Friday, January 25th 2019
System Requirements for Metro: Exodus Outed; Denuvo Protection Included
The system requirements for 4A Games' Metro: Exodus, the studios' first open-world effort that comes with baked-in NVIDIA RTX support, have been outed. The minimum system requirements for 1080p gaming at 30 FPS uses the Low IQ settings, and should be achieved by an i5-4440 CPU, paired with a 2 GB VRAM graphics card (GeForce GTX 1050 or Radeon HD 7870) and 8 GB of RAM.
For the Extreme IQ settings, at 4K 60 FPS, though, you'll require, obviously, a beast of a system. An Intel Core i9-9900K is the CPU of choice here, paired with 16 GB of RAM and the top of the line NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti. These requirements pressupose the absence of any RTX features, however, so prepare to see your maximum resolution with those features on coming down quickly as you scale the ray tracing capabilities. RTX-specific performance profiles will be released by 4A Games in the coming days.
Another piece of information regarding Metro: Exodus that has seen the light of day in recent times, however, is the games' usage of Denuvo. This has been a usual occurrence with publisher's Deep Silver's gaming offerings, though, so it really isn't that unexpected. But if you're one of those for whom the absence of DRM is important, you should take note.
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4A Games
For the Extreme IQ settings, at 4K 60 FPS, though, you'll require, obviously, a beast of a system. An Intel Core i9-9900K is the CPU of choice here, paired with 16 GB of RAM and the top of the line NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti. These requirements pressupose the absence of any RTX features, however, so prepare to see your maximum resolution with those features on coming down quickly as you scale the ray tracing capabilities. RTX-specific performance profiles will be released by 4A Games in the coming days.
35 Comments on System Requirements for Metro: Exodus Outed; Denuvo Protection Included
RTX On @4k might be 10 FPS:banghead:
PS: Don't care about Denuvo, but good to know.
Another reason might be 8 GB VRAM and good bandwidth. And yet another one might be, that the gap between 1060 and 1070 is pretty significant.
Wildlands is a very demanding title on max settings but even a GTX 1060 can run it at 1080p60 on high preset.
But this isn't the main issue I guess;
If an RTX 2080Ti is capable of running it on extreme settings at 4K why wouldn't a 1070 be able to do it at 1080p?
That said it may well be off the mark, but in my experience, if you want a smooth ride, best be on the higher end of the scale with your specs. And Metro has proven that very well...
Also keep in mind its an Nvidia sponsored title. They benefit from recommending high end GPUs. The fact that extreme only runs well on a 2080ti is telling, why would a dev waste time on that.
If previous Metro titles releases are any indication, this game will be a system killer, we might only see good frame rates using global illumination ray tracing on the most high end cards, or even next gen cards...
Wake me when the game hits GOG.com. Until then, I'm going back to sleep(yawns)..
Fine, I'll wait until a GoG sale. Legitimately good games do not need that garbage.