Wolfenstein: Old Blood is a standalone prequel to Wolfenstein: The New Order. Want to jump back into the shoes of BJ Blazkowicz? Pre-ordering will lead to pre-loading so that you don’t have to wait. Of course, you need to know if your PC can handle it, if that’s your platform of choice.
Announced over on the Bethesda blog, the requirements are as follows:
Minimum:
- OS: 64-bit Windows 7/Windows 8
- Processor: Intel® Core™ i5-2500 @ 3.3 GHz / AMD FX-8320 @ 3.5 GHz
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 560 / AMD Radeon™ HD 6870 (1GB VRAM)
- Hard Drive: 38 GB available space
Recommended
- OS: 64-Bit Windows 7/Windows 8
- ?Processor: Intel® Core™ i7 / AMD FX-8350
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 660 / AMD Radeon™ R9 280 (3GB or more VRAM)
- ?Hard Drive: 38 GB available space
Those minimum specs aren’t too bad. Obviously for recommended you’re going to need a more powerful machine, but at least those who haven’t upgraded their rigs won’t need to sell their blood and organs to get in on the Wolfenstein: The Old Blood fun. I wonder for how much longer 4 GB RAM will be able to run anything. People laugh when I tell them that the gaming rig in my home has 24 GB RAM. Just wait, wait I tell you. One day, that will be a recommended spec. Maybe. Probably not, but it can’t hurt, right?
Most of you have probably upgraded your machines by now anyway, right? For that other big game release this month that everyone wants to run on the highest resolutions possible.
Last Updated: April 30, 2015
Admiral Chief
April 30, 2015 at 11:11
Finally, some PC related news XD
Blood Emperor Trevor
April 30, 2015 at 11:12
Now I know it’s getting time to upgrade, this is the first game I’ve seen where my CPU is below min spec hehe.
geel slang
April 30, 2015 at 12:59
The Witcher 3 has the same min CPU spec for Intel. I think its quite high.
FoxOneZA
April 30, 2015 at 13:55
There’s no difference between the i5 and i7 for gaming.
geel slang
April 30, 2015 at 14:29
I dont quite get your comment, both have a i5 2500 for min spec.
Matthew Holliday
April 30, 2015 at 13:47
its a pretty big jump from an i5-750, which has been the min for a while, to an i5-2500.
i like how the AMD requirements are the bottom and the middle of the range from the same series though… does that mean that the Phenom II x4 series is finally irrelevant?
that we are at a time now where regular quad cores are not good enough, is pretty scary.
Ranting Raptor
April 30, 2015 at 11:13
Wow, even the reccomended aren’t that crazy. The 660 is a fairly cheap card
Dutch Matrix
April 30, 2015 at 11:13
I have to ask: Is this game bigger in scale and what’s happening on screen than GTA V?
Greylingad
April 30, 2015 at 11:18
I cannot wait to get my hands on this….They did a woppingly good job of the new order, I would expect this to be as good as that…
ReaperOfSquirrels
April 30, 2015 at 11:21
“Won’t require new blood”… lol… you underestimate how old my PC is Zoe.
That being said I can still play GTAV on low graphics 😛
Wraith
April 30, 2015 at 11:28
May the good blood guide your way.
Hammersteyn
April 30, 2015 at 11:35
I almost thought he’s my butler after I met him.
Mario AK
May 1, 2015 at 15:33
You’re in the know, right?
Jonah Cash
April 30, 2015 at 11:49
I can’t wait to test my rig with the Witcher 3! Finally something worthy.
Matthew Healing
April 30, 2015 at 13:03
My i3 is starting to show its age.
Mario AK
May 1, 2015 at 15:36
If it’s hyperthreaded (I think all of them are), you’ll be fine. These official specs are a joke, no matter how advanced and unique Tech 5 actually is…