{"id":89692,"date":"2026-09-17T13:17:52","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T17:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=89692"},"modified":"2026-09-17T14:56:35","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T18:56:35","slug":"gears-of-war-e-day-on-pc-wont-let-you-play-without-a-ray-tracing-capable-gpu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=89692","title":{"rendered":"Gears Of War: E-Day On PC Won\u2019t Let You Play Without A Ray Tracing-Capable GPU"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ahead of its release next month, the official PC specs for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/games\/gears-of-war-e-day\/\" data-type=\"games\" data-id=\"557964\">Gears of War: E-Day<\/a> have been revealed. The next game in the series has looked good in recent previews, and if you&#8217;re aiming to reach a high level of fidelity, you&#8217;re going to need some fairly chunky PC hardware for 4K gibs and perfect reloads. The good news is that no matter which graphics preset you choose, you&#8217;ll only need 16GB of RAM&#8211;welcome news considering just how much memory costs in the current tech climate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One thing worth pointing out is that graphics cards <em>without<\/em> dedicated ray-tracing hardware aren&#8217;t supported. It&#8217;s not the first time this has been the case&#8211;Indiana\u00a0Jones and the Great Circle being a prime example&#8211;but it does create a hard generational lock for interested players. By making ray-tracing hardware a baseline requirement, the game completely phases out massively popular GPUs like the GTX 1060 or AMD&#8217;s RX 5000 series, making the RTX 2060 the absolute minimum threshold for playing the new Gears of War.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Developer The Coalition says it has continued to iterate and improve PC stability and performance across a wide range of hardware configurations since July, and if you&#8217;re aiming to run the game<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahead of its release next month, the official PC specs for Gears of War: E-Day have been revealed. The next game in the series has looked good in recent previews, and if you&#8217;re aiming to reach a high level of fidelity, you&#8217;re going to need some fairly chunky PC hardware for 4K gibs and perfect&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":89694,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89692"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89692"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89695,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89692\/revisions\/89695"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/89694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}