The Witcher 3 Free Next-Gen Upgrade Raises Minimum System Requirements Ahead of DLC Release

CD Projekt Red is releasing Next-Gen Upgrade, essentially a game remaster package, of “The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt” for free. Ahead of the release of its upcoming expansion DLC, “Songs of the Past,” the developer has raised the minimum system requirements of the game. The game originally released in 2015 to some modest hardware requirements, such as a 2nd Gen Core i5-2500K (from 2012), GeForce GTX 660 “Kepler,” 6 GB of RAM, and 1 GB of video memory, besides 50 GB of HDD space. The new Next-Gen Upgrade is something other studios would release as a paid remaster, but CDPR is giving away for free. It now calls for an AMD Ryzen 5 2600 or Core i5-8400, 12 GB of RAM, GeForce GTX 1660 “Turing” or Radeon RX 5500 XT RDNA GPU, and 6 GB of video memory. You now also need 70 GB of SSD storage, an HDD won’t do. Also, Windows 11 makes its way to the requirements list.