Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 PC specs confirm stricter security and handheld focus
Activision has published the official PC system requirements for Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 ahead of the November 14 launch on Battle.net, Steam and Xbox on PC. The update includes a full breakdown of PC specs across multiple presets, preloading details and a separate section for Windows-based handheld systems.
Minimum settings target low detail with 8GB of system memory and only 3GB of video memory. The GPU list covers Radeon RX 470, GeForce GTX 970 or 1060, and Intel Arc A580, paired with a Ryzen 5 1400 or Core i5-6600. So the minimum specs list three cards that have or soon will loose official game optimization support. The game needs Windows 10 64-bit, DirectX 12 support and 116 GB of SSD space at launch.
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Recommended specs move to Windows 11, 12 GB of RAM and 8 GB of VRAM, with GPUs such as Radeon RX 6600 XT, GeForce RTX 3060 and Intel Arc B580, and CPUs like Ryzen 5 1600X or Core i7-6700K. For competitive and Ultra 4K settings, the sheet lists a Ryzen 5 5600X or Core i7-10700K, 16 GB of RAM and high-end cards including Radeon RX 9070 XT, GeForce RTX 4080 and RTX 5070. The table claims 16 GB of video memory for the RTX 5070, even though the card is a 12 GB model, so this line looks like an error in the requirements.
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Beenox also shares requirements for Windows handheld gaming PCs, with settings tuned for lower power envelopes and smaller screens. The PC feature list confirms support for AMD FSR 4 upscaling and other scaling or frame-generation options to help these devices sustain playable frame rates. There is no reference to FSR Redstone upscaler, so I’m guessing AMD will sadly not use this game launch to introduce this new technology.
Black Ops 7 now enforces TPM 2.0 and Secure Boot across all spec tiers, on top of the usual broadband and DirectX 12 requirements. These checks allow Ricochet Anti-Cheat to use hardware-backed security to verify that the system boots through a trusted path, which raises the barrier for kernel-level cheats and unsigned drivers. The game also requires an AVX-capable Intel or AMD CPU and Resizable BAR for Intel Arc GPUs.
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