Call Of Duty: Infinite Warfare Minimum System Requirements Blast Off

Written by Jon Sutton on Thu, Oct 27, 2016 9:36 AM
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The final piece of this month's hectic first-person-shooter marathon arrives next week with Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare. It may have the most disliked trailer in YouTube history, but I have funny feeling that's not going to stop COD: Infinite Warfare selling like gangbusters. Series veterans Infinity Ward are back at the helm this time around, steering the biggest franchise in gaming to a new frontier - space. Don't jump in your spaceship too quickly though, check out COD: Infinite Warfare's official system requirements to see if your PC is up to the task.

Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare Minimum System Requirements

  • OS: Windows 7 64-bit 
  • CPU: Intel Core i3-3225 3.3 GHz or AMD Phenom II X4 820 2.8 GHz
  • RAM: 8 GB System Memory
  • GPU RAM: 2 GB Video Memory
  • GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 660 or AMD Radeon HD 7850
  • DX: DirectX 11
  • HDD: 70 GB available storage


The easiest way to size these specs up is to compare them to last year's outing - Black Ops 3. Across the border there's only an incremental jump up in demands, so chances are if you could play COD BLOPS 3 with any degree of reliability then you should be good to go here with Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare.

CPU demands are where COD: Infinite Warfare is most lenient. Only a low-end Core i3 or an aging Phenom II X4 810 are required, so anyone with a CPU bought in the last five or so years will be fine. 

In terms of graphics cards the actual raw performance required for Call of Duty: IW remains pretty much the same, but you will need a graphics card a generation or two newer. Both the GeForce GTX 660 and the Radeon HD 7850 were mid-range graphics cards four or so years ago when they came out so you're only really going to struggle if you an extremely low-end model graphics card from today such as any GT x10 or x20 models for GeForce owners.

Probably the most noticeable part of these system specs is the huge 70GB install for Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare. The COD series keeps ballooning in size with every version so this should come as little surprise. Bear in mind as well that if you also buy the Legacy Edition of Infinite Warfare which includes Modern Warfare 4: Remastered, the total installation size jumps to 130GB.

Ah, and one last thing. We've only got the minimum specs for Infinite Warfare and that's likely all we'll have. Black Ops III never had recommended specs released. We have however updated the game page with predicted recommended requirements based on the demands of last year's version, so be sure to check that out if you want perfect performance.

Remember, you can always check out how well your PC can run the Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare System Requirements here, where you can check benchmarking and performance from other users. Compare your graphics card to the Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare GPU benchmark chart.

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13:15 Nov-07-2016

CALL OF DUTY FOR FUN

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11:30 Nov-07-2016

i have a Core i5-3570K 3.4GHz, GeForce GTX 980 MSI Gaming 4GB Edition, 24GB of Ram, Windows 10 64Bit. And Game-Debate says i can run this game on high setting.

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01:51 Oct-28-2016

These minimum settings sound good, but i think my gt 730 OC 30 % should handle just fine at 720p low settings with high textures @ 30 fps.

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13:10 Oct-29-2016

oh god , if you run this on the gt 730 will be the most optimized cod i`ve never seen.good luck :)

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22:03 Oct-27-2016

People are so hyped up about SSD's and how they improve loading times, but rarely buy them over 512GB. With a 70GB title I can fully understand that SSD's are useless since games take in too many space. SSD's need to lower in price soon.

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22:05 Oct-27-2016

Battlefield 4 really needs a ssd, loading times on a regular hdd are deadly long

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22:14 Oct-27-2016

advanced warfare xP

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14:30 Nov-03-2016

yup. change my dedicated(just games) 120gb ssd to 1tb hdd because of large space required for games nowadays. I dun install much games but 120gb ssd used to be enuf for 3-4 AAA games a few years ago. sigh how time changed the space requirements.

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13:27 Oct-27-2016

just gonna sit in my corner and play BF1 while i wait for MW1 Remastered to be sold separably if it ever happens :3


Futuristic games is not my thing :/

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13:30 Oct-27-2016

So you never played mass effect?

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13:35 Oct-27-2016

i mean games like titanfall, bo3, ghost and advanced warfare the multiplayer kind, i never touched the mass effect multiplayer neither tho, only the campaign

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22:05 Oct-27-2016

futuristic games aren't that bad actually. but in COD case it kinda went boring after repeating the same bulls*it for years. and i personally think that Activision did really blew it up when it introduced the space element in to this game.

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04:17 Oct-28-2016

matter of opinion leopard ;)

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19:38 Oct-27-2016

mass effect is not a shooter like cod is, it's more an RPG than a shooter.

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19:59 Oct-27-2016

the setting does NOT matter...

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20:56 Oct-27-2016

Naturally it does, not for everyone though. I personally am far more likely to get excited about Medieval setting than sci-fi for example. Just the fact that this CoD has a Sci-fi setting makes it much less appealing to me that if it would have modern or historical setting.

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04:16 Oct-28-2016

exactly as fudge said, i find modern shooters or world war 1/2 games way more appealing to me, and that's just how i like the games, some people might like futuristic but i don't and that's just how it is :/

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07:39 Oct-28-2016

but futuristic just means different textures and gun models... the movement system on the other hand could have been done in other different ways, but indeed is the only key difference.

