The Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 "Minimum System Requirements" Gaming PC
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- Опубликовано: 10 фев 2025
- Today we're playing Kingdom Come Deliverance II on the minimum system requirements to see how well the game runs. According to the developers, an i5 8400, Ryzen 5 2600, GTX 1060 or RX 580 should be enough for 1080p 30 FPS, but what is the experience like on our budget gaming test system?
Thanks for watching :)
An optimized game in 2025? Amazing!
I know!
Looks out window, it's snowing here
Yah hell froze over , this was one of the warning signs .
The game is prettier than the first and somehow runs better, lol, THAT's what a call great optimization
not unreal trash engine
@@Bulsara777 Has absolutely nothing to do with optimization, god you people copy so many comments lately. It's the game engine, there's no ray tracing that's solving 99% of the performance drops and stutters. It's not UE5 that's using lumen that stutters. It's the cryengine.
The RX 580 is like that old guy who shows up at the skatepark, gets laughed at by all the kids, then proceeds to show them all he’s absolutely still got it.
Yep! If I had some 4090 i wouldn't be playing seriously. It would be boring AF. I just need that testing all the time and calibrating, tuning to the edge
I just SMASHED the like button this comment XD
Haha yeh right
Haha , good analogy! I love how the 580's memory really gave it a huge boost in lifespan a bit like the old 8-core FX cpus!
@@kubexiu Man, I don't know what it is about budget PC's that is just so much more fun.
I'm gobsmacked how well this game runs. My old gtx1070 still holding up strong. 1080p and settings are all very high, with one or two on ultra. Game running around 40fps which is more than smooth enough for me and the game looks absolutely stunning.
Devs done good!
geez I didn't know my 1070ti was that old
@hiddenguy67 almost 9 years flies by! Gained a wife, a house, a daughter but the 1070 stays put 😂😂😂
@lukewj thats a life partner
@@lukewj oh wow
ngl w/ KCD2 hope this help market CryEngine or inspire devs
Damn. It's actually optimized. Not bad for RX 580! :o
Yep so nice to see these days.
aw man
Makes the 5090 unnecessary tech. Since 4090 can handle this no problem. the problem is not always the hardware sometime its the devs for not optimizing their game.
Its impressive, since this is the first "AAA" Game in 2025 that works on rx 500 series and maybe even 400 Series, which Spiderman 2 did not even starting
@thatrx580guy if only the 10 series had dlss
Some guys have this running well on 4GB VRAM as well actually, quite well optimized when you look at it.
Oh I’ll definitely be trying 4GB cards next
I bet you can run with a 750 ti, otherwise maybe 1050. Its Impressive well optimized.
Please let the AM4 or AM5 APUs have their 15 minutes of fame! 😅 @@RandomGaminginHD
@@RandomGaminginHD Try a GTX 1650, that's my card
@finnbianga4189 then why don’t you try it?
The grass shadow flickering is because vegetation detail is set to low, to fix it you have to set it to High as Low and Medium causes it to flicker so its not a VRAM problem
I have it on high and it still does that. Same with the glitched hair. I assume it will get fixed by proper drivers.
@@Richard-rk1ru clean install drivers
6:55 shows the funny branch angel wings shadow :-)
Game looks nice though, and fun.
@@Richard-rk1ru I had the same issue on my 3070 and had to do a clean driver installation to fix it
You're telling me my first custom built gaming PC from 2017 would've ran this game at a smooth 60fps? Now that's optimization
Playing at 75fps medium on a 4790k based system lol.... it's fine...swapped out my 580 for a spare systems 3050, but I was getting a solid 45-55 with the 580
......I must build a new PC
I had a 2700x and an rx570 4gb, I might have managed it too! That's awesome
Now have a 5700x 3060ti, with dlss quality getting around 70fps with everything on high
That's what happens when you actually optimise a game and it looks beautiful
Absolutely :)
Cant wait to see this game with a Core 2 Quad CPUs on next video soon.
