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Call of Duty: Ghosts needs 6GB RAM and 50GB installation on PC

Nvidia lists system specifications for the PC version of Call of Duty: Ghosts.

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Call of Duty: Ghosts will require 50GB of hard drive space, Nvidia has said on its website.

The requirements for this year's Call of Duty, which runs on an engine updated for the Xbox One and PlayStation 4, are far more demanding than last year's Black Ops II, which required 4GB RAM and an Nvidia 8800GT or equivalent graphics card.

Neither Activision or Nvidia has commented on why the game required 50GB to install, but the large hard drive requirement is believed to be mostly down to an increased texture size to accommodate displaying the game on larger displays at higher resolutions.

Nvidia's minimum specs for Call of Duty: Ghosts are as follows:

OS: Windows 7 64-Bit / Windows 8 64-Bit

CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E8200 2.66 GHZ / AMD Phenom X3 8750 2.4 GHZ or better

RAM: 6GB RAM

HDD: 50GB Hard Drive space

Video: Nvidia GeForce GTX 550 Ti / ATI Radeon HD 5870 or better

Sound: DirectX Compatible Sound Card

DirectX 11

Internet: Broadband connection and service required for Multiplayer Connectivity. Internet connection required for activation.

To reach the game's recommended specification, Nvidia says users will require a Nvidia GeForce GTX 780.

Last night Infinity Ward confirmed that Call of Duty: Ghosts will feature dedicated servers across all platforms.

Call of Duty: Ghosts will be released for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii U, and PC on November 5. Xbox One and PlayStation 4 versions will follow at launch.

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50GB? You've got to be crapping me... I just can't imagine what kind of assets this game has that would need 50GB! What, all the sound files are in full uncompressed WAV files? Are the videos also uncompressed? Hell, maybe even the textures lol!

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@Adenosine This game takes twice as much place as Crysis 3. Crysis 3 looks 10x sharper and they both offer pretty much the same multiplayer experience. This is simply bad optimization, whether they ran out of time or simply because they don't give a shit.

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@Adenosine Actually, Max Payne 3 used 35GB, and it was not meant as a next gen game.

Expect games to be 50+ GB from now on... damn, I need more space.

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@DrKill09 @Adenosine


You shouldn't be expecting games to be 50+GB. Okay, maybe only the shitty AAA games will continue to be 50GB all the way to the industry crash.

Shadow Warrior 2013 just came and it's running on the Road Hog Engine by Flying Wild Hog, looks 100 times better than CoD and is only 6GB? And on top of that, it's a real game without any dumbing down in it. Prooves CoD takes only so much space because of the un-necessary cinematics, scripted events, locked DLC and ofc not to forget the precious fish AI and dog.

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@quakke @DrKill09 @Adenosine it not just the 50GB the video card is also high some people really need to update their Video card in order to play.

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I am SO GLAD 32bit OS's are now dead. Thank god! 3GB of ram is not enough now days.

I haven't used a 32bit OS in years.

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Recommended requires a 780 on a COD game? really? Is it just me or are some of these recommended specs for next-gen games a bit ridiculous for the PC version? Or are they just making use of new hardware to the fullest?

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@PoofMaester PC isn't as efficient as a console so it needs more powerful hardware.

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@PoofMaester Sounds like they cut a deal with NVIDIA to sell more cards.

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GTX 780? Isn't that a bit too much? I mean, the GPU in both PS4 and XBONE isn't nowhere near a GTX 780. I know a PC version cannot be as optimized as the console one, but that's a bit too much. It should be running super fast and silky smooth on GTX 760 at most.

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COD 25 will come on a hard drive.

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@bkohary That sounds dirty, but accurate.

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@bkohary Yeah, everyone will have to use hot swap bays! XD

I'd just erase the game, and put something good on it.

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I like how it doesn't list the recommended specs aside from a 780, its fucking hilarious. so essentially they are saying you can run recommended at max settings with a Core 2 Duo paired with a 780? really...

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Edited By dirtdog10304

anybody else look at those specs and find it a bit fishy? no pun intended. I mean a Core 2 Duo?. Seem like the CPU would be a bottleneck. I have an I7 and BF4 will utilize over 50% of that, probably well over. For some people the bf4 beta and been maxing out CPU usage on later model CPU's.

a core 2 duo was what I was running BF 2142 on back in like 2007.

