Next May 25 it will go on sale The Lord of the Rings Golluma game that generated a lot of interest at the start of its announcement but, over the months, it faded a bit since it looks like it won’t be imagined as much. Despite everything, those responsible are determined to convince us and that is why they have released trailers in recent days showing everything that it will have.
A Gollum of Requirements on PC
The fact is that the game will have versions for all known systems: PS5, PS4, Xbox, Nintendo Switch and, of course, PC, where officials seem to have gone crazy with the demands they are going to impose on us. But the problem doesn’t seem to be that, but something underlying when looking at them since they don’t seem to match. It’s like there’s something monkey smelling and the developers want to hide behind the power of graphics card models with laser trace
First of all, it must be said that some of the technical requirements of this Gollum for PC, but it’s been a few days since NVIDIA posted them on its downed website. That’s why you won’t see information about AMD graphics in this table that we bring to you, and it illustrates very well what the computer you are going to have to use will look like.
| Minimum requirements | Recommended Requirements | High graphics settings | Ultra graphics settings | Minimum requirements (with ray tracing) | High graphics requirements (with ray tracing) | Ultra graphics requirements (with ray tracing) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| resolution | 1080p | 1080p | 1440p | 2160p | 1080p | 1440p | 2160p |
| FPS | 30 | 60 | 60 | 60 | 60 | 60 | 60 |
| Preset | down | Half | Alto | Alto | Half | Alto | Epic |
| NVIDIA-GPUs | GTX 1060 / RTX 2060 | RTX-3060 | RTX 3060 Ti (with DLSS) | RTX 3070 (with DLSS) | RTX 3060 (with DLSS) | RTX 4070 (with DLSS) | RTX 4080 (with DLSS) |
| Processor | Intel 15-4660 AMD Ryzen 31200 | Intel i7-4770 AMD Ryzen 51600 | Intel i7-4770 AMD Ryzen 5 2600 | Intel i5-8400 AMD Ryzen 53600 | Intel i3-6100 AMD Ryzen 52600 | Intel i3-6100 AMD Ryzen 5 2600 | Intel i5-8400 AMD Ryzen 53600 |
| RAM | 6 GB | 6 GB | 8 GB | 8 GB | 8 GB | 10 GB | 16 GB |
| Operating system | Windows 10/11 | Windows 10/11 | Windows 10/11 | Windows 10/11 | Windows 10/11 | Windows 10/11 | Windows 10/11 |
| Storage | 45 GB hard drive | 45 GB SSD | 45 GB SSD | 45 GB SSD | 45 GB SSD | 45 GB SSD | 45 GB SSD |
And several things are surprising -to say nothing else-, like in all configurations above 1080p resolutions, it will be necessary to use a graphic with laser trace, i.e. an RTX, otherwise you will not be able to achieve a performance that is minimally up to par. Which says a lot (badly?) that, likewise, the developers’ optimization work has been a disaster that they want to cover up based on raw hardware power.
Other settings don’t make sense
But if the mandatory use of NVIDIA RTX graphics cards already seems like a beast for a title that also intends to reach the Nintendo Switch, no longer feels like ape the line of RAM memory requirements
We don’t know if these requirements will contain errors or if NVIDIA and the developer itself analyze them better, but They are neither consistent nor coherent and if they reveal anything, it is that Gollum this will not be a well optimized game nor does it justify so much display of laser trace except for major causes, resorting to the power of the most advanced technology to operate a title that shouldn’t be so bad.
Or do you think for those resolutions above 1080p it is necessary to have an NVIDIA RTX model? AMD is surely laughing in the distance watching the huge mess of demands that have neither head nor tail. Or do you see logic in them?
