Briefly: The Division’s beta starts next week, and if you’re a PC owner, you might be curious to know what the system requirements are. It seems pretty standard for a modern PC game — I’m very happy to have snagged a GTX 970 last year!
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16 responses to “The Division’s Beta Starts Next Week, PC Specifications Revealed”
God forbid you post the specs in this article…..
Copied from the link in the article;
MINIMUM CONFIGURATION
Supported OS: Windows® 7, Windows 8.1, Windows 10 (64-bit versions only).
Processor: Intel Core i5-2400 | AMD FX-6100, or better.
RAM: 6GB
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 with 2 GB VRAM (current equivalent NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760) | AMD Radeon HD 7770 with 2 GB VRAM, or better – See supported List*.
Notebook support: Laptop models of these desktop cards may work as long as they are on-par in terms of performance with at least the minimum configuration. For an up-to-date list of supported hardware, please visit the FAQ for this game on our website: http://support.ubi.com
DirectX: Version 11
Hard Drive Space: 40 GB available space.
Optical Drive: DVD-ROM Dual Layer.
Peripherals Supported: Windows-compatible keyboard, mouse, headset, optional controller.
Multiplayer: Broadband connection with 256 kbps upstream, or faster.
RECOMMENDED CONFIGURATION
Supported OS: Windows® 7, Windows 8.1, Windows 10 (64-bit versions only)
Processor: Intel Core i7-3770 | AMD FX-8350, or better.
RAM: 8GB
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 | AMD Radeon R9 290, or better – See supported List*
Notebook support: Laptop models of these desktop cards may work as long as they are on-par in terms of performance with at least the minimum configuration. For an up-to-date list of supported hardware, please visit the FAQ for this game on our website: http://support.ubi.com
DirectX: Version 11
Hard Drive Space: 40 GB available space.
Optical Drive: DVD-ROM Dual Layer.
Peripherals Supported: Windows-compatible keyboard, mouse, headset, optional controller.
Multiplayer: Broadband connection with 512 kbps upstream, or faster.
*Supported NVIDIA cards at time of release: GeForce GTX500 series: GeForce GTX560 (2 GB VRAM) or better • GeForce GTX600 series: GeForce GTX660 or better • GeForce GTX700 series: GeForce GTX760 or better • GeForce GTX900 Titan series: GeForce GTX960 or better
*Supported AMD cards at time of release: Radeon HD7000 series: Radeon HD7770 (2 GB VRAM) or better • Radeon 200 series: Radeon R7 270 or better • Radeon 300/Fury X series: Radeon R7 370 or better.
6gb ram…. wow… that’s so random O_o
Not really, it’s a standard base level ram setup for an older socket 1366 machine (well that or 3GB).
Really? But they usually come in 2gb or 4gb sticks? Seems random in that I can’t recall ever seeing a game with minimum or recommended specs for 6gb before.
Triple channel memory.
So 3 x 2gb.
Also, I imagine they simply ran the game on their systems, looked at how much ram it was using up, added some leeway for future patches/features/DLC and came up with 6gb.
Well yeah, just a random observation 🙂 Generally games have 2 or 4gb (8 becoming more common these days), just interesting seeing 6 of all things pop up.
Watch Dogs had min 6GB – I think it stems from the fact that Xbone and PS4 use only 6GB of RAM for games
More than likely. Played WD on my pc recently, by god it was so boring… I mean it had AC 1’s syndrome. Great concept, great idea. Poor execution.
I bought WD SpecEd on STEAM for less than 10 bucks.. too bad ubisofts shit DRM won’t even allow me to play the game…just refuses to connect to their server when I try to give them the serial key to unlock the game, but of course the UbiSoft store feature works a treat. If The Division is the same….then Ubisoft will burn!!
Consoles have 8gb shared memory. Ie devs prolly allocate 2gb video 6gb system. Hence a lot of requirements for new ports are in that ballpark.
I’m just a poor peasant consoler.
Don’t worry man I’m a PC gamer and legally blind so we’re on the same playing feild.
I am also legally blind! *fistbump* LOL
But I can most certainly notice the different… more frame rate over actual visuals though.
Was playing fallout 4 the other day on a mates ps4 and all the random slowdowns and general slow fps was giving me massive motion sickness :S
upstream so high!?! are we the hosts?
40GB HDD?! If that’s the download then I need a preload tonight please :p
I think this will go like destiny. People will complain about large lacking areas in the beta and others will say don’t worry its just a beta (its really not, its more like a demo where they can stress test the server, everything else is done). Then the game comes out and it turns out the people complaining were right.