One week before its official full release, the developers of Indiana Jones and the Great Circle have finally come forth with the game’s system requirements for the PC. And if you’ve been hoping to avoid upgrading your mid-range 2020 gaming rig, the new Indiana Jones game will crush that hope and point out that your PC is a relic of eons past. Here’s what you need for Indiana Jones and the Great Circle:
No, you’re not hallucinating. The minimum spec shows an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060, which is the bare minimum for a ray-tracing capable GPU. Well, technically, AMD Radeon’s RX 6600 can also “handle” ray tracing, but good luck with that.
However, even meeting that minimum doesn’t guarantee ray tracing viability. The game insists on an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 for minimum ray tracing. So just because you meet the minimum requirement doesn’t mean you can have ray tracing and not turn the game into a slideshow.
Simply having an RTX 2060 or an RX 6600 will afford you the lowest graphical preset. Additionally, gone are the days when the latest AAA games can still run on mechanical hard disk drives. Indiana Jones and the Great Circle requires an SSD.
Meanwhile, having actual ray tracing settings on will also require you to enable DLSS 3 with Frame Generation. So from that, you can imagine just how demanding this game will be. Ultra settings require an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090.
A Familiar Tune for AAA PC Games
If you feel like you’ve seen such outrageous and troublesome hardware requirements before, that’s because the recently released Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl also demanded quite a lot from PC gamers. In fact, we initially thought they were just requiring a huge SSD space, but the devs updated the system requirements a few days before the release into something similar to Indiana Jones and the Great Circle.
Sadly, as Indiana Jones indicates, the average RTX 2060/3060 or RX 6600/6700 hardware for PC gamers might not be enough for 2025’s upcoming games. That is unless you’re fine with playing on the lowest graphical settings and only on the already outdated or budget 1080p resolution.
Console gamers will likely be affected as well since a game this demanding on the PC will usually be demanding on the consoles as well. After all, the newest consoles with updated hardware also feature ray tracing and tend to aim for 60 FPS.
Stalker 2, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, and even the upcoming Monster Hunter Wilds are just some of the newest games that will likely push many gamers to upgrade.
