EA has shared a partial list of system requirements for Motive’s new Dead Space remake on Steam, and they have been described by some as “scary.” Players who want to experience the game closer to how the developers intended will apparently need either an AMD Ryzen 5 5600X or 11th Gen Core i5-11600K processor, both of which are relatively new CPUs. Graphics card requirements are still to come, but Motive has urged Dead Space fans to add the game to their wishlists today.
RECOMMENDED:
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Window 10 64-bit
- Processor: Ryzen 5 5600X or Core i5 11600K
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: TBD
- Sound Card: TBD
- Additional Notes: TBD
MINIMUM:
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Window 10 64-bit
- Processor: Ryzen 5 2600x or Core i5 8600
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: TBD
- Sound Card: TBD
- Additional Notes: TBD
About the game:
The sci-fi, survival-horror classic Dead Space returns, completely rebuilt from the ground up to offer a deeper and more immersive experience. Harnessing the power of the Frostbite™ game engine, this remake brings jaw-dropping visual fidelity, suspenseful atmospheric audio, and improvements to gameplay while staying faithful to the original game’s thrilling vision.
Isaac Clarke is an everyman engineer on a mission to repair a vast Planet Cracker-class ship, the USG Ishimura, only to discover something has gone horribly wrong. The ship’s crew has been slaughtered and Isaac’s beloved partner, Nicole, is lost somewhere on board.
Now alone and armed with only his engineering tools and skills, Isaac races to uncover the nightmarish mystery of what happened aboard the Ishimura in hopes of finding Nicole. Trapped with hostile creatures called Necromorphs, Isaac faces a battle for survival not only against the escalating terrors of the ship but his own crumbling sanity.
Dead Space will officially launch on January 27, 2023 for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC, according to an EA press release from May. The Steam version of the game will require Origin running in the background, similar to other major EA titles on the platform, such as Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order.
Discussion (19 replies)
Join Discussion →I cannot wait for this game! It'll definitely be a day 1 buy for me. I love what I'm seeing so far from these videos. I know it's "not representative of final release" but it still looks gorgeous. Looks like they've stayed really close to the original in terms of looks and atmosphere.
I wouldn’t call that scary for requirements. Scary would be a recommended system with a Ryzen 7900X w/ 64gb ram and 1TB nvme storage. A last gen low end part isn’t really a big deal.
The recommended CPUs are mainstream parts and outclass what the majority of PC gamers own, so I'm not surprised the requirements have been described as "scary". What other games have similar requirements?
Yeah I wouldn't call it scary either. I'm sure my 3700x and 3070 Strix will do just fine for my humble 1440 setup.
Specs don't seem scary at all. By the time the game launches the recommended specs will be mid range last gen AMD hardware, and 2 gen old mid range Intel hardware. This doesn't stand out at all.
It feels too soon for a remake of this game. I mean, it only just came out in 2008, which in the grand scheme of things was like yesterday.
Either way, this game won't be one I will be playing. I haven't played any in the series and won't be touching this one either. I don't do 3rd person. I almost quit Far Cry 6 when it briefly went 3rd person in camps. I simply do not do that shit.
Mid range last gen? Is there a model lower than the 5600? I know there are APUs, but Even there I thought the performance per core was equal to the 5600, and they just included a GPU.
As for 3rd person, agree 100%
We'll see how this pans out but I recently saw how my old 4930K (@4.3 GHz) still managed to be a significant source of bottlenecks for Spider-Man remastered. Ultimately I couldn't even enable RT with it. It barely manages 60 FPS/4K with a 3090 TI while the newer modern rig is pushing 90-110 FPS with a similar, but slightly faster, card. There are a bunch of other differences(SATA III SSD-2133 MHz DDR3, older instruction sets/chipsets) but it was a good indicator of how we're getting to the point that a demanding game will need a newer platform.
