The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Minimum Requirements Set to Change Ahead of Songs of the Past Expansion

CD Projekt has signalled changes to The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt minimum requirements up of the merchandise of the just-announced 3rd expansion, Songs of the Past.

In a blog post, the developer said that with caller contented coming to The Witcher 3, it volition request to update its strategy requirements "to guarantee creaseless show and compatibility going forward." These requirements volition go effectual starting from the adjacent update.

The Witcher 3 caller minimum requirements:

• CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 2600, Intel Core i5-8400
• GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660, AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT 8GB
• VRAM: 6 GB
• RAM: 12 GB
• Storage: 70 GB SSD
• OS: 64-bit Windows 11

CD Projekt said these minimum requirements bespeak “how hardware capabilities and bundle usage person evolved since we past changed the strategy requirements.”

In particular:

• Windows 11 volition beryllium the minimum required OS for some The Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077 pursuing Microsoft's extremity of enactment for Windows 10 connected October 14, 2025. Without ongoing information updates, authoritative level support, and continued GPU operator support, we volition nary longer trial our games connected Windows 10.
• HDDs volition nary longer beryllium supported, arsenic SSDs connection faster load times, smoother plus streaming, and improved wide performance.
• The crippled volition exclusively tally utilizing DirectX 12, which allows america to enactment ongoing method improvements and modern hardware much effectively.
• Only processors supported connected Windows 11 volition beryllium supported by us.
• Only graphics cards with ongoing progressive operator enactment for gaming connected Windows 11 volition beryllium supported.

CD Projekt qualified these changes by saying it’s imaginable to revert to an earlier mentation of The Witcher 3, if you can’t conscionable the minimum requirements. It’s worthy noting that lone the latest mentation of the crippled is afloat supported, arsenic it contains each the latest improvements, fixes and changes.

There’s nary connection yet connected erstwhile the adjacent update volition beryllium released, but CD Projekt said this greeting that Songs of the Past volition motorboat astatine immoderate constituent successful 2027 connected PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC.

The DLC is owed retired 12 years aft the 60 million-selling The Witcher 3 came retired successful 2015, and 11 years aft the 2nd expansion, Blood and Wine, came retired successful 2016. The Witcher 3's archetypal expansion, Hearts of Stone, was released successful October 2015.

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