God of War system requirements reveals advanced graphical options on Nvidia and AMD GPUs
The full God of War PC system requirements are here.
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God of Waris coming to PC on January 14, which gives you just over a month to prepare yourself (and, more to the point, your PC) for its arrival. To help with that process, Sony has released adetailed breakdownof the God of War PC system requirements, as well as a trailer showcasing all the hot new PC-exclusive enhancements.
Getting right to the important stuff first, there are five separate specifications, the lowest of which doesn’t promise much in terms of eye candy but is at least reasonably accessible:
Minimum (720p, 30fps)
Recommended (1080p, 30fps)
High (1080p, 60fps)
Performance (1440p, 60fps)
Ultra (4K, 60fps)
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The PC version of God of War will boast a multitude of visual enhancements and graphical options including higher-resolution shadows, improved screen space reflections, enhancedGTAO and SSDO effects, and of course higher resolutions and an uncapped framerate. For those with the appropriate hardware, God of War on PC will support Nvidia’sDLSSandReflextechnologies, and AMD’sFidelityFX Super Resolution.
God of War’s debut on PC is a watershed moment, not just because it’s a great game but because of the bigger shift it represents: Kratos is Sony’s Mario, as Rich opined in October, and its new willingness to share signals that, boy, theconsole wars are finally over—and, uh,we won.
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