Games like Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 tend to come with rather hefty requirements for PC specs. At least, that’s what you would think. This week, Activision officially released the launch trailer for Black Ops 7 and, along with it, a list of the requirements for minimum and recommended PC specs to play the game. Given the way the game looks in trailers, you would expect the PC spec requirements to be quite high, but they’re surprisingly low. Meaning, it should be relatively easy for many PC gamers to enjoy the latest title in the franchise. Provided, of course, there are no other glaring issues that will need to be addressed.

Both Modern Warfare II and Modern Warfare III remakes on PC (the Steam version) dealt with crashing issues as part of the launch. Game crashes are most certainly not enjoyable. So, if Activision can avoid that pitfall, then Black Ops 7 should be off to a good start, as it won’t cost a lot to own a machine that’s capable of running it.

The required PC specs for Black Ops 7 include an 11-year-old GPU

If you’ve played Borderlands 4, there’s a good chance you encountered issues with the game’s performance due to poor optimization, which, of course, was blamed on gamers simply needing to upgrade their hardware. Borderlands 4 is certainly a graphically demanding game, but not so demanding that even with top-tier components, you’d struggle to get a stable 60 frames per second.

Enter Black Ops 7, which, astoundingly, will support PC’s that are running only an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 with 3GB of Video RAM and 8GB of system RAM. This is an 11-year-old GPU. Obviously, PCs with those specs won’t be jumping into the game with graphics maxed out. However, compare that to the minimum requirements of other games, which either look only as good or worse.

For example, Borderlands 4’s minimum PC specs are an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 GPU with 16GB of system RAM. Granted, it also has a fairly large map that’s semi-open-world, and Black Ops 7 will have much smaller maps for its missions. Still, the minimum requirements listed are a great example of what good optimization will allow. Heck, Activision even made optimizations for Windows handhelds, as noted in the publisher’s block post.

4K graphics will require a little more oomph

All of that said, if you want to run the game at its highest settings and still have smooth gameplay, you’ll want more powerful components, but even those aren’t as demanding as you’d imagine. 4K Ultra is listed as requiring an Intel Core i7-10700K CPU or equivalent, only 16GB of RAM, and either an RTX 4080/5070 or an AMD Radeon RX 9070XT. It’s worth keeping in mind that this doesn’t mention anything about display size. Obviously, the larger the display you have, you might need to make some adjustments to keep running the game at 4K while also getting a high frame rate. Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 will be released on November 14 for PC via Steam and Battlenet, Xbox, and PlayStation. It’ll also be available as a Day-One game on Xbox Game Pass. You’ll need to subscribe to that $30 plan to get access, though.

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