Watch Dogs is now out; here’s our Watch Dogs review.
Update: Watch Dogs graphics technical director Sebastien Viard, who should know, has said that “the real specs [will be] out soon and will be lower than [these] ones”. No specific word on the 64 bit thing, mind.
Watch Dogs is going to upset people a bit: it might be the first PC game to absolutely require a 64 bit operating system to run. If it’s not, I’m absolutely sure you’ll tell us in the comments. Ubi’s showcase next-gen hacking affair has had its system specs outed by Neogaffers, who spotted them during a brief spell of absent-mindedness from Uplay.
Watch Dogs is a now-sort-of-standard 20 gig large, and asks for a DirectX 9 compatible sound card fed with the latest drivers. It doesn’t matter whether you’re running Vista Service Pack 2, Windows 7 Service Pack 1, or Windows 8 – so long as it’s 64 bit.
Here’s the ‘minimum’ spec:
- GPU: DirectX 11 graphics card with 1 GB Video RAM
- CPU: Quad core
- RAM: 4GB
- example 1
GPU: NVidia GTX 460
CPU: Intel Core2 Quad Q6600
- example 2
GPU: AMD Radeon HD 5770
CPU: AMD Phenom X4 9750
And the ‘recommended’:
- GPU: DirectX 11 graphics card with 2 GB Video RAM
- CPU: Eight core
- RAM: 8GB
- example 1
GPU: NVidia GTX 560 ti
CPU: Intel Core i7-3770
- example 2
GPU: AMD Radeon HD 7850
CPU: AMD FX-8350 Eight-Core
And finally, the suggested ‘Ultra’ machine:
- GPU: Latest DirectX 11 graphics card with 2 GB Video RAM or more
- CPU: Latest Eight core or more
- RAM: 8GB or more
- example 1
GPU: Nvidia GTX 670
CPU: Intel Core i7-3930K
- example 2
GPU: AMD Radeon HD 7970
CPU: AMD FX-9370 Eight-Core
It’s all very well to decide to stick to PC while the expensive new consoles settle in – but what if all the next-gen games require upgrades? Where do you fall on Ubi’s spectrum of acceptable hardware?