LotR Gollum System Requirements are High Enough to Cause Concern
We have learned the system requirements of the PC version of The Lord of the Rings: Gollum. They are surprisingly high.
We are slowly approaching the release of The Lord of the Rings: Gollum, an action adventure game set in Tolkien's Middle-earth and developed by Daedalic Entertainment. The developers have decided that it's high time to release the system requirements of the PC version of the game. They have appeared on Steam.
The Lord of the Rings: Gollum - minimum PC requirements (medium settings, 1080p)
- Processor: Intel Core i7-4770 / AMD Ryzen 5 1600
- Graphics card: Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 or RTX 2060
- DirectX version: 11
- RAM: 16 GB
- Disk space: 45 GB
- Operating System: Windows 10/11 64-bit
The above configuration is expected to provide comfortable experience on medium settings at 1080p resolution.
The Lord of the Rings: Gollum - recommended PC requirements (high settings, 1440p, ray tracing)
- Processor: Intel Core i3-6100 / AMD Ryzen 5 2600
- Graphics card: Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 (when using DLSS)
- DirectX version: 12
- RAM: 32 GB
- Disk space: 45 GB
- Operating System: Windows 10/11 64-bit
The above configuration is expected to provide comfortable experience on high settings at 1440p resolution with ray tracing enabled.
The game's requirements are surprisingly high, especially the minimum specs. The recommended specs, by the way, are also a bit surprising, even taking into account that they will have to support ray tracing.
The quoted configurations are all the more surprising since we are talking about a game that is also expected to be released on last-gen consoles - and with the quality of the graphics, it gives the impression as if it is not even going to squeeze the full power out of them. However, it is worth noting that the minimum requirements given by the devs are for medium settings, so there is hope that on low settings the game will run on weaker hardware.
Recall that The Lord of the Rings: Gollum will be released on May 25, this year on PC, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X/S and PlayStation 5, with a Nintendo Switch release also planned for later in 2023.
The preorders for the game have launched - interesting enough that in addition to the standard edition, a more expensive Precious edition is also available, which will offer, among other things, a DLC with expanded information about the universe and a DLC that will make the elves speak in Sindarin (a fictional language created by J.R.R. Tolkien).
