Can Your PC Run New World?

After Amazon Games failed to crack the MOBA genre with the poorly received Crucible, the visitor dusted itself off and went dorsum to the drawing board. With New World, the company'due south upcoming release, Amazon Games looks to intermission into another popular genre: the MMO.

Earlier you lot consider preordering this upcoming PC game, y'all should find out if your rig can run the title. Read on for that. More importantly, you should proceed with circumspection if your gaming PC houses a Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 GPU.

Why the New World Hype?

New World takes you to Aeturnum, a magical island where yous battle for (or confronting) human, ghost and zombie, and angry globe elemental factions. Withal, all factions must argue with the Corrupted and the well-nigh-unstoppable Tempest force that are trying to consume the new and old worlds.

Instead of releasing a game with nigh no fanfare behind it, Amazon Games spent a considerable amount of time creating a user base through all-encompassing blastoff and beta testing. People who preordered New World are currently enjoying the airtight beta, and based on those beta impressions, Amazon Games may have something cooking with this MMO.

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Where Can You lot Purchase New Earth?

New World is available for preorder on Steam for $39.99, and will unlock on Aug. 31, 2022. If yous preorder the game before Aug. two, you can participate in the closed beta. Amazon Games too offers a $49.99 New Earth deluxe edition that includes the beta, a digital artbook, and corrective items, such as skins, emotes and pets.

New World's Minimum Organization Requirements

Bone: Windows 10 (64-bit)
CPUCPU: 3GHz AMD CPU (with four physical cores) / Intel Cadre i5-2400
Retentivity: 8GB RAM
GPUGPU: AMD Radeon R9 280 / Nvidia GeForce GTX 670
VRAM: 2048MB RAM
DirectX: Version 12
Storage Infinite: 50GB

New World's Recommended Arrangement Requirements

OS: Windows 10 (64-scrap)
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 1400 / Intel Core i7-2600K
Memory: 16GB RAM
GPU: AMD Radeon R9 390X / Nvidia GeForce GTX 970
VRAM: 4096MB RAM
DirectX: Version 12
Storage Space: 50GB

How Tin You Play New World?

New World lacks gamepad support—information technology'southward a MMO, after all. There'southward no give-and-take from Amazon Games regarding virtual reality functionality, and it's probably unlikely given the genre. All the same, if VR is added to New World, this page volition be updated to reflect the new minimum requirements.

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