The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

[Xant]

Minimum requirements are obviously a bit higher than they actually are

By quite a lot too, probably. They just have to play it safe.

[Dalhi]

What, you have to pay customs for ordering from another country in the EU in Poland?

My mistake. Of course not 

[lombardsoup]

How would my current specs fare?

Intel Core i5-4670K oc'd to 3.8ghz
8GB DDR3 1600
Nvidia Geforce GTX 970 4GB at default clock speed

[Tibe]

Holy shit, GTX 970. I think you good, bro. And enough RAM too. I dont know, but it has always appeared to me that CPU isnt really that important when it comes to games, that it can be run on recommended or high aslong as your GPU and RAM is jacked up.

[Molly]

Holy shit, GTX 970. I think you good, bro. And enough RAM too. I dont know, but it has always appeared to me that CPU isnt really that important when it comes to games, that it can be run on recommended or high aslong as your GPU and RAM is jacked up.

I can tell you from experience that this is not true.
Just switched from a Q9400 to a E3-1231v3 and before I could not play AC Unity, Watchdogs and the likes... simply couldn't... with a R9 270x.
Now with the new CPU I run them all on Ultra. It makes a huuuuge difference.

[LordBerenger]

I can tell you from experience that this is not true.
Just switched from a Q9400 to a E3-1231v3 and before I could not play AC Unity, Watchdogs and the likes... simply couldn't... with a R9 270x.
Now with the new CPU I run them all on Ultra. It makes a huuuuge difference.

I secuuuuuund dat

[Tibe]

Ive seen a guy run all majory AAA games on an i3 on medium or high. Ive personally ran a lot of games on an i3. Im not gonna lie, ye i7 I have now is better, but I never had the problem I couldnt run something and that was a year ago. Maybe now, with Unity, Watch dogs and other badly optimised yet very demanding games coming out they wont.

[Molly]

i3 is still dual core, right?
Then it won't run Far Cry 4 and Dragon Age Inquisition. Those 2 are confirmed to simply not support dual cores any more.
At least dual cores are done for gaming, I guess.

And not everyone makes such a huge leap as I did. Q9400 is pretty old but it worked tho. Still, the overall difference surprised even me although I expected a big leap. Honestly not such a huge one. My e3 made me a happy nerd again...

My guess is that it's related to the new console generation. Developers became lazy with it cuz of the bigger capabilities of Xbone and PS4. Or simply haven't got the hang of it yet. Maybe that's the reason why CPUs are making a big difference atm. When they get more control of the console, I guess PCMR will see improvements on that front. We'll see with GTA 5 and Witcher 3 since GTA 5 is gonna be a console port and Witcher 3 certainly has PCMR as lead platform...

[Vibe]

CPU comes into play when you have a shitload of objects loaded in game / on screen. That's why games like AC Unity (shit tons of NPCs) and Arma 3 (shit tons of everything + huge maps) are so CPU (and GPU) heavy. Simply put: how many different objects and it's attributes does the game need to keep calculating.

[Molly]

They sure do know how to tell stories...

[Molly]

[Xant]

Really looking forward to it. DAI was good/decent, but nothing memorable. Witcher 3 looks like it could be one of the best RPGs ever.

[darmaster]

yes as other mentioned in the video, did they downgrade it or it's just they're showing the xbox version?

[Molly]

[darmaster]

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/witcher-3-contains-16-hours-sex-scene-motion-capture-1485584

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=981026

:O

a video game had more sex than me

lol