If you’d been wondering whether your PC can run Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2’s menacing (but restrained) rendition of Seattle when it finally launches on October 21, wonder no more! The official system requirements are here. (And they’re looking tame.)
The PC specifications image was shared via the official channels on October 14. Needless to say, Paradox Interactive and The Chinese Room also recommend updating your GPU’s drivers ahead of the long-awaited launch.
With the troubled publisher walking back ill-advised launch-day DLC plans and our last preview suggesting Bloodlines 2 may be a disappointing sequel to the original classic but a perfectly decent narrative-oriented single-player adventure which stands on its own, we remain slightly optimistic and will be checking it out sooner or later.
As promised, here’s the generous system requirements table:
Though we’re worried about the typical UE5-related woes, it appears that Bloodlines 2 won’t be particularly heavy on any modern gaming PC. The recommended GPUs for 1080p/30 FPS gameplay are the ancient GTX 1060 and RX 480. The move to 1080p at High/60 FPS only demands an RTX 3060 Ti or RX 6700 XT, cards which are on the lower end of the current-gen spectrum.
Even targeting native 4K gameplay (typically heavy) at 60 FPS doesn’t wander into Nvidia’s 50xx series territory and sticks with the RTX 4080 as the go-to graphics card. And of course, since most people at high resolutions will be taking advantage of DLSS + frame generation tech, the realistic ask at 4K is the mid-range RTX 4070. Similarly, the native 1080p-oriented RTX 3060 Ti can also manage 2K/60 FPS just fine if you’re willing to use image upscaling.
CPU requirements don’t go higher than the reliable AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D, another piece of hardware that’s showing its age in more demanding video games. Likewise, Bloodlines 2 will only consume 30 gigabytes of SSD storage; by current-gen AA/AAA standards, that’s not a lot.
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