Warhammer 40,000: Darktide (opens in new tab) launches on November 30, however when you preorder the sport you’ll be able to bounce in as early as November 17. With simply in the future left earlier than that early entry beginning gun goes off, developer Fatshark has unveiled the complete system necessities, together with an impressively detailed weblog publish breaking down how the varied settings—and there are lots of—will impression general efficiency.
First issues first, the {hardware}. Fortuitously, Darktide is not too demanding on the low finish—any fundamental gaming PC ought to be capable of deal with it—whereas these with heavy iron will be capable of reap the benefits of all the newest and biggest eye-candy tech.
Warhammer 40K: Darktide system necessities
Really helpful system necessities (1080p, medium settings, 60 fps)
- CPU: Intel i7-9700K (3.7GHz) or AMD Ryzen 5 3600 (4.2GHz)
- GPU: Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 or AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT
- RAM: 16GB
- Storage: 50GB SSD
Minimal (1080p, low settings, 30-45 fps)
- CPU: Intel i5-6600 (3.3GHz) or AMD Ryzen 5 2600 (3.4GHz)
- GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 970 or AMD Radeon RX 570
- RAM: 8GB
- Storage: 50GB HDD
Ray tracing low (1080p, medium settings, 40-50 fps)
- CPU: Intel i7-11700K (3.7GHz) or AMD Ryzen 5 3600 (4.2GHz)
- GPU: Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060
- RAM: 16GB
- Storage: 50GB SSD
- Ray Tracing Settings: International illumination off, reflections low
Ray tracing medium (1080p/1440p, excessive settings, 60-70 fps)
- CPU: Intel i7-11700K (3.7GHz) or AMD Ryzen 7 5800 (3.8GHz)
- GPU: Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080
- RAM: 16GB
- Storage: 50GB SSD
- Ray Tracing Settings: International illumination excessive, reflections low
Ray tracing excessive (4K, excessive settings, 100 fps)
- CPU: Intel i7-12700K (3.6GHz) or AMD Ryzen 9 5900 (3.8GHz)
- GPU: Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080
- RAM: 16GB
- Storage: 50GB SSD
- Ray Tracing Settings: International illumination excessive, reflections excessive
Ideas for maximizing efficiency in Darktide
The specs above give everybody a reasonably easy breakdown of what they will count on from their techniques, however for individuals who need to go deep—I imply, deep—into what all of it means, Fatshark co-founder and chief technical officer Rikard Blomberg did simply that in a weblog publish (opens in new tab) on how gamers can maximize the Darktide’s efficiency.
It is fairly dense as this stuff go, explaining (very mainly, clearly) the roles of the CPU and GPU, lighting expertise, “parallelization,” and what a sport has to do with a purpose to render a body in 16.7 milliseconds or much less—the time required to attain a 60 fps framerate. However in any case that, there’s data on what every particular person graphical setting does, and the way it will impression Darktide’s CPU and GPU utilization.
A couple of standout ideas:
- In case you’re CPU constrained, flip down Max Ragdolls and Scatter Density
- If GPU constrained, flip down Max Weapon Influence Decals and Max Blood Decals
- DLSS / FSR choices are the best method to enhance GPU efficiency
- Use Nvidia Reflex to decrease latency
The Warhammer 40,000: Darktide beta begins at 10 am PT/1 pm ET on November 17—for the beginning instances in different areas, take a look at our full Darktide preorder beta launch time (opens in new tab) publish. Remember that whereas the complete launch is simply a pair weeks away, Fatshark does look like treating this as a correct remaining finest check, and a few facets of the sport could also be incomplete or absent.