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No sooner than it was revealed that Witcher 3 was being made for next gen consoles and PC, a lot of fans we know ordered their own units of either Xbox One or PS4 for the occasion. We, however, are predominantly PC folks and will be playing it out on our modified desktops.

If you belong to the same line of PC fanatics, let us tell you that the minimum and recommended specs of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is already out in the open. And as far as a bit of bad news is concerned, the specs seem absolutely brutal and will require you to re-shuffle the hardware inside your PC.

For starters, your gaming PC will need to be running 64-bit Windows 7 or later, with supported DirectX 11 and at least 40 GB of hard drive space to install the game. Doesn't sound that bad, eh? Check out the rest of the specifications below:

Minimum PC Specs

OS: 64-bit Windows 7 or 64-bit Windows 8 (8.1)

CPU: Intel CPU Core i5-2500K 3.3GHz / AMD CPU Phenom II X4 940

RAM: 6GB

Graphics Card: Nvidia GPU GeForce GTX 660 / AMD GPU Radeon HD 7870

Hard Drive Space: 40GB

DirectX 11

Recommended PC Specs

OS: 64-bit Windows 7 or 64-bit Windows 8 (8.1)

CPU: Intel CPU Core i7 3770 3.4 GHz / AMD CPU FX-8350 4 GHz

RAM: 8GB

Graphics Card: Nvidia GPU GeForce GTX 770 / AMD GPU Radeon R9 290

Hard Drive Space: 40GB

DirectX 11

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is currently set to be available May 19 on PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. Prior to this, about a month ago, CD Projekt Red pushed the release of the game back by a whopping three months to ensure the game didn't have major bugs at launch. Here's hoping the same!