The recently announced The Witcher 3 Remastered is a significantly overhauled version of developer CD Projekt Red’s seminal open world action RPG with tweaked combat, improved traversal and movement, revamped mount handling, enhanced monster behaviors, a skill tree revamp, armor transmog, an expanded photo mode, new finishers and much more, ensuring a huge improvement over the original in terms of moment-to-moment gameplay.
The devs have also revealed preliminary specifications for what you need to play The Witcher 3 Remastered which sees quite a bit of a spike from the original, but as the updated version features all the latest graphical bells-and-whistles of the current-gen gaming including Path Tracing, the higher requirements make perfect sense.
Minimum Requirements
- Operating System: 64-bit Windows 11
- Processor: Intel Core i5-8400 or AMD Ryzen 5 2600
- Video: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 6GB or AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT 8GB or Intel Arc A580
- Memory: 12 GB
- Storage: 70 GB SSD
Recommended Specifications
- Operating System:64-bit Windows 11
- Processor: Intel Core i7-8700K or AMD Ryzen 5 3600X
- Video: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER or AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT or Intel Arc B580
- Memory: 16 GB
- Storage: 70 GB SSD
The remastered version of Witcher 3 also includes cross-platform mod support, new quest tracking, immersive meditation, refined animations, UI improvements, a looting rework, refreshed motion blur, new accessibility features, a tutorial modernization along with visual updates such as HDR improvements, a foliage shading rework, ray-tracing improvements, a global lighting rework, new shading model, subsurface scattering and more. There’s also support for Nvidia DLSS 4.5, AMD FSR 4, Intel XESS 2.0, path tracing and ray reconstruction on PC, native DX12 and rendering parallelization along with ray-traced hair.
The Witcher 3 Remastered is scheduled to come out as a free upgrade for all owners of the base game on PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S on September 29.
The Witcher 3 was confirmed to reach 50 Million sold units in 2023 which means the decade old RPG had managed to move 10 Million additional copies in the past two years, which is extremely impressive for a title that originally came out back in 2015.
