Blood of Dawnwalker lastly has a launch date, however developer Insurgent Wolves has additionally launched its PC system necessities, they usually’re a bit excessive.
Just like current tendencies in video games like Crimson Desert, Insurgent Wolves has launched PC necessities with a desk detailing the kind of {hardware} wanted to run the sport at varied resolutions, high quality presets, and every goal body charge. These vary from minimal settings to operating at 4K utilizing the Extremely preset.
Operating the sport on minimal settings may be very affordable and all you want is an RTX 3050 or GTX 1070. Nonetheless, that solely runs the sport at minimal settings (1080p, 30fps at launch). If you wish to get probably the most out of your gaming expertise, you may want the RTX 5090, the costliest client graphics card in current historical past. And that is restricted to 4K 60fps, relatively than focusing on as excessive as 120fps.
To place it in perspective, the RTX 5090 launched in January 2026 for $1,999, however the worth has gone up since then to $3,699 on Newegg, which is on the low finish. Nonetheless, it is vital to notice that the efficiency tier that requires the RTX 5090 is operating at native 4K, which means there is not any DLSS or FSR. Enabling some form of upscaling will probably scale back the load in your GPU considerably.
It is too early to inform if such excessive calls for are because of optimization points or if the sport is de facto that demanding. Nonetheless, that isn’t the case contemplating that Insurgent Wolves has a lot of CD Projekt Pink alumni. that It is shocking that The Blood of Dawnwalker targets high-end gaming PCs.
In any case, as soon as the sport launches on September third, I will be testing it out on some GPUs to see how effectively it runs. I hope it takes benefit of high-end GPUs β The Witcher 3 actually did that again within the day.
Jackie Thomas is videogameaddicted’s {Hardware} and Shopping for Guides Editor and the Queen of PC Parts. you possibly can observe her @JackieCobra