
Things to stay up for: After 5 years of making an attempt out Mundfish’s first-person shooter Atomic Heart, which appears to be like bizarre however hyped, gamers will be capable of strive it out for themselves in a number of weeks. System necessities appear to be barely decrease than different current AAA titles.
Mundfish has launched the total system necessities for its upcoming FPS Atomic Heart, considered one of our most anticipated PC video games of 2023. The developer additionally revealed extra particulars concerning the options PC gamers can count on when it launches later this month.
Atomic Heart’s solely probably critical want is 90GB of storage. CPU, GPU, and RAM necessities look much like different Q1 2023 releases comparable to Forspoken, Return, Dead Space Remastered, and Star Wars Jedi: Survivor.
At low graphics settings at 1080p, an Nvidia GTX 960 or AMD Radeon R9 380 ought to get you a minimum of 30 frames per second. The GeForce GTX 1060 and Radeon 580 — nonetheless two of the preferred graphics playing cards — are adequate for 60fps at these specs.
Mundfish stresses that these body charges must be the bottom gamers can count on to see on the listed {hardware}, even in intense gaming conditions. On low settings at 1080p, a GTX 1060 or Radeon 580 ought to hit properly above 60fps more often than not, and even nearer to 100fps.
Given this, the remaining necessities must be thought-about conservative estimates. For reasonable settings at 1080p and 60fps, Mundfish recommends the GTX 1070 or Radeon 5600 XT. For excessive settings with the identical efficiency metrics, GTX 1080 or 5700 XT.
The GeForce RTX 2070 Super and Radeon 6700 XT have began exhibiting up at advisable specs for current video games. Atomic Heart recommends 1080p and 60fps on extremely settings. The spec sheet solely lists the newest high-end GPUs, just like the 3080 or 6800 XT, for Ultra settings at 4K.
Thankfully, in contrast to another video games, this one would not advocate 32GB of RAM. In reality, Mundfish says that 8GB is sufficient if gamers select to not use shader precompilation.
In-game stuttering as a result of compiling shaders has been a standard problem in current PC video games comparable to Elden Ring. Similar to Dead Space Remastered, Atomic Heart will start compiling shaders instantly upon launch, with a visual progress bar to keep away from stuttering. However, this characteristic requires a minimum of 12GB of system RAM.
The system necessities do not say whether or not they account for ray tracing or picture reconstruction (in all probability not), each of which might be obtainable in Atomic Heart. The recreation will assist DLSS 3 and FSR 2, however won’t embrace Intel’s Xess till launch. Since creating the video in 2018, Mundfish has showcased Atomic Heart’s ray-traced shadows, reflections, and ambient occlusion.
The recreation might be obtainable on Steam, Game Pass, Xbox One and Xbox Series, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 on February 21.