I agree, I dont need a half dozen launchers on my PC
from what Iāve read so far, RDR2 will be out on Steam sometime in December. I think the announcement said December 5th if my memory serves me right, but I still think the Steam version will have the Rockstar Launcher tied to it no matter what. Theyāre also trying to drive traffic to the Rockstar launcher by offering pre-order discounts and the ability to choose from a list of I think either 5 or 6 of their games.
That being said, my Conductonaut and Arcticlean came in yesterday and I applied that to my CPU and heatsink. Previously, I had bought some of the Corsair thermal paste and had it on there and it was causing temperature spikes all over the fucking place. However, the Conductonaut is a fucking champ and hasnāt gone above 50C yet in my limited testing. Since my grandsonās birthday party is today, I wonāt be able to fully test it until later this evening.
I just need to know the specs, so I will know ahead of time to prepare my rig!!
As far as the Rockstar launcherā¦unless thereās a major issue with service thenā¦Fuck it!!
I will take some of the free stuff for using it!!
Even though I had bought most of those games through Steam!!
the system requirements are rumored to be announced this week sometime. Iām putting odds on them recommending CPU wise a Ryzen 7 2700X for AMD, and a i7 9700K for Intel. For the GPU, Iām saying theyāre gonna use probably 5700/5700XT for AMD and probably a 2060 Super/2070 Super for nVidia.
These odds are for 1080p High settings.
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It will have a be poorly optimized port if it needs that get that kind of hardware to run the game at 1080 in high settings.
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different engine that what GTAV uses. Wouldnāt be surprised one bit if we see RTX in the game too.
If Red Dead can do RTX then would be used as a marketing point. God forbid Nvidia needs it. RTX is only supported by five games that I know of.
Iām still running a i5-6500 CPU and a Radeon RX 480 GPU
Probilly much less than that, as Ryzen 7 2700X AMD, and a i7 9700K Intel is much more powerful than what the PS4 Pro and Xbox One X has.
So Iāve chosen my components
If Iām lucky the motherboard will arrive before the 16th. Hope everything goes well. 
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PC specs and more details are out!!
āMayā need a new CPU, because as stated by the canyourunit site, my Intel Core i5-6500 doesnāt meet the recommended rating.
I donāt see a game like Red Dead to be so CPU intensive that a new CPU would be needed. This is not Civilization game or Total War.
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Those specs are tame
OS: Windows 7 - Service Pack 1 (6.1.7601)
Processor: Intel Core i5-2500K / AMD FX-6300
Memory: 8GB
Graphics Card: Nvidia GeForce GTX 770 2GB / AMD Radeon R9 280 3GB HDD
Space: 150GB
Sound Card: DirectX compatible
awesome, looks like my PC will run RDR2 with no problems. Only thing Iām close on is gonna be the memory (got 16gb RAM currently).
Your I5 can rock. The recommended spec is for a 4th generation i7. You got a 6th generation chip. You should be more than fine.
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Me to my GPU and CPU
āThe benchmark will not crush us!!!ā
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I wish I could do that shit, but I canāt unless I donāt want to be let in the house or being murdered while I sleep.
I think you said your wife is too tech savy to fall for that.