Evil Within needs 4 GB of VRAM to look shiny

Recommended PC System Specifications

• 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

Link.

Shitty port incoming.

Thoughts?

@IgGy621985: I actually read "to look shitty" :/

It's weird. Some Bethesda games are greatly optimized for PC, while others run like ass. Like RAGE did on launch ...

well if they recommend an i7, could it just mean they take advantage of hyperthreading?

interesting to see 4gb of vram, which is quite large; but only 4gb of system ram, which is quite small.

Yeah, that caught my eye too. I bet it'll be the same thing like with CoD. I mean, the game doesn't even look that good to require that kind of hardware...

@CrownKingArthur:

Yeah the RAM thing is interesting

Depends on what they mean with four plus cores... Are they counting hyperthreading ? Couldn't be that the game wants you to have a haswell-e processor to crank everything up. Because it sure doesn't look like the game is using all that power.

I'm guessing that's for super high res textures. But 4GB seems like a lot. Watch Dogs required 3GB for ultra textures.

I knew I should have gotten more GDDR5.

Seems bad

What the **** kind of requirements are those, lol.

@R4gn4r0k: Lousy port written all over it.

@IgGy621985:

Especially when they put it like this:

"You may be able to run The Evil Within if your computer has specs below what's recommended, but in that case, Bethesda says that it "cannot guarantee optimal performance." In any case, you should plan to have 4 GB of VRAM, Bethesda added."

It sounds really bad.

Welcome to next gen multiplat ports.

except evil within is a crossgen game

Sounds like a bad port.

that IDTech 5

This really sounds like a repeat of Watch Dogs.

4 gb lol?

4GB of VRAM? I smell a shitty port.

I can't wait for the steam reviews, Constant complaints of shitty performance and then you have the guys with 970's, 980's claiming "It runs fine, I don't know why you people are complaining."

It never fails.

@ReadingRainbow4:

#970MasterRace

@ReadingRainbow4:

Dunno how I feel about steam reviews. On one hand they can warn people about bad games or inform people about good games that get lost in the stream of games coming out.

On the other hand you have all these jokers writing positive reviews for shitty games and writing negative reviews for good games.

Funny the first time. Lacks originality and humour the 1.000.000th time.

"you plebs saw the requirements, it's not the developers fault that you own welfare machines!"

I purposefully look at steam reviews as a source of comedy and not much else.

Looks like a bad port but I'm still gonna get it.

Is it for 4k support? games usually dont take up that much vram

But I thought " most console gamers have capable gaming PCs".

Yeah , if count the indie garbage people are trying to pass off as legit games nowadays.

It's a port of the next gen versions.

You think this is all just a big coincidence that the reqs for multiplats are suddenly skyrocketing?

Console install space required : 40GB!

There you go.

id tech5 syndrome.

visually this game looks like shit, so why are these requirements so high? This is ridiculous, the game's not even open word to require so much ram and a quad-core i7? This has to be a mistake. Not to mention the install size. Is this game using mega texture or something?

Nah, it just shows a bad port, How is it that this game can be run on those shitty consoles yet require a monster CPU and massive amounts of VRAM for the PC release? I've yet to see anything extra for the PC release that would warrant such a hike in system requirements.

Look at all the last gen ports that required core 2 duos and 8800's.

@ReadingRainbow4:

Well, some can be funny. It's just that when so many people try to do it, it just falls flat a lot of times.

@monstersfa: Yeah, look at those high requirements for Ryse, a game far more detailed in terms of graphics.

Also, just like Battlefield 4, The Crew

@ReadingRainbow4: Damn straight.

This DSR stuff is awesome. I can play Saints row 4 at 2k and still have better fps than my old 570.

Ryses recommended spec may ask for less vram but it asks for twice the amount of system ram. Shadow of Mordor and Lords of the Fallen also have higher reqs than the games you listed.

lmao at the noobs saying its a bad/lazy port, idiots.

Many console multiplats from last gen ran on worse than the lowest settings on pc, some games also had to be dumbed down with smaller environments, fewer players, less physics etc to even run on ps3/360.
As for the 4gb vram requirement for Evil Within, it must be to run the game at 4k.

Fucking id Tech 5. Not only will it demand tons of VRAM, but the textures will also look atrocious just like every idTech 5 game.

BF 3/4, and Crysis are the only games I know of that had smaller maps and/or less players.

What console games besides Witcher 2 go below pc's lowest settings?

Ugh, even if the game runs fine below the recommended specs, it's still a psychological barrier to my confidence that I'll get a top quality experience on PC in exchange for my money. This is the one thing I'll always appreciate about console gaming.

@monstersfa: Wash Dogs "need" 8gb of RAM. Turns out you can play it with 4GB.

Over inflated specs are the norm nowadays. But games play just fine.

And in what logical way can game that requires an I7 CPU and a 4GB card run well a console? Specs are usually made with 1080p, maxed out setting and 30/60fps in mind, depending on what tehy target on consoles.

What are teh PS4/XB1 versions running at then? 900p, medium settings?

Well, considering my GTX 760 maxs WD out at 1080p, maybe so. But then again, this a case of id Tech 5 megatextures bullshit.

Quad core i7s are 4 years old now. So that's not a huge requirement.

50 GB for a game size is going to be standard with blu-rays being on the consoles. Days of 20gb games are already over. Lots of unique assets and audio = lots of space.

4GB of vram must mean they use tons and tons and tons of unique art assets. The PS4/Xbox One have 6gbs of usable ram and graphics use probably 75% of that so it's not unbelievable that a game will require 4 GB of vRAM.

I don't see the problem here. GTX 670s are already 2 years old and 2 generations out of date, so that's not an insane recommendation either.

Get with the times PC gamers. The consoles are no longer a massive bottleneck and thus games are being built for more than 512mbs of total system ram.

This game runs on ps3/360 and these are the PC requirements? How will this run on a 2005 pc?

They're not the requirements

@IgGy621985: Weird stuff there .... Game doesnt look THAAAAAT impressive for 4GB Vram let alone an i7... We will see

Yup shitty port indeed.

Anyone else have fucked up quotes on the site?... actually nevermind forgot for a split second there i was on GS.

All of the specs are fine except for 1...4GB of VRAM. I bought the 780ti just a few months ago and THAT doesn't even have 4GB of VRAM. Am I suppose to run out and purchase another $600/700 780ti just to meet that requirement? Lame