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During the recent Xbox Games Showcase, Xbox CEO Asha Sharma said, “It’s only fitting that as we return to Xbox, we return to Gears.” With that, Gears of War: E-Day was revealed, and with it plenty of excitement for an early-days take on the war with the Locust. It’s an Xbox exclusive, but that just means no PlayStation. We’ll still be getting it on PC—and on that front, we’ve just been served up the specs we’ll need to get the game running.
The requirements aren’t too surprising, though there are a couple of things to note. First, the minimum recommended GPU is an RTX 2060; second, the game’s gonna require a whopping 130 GB of storage space.
AMD Ryzen 5 2600X / Intel Core i7 6850K / Intel Core i5 10400
Nvidia RTX 5050 / Nvidia RTX 2060 / AMD RX 6600 / AMD RX 9060 / Intel Arc A580
Nvidia RTX 5060 / Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti / AMD RX 6700 XT / AMD RX 9060 XT / Intel Arc B580
For reference, lots of big modern games list a GTX 10-series GPU—say, a GTX 1070—as a minimum. I’d be ranting about outrageous system requirements if that RTX 2060 also meant—as one might naturally assume—steep requirements in the recommended column. But a recommended RTX 5060 or RTX 3060 Ti is pretty reasonable if you ask me.
That the RTX 2060 is a minimum requirement might imply that there’s ray tracing baked in and no software-based RT as a fallback. We can’t say that for certain, but it would explain the high minimum GPU requirement and recommended GPUs that are only a small rung up.
The 130 GB storage requirement, on the other hand, kind of speaks for itself. It’s a whopper. Lots of modern games require a bunch of storage, but often not quite that much. All during a global memory and storage shortage, too *gulp*.
The game is set to launch on October 6, and you can pre-purchase it for $70 on Steam. Just make sure you’ll have the disk space free to install it. And the rest, of course.
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