysis 3 and Battlefield 4. Also CoD Ghosts is coming to Xbox 360, PS3 and Wii U which don’t come close to having 6 GB of RAM.

....they both have 8GB of RAM...

 

[jimmysmitty]

No reason for the recommended to not list the sandy bridge i7-2600K really.

Solid, engaging gameplay trumps graphical prowess.

I disagree, Graphics and hardware are first and foremost in my world then gameplay is secondary. Must be pretty first then the rest will follow.

I don't agree with that.

Crysis was very pretty on release but as a game itself, was boring and repetitive. Portal, on the other hand, while not bad looking was not nearly as pretty and was one of the most fun games I played that year. Same with TF2.

Its all preference but I still will never say that pretty means it will be a good game.

Of course I don't want Doom style graphics but that should be a secondary anyways.

universal remonster, the PS3 and Xbox 360 do NOT have 8GB of RAM. The XB1 and the PS4 will but the older ones don't.

Even so, its 8GB of shared RAM meaning its shared with the CPU and the GPU unlike say my system which has 16GB system RAM and 3GB VRAM giving me 19GB of current total RAM.

 

[traumadisaster]

Thought it meant 6gb vram at first...was like damn didnt think I would hit that wall so fast

 

[bucknutty]

These specs don't make any sense. There is no way they are accurate.

 

[aggroboy]

RAM isn't expensive, why is this even an issue?

 

[timil]

Call of Duty 4 DLC requiring 4GB of ram? I don't think so.

 

[x2ruff4u]

@aggroboy Exactly. Just about all average motherboards can take 6-8GB ram max.

 

[kulmnar]

These system requirements are BS! A HD 5870 is twice as fast as a GTX 550 Ti. These are only placeholders, or they have managed to make the most unoptimized game in existence with requirements set higher than Crysis 3 and Battlefield 4. Also CoD Ghosts is coming to Xbox 360, PS3 and Wii U which don’t come close to having 6 GB of RAM.

....they both have 8GB of RAM...

I think you're confusing Xbox360 and PS3 with XboxOne and PS4. The Xbox360 and PS3 both have 512MB of memory (not 8GB). The Xbox360 has 512MB unified RAM (shared anyway developers want between video and system RAM) whereas the PS3 has 256MB of dedicated system RAM and another 256MB of dedicated video RAM.

Therefore, since COD Ghosts can run on (and was probably developed for) Xbox360 and PS3 (with 512MB of RAM). then it is highly unlikely that Activision invested extra resources to develop an insanely better version for the PC that requires a GTX780 for a "recommended" playing experience. I mean, they would have to develop the textures from the ground up just for the PC version. No way Activision (a company consumed with capitalist greed) would do that for a platform (the PC) that is nowhere near as popular as the current gen consoles.

More likely, the GTX780 requirement is NVIDIA's way of saying please spend $650 on a our video card, even if you don't need it...thank you for your dollars.

 

[boytitan2]

If these requirements are true especially in the case of C.O.D who ever is porting the game to p.c. is some how coding it to use much more power than needed. In the case of gaming lets face it the capability's of the hardware far surpass the capability's of the gaming software. Hell call of duty ghost graphically still looks worse than unreal tournament 3 and the first Crysis. Hell not a great deal of games look better than the first crysis which was made in 2007 mind you.

 

[Duckhunt]

wow. 6gb of ram and 64 bit os? This is really going to push pc sales for new hardware? ( sarcasm).

 

[cats_Paw]

I dont know whats more funny, The "guard dogs" or the minimum requirements 😀.

 

[cats_Paw]

And yes, my Q6600 still rocking the bell. If intel want my money, they need to do something powerfull enought that games really step up. No reason to buy something that is better only on paper (meaning there is no improvment percived for me).

 

[bucknutty]

I still have my q6600 OCed to 3.2 with 8gigs of ram in my secondary system with 2 gts250 sli. That computer runs most games at 1920x1080 on medium-ish settings. Unfortunately it cant hang with crazy CPU intensive games like planetside 2.
It runs MW3 on the highest preset (native) at a pretty constant 40-50 fps.

 

[kulmnar]

My favorite joke: 50GB of disk space for the game = 25GB for the dog + 15GB for the water and fish AI + 10GB for the rest of the game.

 

[nebun]

about time that the developers started to take advantage of systems with large ammounts of memory and powerful graphic cards....it is time ....i am very very happy

 

[Geef]

Darnit, I wont be able to play... My 486-33dx 4MB of Ram won't quite cut it anymore... and I'm gonna need to upgrade that 249MB hard drive to even have a chance... 😛