Haha don’t temp me 😁
Paired with 8800GT 🤣
@@RandomGaminginHD Also take a FX-8350 for a ride :D
When I read that the recommended requirements were a 7800X3D, 32GB and an RTX 4070 I was prepared for the game to barely even launch on an 8400 and RX 580. Very surprised - not many games are that well optimised these days!
5600/10400 and a 2060S/6600 should be fine I'd guess for 1080p 60fps mostly high by the looks of this video.
The specs were made without upscaling in mind, which is honestly the best part.
I like how we are all shocked that a game dev actually took pride in its work enough to optimize it so well. Warhorse really shows how shitty other devs have gotten.
Probably the first time in a while upscaling tech is used as intended, which is to give a nice bump to old hardware to get over 60fps. CryEngine... how far you've come. Hopefully this game is a wake up call against the Unreal5 stranglehold in AAA titles
@MM-vs2et Only thing to really make sure with upscaling is to turn off the sharpness slider. It's on by default for most and it's implementation is quite awful, it makes everyone's faces look so wrong (like putting swirls on people's noses). Beyond that it runs great and I imagine it'll be patched eventually to work better or be off by default
Damn, when the original kcd came out i was rocking 1060 with 8600k, had to lock the game at 40 fps at low-medium settings. It's crazy that the sequel runs better on the same hardware while looking better as well.
This game ran horribly on my R7 1700, didn't matter the settings or card that chip hated this game.
@darthwiizius well r7 1700 was performing worse than 2 years old 6700k at that time , the AM4 socket really started to shine with the 3000 series, and at the 5000 series it became Juiced AF , but I am still happy with 6700k :) I already ordered AM5 but it was some great 10 years with it inside :) its time to part it can't put up good loads on 4060ti
@darthwiizius ryzen gen 1 was so bad for games esp the R7 compared to the intel counterparts at that time.
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I paid 80 quid(used, with cooler) for the chip and £100(new) for the PCB in 2019, I was upgrading from my Z70 4th gen i7 platform. Horrible single thread performance (though better than 4th gen i7). I'm on 5000 series now (for a couple of years), on the same PCB. AM4 for me has been very good.
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I was stuck on 4th gen at the time, I hadn't had an upgrade for a few years. The total net platform swap cost me was the £100 I spent on the new PCB.
This is an incredibly well optimized game. A benchmark for other studios, in fact. My now low-mid range rx6750xt is running 4k frs quality with 90% of the graphical options on ultra and still getting 50 fps on average. 50fps average in this game is extremely smooth, very few stutters at all. All while looking gorgeous.
Awesome :)
Pretty sad that 6700-6750xt is considered "low-mid range" card now, mainly because recent games don't give a damn about optimization. The card can still give out impressive numbers when the game is well optimized.
@@aerosw1ft I mean it is a low-mid range card. Nothing wrong with that, and it doesn't change your point about optimization being an issue with a lot of modern games, but it was a midrange card released 4 years ago. So it's low-mid now.
@@Skeames1214 🎯
@@Skeames1214 yeap, I'm ready to upgrade. Just waiting for nvidia, AMD and Intel to reveal their full line up before I make a decision
I'll probably get this game just for the fact that it has SMAA as an option instead of forcing TAA slop.
Based CryEngine devs, more companies should use it instead of Unreal stutter 5.
For sure :)
Hunt Showdown baby ❤
@@andipajeroking Hunt Showdown is made by Crytek, it's their platform for advertising their engine, like Fortnite is for Unreal. Wish more studios would chose Cry Engine instead of UE, but changin the entire dev workflow isn't a quick, neither cheap task.
Cry Engine has no TAA built in :) Germans know what tech is good and what is not:)
what do you think the "T" stands for in "SMAA 2TX"?
Daniel Owen (another tech RUclipsr) was also getting the texture flickering issue on a 5090 (he also tested a 1060 and a 3060 for comparison) so it seems to be a game/engine issue.
I still remember trying the KCD1 beta years ago and how poorly it ran on my pc at the time. It feels great that so many people will be able to enjoy KCD2, even if their specs aren't amazing.
