The system requirements for Guardians of the Galaxy even rival CoD Warzone in terms of memory, but are otherwise pleasingly moderate.
Yum, yum! – That’s roughly how Guardians of the Galaxy’s train of thought should look when the game sets eyes on your home hard drive or SSD. That’s because the system requirements for the Marvel title, due out on 26 October 2021, have been released on Steam and are likely to make your storage media break out in a cold sweat.
Suddenly competing with Warzone
150 gigabytes: That’s not only the amount of temporary internet files that many of us might have accumulated, but also the space required for the new adventure around Star-Lord, Gamora, Drax, Rocket and Groot. This takes the game into spheres that only Call of Duty: Warzone and Rockstar’s western epic Red Dead Redemption 2 have reached so far.
Of course, it is not easy to say what the memory hunger is due to. Various factors play a role here, such as the internal compression of the data, especially the high-resolution textures, and other structural properties of the respective games.
In the case of Guardians of the Galaxy, it can be said: The objects in the game world seem to be very detailed and have been given crisp pixel wallpapers. In addition, you will be transported to very different locations in the course of the campaign, which is why many assets cannot be easily reused, which would save storage space.
The system requirements at a glance
Minimum requirements:
- Operating system: Windows 10 (Build 1803)
- Processor: AMD Ryzen 5 1400 / Intel Core i5-4460
- Memory: 8 GB
- Graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 / AMD Radeon RX 570
- DirectX: Version 12
- Storage: 150 GB
Recommended requirements:
- Operating system: Windows 10 (Build 1803)
- Processor: AMD Ryzen 5 1600 / Intel Core i7-4790
- Memory: 16 GB
- Graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Super / AMD Radeon RX 590
- DirectX: Version 12
- Storage: 150 GB
What do you think about the system requirements? Are they too high for you or do you think they are reasonable in view of the visuals?
