Note that this is only for those who have pre-ordered the game at retail or on – other PC gamers will have to wait until Friday, September 20, at 6pm PT (which will be 2am early Saturday morning for those in the UK).Īnyone can pre-load the Modern Warfare client on now, though, to be ready for action when kick-off time rolls around. Since NVIDIA is the official partner for the game on PC, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare will actually support NVIDIA Ansel. That’s because DX12 games won’t run as well on the older OS because it doesn’t have the same optimizations employed on Windows 10.Īnyhow, it’ll be interesting to see how Call of Duty: Modern Warfare runs on these operating systems (and in general) when the open beta begins later today at 10am PT (6pm UK time). Perhaps Infinity Ward has achieved this DX12 trickery via Microsoft’s recent work to get DirectX 12 games running on Windows 7 (which Blizzard used to produce a DX12 version of World of Warcraft for Windows 7).Īlthough if that is the case – and we have no idea, we’re only guessing here – then Windows 7 gamers won’t be getting the best experience in terms of smooth frame rates. So while Windows 8 gamers can forget it – all three of them, ahem – apparently Windows 7 is good to go, unless some kind of a mistake has been made with the spec details here.
So that means the latest episode of Call of Duty is Windows 10 only, then? Well, apparently not, because despite insisting on a DX12 system, as you can see above, the minimum spec says that supported operating systems are Windows 7 64-bit and Windows 10 64-bit. The other interesting point here is that we noticed Modern Warfare stipulates a DX12 system even as a minimum requirement, so you won’t be jumping into the beta on DX11.
How to Stop Modern Warfare Crashing on Xbox One. Remember that we’re talking about recommended requirements, not minimum specs to run the game, though – and at least the good news is RAM prices are nicely affordable these days, and reportedly set to get more reasonable still… DX12 on Windows 7? Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is about to kick-off its open beta on PC, and just ahead of the launch, Activision has revealed the minimum and recommended system. Call of Duty Modern Warfare is a reboot that aims to revolutionize the COD franchise.