Just kidding, these are the REAL Quantum Break PC requirements

Tricked ya!

Show of hands: Who thought when Remedy revealed the PC requirements for Quantum Break yesterday, that those were the real requirements? Fo🎃ols. A🉐ll of you. How could you be so gullible?

This is what you’ll actually need to run Quantum Break on Windows 10:

Minimum:

• OS: Windows 10 (64-bit)
• DirectX 12
• CPU: Intel Core i5-4460 2.70GHz or AMD FX-6300 processor
• GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 or AMD Radeon R7 260x
• VRAM: 2GB
• RAM: 8GB
• Hard drive: 55GB of available space

Recommended:

• OS: Windows 10 (64-bit)
• DirectX 12
• CPU: Intel Core i5-4690, 3.9GHz or AMD equivalent
• GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 or AMD Radeon R9 390
• VRAM: 4GB
• RAM: 16GB
• Hard drive: 55GB of available space

Ultra:

• OS: Windows 10 (64-bit)
• DirectX 12
• CPU: Intel Core i7-4790, 4GHz or AMD equivalent
• GPU: NVIDIA GeForece 980 Ti or AMD Radeon R9 Fury X
• VRAM: 6GB
• RAM: 16GB
• Hard drive: 55GB of available space

Basically what happened here is that Remedy accepted that there’s a fair amount of middle ground between simply getting the game to run and running it at its very best. Yesterday’s recommended settings are today’s ultra settings, and there’s a whole new list of more reasonable hardware making up the “recommended” space.

This clarification and nuance is quite welcome because those ultra settings require a bleeding-edge PC. Really, that announcement didn’t do much besides anger a lot of folks and question the port’s optimization. Now, more people know that they’ll be able to play it just fine on their more modest (yet still perfectly good) rigs.

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