Doom system requirements

[Night Hunter]

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The oddly familiar Doom launch trailer debuted earlier today, and I still think it looks very nice, and certainly far more interesting than all the multiplayer-focused pre-release PR we've been treated to up to this point. And now we've got some more practical information for you, in the form of system requirements and preload timing. 

 

First things first: 

 

The Pistol:

 

OS: Windows 7/8.1/10 (64-bit versions)

CPU: Intel Core i5-2400/AMD FX-8320 or better

GPU: NVIDIA GTX 670 2GB/AMD Radeon HD 7870 2GB or better

RAM: 8 GB

HDD: 55 GB free

The BFG 9016:

 

OS: Windows 7/8.1/10 (64-bit versions)

CPU: Intel Core i7-3770/AMD FX-8350 or better

GPU: NVIDIA GTX 970 4GB/AMD Radeon R9 290 4GB or better

RAM: 8 GB

HDD: 55 GB free

The retail release of Doom will come with “a single disc,” and like Fallout 4 will require a fairly hefty 45GB download from Steam. Links to officially supported AMD and Nvidia video drivers will be provided next week. Which is also when preloading will begin, specifically at 12 am ET on May 11. The actual “launch unlock and server launch” will take place at the following geographically-dependent times: 

 

Australia/New Zealand @ 12 am AEST

North America @ 12 am ET

Europe @ 12 am GMT +1

Japan/South Korea/Rest of Asia – 12 am Japan

Full details (although there's not much more to it, unless you're interested in the console releases) are up at Bethesda.net. Doom comes out on May 13.

 

Source http://www.pcgamer.c...imes-announced/

[VerdinaNET]

Very good and optimized game. I like it very much. Quite intensive and hardcore gameplay.

[brevisalt]

After comparing my friend's PC with the DOOM requirements, we decided not to rush into buying new hardware. His system was close enough to the minimum requirements that we wanted to see how it performed before spending money.

We cleaned up his nearly full drive, removed unnecessary programs, updated the graphics drivers, and checked that there was enough free storage for the installation. We also compared his hardware with benchmarks and discussions from PC Gamer, TechPowerUp, and Tom's Hardware to get a better idea of what kind of performance he could realistically expect.

The biggest lesson was that system requirements are more than a list of numbers. They give you a starting point for understanding whether your PC has the right combination of CPU, GPU, RAM, and storage.

While looking at possible upgrades in case his graphics card couldn't handle the game comfortably, https://etechdevices.com/ gave us another place to explore PC hardware options. We didn't immediately buy anything, though. We first figured out which component, if any, actually needed an upgrade.

In the end, my friend learned something that saved him from an unnecessary purchase: don't upgrade your entire PC just because a new game has demanding requirements. Compare your existing hardware with the requirements first, identify the actual weak point, and upgrade only what needs attention.

Sometimes the best gaming upgrade is a new graphics card. Sometimes it's more storage. And sometimes, as we discovered that night, it's simply doing your homework before clicking “Install.”