For those who may find this helpful. If you feel that peoples faces in conversations look "weird" or "off" make sure you turn off the Sharpness slider under the DLSS/FSR settings. It was off for him but I've noticed on most setups its on by default and it very much ruins the faces by over sharpening
This medieval life-simulator set in an odd corner of Europe by an otherwise-obscure Czech studio is testament to the fact that optimisation is one of the most important factors in bringing your game to a wider audience.
The fact that it's a historically accurate RPG is also a factor. I bought it because it looked like something I could really delve deep in. The first one ran like shit for me but still enjoyed it wholeheartedly.
Bohemia is anything but odd, it was always a powerhouse.
It's really a shame we have to point out when devs do a good job optimising a game, when we used to have to point out the bad ones not so long ago. Now we have to assume bad optimisation by default.
Thanks upscalers and frame generators, this is the gaming ecosystem you have built :(
Dlss 2 already came out far before game optimization become really 💩 to be honest
PC game optimization isn't good but it's always been pretty bad. Look at something like Arkham Knight, that game barely ran on high end systems. That's an extreme example, but back in the day you were lucky to have a halfway decent options menu even for "decent ports". It's gotten better in some ways, worse in others.
@@Skeames1214 Arkham Knight was an outlier at the time and even got removed from Steam temporarily before getting fixed. A year later it ran smooth and the developers even gave like the whole Arkham series to people who bought it early as an apology
@@guilhermegarcia7511 It ran, it absolutely did not run well. DF chronicled this for years lol, even on super overkill systems from like 5 years after the game released it had problems.
@ Ran fine on my R9 280X at the time, and that was a low-midrange card by 2016 when i played it
This is super impressive, especially given the performance issues of the original game. Awesome work all around.
your videos got me into KCD.
I still play the first one.
Will get this one when it gets discounted in sales.
6:55 angel branches shadow following him :-))
Nice video.
Wonder how it looks on a GTX 1080Ti with 8 cores CPU? :-))
This is what you call passionate devs, who actually made a lot of effort for the game to be accessible not just the higher end part but also for the lower end.
I could not believe that level of detail and foliage density was running at 120 fps on my computer
i remember playing this game early access w/ an I5-2320 + 1060 3GB 8GB RAM for the 1st time, was able to go 30fps bottlenecked, then upgraded the CPU to a Xeon e3-1230v2 to get 60 med-high. im amazed that the recommend from before is now required minimum.. that tells a lot w/ how optimized it is and rare coming from AA or notably any recent game w/ this scale of a game. great move form the devs, its highly appreciated. cheers! 🍻
that visual glitch you mentioned almost looks like henry put on an exosuit lol
look at this bad boy, it can fit so much KCD2 inside.
I'm just amazed they stuck with Cryengine, and turns out that was a great choice! Just bought it today, as a huge fan of the first game. Really REALLY excited to hop in.
I mean it's not that Cryengine is a bad engine , 1st game was running poor cause the team was unexperienced :) If the entering point in to Crye Engine was not that high I'm 100% sure it would have put a better fight with likes like Unity and Unreal , but it is still the engine for the real neckbeards :)
@@Integroabysal plus it's been gorgeous since 2007 ;) I think this one is using Cryengine v5? KCD1 was on CE3 afaik.
@@IntegroabysalIn one interview they said Unreal engine isn’t that good for open world games. They tried it and when they started adding things like a lot of realistic trees, persons, lights in one scene etc. with functioning world it required a lot of hardware power.
Really happy to see this. My GPU should be fine, but CPU is just barely above min.req., so I was worried that there would be some issues. Looking at this gives me hope and I might actually try it. Good to see developers actually focusing on optimizing their games. Last year I was pretty impressed about Dragon Age Veilguard optimization and now this. 👍
Im running this on 6700k and 1070 45+ gps on high settings no upscaler :)
My i7 4770 still hold 60 FPS they did blackmagic here
Imagine being able to run a new game well even on older hardware?
