PC specs for OW

I’m planning to buy OW for the PC and im wondering what graphics setting can i run the game at and get 60fps consistently here are my specs

Windows 8.1 64-bit
2 terabyte of storage
12 Gigs of Ram
Geforce GTX 760 (192-bit)
i7-4770k cpu 3.50GHz

i’ve had this pc for like 5 years now i hope this is viable of running the game at High settings

Not sure about High settings, but I ran 60+ with max textures 1080p,SMAA medium low everything else, render scale 100% with i5 4460 and GTX 750Ti.

It will run perfectly well, worry not.

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It should be. I run a GTX770 on a i7-2600.

However I run on min settings because I need that 120 fps.

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My old setup was exactly that minus the unlocked cpu, the game on the 760 if you run it at high you are going to experience stutter and sub 60 fps. With that card I got my best overwatch experience by dropping everything to low except for textures and texture filtering at 4x.
You’d be surprised how good the game still looks on low settings so long as the textures are alright :smiley:

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This game looks remarkably nice when on low settings, which is probably what you’ll want if you want the highest frame rate/lowest input lag… which will help with your accuracy and overall effectiveness.

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I work with a laptop that’s about 25% less powerful than this, and I can get up to 100+ fps on lowest. High graphics can net 60-70

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Everything here does meet the Overwatch Recommended System requirements, I would judge you will be able to play this system at HIGH graphic settings.

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You shouldn’t be running High no matter how good/bad your computer is.

Only care about graphics if you’re playing a single player game.

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The game is not very spec intensive.
Although performance has been steadily declining over the years, and Blizzard hasn’t made a optimization patch in the longest time. The last time was to add a reduce buffering option in the settings.

You can run Overwatch and get 60+ fps from that spec, low settings will definitely get you higher than 100 fps.
Maybe upgrade the card to a higher one when you have the chance for more POWAHHHH, but for now, it should work.

I don’t know how you are able to buy a 760 card, my local Bestbuy is selling 970 cards at the lowest. Although I have been there in a good while now so I don’t know.

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I wouldn’t necessarily say that it will this game on high settings PERFECT. Anyone can run a game on “high settings” but the question of the day is. Will it run GOOD. Probably not.

I am the advocate of: You should ALWAYS game above 60fps. Anything outside of 120fps and lower is not necessarily good for the Hitscan player.

Hitscan relies on quick movements and target memory. Learning a routine on tracking the target or going to that target is going to be key to the sucess of the game. Right now, The newer cards out there for Nvidia are not exactly promising and their drivers are not much better.

Yes, I am a long-term nvidia cusomer but even now. I would say their 10 series was TERRIBLE. Both for drivers and Quality. Nvidia claims to be top-tier quality. But with the whole VRM overheating scandal that they swept under the RUG on the 10-series. I dont know if I can even advise climbing up to the 10s and the 20s. I have a Founders edition RTX 2060 and I can say that between the GTX 1060 FTW+, 1060 SSC and the 1060 SC I had. The improvements between all of them on ANY game was NOT impressive. on ANY level. Major disappointments.

Even Overclocking the hardware didn’t impress me any better. The Software base O.C, software was just that. it was bad.


so here is the advice from my pit-falls and learning:

overwatch RELIES heavily on the CPU vs the GPU (your graphics card). I’d get a CPU with 4.3ghz, 4 cores (6s actually have some input lag for some weird reason). and put in 16GB of QUALITY RAM. Then I would look for a GOOD 144hz-240hz monitor. I hear BenQ has been doing fairly well and perhaps just run with the graphics card you have now.

Throw a decent OverClock on your CPU via the BIOS. (Not the 3rd party software your board has. Tweak your Load line calibration and power limits CORRECTLY, by reading charts that professionals have wrote for that specific CPU and adjust accordingly.

AVOID AIO water coolers. Those pumps mounted ON The CPU actually negatively effect the cooling. So unless the system has an EXTERNAL pump. Dont buy it!!

GL!