The Witcher 3 Remastered PC System Requirements Announced

CD Projekt RED shared the updated PC system requirements of The Witcher 3 Remastered version, which includes the comprehensive visual renewal it has prepared for the legendary RPG game The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. Publishing a wide hardware table from 1080p low settings to 4K Path Tracing technology, the studio raises the bar to the newest flagships of the hardware world. According to the announced data, an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 graphics card is required to experience the game at 4K resolution, 60 FPS and Path Tracing turned on; Moreover, this target can only be achieved when DLSS upscaling and Frame Generation technologies are enabled.

New Generation Lighting Hardware Pushes to Its Limits

The system requirement table shared by CD Projekt RED reveals how hardware needs increase as visual quality increases. While tests are performed at native resolution in rasterized (traditional) graphics settings; It is stated that DLSS, FSR or XeSS technologies are used in automatic mode in Ray Tracing and Path Tracing profiles. The 4K Path Tracing profile requires both artificial intelligence-supported resolution upscaling and multi-frame rendering technology.

While the developer team points to NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 or AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT graphics cards for 1440p 60 FPS RT Recommended (Recommended Ray Tracing) settings, they raise the bar directly to the RTX 5080 model at the 4K Path Tracing level. In this profile, top-level models such as Intel Core i9-13900K or AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D are listed on the processor side, while the system memory requirement reaches 24 GB RAM.

The Witcher 3 Remastered PC System Requirements

Profile Target Processor (CPU) Graphics Card (GPU) RAM Minimum 1080p, 30 FPS (Low) Core i5-8400 / Ryzen 5 2600 GTX 1660 / RX 5500 XT / Arc A580 12 GB Recommended 1080p, 60 FPS (High) Core i7-8700K / Ryzen 5 3600X RTX 2060 SUPER / RX 6600 XT / Arc B580 16 GB Ultra 1440p, 60 FPS (Ultra) Core i7-13700K / Ryzen 7 7700X RTX 3070 Ti / RX 6800 XT / Arc B580 24 GB RT Minimum 1080p, 30 FPS Core i7-11700K / Ryzen 7 5800X RTX 2060 SUPER / RX 6600 XT / Arc B580 16 GB RT Recommended 1440p, 60 FPS Core i9-13900K / Ryzen 7 9800X3D GeForce RTX 5080 24 GB

Farewell to Old Generation Architectures and SSD Mandatory

The updated requirements directly affect not only the upper segment graphics cards, but also the entry level. On the NVIDIA side, it is noteworthy that the base card has increased to the GeForce GTX 1660 level. The biggest reason for this is that the manufacturer has terminated Game Ready driver support for old cards with Maxwell, Pascal and Volta architectures. CD Projekt RED makes it clear that it will continue to support components that continue to receive official software support from hardware manufacturers.

In addition, the studio states that the game is no longer developed and tested on Windows 10. Although this does not mean that the game will immediately stop working on older operating systems, Windows 11 is recommended against possible compatibility problems. Additionally, using SSD for fast loading of in-game assets and textures is no longer an option, but an absolute necessity. Players whose hardware is insufficient or who want to preserve the old structure can revert to version 4.04 or Classic 1.32 branch via Steam and other platforms.