I was expecting "oh, you bought a brand new £3K PC with latest hardware but you'll still need FSR/DLSS to run new games at an acceptable frame rate"
But on a side note I got Dead Island 2 with the RX6600 I bought about 2 years ago and that ran real smooth and looked quite good even with the old Xeon I paired it with. And without upscaling too
😊
I am just so happy there are still devs out there who want to optimize games instead of relying on AI upscalers and fake frames.
Gonna do well with my Ryzen 5 5600x and GTX 1080 still. Nice test, thanks!
This is a perfect example of what I've been saying for a long time now. Being independently owned is VITALLY important these days! I guarantee you KCD2 would not have launched in this level of optimization and polish if they were bought out.
They actually were bought out in 2019 are now 100% owned by Swedish software conglomerate Embracer Group.
@theslimeylimey 😬😬😬😬😬
I guess we better hope no meddling happens. I don't want to see anything happen to this studio.
@ Yeah same. We dodged a bullet with KCD2 being allowed to stick to it's KCD1 design roots. Parent companies are notorious for meddling though and people in power with levers often can't resist pulling them.
The original owner sold the studio with requirements that he will have a big word in the game development and they wont try and push nonsense to his game. (he is creative director). They promised him that, didnt stick their nose into it and gem came out of it :)
Meanwhile going above medium settings in Monster Hunter Wilds puts your GPU in for a wild time 😅
Optimized game in 2025? Amazing.
It runs godly! Cryengine wisely used and optimized, at ue5 face!
That s what we need, not dlss not frame generation, just optimized games
After the state the first game launched, I planed to wait a bit before buying. But seeing the results, I'll get it during the weekend. It should run well enough on the HX370/890m.
Not bad, and it's good to see a game that's actually optimized, rather than the mess that some releases are. Personally I'd play at 1080p low, native - or 1080p medium with FSR Quality, just to get a bit nearer to 60fps than what native 1080p does.
It's really impressive how well this runs. It even seems to run better than the original sometimes with similar settings especially in towns.
The RX580 kept my build going for 8 years. Gave it to my brother as part of a budget build, and 3 years later its still going strong with GTA, Arma, and Marvel Rivals
tanks for this video, you convinced me to buy this game. Should run smooth as butter in 1080p with my 1080ti :)
I dunno, people say the game is optimized but I just think they didn't aim much higher than KCD1 visually wise, which is fine but that's why it runs fine on older hardware.
Yea it looks like the first game. Much recycled.
Yep, it looks almost the samenot that is a bad thing, i feel like i will play episode 2 😂
Have you played the game yourself to see the difference?
Also its made on Cryengine which doesnt implement all the rtx stuff, so idk how much optimized is. However the artistic side of the game is 10/10 imo
@@juliancz_ CryEngine and KCD specifically used software based raytraced global illumination, that's why it was so hard to run when it released. It basically uses the equivalent to Lumen.
you know.. a recommended spec from before becoming it's required minimum for its sequel is something I'd say poetic 👌
It still looks great at low and native res.
Yeah I think so too :)
I really encourage to bump some stuff to medium. Low is really the lowest of low, but from medium everything is really great. Even Ultra and medium arent that far off.
This is exactly my old computer! Makes me happy to see it still has some juice in it even though i changed it completely for an i5 14500 and a 7700xt. Nice job developers! :)
Got a 3060 12gb, 16gb DDR4 3200, and a Ryzen 7 3700x. 60 hours into the game on Medium settings and it's still going strong. I will say though at about the 30-40 hour mark the amount of character NPC glitches did go up a bit (Mostly NPCs in dialogue scenes just not appearing while talking) but other than that it's been smooth.
Cool to see to my very first gpu still has life even at 1080p in a newer game. The 580 was awesome!
This makes me so happy
I was genuinely puzzled at first by the game's crisp and sharp visuals. As if my 1080p laptop screen had turned into a 1440p panel. Then I realized the game doesn't have TAA, and thank god for that!
