After making us look ahead to the higher a part of a yr, Kojima Productions lastly made the PC model of Death Stranding 2 official earlier this month. And with the discharge now simply over three weeks away, port developer Nixxes has unveiled the official PC system necessities, which I’m blissful to say aren’t terribly onerous.
Obviously, the upper you may go the higher it will be, but when you end up caught between an growing older rig and obscene {hardware} costs, the minimal spec is fairly manageable: PCs nonetheless trundling together with 8GB RAM are out of luck (and sure, there are still a few of you on the market) however come on, even with RAM costs the best way they’re, absolutely you may scrounge up one other 8GB someplace and get your system to a extra purposeful state? 150GB of SSD area is a little bit of an eye-widener—that is practically double what the unique Death Stranding sucked up—however that is the best way of issues as of late: Games are massive.
It’s up, up, up from there, to a “very high” spec promising 4K at 60 fps performance, if you’ve got the hardware to handle it. Upscaling and frame generation options are available across Nvidia DLSS 4, AMD FSR4, and Intel XESS 2, and there’s even an upscaling option called “Pico,” which is being used in a PC port for the first time.
“This ‘Progressive Image Compositor’ is developed by Guerrilla for the Decima engine and is the same upscaling technology that’s used for Death Stranding 2 on PS5,” Nixxes explained. “Pico upscaling can be used with all supported graphics cards and can be combined with the various options for frame generation offered in the game. All upscaling options can be used in combination with Dynamic Resolution Scaling, or with an upscaling quality setting of choice to improve performance. Native AA options are also available for maximum fidelity.”
Lots of flexibility there, then, however it does make me lengthy just a bit bit for the times when my selections have been EGA or VGA.
Ultrawide shows are additionally supported for each gameplay and cutscenes, and if you wish to benefit from the ultrawide expertise on a normalwide show, you are able to do that too: The PC model consists of an choice to play the sport in 21:9 on 16:9 displays. (The possibility will likely be added to the PS5 model of Death Stranding, too.)
Here’s the way it all breaks down:
Minimum – 1080p, 30 fps, low graphics preset
- GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660 or AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT 8GB
- CPU: Intel Core i3-10100 or AMD Ryzen 3 3100
- RAM: 16GB
- Storage: 150GB SSD
- OS: Windows 10/11 (Version 1909 or newer)
Medium- 1080p, 60 fps, medium graphics preset
- GPU: Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 12GB or AMD Radeon RX 6600
- CPU: Intel Core i5-11400 or AMD Ryzen 5 5600
- RAM: 16GB
- Storage: 150GB SSD
- OS: Windows 10/11 (Version 1909 or newer)
HIgh (Recommended) – 1440p, 60 fps, excessive graphics preset
- GPU: Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 o AMD Radeon RX 6800
- CPU: Intel Core i7-11700 or AMD Ryzen 7 5700X
- RAM: 16GB
- Storage: 150GB SSD
- OS: Windows 10/11 (Version 1909 or newer)
Very High – 4K, 60 fps, very excessive graphics preset
- GPU: Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080 or AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT
- CPU: Intel Core i7-11700 or AMD Ryzen 7 5700X
- RAM: 16GB
- Storage: 150GB SSD
- OS: Windows 10/11 (Version 1909 or newer)
It’s not talked about within the specs however Nixxes mentioned the PC model of Death Stranding 2 will even embrace a “portable preset” for handheld gaming units. Death Standing 2 is not at the moment verified for the Steam Deck, however it positive seems like will probably be.
Death Stranding 2 for PC is about to launch for PC on March 19. It’s up for preorder now on Steam and the Epic Games Store.