I think they're doing a roundabout way of saying you need a DDR4/DDR5-PCIe 4.0/5.0 with a moderately fast nvme and a CPU-motherboard that won't bottleneck either mem or drive plus a mid-high GPU. I'd say that we're not only past quad cores now but also getting past those older platforms as well. I'm sure less demanding games will be happy on them for some time to come though.
When I finally replaced my 2600k to go 7700k years ago I doubled the performance of the 1070 I had in it. So yea I think that is to be expected after a few generations that the IPC and I/O uplift is needed.
Well, I mean, the arch is the same in the same generation, but usually the higher end models are binned to clock higher and have more cores.
I just went over to Wikipedia now. There is apparently a Ryzen 5 5500 which has less cache, a slightly higher base clock and a lower boost clock than the 5600.
Honestly, I have so little interest in the lower models, that I didn't even realize they had dropped the non-APU Ryzen 3's in the Zen3 gen.
Still, the APU models are CPU's, and there are two Ryzen 3's which are technically lower end than the 5600, even if it is only in as much as theem being 4C/8T. And that can be quite significant. It's not 2010 anymore. All else being equal, there can be quite the penalty in games for dropping below 6C/12T, and to be safe with a small amount of margin, I'd argue its best to stick with 8C/16T or above.
I guess I think of i7's, i9's, Ryzen 7's and Ryzen 9's as high end models. i5's and Ryzen 5's as mid range models, and i3's and Ryzen 3's as low end. Anything below that (when they pop up) like Pentium's, Celeron's and Athlons asre great for little utility boxes, but not something I'd put in a desktop.
The system recommendations are indeed quite modest if we assume the game is targeted at self-built PC enthusiasts who hang out in hardware forums. ;)
Zen 3 and Rocket Lake are platforms that would've been purchased within a couple of years of the game's launch. The introduction of a new platform means little until it's been available long enough to achieve significant adoption. I'm completely indifferent to the requirements of a game I don't even intend to play, but I think people are out to lunch if they think the requirements are or will be trivially met by the majority of systems. I don't think that's a bad thing; there are plenty of other games to choose from.
I'm interested to see whether the newer games coming out will push more PC gamers to consoles, where one is (at least in theory) guaranteed n years of platform support without having to worry about hardware and software compatibility issues. The cost of a decent PC for gaming has skyrocketed in recent years, and not only because of GPU prices.
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The AMD Ryzen™ 5 5600X is classified as a "mainstream" part by AMD and priced accordingly, but I don't think that distinction is terribly important unless the extra cores from the higher end models would make a big difference. I'm not at all familiar with the game and so can't comment on that. ?♂️
I think the 2 ecosystems will be around for quite a while longer but I often wonder about this too and I agree about the prices. I still remember how with every gen of GPU for the last 5-10 years now I've heard someone complain about what they used to pay. Before scalpers, miners, and the pandemic, this was happening even if it wasn't as extreme. Now we have the rest of the builds going through similar price jumps (albeit not as extreme in most cases) and it is an expensive hobby. I remember how it was a pleasurable challenge at one point to make the $1K build that could do a lot. Now $1K basically gets you in the door with console-level performance.
Imo if you got a better CPU then the minimum recomended you should be fine, it's the GPU that might cause more issues.
That is certainly always the case for me, but I have been playing my games at 4k since 2015.
Before that I was at 2560x1600 since 2010.
And before that at 1920x1200 since 2005.
With the exception of like two years in 2008-2010 and another two years from 2013-2015 I've pretty much been seriously GPU limited for 17 years :p
But so many kids these days feel like they aren't getting the full gaming experience unless they are maxing out their 165hz monitors, (which is ridiculous by the way) which often shifts the bottleneck to the CPU again...
Luckily I don't have that problem, which is why I could use my 6C/12T Sandy Bridge-E i7-3930k from 2011 until 2019, and my current Zen2 Threadripper 3960x is likely to be with me for a while.
Yea I'm going to ride my 5900x at least through this generation... I MIGHT get a new video card again though... sigh... I'm hopeless. lol.
I miss 16:10 sooooooooooooooooooooooo much. Gawd do I miss it.