This certainly looks more polished than the first game, should run quite well on my 2060S I think. I reckon a medium/high mix for a locked 60FPS, maybe higher settings with DLSS.
i have the same gpu!
how much do you think it will hold up?
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OK, mate. I think 1080P60 is more than achievable,
How refreshing to see a game this beautiful be so optimized! And it looks good on a range of settings.
Henry came in Hans' deliverance.
AYOO
I will be speedrunning the gay path
@@TheGoldenEgg69 🤣
@@TheGoldenEgg69 similar to the have sex % speedruns in fallout games, im sure this will actually become a real thing.
I have an RTX 2060 w/ 16gb...and this runs smooth as butter with mostly mid/low settings and looks great even at lowest settings. peak optimization and SO rare now.
Phenomenal! Crossing my fingers for Doom The Dark Ages here. ID's game is optimization!
It seems the limiting factor here was the gpu, maybe a followup video or YT short showcasing what happens if this pc you built in 2018 would get a 4060/ti dropped into it? Would the i5 8400 keep up? Can it do 1440p medium then?
The optimization is great and this game actually runs better than the first one, if you test using the same hardware!
Seems like its similar in demand to the first game, using cryengine, just with more features at ultra settigns for newer GPUs
It's probably using a newer version of the Cri engine, the version on the first game ran on a singly thread but newer iterations leverage multi-threading. The first game ran really badly on my old R7 1700, stuttered like buggery. I bet this game would run better on that chip.
i sure hope like the previous being CryEngine itll retain the option to use the console or the game offering ini. tweaks for that fine tuning. that what i did form KCD1 to push more fps w/o visual loss.
@darthwiizius The version they're using is an old version of CE. The reason they stayed on the old ver. is because of the license that allows them to change basically anything and it's so heavily modified that they're somewhat wary of still calling it a CryEngine per se.
Source: Indian - Pořad o hrách | Rozhovor o vývoji Kingdom Come: Deliverance II s vedoucím designérem hry - PVP
Man the graphics looks beautiful for low settings
that's awesome that the devs made sure that anyone able to play the first game at the recommended specs would still be able to play the sequel, even if they werent able to upgrade
1st game was running poor , that's why I think it did not became as popular as per say witcher series , but then they took it personal and made 2nd game that can run 1080p 60+ fps on ultra on 1080ti :)
It was also a good surprise for me.. I was worried when I first saw the recommanded pc specs.. But my 4 years old PC could run the game with a solid 60+ FPS in medium settings.
this is what we want from video games optimized game for pc + good story/gameplay
Look, Henry's come to see us.
Wow, and it still looks pretty good too.
it runs pretty good tbh ... you gotta love cryengine, efficient , good level of detail and if polished, like with this game , you can get excelent results on all hardware.. my respects to warhorse for that nice work ...
KCD and RDR 2, In both games I never thought about how graphics look. Because the games themselves are so interesting that I feel I am inside the game world. It's called quality, I can still name most characters from these games.
Awesome as always
Should've OC'd the RAM to 3200 Mhz. Not all of us can do it but I also have a kingston hyperx fury 2666 and they can reach 3200 with somewhat looser timings.
Also I wonder how much of a difference the 2600 will have against the i5. I have the 2600, oc to 4.17 Ghz and no PBO on. No virtualization, no ReBar. As always great video! this is what we normal gamers need
The game runs great on mid settings on my ryzen 1600 3.8GHz, so your CPU will be just fine
@@alkoyyy If the game runs like the 1st game or better, yes, we'll be ok but I am still interested in the differences (if any) between AMD and Intel system, specially from that era.
I can run the 1st game between 45 (rattay) fps and 75 (I cap it).
Have you tried walking around Kuttenburg or the big siege fights with this setup? How does it fair? Planning on buying the game but wondering if I'd be able to run it at an okay fps with my 580 without stuttering in battle or exploring.
6:56 Demon King Henry
I saw other videos showing the flickerring issue on other GPU's also, hopefully that is fixed soon
I'm genuinely impressed how well the game runs considering how amazing the game looks. It's super refreshing!!!
