Despite lingering criticism and frustrations regarding platform-exclusive content, Marvel's Avengers' first beta went off well. Now Square Enix and Crystal Dynamics are looking forward to the next waves of the beta, as it comes to PC and Xbox. As part of preparations, an important bit of information for PC gamers specifically has been shared, that being the minimum and recommended specifications for Marvel's Avengers on PC.
For Marvel's Avengers' minimum specification's Crystal Dynamics has made a list of some considerable but not outrageous hardware. The CPU is more than comfortable for PC gamers, with just an Intel i3-4160 or AMD equivalent expected. The GPU requirement is larger, but also within an affordable and understandable price range for PC gamers, being an Nvidia GTX 950 or an AMD 270 with 2GB minimum video RAM. Windows 10 64-bit and 8GB RAM are understandable expectations in 2020, though perhaps the most demanding requirement is 75GB of storage space.
Recommended specifications for Marvel's Avengers take a meaningful step upward. The CPU requirement becomes an Intel 4770K or an AMD Ryzen 51600 running at 3.2 GHz. The video card requirement leaps up to an Nvidia GTX 1060 6GB or AMD Radeon RX 480 8GB card. RAM expectations double to 16GB and storage space increases up to 110GB SSD. These components are still very affordable, but might be outside of what some PC gamers' have in their aging machines. Overall, it's a surprisingly standard specification list for modern PC games.
The jump in storage space required will probably have been noticed by quite a few people. It's rare to see storage requirements jump so much between the minimum and recommended specifications, but there's a good reason, as Crystal Dynamics is offering PC gamers an optional 30GB asset pack of high-resolution textures. Crystal Dynamics says that this asset pack will make "forests feel lusher, the tundra more frigid, and AIM facilities all the more sinister."
PC gamers who have pre-ordered Marvel's Avengers probably don't have enough time to pick up any new hardware before this weekend's beta, however. They'll just have to test out the game on their current hardware and go from there.
Pre-orderers of Marvel's Avengers will gain access to the beta starting on August 14, with access through August 16. Those who haven't pre-ordered, but who want to see if Marvel's Avengers is a game they might be interested in, can wait for the open beta on August 21, which lasts through August 23. The Marvel's Avengers beta includes single-player story content and side missions, as well as multiplayer content and various progression systems.
Marvel's Avengers releases September 4 on PC, PS4, Stadia, and Xbox One, with PS5 and Xbox Series X to follow.
Source: Square Enix