Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 system requirements

Going up, but only by a tad.

The initial set of hardware requirements for Sledgehammer Games’ Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 has just been announced, and it’s not at all surprising to see. Broadly speaking, it’s just a small notch above 2022’s Warzone 2.0 system requirements, which implies that most players enjoying Modern Warfare 2 shouldn’t be too worried about whether Modern Warfare 3 would run reasonably well.

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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 system requirements

The official specs can be found here!

Minimum

  • OS: Windows 10 64 Bit (latest update)†

·      CPU: Intel Core i5-6600 or AMD Ryzen 5 1400

·      RAM: 8 GB

·      Hi-Rez Assets Cache: Up to 32 GB

·      Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 / GTX 1650 or AMD Radeon RX 470

·      Video Memory: 2 GB

·      Storage: SSD with 149GB available space (78GB if COD HQ and Warzone are already installed)

Recommended

  • OS: Windows 10 64 Bit (latest update) or Windows 11 64 Bit (latest update)†

·      CPU: Intel Core i7-6700K or AMD Ryzen 5 1600X

·      RAM: 16 GB

·      Hi-Rez Assets Cache: Up to 32 GB

·      Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080Ti / RTX 3060 or AMD Radeon RX 6600XT

·      Video Memory: 8 GB

·      Storage: SSD with 149GB available space (78GB if COD HQ and Warzone are already installed)

Competitive / Ultra 4K Specifications

·      OS: Windows 10 64 Bit (latest update) or Windows 11 64 Bit (latest update)†

·      CPU: Intel Core i7-8700K or AMD Ryzen 7 2700X

·      RAM: 16 GB

·      Hi-Rez Assets Cache: Up to 64 GB

·      Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 / RTX 4070 or AMD Radeon RX 6800XT

·      Video Memory: 10 GB

·      Storage: SSD with 149GB available space (78GB if COD HQ and Warzone are already installed)

Required for all specs:

·      Network: Broadband Internet connection

·      Sound Card: DirectX compatible

Recommended Drivers for NVIDIA/AMD

  • NVIDIA: 537.58
  • AMD: 23.10.2

These specs were changed from the previous info

One bit of curiosity: prior system requirements were they are sourced from an official Activision announcement that has since been pulled from publication. Nothing necessarily novel about this entire shindig, then, but one has to wonder why Activision would pull the info a little while after it’s been published.

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