Call of Duty Black Ops 6 PC Specs, Features, and Preload Times Revealed

Call of Duty Black Ops 6 release is just ten short days away, and as such, many have begun wondering exactly when they can start preloading the title. Well, we now know an exact date and time, along with a handful of other PC only details, such as the specs, requirements, and what kind of features we’ll be able to use on our rigs.

Call of Duty Black Ops 6 PC Launch Trailer

Before we dive into the specifics, here’s a short trailer for Call of Duty Black Ops 6, which features footage completely recorded on PC using the latest in AMD hardware.

Call of Duty Black Ops 6 PC Preload and Launch Date and Times:

For those wondering when you can preload Call of Duty Black Ops 6 on PC, it will officially start October 21 at 9 am PT., universally. This will include all the required files, including Campaign, Zombies, and Multiplayer so that you can be fully ready once the game launches. When it’s available to play will depend on the platform and the region in which you are located.

For PC players buying through the Microsoft Store, it will be based on regional timing, October 24, between 4 am PT and 11 pm PT. For those buying on Steam or Battlenet, the launch starts at 9 pm PT on October 24.

Call of Duty Black Ops 6 PC Specs and Requirements:

Now, onto specs and requirements. Looking at the requirements for Call of Duty Black Ops 6, a good chunk of PC players should have no issues getting the game to run outside of maybe SSD space. The specs are pretty light, with an RTX 3080 and 6800XT being the required GPU to run in ultra 4K.

Minimum

• OS: Windows 10 64 Bit (latest update)
• CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 1400 or Intel Core i5-6600
• RAM: 8 GB
• Video Card: AMD Radeon RX 470 or NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 or Intel Arc A580
• Video Memory: 2 GB
• Storage Space: SSD required with 102 GB available space at launch
• Internet: Broadband Internet connection

Recommended

• OS: Windows 10 64 Bit (latest update) or Windows 11 64 Bit (latest update)
• CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 1600X or Intel Core i7-6700K
• RAM: 12 GB
• Video Card: AMD Radeon RX 6600XT or NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080Ti / RTX 3060
• Video Memory: 8 GB
• Storage Space: SSD required with 102 GB available space at launch
• Internet: Broadband Internet connection

Competitive / 4K Ultra Specifications

• OS: Windows 10 64 Bit (latest update) or Windows 11 64 Bit (latest update)
• CPU:  AMD Ryzen 7 2700X or Intel Core i7-8700K
• RAM: 16 GB
• Video Card: AMD Radeon RX 6800XT or NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 / RTX 4070
• Video Memory: 10 GB
• Storage Space: SSD required with 102 GB available space at launch
• Internet: Broadband Internet connection

Call of Duty Black Ops 6 PC – Major Features:

And last, the features you’ll be able to take advantage of. This isn’t a complete list of features that PC gamers will have for Black Ops 6, though Activision notes that they are amongst the major ones. They’re the typical upscaling features that you can find from AMD, though it’s still nice knowing that FSR 3 will be supported nonetheless.

AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution

• AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 3 transforms your gaming experience with faster, more responsive framerates in Black Ops 6 using super resolution temporal upscaling and advanced frame generation.

Advanced Frame Generation Technologies

• The FSR Frame Generation toggle found in your graphics settings allows you to enable Frame Generation, which significantly increases your framerate and works seamlessly with other upscaling solutions.

AMD FidelityFX Contrast Adaptive Sharpening (CAS)

• An overhead sharpening slider can help bring more details to edges of weapons, players, and environments.

AMD FSR 3.1 is compatible with a wide range of graphics cards from AMD and other vendors, delivering exceptional upscaling image quality and massive performance boosts when gaming at 4K or 1440p.

The studio also recommends you have the following drivers downloaded ahead of launch:

Recommended Drivers

• AMD: 24.8.1
• NVIDIA: 560.70
• INTEL: 32.0.101.5972

How exciting! This time next week, you should have everything you need downloaded and ready to go for the following Friday. As always, we’ll be right there at launch with the rest of you, with our review ready to go in the weeks to follow, so be on the look out for that!

More Call of Duty Black Ops 6 Reading:

• Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, Modern Warfare 3, Warzone Coming to Xbox Cloud via Game Pass on Oct. 25
• Black Ops 6 Won’t Feature Weekly Challenges, Zombies to Have “More Support for In-Game Events”
• Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Gets Behavior Reports for Moderation and Toxicity

Source: Call of Duty

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