The Blood of Dawnwalker lastly has a launch date, however developer Insurgent Wolves additionally launched the PC system necessities they usually’re just a little excessive.
As has been the pattern for current video games like Crimson Desert, Insurgent Wolves launched its PC necessities with a chart, detailing the type of {hardware} essential to run the sport at completely different resolutions, high quality presets, and the goal body price for every. These vary from the minimal settings to working at 4K with the Extremely preset.
Operating the sport at its minimal settings is fairly cheap, solely calling for an RTX 3050 or GTX 1070 – however that is simply to run the sport at minimal settings, at 1080p and at 30fps in addition. If you wish to max the sport out, you are going to want an RTX 5090, which is the most costly shopper graphics card in current historical past. And slightly than focusing on a excessive 120fps, that is only for 4K 60fps.
To place it in perspective, the RTX 5090 launched again in January 2026 for $1,999, however since then it is exploded in worth to the purpose the place you are $3,699 on Newegg — and that is on the low-end. Nonetheless, it is necessary to needless to say the efficiency tier that is asking for an RTX 5090 is working at native 4K, which suggests no DLSS or FSR. It’s extremely doubtless that turning on some variety of upscaling will considerably lower down on the GPU load.
It is too early to inform if these excessive calls for are because of optimization points or if the sport actually is that demanding. Nonetheless, on condition that Insurgent Wolves has lots of CD Projekt Pink alumni, it isn’t that stunning that it is focusing on high-end gaming PCs with The Blood of Dawnwalker.
Both means, as soon as the sport launches on September 3, I will be placing it by its paces on a number of GPUs to see simply how nicely it runs. Hopefully it makes good use of that high-end GPU – The Witcher 3 definitely did again in its day.
Jackie Thomas is the {Hardware} and Shopping for Guides Editor at IGN and the PC parts queen. You possibly can comply with her @Jackiecobra