Atomic Heart system requirements confirmed, asks for 90GB storage

One thing to stay up for: After 5 years of attempting to make sense of Mundfish’s strange-looking however well-hyped first-person shooter Atomic Coronary heart, gamers will be capable of strive it for themselves in a few weeks. The system necessities appear barely much less demanding than different current AAA video games.

Mundfish has launched the complete system necessities for its upcoming FPS Atomic Coronary heart (one among our PC most anticipated games of 2023). The developer additionally revealed extra particulars about what options PC gamers can anticipate when it releases later this month.

The one probably critical demand Atomic Coronary heart makes is for 90GB of space for storing. The CPU, GPU, and RAM necessities look just like different Q1 2023 releases like Forspoken, Returnal, the Dead Space remake, and Star Wars Jedi: Survivor.

On low graphics settings at 1080p, an Nvidia GTX 960 or AMD Radeon R9 380 ought to get you a minimal of 30 frames per second. The GeForce GTX 1060 and Radeon 580 – nonetheless two of the preferred graphics playing cards – are ok for 60fps at these specs.

Mundfish careworn that these body charges must be the minimal gamers anticipate to see on the listed {hardware}, even throughout intense gameplay conditions. At 1080p on low settings, a GTX 1060 or Radeon 580 ought to attain far increased than 60fps a lot of the time, even approaching 100fps.

Given this, the remainder of the necessities must be taken as a conservative estimate. For medium settings at 1080p and 60fps, Mundfish recommends a GTX 1070 or Radeon 5600 XT. For prime settings on the similar efficiency metric, a GTX 1080 or 5700 XT.

The GeForce RTX 2070 Tremendous and Radeon 6700 XT have began showing underneath the advisable specs for current video games. Atomic Coronary heart suggests them for extremely settings at 1080p and 60fps. The spec sheet solely pulls out current high-end GPUs just like the 3080 or 6800 XT for extremely settings at 4K.

Fortunately, in contrast to another titles, this one is not recommending 32GB of RAM. In reality, Mundfish stated 8GB is sufficient if gamers select to go with out shader precompilation.

Stuttering throughout gameplay as a result of compiling shaders has been a prevalent difficulty in current PC video games like Elden Ring. Much like the Lifeless House remake, Atomic Coronary heart will begin compiling shaders as quickly because it boots, with a visual progress bar, to keep away from stuttering. Nevertheless, the characteristic requires at the very least 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 shall be obtainable in Atomic Coronary heart. The sport will assist DLSS 3 and FSR 2, however will not embody Intel’s Xess earlier than launch. Mundfish has showcased Atomic Coronary heart’s ray-traced shadows, reflections, and ambient occlusion since its 2018 improvement movies.

The sport launches on February 21 on Steam, Sport Go, Xbox One and Xbox Sequence, PlayStation 4, and PlayStation 5.