Daedalic Entertainment and Nacon have confirmed Steam requests for The Lord of the Rings Gollum, the highly anticipated game that will hit the market on May 25th and was developed as intergenerational transitional title, which means it will be available for PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series XS and PC.

We know that the PC version will feature ray tracing applied to shadows and reflections, but not to lighting, which is a shame, as ray tracing is the most visible improvement when applied to light sources. To compensate for the impact of ray tracing on performance, DLSS support will be integrated, although we don’t know if it will be limited to Super Resolution or if it will also include image generation (DLSS 3).

The Lord of the Rings Gollum Minimum Requirements

• Windows 10 as an operating system in its 64-bit version.
• Intel Core i7-4770 or Ryzen 5 1600 processor. We have an equivalence error, the Intel Core i7-4770 would be closest to the Ryzen 5 1400.
• 16 GB of RAM. As this is a cross-generation game, it’s clear that this requirement is inflated and 8GB will be the minimum.
• GeForce GTX 1080 or GeForce RTX 2060 graphics card. They don’t give AMD equivalents, but the closest would be Radeon RX 5700. Again, this claim seems inflated.
• 45 GB free space.
• DirectX 11.

In theory, if we meet these requirements, we can play 1080p with medium quality. Again, any hardware it demands at this level is overkill for a cross-generational game. We’ll have to wait to try it out to see if it’s bloated requirements, a poorly optimized game, or a bit of both.

Recommended requirements Lord of the Rings Gollum

• Windows 10 as an operating system in its 64-bit version.
• Intel Core i3-6100 or Ryzen 5 2600 processor. We have a very serious equivalence error, so much so that the Core i3-6100 is less than the minimum requirement, the Intel Core i7-4770, because it has only two cores and four threads, and the other four cores and eight threads. The Ryzen 5 2600 has six cores and twelve threads, so you can see how messed up the requirements are.
• 32 GB of RAM. With an exaggeration, since this is a cross-generation game, it is clear that 16 GB will be enough for you.
• GeForce RTX 3080 graphics card. They do not provide AMD equivalents, the closest would be the Radeon RX 6950 XT if we want to activate ray tracing, but the NVIDIA solution works better with the mentioned technology activated.
• 45 GB free space.
• DirectX 12.

With this hardware, we could push the game further 1440p with high quality and ray tracing on, using DLSS in quality mode to improve smoothness. I imagine with a GeForce RTX 3080 we shouldn’t have problems running it in 4K with the same level of quality and DLSS even in performance mode.