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22:04 Oct-27-2016

That moment when you pay twice the price to get a whole game or pay the full price for a game with bad expectations :(

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13:12 Oct-27-2016

70 gb. maybe they need that much of space so we have to uninstall BF1 to conserve space. lol


doesnt matter to me, im not buying it anyway

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12:46 Oct-27-2016

It not a good game i know.but i think activision will surprise us next year ( COD VIETNAM i hope)

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20:00 Oct-27-2016

yeah it's NOT a good game, it's an AWESOME game(in terms of multiplayer).

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10:58 Oct-27-2016

Minimum of 8gb ram. i guess its settled then, i need more ram. ( not for this game though , i still wont buy it )

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16:29 Oct-27-2016

I bet it uses 6GB Ram at max. Do you remember COD Ghosts aka the game with min 6GB requirement that consumed 4GB of ram on ultra settings?

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20:01 Oct-27-2016

CoD BO3 uses 5.5GB of RAM on high, that's the only reason I can NOT max it out, I do NOT have RAM...

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21:42 Oct-27-2016

true but that was 3 years ago. also i am only concerned about the upcoming games

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19:39 Oct-27-2016

I just bought an extra 8gb kit, 2x4 but can only fit 4gb extra because my cpu cooler goes over the last slot. it's even low profile ram lol

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22:24 Oct-27-2016

DDR4, means up to 64gb support .if i were you i would've gone with at least 16gb kit and forget about ram upgrading for years.

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10:34 Oct-27-2016

Waiting for MW Remaster to be sold separately. And yes it will happen, maybe not soon, but I got time to wait.

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10:26 Oct-27-2016

Can someone tell me why CoD always need so much harddrive space? I mean, as far as I know, the maps are a lot smaller than Battlefield for example. And Battlefield 1 is 20 gb less than Infinite Warfare at 50 gb space needed...

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10:27 Oct-27-2016

I would imagine it's the campaign. A lot of uncompressed audio and high res textures. In BF1 it reuses a lot of the multiplayer environments for single-player.

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16:13 Oct-27-2016

last cod game has 20gb of audio data they not compress the data because of quality


and this game -80 GB of unpacked textures and models for SP only.

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20:01 Oct-27-2016

Uncompressed audio and textures, high downscalable cinematics and many models.

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10:11 Oct-27-2016

i cant wait for this game i like all call of duty games this its cool to :)) so when call of duty create call of duty vietnam all will told very good game soo you are not Gamer :)) just kids

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10:32 Oct-27-2016

....well said

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20:02 Oct-27-2016

@Inoo77 Same and I agree. :)
The setting does NOT matter.

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18:29 Oct-30-2016

yeah :))

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22:13 Oct-27-2016

well good luck finding players that are not kids to play with this space sh*t.

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07:40 Oct-28-2016

same can be said for BF1... hell it's filled with, kindly put, complete morons....

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09:48 Oct-27-2016

actually it's the most disliked trailer on Youtube. and the second most disliked video ;)


anyway, i gave up on these futuristic shooters a long time ago. so i won't be playing this :)

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10:22 Oct-27-2016

Aha, even better, fixed.

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22:07 Oct-27-2016

if there could be a 5 euro offer on a 3rd party retail and a free weekend, I might consider buying it if it is good :b

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| 60FPS, Ultra, 1080p
Ryzen R5 1600 Radeon RX 580 Sapphire Nitro+ 8GB 16GB
0% No [1 votes]
| 60FPS, Ultra, 1440p
Ryzen 7 5800X 8-Core 3.8GHz GeForce RTX 3090 Zotac Gaming Trinity 24GB 32GB
| 60FPS, High, 1080p
Ryzen 3 3100 4-Core 3.6GHz GeForce RTX 3050 16GB
| 30FPS, High, 1080p
Ryzen 5 2600 GeForce GTX 1660 Gigabyte OC 6GB 16GB
| 60FPS, Low, 1080p
Ryzen 5 5500U 6-Core 2.1GHz GeForce GTX 1650 16GB
| 60FPS, High, 1440p
Ryzen 7 5800X 8-Core 3.8GHz Radeon RX 6900 XT 16GB 32GB
| 60FPS, Medium, 720p
Core i5-10300H 4-Core 2.50GHz GeForce GTX 1650 8GB
| 60FPS, High, 1080p
Core i9-9900K 8-Core 3.6GHz GeForce GTX 1060 Gigabyte Mini ITX OC 6GB 32GB
50% Yes [2 votes]
| 60FPS, High, 1080p
Ryzen 5 3600 6-Core 3.6GHz Radeon RX 5700 PowerColor Red Dragon 8GB 16GB
| 60FPS, High, 1080p
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0% No [1 votes]
| 60FPS, Ultra, 4k
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| 30FPS, Ultra, 1440p
Ryzen 5 2600X 6-Core 3.6GHz GeForce GTX 1080 16GB
100% Yes [1 votes]