Despite high memory prices
Were they supposed to rewrite the entire game in the last 4 months?
No need to rewrite the game, just choose a new art style and completely re-author all materials in the game. Maybe use fewer PBR maps for all the unimportant stuff too. Shouldn’t take more than a couple days.
Do you like being a project manager?
Couldn’t we just synergize and align the teams by proactively leveraging the power of AI? We should be able to maximise throughput by using AI to solve this problem, and I think we can drive success of the key deliverable by freeing up our resources, allowing them time to capitalize on future opportunities. With that said, is one sprint enough to get this deliverable to done, or do we need two sprints?
Any good project manager knows you never never ever split anything across two sprints. You always gotta split things down until everything is doable in one sprint. Anything else is going to drag down your business KPIs hard.
Yes.
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System RAM is used to load the whole game, it’s not directly tied to display resolution.
I mean, maybe, I don’t know about that, but it has nothing to do with the dramatic surge in RAM prices.
Clickbait headline:
It will run on 16GB; the original announcement even mentions the Switch 2. There’s no reasoning would need 32GB for 60 FPS, given low settings and a CPU that can push it.
That headline’s a bit disappointing, as I really love Notebookcheck. Their reviews and databases are incredible.
9000-series intel
Minimum requirements
Oh noooo… is my 9900k getting old? I feel like it was only recently that I put this computer together, jeez…
To be fair, the 9000 series has the same architecture as Intel’s 6000 series Skylake CPUs, from 2015.
There is no 9500K, but I assume they’re referencing this one: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/134895/intel-core-i59500-processor-9m-cache-up-to-4-40-ghz/specifications.html
Which is 6C/6T.
Wild! It’s still performing perfectly for everything I throw at it, but it just feels like I built it so much less long ago hahaha.
Not to mention game development takes years. Its not like you can just reduce system requirements at the end of development because of an unpredictable hardware shortage.
Recommended settings are for the average user to plug it in and get that performance. Have windows doing stuff in the background, a couple chrome tabs open and you need more than 16GB. 18-30GB are not valid ram configs on intel desktop or AM4/5 so 32GB is the closest.
18-30 GB is completely valid… If you have 4 sockets in your computer, nothing is stopping you from adding 2x4 GB sticks and 2x8 GB sticks for a total of 24 GB. And you can even still run at full dual channel speeds…
It’s not that common, as most people don’t mix the sizes of the sticks… But as long as each dual channel pair is of the same size, and the slowest stick timing is good enough, there’s no trouble.
Yeah, seeing this, I’m really not too worried. IOI has always managed pretty impressive visuals in the past too, their stuff is really well optimized, considering the scope of their simulations. I’m really not that concerned for the game at these recommended specs.
I’ve played games with some of my system’s stats at minimum requirements or slightly above before. Usually not fun.
The games supposed to be a bit of a live service game so maybe it has a chance in the long term. Still skeptical though that it’ll succeed in the face of its budget
This really doesn’t make a lot of sense. What game needs 16gb of ram anyway?
I don’t really know of many shooters that are CPU and ram limited so badly that you only get 60fps @ 1080p with cards like a RX 6700 - like the bottleneck has to be the GPU in that scenario, despite it being their recommended target right?
My dude’s… I don’t even game and I’ve been maxing out every system for the last 10 years.
#FUCKAI
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You should probably stop downloading trojan horse crypto miners.
I think that he means that he’s added the maximum amount of memory that his hardware supports, rather than that he’s been keeping his GPU computation capacity filled.
You know, that does make sense.
Yeah… I’ll keep that in mind 🤣
Excel really does need 32gb… at minimum.
That I believe… it’s always been a little piggy, but you can do some creative shit with it especially if you’re bad a SQL, which I am 😝
Easy way to $100k is learning pivot tables and SQL.
Unoptimized slop pushes hardware sales. Rinse and repeat.
Nvidia sponsorship checks out. It’ll probably be bundled with nvidia cards on launch.
I can’t remember the last time a 007 game was any good after goldeneye though. The brand is enormous in cinema but consistently has fallen short in games afaik.
Recommended is for the game to run well for a user, not what it needs to run well. 18-24GB is not a viable config so 32GB gets it. MS says you need 6GB for windows to stay in ram, chrome will eat a couple gigs, and then the game likely needs like 10GB. 6700xt is a low end card from 5 years ago. The requirements and recommended seem fine.
MS says you need 6GB for windows to stay in ram
Wtf, what is there that needs so much ram?
No idea, but that is their guide for setting recommended system requirements. You lose 8-10GB with windows web browser in back ground and windows depending on how you think your user will use their computer.
Whoever willfully uses this shit is insane even without the recent ai slop.
