Treyarch and Activision have announced the official minimum and recommended PC specs for Call of Duty Black Ops 4. The announcement comes not a moment too soon since Black Ops 4 is due to launch later this week.
Black Ops 4 Minimum and Recommended PC Specs
The minimum and recommended PC specs were revealed via this post on the Black Ops 4 subreddit. Treyarch even went one step further by revealing optimal specs for high refresh rate and ultra 4K setups.
Minimum
- OS: Windows 7 or higher (64-bit)
- CPU: Intel Core i3-4340 / AMD FX-6300
- RAM: 8GB
- Graphics: GeForce GTX 660 2GB / GeForce GTX 1050 2GB or Radeon HD 7950 2GB
Recommended
- OS: Windows 10 (64-bit)
- CPU: Intel i5-2500K / Ryzen R5 1600X
- RAM: 12GB
- Graphics: GeForce GTX 970 4GB / GTX 1060 is 6GB or Radeon R9 390 / AMD RX 580
High Refresh Rate
- OS: Windows 10 (64-bit)
- CPU: Intel i7-8700K / AMD Ryzen 1800X
- RAM: 16GB
- Graphics: GeForce GTX 1080 or Radeon RX Vega⁶⁴ Graphics
Ultra
- OS: Windows 10 (64-bit)
- CPU: i7-8700K / AMD Ryzen 2700X
- RAM: 16GB
- Graphics: GeForce GTX 1080Ti
The Reddit post also reiterated that pre-loading for Black Ops 4 on PC has begun. The pre-load file size is 55GB, which is noticeably smaller than reported console download sizes.
Lastly, the Reddit post also lists the specific Black Ops 4 launch times for various worldwide regions. You can find the full list below.
October 11th, 2018
- Los Angeles – 9PM PT
October 12th, 2018
- New York – 12AM ET
- Sao Paulo – 1AM BRT
- London – 5AM BST
- Stockholm – 6AM CEST
- Berlin – 6AM CEST
- Moscow – 7AM MSK
- Singapore – 12PM SGT
- Seoul – 1PM KST
- Sydney – 3PM AEST
Call of Duty Black Ops 4 will launch later this week on Friday, October 12. On PC, the game is exclusive to Blizzard’s Battle.net platform (Blizzard is owned by Activision). Black Ops 4 will be the second non-Blizzard game featured on Battle.net after Bungie’s Destiny 2.