After a successful open beta, Back 4 Blood is almost here and many are excited about gunning down hordes of the undead. Turtle Rock Studios' zombie shooter marks just one of numerous highly-anticipated games that are coming out this October, alongside such titles as Alan Wake Remastered, FIFA 22, and Far Cry 6. In anticipation of what is essentially a spiritual successor to the classic Left 4 Dead games, the developer recently unveiled the specs for the PC port, which are showing that the game might not be as demanding as some may think.

In a post on Twitter a few days ago, the official Back 4 Blood account announced the system requirements needed to run the game upon release. There are some of the usual bits of information that's to be expected from these things, such as needing to have Windows 10 with DirectX 12, and as always, the requirements for the recommended and the minimum specs. However, there is one thing that some have noticed, more specifically related to the graphics card.

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Whereas some may anticipate a brand-new AAA game to need something like an Nvidia RTX 3080 or something perhaps almost as powerful, players will be able to get away with a lower end GPU. In the tweet, it seems as though Back 4 Blood will happily run on the recommended specs using a GTX 970, which is a card that came out in September 2014. Interestingly enough, for the minimum specs, the game will require a GTX 1050 or above, which came out after the 970, though is still old enough. It's a little surprising that the game requires a newer GPU for the minimum hardware requirements, but it's worth remembering that a newer card doesn't always mean a better one.

For AMD, it's recommended players have either an RX 570 at the bare minimum, or the RX 590, both of which are slightly newer than the aforementioned Nvidia equivalents so may be a little pricier. Overall, Back 4 Blood's specs are about on par with the PC port of Death Stranding, a version which came out just over a year ago, although the latter requires an i7 processor for the recommended, as opposed to the i5 for the former.

Overall, it does seem that the game won't break the bank too much. Obviously, the more powerful the machine, the better it will run at higher settings, but for the average PC gamer, it seems as though it's been optimized to accommodate for midrange systems. With the Back 4 Blood beta pulling in millions of players, it's looking like the full release is going to go down a treat.

Back 4 Blood releases on October 12, 2021, for PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.

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