Dishonored 2 - System Requirements

The Dishonored 2 system requirements have been released. Steam preloading begins Tuesday, November 8.

PC SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS


Minimum:

Windows 7/8/10 (64-bit versions); Intel Core i5-2400/AMD FX-8320 or better
8 GB RAM; 60 GB free HDD space; NVIDIA GTX 660 2GB/AMD Radeon HD 7970 3GB or better
Contains a single disc. Download of additional files from Steam is required to run the game.
Requires Steam activation.

Recommended:

Windows 10 (64-bit versions); Intel Core i7-4770/AMD FX-8350 or better
16 GB RAM; 60 GB free HDD space; NVIDIA GTX 1060 6GB/AMD Radeon RX 480 8GB or better
Contains a single disc. Download of additional files from Steam is required to run the game.
Requires Steam activation.
PC Drivers

NVIDIA: 375.70
AMD: 16.10.2

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PC ADVANCED SETTINGS

The PC version of Dishonored 2 will include a broad range of options that will allow players to tune their experience based on personal preference or hardware capabilities.

Below you will find a list of expected advanced PC settings. A few noteworthy features include: uncapped framerate, support for multiple monitors, adjustable FOV, Ansel support for awesome 360 screenshots and, of course, rat and bloodfly shadows.

Visual Settings

Adaptive Resolution
Gamma
Window Mode / Borderless / Fullscreen
V-Synch
Texture Details
Models Details
Environmental Details
Antialiasing
Rat Shadows
Bloodfly Shadows
Water Quality
Shadow Quality
View Distance
Video Card Selection
Resolution
Monitor Selection
Field of Vision
Hardware NVidia Specifics

HBAO+
TXAA
Surround technology
Ansel

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More information.

inb4 shit port

Those are steeper minimum CPU requirements than I've seen in a while. I'm due for an upgrade (still have an AMD Phenom quad core from six years ago) though, so it's not too surprising.

porcozaur said:

inb4 shit port

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I'd believe if Dishonored was bull, but it wasn't.

While i7 is recommended instead of a simple i5, once again whatta joke, the next quote is a slap to all those companies that don't give PC what PC deserves:

The PC version of Dishonored 2 will include a broad range of options that will allow players to tune their experience based on personal preference or hardware capabilities.

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Go Beth!

Why is Bethesda one of those companies that does something awsome like this but can't stay on track. Always after one positive thing the next move is something cretinous. Means, after this yummy news I'm expecting ESO2 announcement next.

Seeing the AMD FX-8350 against a i7 in recommended makes me laugh every time. Oh well, we will see if these specs are "accurate" next week. I hit recommended spot on.

Per initial reports from people on who's side the game is already unlocked...

It is not possible to disable the damned motion blur!
And I thought this game's publisher is not Ubisoft.

Have you read this: Dishonored 2 PC performance and settings - Early impressions suggest problems for mid-range rigs. ?

My prehistoric PC (i7 3990k and GTX 760 4GB VRAM) will suffer

I did but it's basically worthless article.
That site is slowly becoming consolegamer, otherwise they'd have noticed that it's not possible to disable motion blur. So far at least noone managed to find a way to deal with it except get it a bit better with some 3rd party sharpening overlay.

- Your "lifesaver" settings are reverted to default on each start, whereas the only thing that helps is to set options manually in (certain) ini files then switch files attribute to read only. The worst offenders are mouse smoothing (you want it disabled) and adaptive resolution (which is consoley garbage that doesn't belong on PC).
http://steamcommunity.com/app/403640/discussions/0/217691032428062349/

- CPU priority drops to low on each alt+tab or mainmenu/load which causes performance drops and you need constantly to return it to high through task manager. You cannot keep it "fixed" to high priority.
http://steamcommunity.com/app/403640/discussions/0/217691032428234813/
http://steamcommunity.com/app/403640/discussions/0/217691032428404657/

- Regardless of driver version (both AMD and nVidia have a version that supports the game), you have to go in GPU control panel and set max rendered frames to 1 (some say 2) to keep FPS 60+ otherwise sometimes it dips even below 30FPS.
http://steamcommunity.com/app/403640/discussions/0/217691032428246900/

etc.
Seems that this game had no QA on PC.

EDIT:
Benchmarks:
http://techfrag.com/2016/11/10/dishonored-2-pc-benchmarks/#



Seems like a horrible port, but read what I wrote above, these results might easily be borked because of silly process prioritization in the game code.