Aaaa, KCD II, you must be thrilled as you are fan of first game :)
Truly amazing
I have the same RX580 8gb card-does the job since i don't play games much and Genshin or Wuthering Waves run 60 fps @2560x1080 high settings with FSR quality and most games I play are before 2022 and they run @60fps too.
Nice :)
Yeah, I don't think I own a game I've paid for that is newer than 2022. I have a few I grabbed from Epic weekly giveaways but none that I purchased. That's why I'm still happy with my 5 year old 2060S, it still runs most stuff coming out at 1080P60 along with my entire existing library so I think it's got a year or two left in it.
It's really sad how games aren't optimized these days, it's really nice and rare to see one
Dang didn't expect KCD2 to run this well, honestly... I currently have a 6500XT 8GB card, which is roughly equivalent to the RX 580, thought I may have to upgrade to play this game, but I'm fine with FPS in the 40s with medium settings, especially with a slower game like KCD2.
I think we have a new Doom-like meme here: what crazy low-spec hw can KCD2 run on?
I suggest checking out Santiago Santiago's live stream with GTX 1050ti and GTX 1650 which both run pretty good.
It's amazing there is a brand new game that looks decent (not leading edge graphics though, let's face it, but it's ok) and can be enjoyed on aging hardware although SSD and 16GB RAM are likely a requirement.
You should test it in Kuttenberg which is probably the most demanding area with respect to CPU. Digital Foundry saw an FPS dip in some forest area in their console graphics overview video.
I think we are all distracted by Hans Capons sword play these days.
This game deserves to be the game of the year not only because of the gameplay plot but also the way the developer respects the players.
The rx 580 will never die
Have fun in the game!! :D
This is the best looking optimised game ever, it runs perfectly, no gimmicks, just pure nice graphics with high quality textures…
this is how you do optimization, if only sony or whatever company ported spiderman 2 to pc would make the optimization as good i could be able to play it
I'm just about to do my first (gaming) build in about 20 years - I'm circling the Ryzen 7 57003XD (£180ish), and Radeon RX7600 8Gb (£250ish) - any thoughts on this combo? :) Any tips would be most appreciated :)
Thats how you get as much potential customers as possible.
Kinda weird that RX580 only consumes 100-130W. The boost clock with this version should be around 1411mhz and power draw 140W+ in full load. Something isnt exactly right with the card and you sadly lost some performance. Anyway great video !
Please do an "optimized settings" vodeo for kcd2 on the 580
It looks really good in terms of Performance, although im thinking its probably gonna tank a lot when we get to Kuttenberg
looks fun game. Most likely i will get this in few months , when i get some money... Life is hard and had to sell my 6800xt, now running 1070 8GB with 7600x,32GB
Good. Another project for my GTX 1070 Ti. No retirement yet; we've got a game to run.
Devs did a good job optimizing this, the game looks pretty decent for low settings! Nice job KCD devs!
runs like butter on my 6700 16gb ddr4 and 1070ti well impressed
It looks like high graphics setting tbh.. they did amazing job creating this game
Happy days and game that’s playable on budget hardware
Ngl I was very worried that I might get a laggy experience or play in a janky overall low settings with the hardware that I have with r5 2600, 16gbs and Rx 6600 8gb, just base of their recommended hardware and game settings. But man they really optimized the game, I was able to play in high settings no problem at 1080p around 40 to 50+ fps.
Holy S it's actually Optimised, Thanks Cryengine
It's not so much Cryengine as Warhorse doing a big overhaul of a lot of their code. KCD1 was also CE but didn't run half as good.
Just in case people don't know, if u got a z370 or z390 then u could utilize xmp and can reach like 3200mhz or 3600mhz ram or more
I'm in the middle of playing Morrowind for the 1st time. Is it worth abandoning it for this or stick with Morrowind?
could you do a test run through a busy city please? id like to know how it performs there
The busy city is locked in a second map, which requires quite a bit of progression in game, so it might take a while, he could try out performance in Trosky castle though