You’ll have to ask copilot, because nobody actually knows
And what amount of RAM does a common modern gaming machine have?
According to Steam hardware survey, ~55.7% of systems have less than 32GB.
Xbox S, Xbox X, and Ps5 have 16GB.
So safe to safe majority of gamers do not have 32GB and aren’t getting more any time soon.
Mmm…note that the consoles there use unified memory. It’s not quite the same thing, but it’d be closer to compare unified memory on a console to main memory plus video memory on a PC than to just main memory alone.
True, which means they basically have less than 16GB due to whatever the gpu uses which puts them at less than minimum recommended specs.
That either means consoles are getting a more optimized build (doubted) or they’re cutting things that they could offer a toggle for on PC. Either way not a good look in this current market.
Steam hardware survey has like 50% shit-tier laptops though. Just 36.85% English users.
I think most gamers, especially the ones who built their own rig in the past 5 years or did any research before buying their prebuilt are gonna have 32gb minimum.
It’s the people in poorer regions that really get fucked by these kind of requirements, but the publishers often don’t consider them a significant revenue source for a AAA title.
I think most gamers, especially the ones who built their own rig in the past 5 years or did any research before buying their prebuilt are gonna have 32gb minimum.
The commenter you replied to just showed you the numbers. Most gamers do in fact not have 32gb of ram.
I was going to say something similar, but the person did originally say “modern gaming rig,” and I think it’s safe to say that not everyone in the survey has one of those
I do wish the data was more granular. Maybe there’s a way to get at it, I haven’t poked too much. I’m real curious how much data the big AAA companies have on hardware or if they also just look at Steam hardware surveys.
I know a lot of people around me (not a poor region) skimped on RAM because they had to save every penny for a GPU since the start of covid and only went 16GB thinking they’d add more later. Guess we’ll see how well the game does.
I would kill for the data to be much more granular. I’d love to see national or regional statistics.
You can filter by Linux and it’s 83% English speakers. Intel CPU speeds go from bottom of the barrel budget ghz to the highest spot listed on the charts. Linux may trend tech worker to an extent and around 21% is the steam deck, but that just makes the stats feel more like what i’d expect in the US and wealthy european nations.
The fact that Chinese makes up about 25% and Russian makes up 10% of the Windows survey should have a huge statistical impact on results. I swore those numbers were even higher before too.
What is the importance of those “English speaking” gamers over others? Why does it only matter what kind of hardware the “English speaking” gamers have?
Why dont we just source statistics from China and Latin America?
Beyond the fact that this franchise is literally British… these comments and the post are in English. If we were on a Chinese board I would want Chinese statistics. If it was Russian… etc etc.
Our knowledge of hardware is localized. The stream statistics are global. The belief that our friends and family and other gamers that we relate to are going to be penalized by a ram limit in a discussion in English is only relevant… to English speaking gamers…
I married into a Latin american family and have spent a lot of time in Latin American countries. More than most conversing in this thread anyway. I know the realities of trying to game in countries like Chile. Your best option is something like an Xbox with gamepass. PCs are just too expensive for AAA games.
That’s the “recommended” amount, though. Most probably 16 would be totally fine.
Hey you asked so I answered.
They quote minimum as 16GB and 8GB Vram for 1080/30fps which fewer and fewer people are willing to accept.
System random-access memory (RAM) share among Steam users as of June 2025
Memory Percent of users 8 GB 8.95% 16 GB 43.05% 32 GB 34.37% Other 13.63% That being said, I don’t know if one could say that a machine that has run Steam is necessarily “modern” or a “gaming machine”. But I don’t know what better statistic you’d get.
Looks like 32GiB is an adequate RECOMMENDED “requirement”.
Fucks sake, why is every big budget game trying to be the new Crysis
I watched a bit of the gameplay reveal, looks like it could be interesting. Except, Bond’s model is TERRIBLE. Just looking at his face makes me want to pass up the game completely.
For me it was hearing Lenny Kravitz try to be a voice actor that made me knew I’d be passing.
Lenny Kravitz sucks, but goddamn is his daughter talented
Please nooooooo. I’ve never been so excited for a single player game :(
I mean, just add it to the list and get it a couple years down the line.
I’m gonna pirate it to test the waters, honestly. If they’ve done good, I’ll buy it. If its a dumpster fire of poor optimization I’ll cry myself to sleep and watch the patch notes and pirate the updates, too.
Dare I say it, but if you are really that excited, consider GeForce Now? It’s cheap, as long as you drop the subscription like a rock when you’re done.
I appreciate the idea, but fuck Nvidia with a rusty fork and no lube.
Fair enough, heh.
There are other game streaming services, like: https://shadow.tech/
Just to name one.
Bro are they shipping 1024x textures??
What a scam.
