Activision and Treyarch have revealed the PC specs for Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War and confirmed that it will require up to 250 GB of storage if you wish to run the latest Call of Duty with Ultra RTX settings.Fortunately, for those who don’t need to run Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War on the highest settings, it is possible to download Multiplayer only for 50 GB on Minimum Specs and all game modes for 175 GB on Recommended and Competitive Specs.It’s also important to note that these requirements are specifically for launch, and will hopefully go down as time goes by. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare has also dealt with storage requirements of over 200 GB, but Infinity Ward recently released a patch that gives PC players an option to uninstall specific game modes to reduce its file size.
The full list of official specifications for Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War on PC are as follows;
Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War Minimum Specifications
- OS: Windows 7 64-Bit (SP1) or Windows 10 64-Bit (v.1803 or higher)
- CPU: Intel Core i3-4340 or AMD FX-6300
- RAM: 8GB RAM
- HDD (at launch): 50GB (MP only), 175GB (all game modes)
- Video: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 / GeForce GTX 1650 or Radeon HD 7950
- DirectX 12 compatible system Required
- Broadband Internet Connection Required
Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War Recommended Specifications
These are the recommend specs to run 60GFPS in most situations with all options set to medium:
- OS: Windows 10 64 Bit (latest update)
- CPU: Intel Core i5-2500K or AMD Ryzen R5 1600X processor
- RAM: 12GB RAM
- HDD (at launch): 175GB HD space
- Video: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 / GTX 1660 Super or Radeon R9 390 / AMD RX 580
- DirectX 12 compatible system Required
- Broadband Internet Connection Required
Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War Recommended Specifications (Ray Tracing)
- OS: Windows 10 64 Bit (latest update)
- CPU: Intel i7-8700K or AMD Ryzen 1800X
- RAM: 16GB RAM
- HDD (at launch): 175GB HD space
- Video: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070
- DirectX 12 compatible system Required
- Broadband Internet Connection Required
Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War Competitive Specifications
Here are the competitive specs to run at a high FPS for use with a high refresh monitor:
- OS: Windows 10 64 Bit (latest update)
- CPU: Intel i7-8700K or AMD Ryzen 1800X
- RAM: 16GB RAM
- HDD (at launch): 175GB HD space
- Video: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 / RTX 3070 or Radeon RX Vega64 Graphics
- DirectX 12 compatible system Required
- Broadband Internet Connection Required
Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War Ultra RTX Specifications
Here are the Ultra RTX specs to run the game at a high FPS in 4K resolution with Ray Tracing enabled:
- OS: Windows 10 64 Bit (latest Update)
- CPU: Intel i9-9900K or AMD Ryzen 3700X
- RAM: 16GB RAM
- HDD (at launch): 250GB HD space
- Video: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080
- DirectX 12 compatible system Required
- Broadband Internet Connection Required
Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War on PC will feature 4K graphics, uncapped framerate, RTX Shadows and Ambient Occlusion, NVIDIA DLSS and Reflex Technology, Ultrawide and Multi-Monitor support and much more. Additionally, developer Beenox worked closely with Treyarch and all other studios to “bring over 200 individual settings to fine tune the PC version of Black Ops Cold War.”
To further explain, RTX Shadows and Ambient Occlusion will allow for more photo-realistic shadows, NVIDIA DLSS (Deep Learning Super Sampling) will use “AI to construct sharp, hi-fidelity images all while rendered fewer pixels,” and NVIDIA Reflex will “aid pros or pros-to-be in ensuring there is as little delay between their click or press and what happens on their screen as possible.”
Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War will be released on PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S on November 13, 2020.
For more, check out our review in progress for Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War’s Beta, our best tips and tricks for the newest Dirty Bomb mode, everything else we know about the latest Call of Duty game.
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