Activision announced on October 31st, “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III” Various operating environments for the PC version have been released. If you want to install this work in full configuration on a new PC, it seems that you will need to prepare “213GB of SSD capacity”.
“Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III” will be the follow-up to the FPS “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II” released in 2022. The game is being developed by Sledgehammer Games in collaboration with Infinity Ward. A campaign mode and a multiplayer mode are available, and the campaign mode unfolds the story immediately after the previous work. Captain John Price and Task Force 141 take on Vladimir Makarov, a man described as an “ultranationalist.” This time, the operating environment for the PC version of this work has been released. What was shown was the huge required capacity of this work, 213GB (SSD required).
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213GB of capacity is required when using the 4K ULTRA setting in the high spec configuration of this work. As for the breakdown, first of all, 149GB is required to install the game itself. However, if you have COD HQ and “Warzone” installed, you can reduce it to 78GB.
And when using the Hi-Rez Assets Cache feature, which provides additional storage space for streaming high-quality assets, up to 64GB of SSD capacity will be utilized. If you want to play this work in the best environment, you will need to have a solid 213GB of 149GB and 64GB. As mentioned above, this storage capacity must be secured with an SSD.
If you do not use the 4K setting, the Hi-Rez Assets Cache function will use up to 32GB, which is somewhat modest.Also, in previous games this feature was turned off.
It was also possible. Also, if you only use the same function off for multiplayer, it seems that even if you install it together with COD HQ, it will only take 79GB. In the case of single player, you will be able to play as long as you have 149GB of free SSD space.
However, even with various reductions, 149GB is quite a large capacity. For example, the recently released PC version of Bethesda’s Starfield had an approximate storage requirement of 139.84GB SSD capacity at launch, and is now 140.1GB (see related article). This also became a hot topic, and as a blockbuster RPG, there were high expectations for the amount of gameplay. The PC version of “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III” has a storage requirement that even exceeds that.
In addition, the increase in game file size has been a frequent topic of discussion for the “Call of Duty” series for some time. For example, the PC version of “Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War” released in 2020 required 250GB of storage space in the highest configuration with 4K image quality. However, since an HDD was fine here, the hurdles for “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III”, which requires an SSD, are considerably higher, and there is a sense that SSD drive has become the standard for PC games. Related article).
As for “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare” and “Warzone,” there were situations in which the game capacity grew as the service and updates continued (see related article). It will be interesting to see if a similar situation occurs in “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III.”
『Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III” is scheduled to be released for PC (Steam/Battle.net) and PS4/PS5/Xbox One/Xbox Series X|S.
