Hold on to your potatoes, because Indiana Jones and The Great Circle's requirements require ray tracing that you can't turn off and an RTX 490 for the highest settings

The system requirements for Indiana Jones: Great Circle were just released. In the words of the ever-predictive Short Round, "Okey dokey Dr Jones, hold onto your potatoes!"

The requirements follow a recent trend that requires a metric ton of storage space. This time, it means 120 of your finest Gigabytes. Do you see why we recommend at least 2 TB of SSD for your builds now? Storage isn't all that will make you clutch your starches. The road becomes quite bumpy once you go beyond the minimum requirements.

The recommended requirements list either an RTX 7700 XT or RTX 3080 TI to achieve a 60 fps target on high settings. Oof, looks like I'm out the running with what the game is making now. It makes me think that it might be an old RTX 3060 TI.

Let's not waste time waffling, but instead, let's look at the full requirements:

These requirements are high because hardware ray-tracing is now required for all mainstream titles. The minimum specs are based on the RTX2060 Super and RX6600 XT because previous generations of graphics cards don't have ray tracing. It must be awful to own a GTX1080 Ti, I suppose?

This requirement will likely mean that a limited form of ray-tracing is used in every setting segment, whether it's low or ultra high. This is not to say that a limited version of RT is all you get, as the game boasts 'Full Ray Tracing', i.e. path tracing.

Nvidia explains that "Full Ray-Tracing is an accurate but demanding way to render light, its effect on a film or TV scene. It's used by visual effects to create graphics that look like reality."

This is similar to the requirements for Black Myth: Wukong. With Indiana Jones, this means some serious beefy upper-end specifications. Bethesda has separate Full Ray Tracing and Standard requirements. The requirements for the former include a Core i7-10700K and RTX-4070.

Would you like to play the game at Ultra settings with Full Raytracing? Bethesda does recommend an RTX 4090. Oh, and a Core i7-13900K Intel processor, just to be safe.

I don't even know which is harder to swallow: those path-traced requirements or a side dish of monkey brains. At least, the minimum requirements only list 16 GB of RAM, but that is about the only light touch among all these specifications.