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@dirtdog10304 Just for note BF4 beta hasn't really been optimized yet too my understanding. what that has to do with your though is idk. just throwing it out there.

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CoD 50GB? You mean the "game" which is fully a bad interactive movie experience?

Well yes this certainly is the biggest fail of the year. Congratulations In(d)efinite ret(W)ard on accomplishing that one also.

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45 gigs are just the COD dog and fish A.I...

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i think they are using uncompressed Bitmap images

its the only way such bad textures could fill 50gb

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Well when you half-ass it and say screw optimization...

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That is ridiculous.

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The game hasn't seemed this breathtakingly beautiful so it makes it feel like the game isn't very well optimized. I know that MW3 runs at lower frames than many other games that look far better.

Battlefield 4 for instance looks far better and requires less to run it.

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How much space are these enormous games going to take up on the consoles? Obviously it won't be 50GB if you're playing from disc, but those 500GB hard drives don't seem like they'll last too long.

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HOLY CRAP ON A CRACKER!!! 50GB??? That's crazy! I have no objection on the RAM (although will drain my system to full capacity) but the disk space is just crazy!!!!


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50GB for a 6 hour campaign and multiplayer maps?

Must be the next-gen dogs and fish AI, I bet that accounts for 30GB in itself.

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LOL 50 GB wtf. All the more reason to not waste 50 GB of HDD space on this garbage

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Well, that's certainly a leap forward, but I doubt anyone accusing CoD of looking dated will change their mind just because the min. specs are higher. My laptop could have played CoD: Blops 2, but can't run this game if the specs are accurate. Not that I care, my backlog puts me at 2007, but it's interesting to see how even CoD is too much for my computer now.

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Killzone shadow fall looks 50GBs, COD ghosts does not.

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aha...thats why they call it Next-Gen...giving us Next-Gen Disc Spaces...see the dogs...come on...feed them some Biscs...

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Yeah keep trying to look like a real game COD. You stopped being that along time ago. Now your in the same category as an expensive version of fruit swipe. Shallow, popular, and not very fulfilling masked as entertainment.

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like i said a few days ago, these specs are to force you to upgrade.....nvidia does this with every big release......bet you can play on your current setups ....lol the minimum specs to play are max specs on other new games, i smell something fishy

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Honestly you don't need a good machine to run CoD:Ghosts (if for some strange reason you even should want to run it?). For gosh sakes, it's running on idTech3 from 1999 in 2013-2014.

That's pretty damn laughable and embarrassing.

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damn straight its laughable! Quakke, you're a good man.

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Wow! Thanks man. You too.

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" Nvidia says users will require a Nvidia GeForce GTX 780." lol. CoD graphics hasnt changed in 6 yrs or so.

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@n3cw4rr10r oh but you havent heard.....the cod fanboys are screaming about a new engine. but ive seen the game in action and i see no new anything except for mcgruff the crime fighting dog

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@haze0986 @n3cw4rr10r It's still the same old Quake 2 engine that they keep pimpin' up. You can only go so far with that old of an engine, though, and this so called 8th gen game is proof of it. Doesn't even come close to compare to the first Crysis yet look at what it "needs" to run.

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Its probably just some antipiracy artificial bloat of filesize. WIll be cut away but modders in 2 hours after release to 1GB or less depending how crappy the game is this time

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is it me or does it seem that everyday the "all digital future" gets further and further out of reach ha, i dont want a digital future ever. even if i had the means to easily dl 50 gb i want to know i own the copy not just the right to play it

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@haze0986 I don't think it's just you. We bitch about these things on here and we bitch that people bitch about things, so on and so forth. But I do not simply purchase all the garbage that comes across the screen and I too am becoming more apathetic towards new released anything. Because it's always going to include some sort of ultra platinum vip pass to add social separation and elitest class bullshit even in my past time hobby.

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@Tuckpoint nail on the head

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@haze0986 I pay AUD$80 a month for 100GB of download to cover everything my 1-person household needs, and that's the best deal I can get - and I'm close to Australia's largest city. Digital plz...

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