Gears of War 4 PC Requires 80GB Free and Windows 10 Anniversary Update

[Shawn Zipay]

The rather steep system requirements for the PC version of Gears of War 4 were announced today. Among the notable requirements are 80GB of free drive space, the Windows 10 Anniversary Update, and at least a Geforce 750 Ti.

If you don't want to view the above image, the minimum, recommended, and "ideal" system specs can be found below.

Minimum
OS: Windows 10 Anniversary Update
CPU: AMD FX-6300 or i5-3470 @ 3GHz
GPU: Radeon R7 260X or Geforce 750 Ti
VRAM: 2GB
RAM: 8GB
HDD: 80GB free

Recommended
OS: Windows 10 Anniversary Update
CPU: AMD FX-8350 or i5-4690 @ 3.5GHz
GPU: Radeon R9 290X or Radeon RX 480 or Geforce 970 or Geforce GTX 1060
VRAM: 4GB
RAM: 8GB
HDD: 80GB free

Ideal
OS: Windows 10 Anniversary Update
CPU: AMD FX-9590 or i7-4790 @ 4GHz
GPU: Radeon R9 Fury X or Geforce 980 Ti or Geforce GTX 1080
VRAM: 4GB (AMD) or >6GB (Nvidia)
RAM: 16GB
HDD: 80GB free