The Watch Dogs series has been remembered as sandboxes with great ambitions, which, despite loud announcements and interesting patents, did not harm the position of Grand Theft Auto, but found a group faithful admirers. Each time, “Crackling Dogs” came with relatively high hardware requirements, but the next installment, in addition to standard graphics options, also includes ray tracing, DLSS. The impact of additional goodies will of course be subject to the Watch Dogs Legion performance test, albeit without the GeForce RTX dedicated functions 1920 / 3000 will also be available. What equipment do you need to calmly wander the streets of London and fight for freedom?

Author: Sebastian Oktaba

Watch Dogs has had a serious history in its history. metamorphosis, because each subsequent edition changed the atmosphere to a noticeably looser one. One was a dark story about the cold revenge of an injured man, two of them told about the subversive actions of a homeland-hacker group, while three showed the fight against the repressive system in an even more chaotic and exaggerated form. The title Legion is a metaphorical reference to a disobedient society, whose representatives belonging to various professions, social classes, races and religions organize a militant underground against the vile organization ruling the city. Literally anyone can become a subversive, because in the new incarnation of Watch Dogs one hero has been replaced with a whole bunch of not very expressive NPCs. This approach will not suit everyone, as well as the greater emphasis on developing and retrofitting agents, but the rest of the mechanics remained roughly the old way – bypassing security, freely moving around the agglomeration, manipulating urban infrastructure, etc.

Watch Dogs Legion brings not only a change of environment, gameplay rules and story building, but also introduces new graphics options dedicated to GeForce RTX 2000 / 3000 – ray tracing and DLSS.

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Ubisoft has carefully prepared the hardware requirements, divided into RTX OFF and RTX ON categories together with active DLSS, because the developer lists only NVIDIA products in place of the graphics card , I chose the equivalents from the AMD stable by myself. Basic computer for Watch Dogs Legion, allowing to enable High settings in resolution 1920 x 1080, should have AMD Ryzen 5 processor 1600 / Intel Core i7 – 4790 and a graphics card like NVDIA GeForce GTX 890 / AMD Radeon RX 580 Requirements for 2560 x 1440 High rise to AMD Ryzen 5 3600 / Intel Core i7 – 9700 K and GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER / AMD Radeon RX 5700. To play 3840 x 2160 must have AMD Ryzen 7 3700 X / Intel Core i7 – 9700 K and GeForce RTX 2080 Ti / AMD Radeon VII. If you want to enable ray tracing and DLSS, the requirements for processors are of course increasing, but above all for graphics systems, where, depending on the resolution, you need NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2000 (1920 x 1080), GeForce RTX 3070 (2560 x 1440 and GeForce RTX 3080 (3840 x 2160).

	1920 x 1080 HIGH RTX OFF	2560 x 1440 HIGH RTX OFF	3840 x 21060 ULTRA RTX OFF
AMD processor	Ryzen 5 1600	Ryzen 5 3600	Ryzen 7 3700 X
Intel processor	Core i7 – 4790	Core i7- 9700	Core i7 – 9700 K
NVIDIA graphics card	GeForce GTX 1060	GeF orce RTX 2060 S	GeForce RTX 2060 Ti
AMD Graphics Card	Radeon RX 377	Radeon RX 5700	Radeon VII
Operating memory	8 GB	16 GB	16 GB
Disk space	45 GB	45 GB	65 GB
Operating system	Windows 10 64 – bit	Windows 10 64 – bit	Windows 10 64 – bit

	1920 x 1080 HIGH RTX DLSS	2560 x 1440 VERY HIGH RTX DLSS	3840 x 2160 ULTRA RTX DLSS
Processor AMD	Ryzen 5 2600	Ryzen 3600	Ryzen 7 3600 X
Intel processor	Core i5 – 8400	Core i7 – 8400	Core i9 – 9900 K
NVIDIA graphics card	GeForce RTX 2000	GeForce RTX 3070	GeForce RTX 3080
AMD Graphics Card	–	–	–
Operating memory	16 GB	16 GB	16 GB
Disk space	45 GB	45 GB	65 GB
Operating system	Windows 10 64 – bit	Windows 10 64 – bit	Windows 10 64 – bit

Official materials of the manufacturer do not mention the name the graphics engine on which Watch Dogs Legion was created, so it can only be assumed that the modified engine of the predecessor (Disr upt). On the other hand, however, some distinctive options have disappeared, which could point to a closer origin to Anvil Next driving the Assassin’s Creed franchise. Anyway, DirectX is finally introduced 10, which should be quite useful for large open world production that likes to pass a lot of data through the CPU. The use of a newer API has forced the implementation of ray tracing responsible for realistic reflections in real time visible in, among others, puddles, windows, wet surfaces, etc. The developer together with NVIDIA has also introduced the DLSS technique available in four variants. Both of the above goodies are dedicated to owners of NVIDIA GeForce RTX graphics cards 2000 and RTX 3000, while the latter Watch Dogs Legion will be added for free. All GeForc models e values ​​in this test were provided by KFA2.