Ger 'Alt Of Here With These Witcher 3 System Specs

For the past decade I've done the financially responsible thing and bought a mid-tier PC and stuck with it till it was melting, crashing, rubble around my feet, but last year I bought something properly top-end for the first time ever. A good thing, because it means it no longer reboots as soon as I load a game. A good thing, because I have a thousand tabs open right now and Chrome needs all the memory it can get. A good thing, if The Witcher 3's system requirements are anything to go by, since even the minimum spec is unusually steep. The full details are below.

These details:

Minimum System Requirements

• Intel CPU Core i5-2500K 3.3GHz
• AMD CPU Phenom II X4 940
• Nvidia GPU GeForce GTX 660
• AMD GPU Radeon HD 7870
• RAM 6GB
• OS 64-bit Windows 7 or 64-bit Windows 8 (8.1)
• Direct X 11
• HDD Space 40 GB

Recommended System Requirements

• Intel CPU Core i7 3770 3,4 GHz
• AMD CPU AMD FX-8350 4 GHz
• Nvidia GPU GeForce GTX 770
• AMD GPU Radeon R9 290
• RAM 8GB
• OS 64-bit Windows 7 or 64-bit Windows 8 (8.1)
• Direct X 11
• HDD Space 40 GB

The Witcher 3 certainly looks pretty enough to justify high demands of your PC, but such high system requirements are a recently returned phenomenon. Perhaps the new console generation really has put an end to years of stagnancy in graphics engines and we're in for a few years of unfettered polygon growth, every game an open world full of crowds and particle effects and shaders.