The Evil Within Goes Gold, Recommended Specs Revealed

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Does anyone else think 40+ gigs of space needed for a game is excesive? On top of this a 1 gen old / rebagded 7970 or R9 280X does not meet the requirements. Bethesda reall stuck their head in there own poopers this time.
 
That doesn't seem right. The GTX 670 they recommend only came with 2 GB of VRAM and a few non reference cards came with 3 GB. There aren't a lot of cards out with 4 GB of VRAM.
 


This was kinda my point. I have a HD 7970 that the performance is slightly better than a GTX 770 but it is under the requirements because it only came with 3 GB of VRam. Bethesda really screwed the pooch/ stuck their heads in there poopers with this game. The only way to play this game is with a "exteme" gaming system. 4 GB of Vram required please, with specs like this the game will be a money loser for the PC end.
 
This was kinda my point. I have a HD 7970 that the performance is slightly better than a GTX 770 but it is under the requirements because it only came with 3 GB of VRam. Bethesda really screwed the pooch/ stuck their heads in there poopers with this game. The only way to play this game is with a "exteme" gaming system. 4 GB of Vram required please, with specs like this the game will be a money loser for the PC end.

Even with top of the line specs watch us get capped at 30 or 60fps
 
same things I was thinking... few cards have 4gb of vram. looking at the steam database... less than 2% of users have 4gb of vram... with about 14% with "other" listed...even best case that's only around 16% of gamers with 4gb of vram or more.

who do they plan to sell this too?
 
It will be playable with less than 4GB of VRAM..... they just cannot guarantee "optimal performance".

Modders have historically made excellent changes to Bethesda games. I wonder if the same could be said for this game, down the road. Either way, I will be skipping this........ it is just not my genre.

HDD space installation requirements above 40GB mean very little, anymore. Get used to those. Storage is cheap.
 
and I suspect the 16% with 4gb or more of vram is extremely unlikely as most of those "others" are likely related to odd "shared ram" numbers thanks to integrated video like the popular intel 4000 (5% or so of steam users)
 
So, a GTX 780 Ti with 3GB ram won't be enough?

Bad port bad port, what you gonna do? What I'm going to do? I'm going to not buy you.
 
and I suspect the 16% with 4gb or more of vram is extremely unlikely as most of those "others" are likely related to odd "shared ram" numbers thanks to integrated video like the popular intel 4000 (5% or so of steam users)
 
darn double post..... sorry all.

we know the game will still run.... but the point is that 4gb of vram to be recommended AND then also stressed that's its very important is a bit extreme... they could have optimized for 3gb at least.
 
I'm thinking Bethesda is putting up these dramatic requirements just so they can say "It's your fault our game runs like crap on your low spec computer". They've been getting lazy it seems; sad...
 
Guys, come on ! The game WILL run... I'm sure these specs are for the guys looking to MAX the game out at 1080p @30+ fps minimum. I'm sure (ish) I will still be able to run the game @45 fps average with my HD 7950 Boost maxed out...
 
I can not speak for every one here but for me 1080p @60 fps is my minimum. Anything less and I can see it and more to the point feel it in the movement of the game. This is why i spent over $300 on just a GPU. Please read the Bethesda release and not toms rewrite of it.

"Note: We do not have a list of minimum requirements for the game. If you’re trying to play with a rig with settings below these requirements (you should plan to have 4 GBs of VRAM regardless), we cannot guarantee optimal performance."

optimal performance being studders and hickups due to the fact you have run out of GPU ram. You should plan to have 4 GBs of VRAM regardless ? please the only cards that have 4 or more are super top end cards. most being x2 cards.

EDIT: besides, who says "rig" in writing that is an actual writer? I say it but my job is PC and auto repair. this one word makes me think some thing is up. Anyone else think this?
 


What game developers need to try and do is optimize versus just making a big mess. It's harder to do for the PC vs. console because of varying components, but they should atleast have a baseline for both AMD and Nvidia cards, as well as AMD and Intel processors. It will still vary, but it won't be as bad.

I have an Intel i7 4790k and an Sapphire R9 290 4GB Tri-X, so I'll be fine. It just bothers me that it has to cost this much to game comfortably...

http://www.bethblog.com/2014/09/25/the-system-requirements-within/

System requirements:

64-bit Windows 7/Windows 8
i7 with four plus cores
4 GBs RAM
50 GB of hard drive space*
GeForce GTX 670 or equivalent with 4GBs of VRAM
High Speed Internet Connection
Steam account and activation
*It’s worth noting that the 50 GB of space required is for the PC install. When the installation is complete, the game will take up ~41 GB of HDD space.

Yeah... those are realistic requirements.

Of course, they are the "recommended" specifications.
 


I totally agree with you on this but just to play devils advocate for a post or two, mainly to get people thinking and no other reason but.

Lets look at it from a developers point of view. It "costs" money to port any game properly for the PC from a console port. They are in the business to make money, right? Well it costs less to make a game for a console then just barely make it compatible for PC then it does to fully make it compatible with all PC's with the graphics options.

My view is much different than the statement above mind you. If the company makes the game better for PC, more options for graphics, better graphics, more control over the game play with console commands the more likely I am to purchase the game. Why? Because it reminds me of the days where games where build for PC's and ported for consoles. This control is everything to us PC gamers because then we have a game for the masses that is changeable, customize-able, mod-able and upgrade-able for the masses. Company's no longer want "us", the public, to be able to control what we have that they, the company's, thought of. It is all about control.

The days of COD-MW are over, free maps, free updates that help the community, We now need to pay for it. Bethesda is no different. They make the games for consoles and only put as much work in to the PC port as necessary to make it playable.

I hate to say it my friends but we, as PC gamers, are and have been pushed to the back seat like a red headed step child because we are now the minority. Consoles out number gaming PC's so company's think of us as the economy class seats on this plane ride they think they have all the power over. Many of them are forgetting that we, the older generation, made gaming popular. Thinking of me and my TSR-80 back in the day.

Piss on those that make you and you loose your base. What happens when a flood eats at the footing "base" of a bridge? It falls, simple, and this how gaming is. Keep making games for the masses that your "base" (mid to lower end gaming PC's) can't play and you loose every thing above. Hell the damn games are made ON PC's for god sakes. Crytek had the idea with Crysis 3, that the PC gamers are here to stay and they made one hell of a game that they ported to consoles that looked good even on crap hardware. Bethesda hasn't gotten that idea yet. Lets see if they do, Aye?
 
4GB VRAM aside why PC (and next gen console) needs 40GB of space and PS3/360 only needing 7GB? i know last gen console have very much dated spec but why there are so very big difference between the two for storage? this smell like titanfall mess where PC version needs much bigger storage because of uncompressed stuff. only this time game dev do it for both pc and current gen console. give these developer next gen console with more resource that eclipse last gen console and they start getting lazy on the optimization front.
 
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