Call of Duty: Vanguard System Requirements Announced

Call of Duty: Vanguard will be released in a few days, so now is the time to make sure your PC is ready for action. Yesterday, Activision published a new blog post listing Vanguard’s PC system requirements. The game seems surprisingly adaptable. There’s also a whole new PC-focused trailer too.

Call of Duty has had decent specs that scale well from older devices to newer technology in recent years, but it has also been a significant space thief. Last year’s Black Ops – Cold War required over 80GB at launch, which is a blessing in comparison to the 147GB required by Call of Duty: Warzone right now.

Vanguard is going to be much smaller though, which is great news. When you have all three modes installed – that’s Campaign, Multiplayer and Zombies – the game will only take up 61GB of space. That’s after installation too. Assuming you’ll uninstall the campaign mode once you’re finished with it, the other two modes only take up a combined space of 36GB. That’s a massive difference compared to Warzone.

Here are the full specs and recommended requirements to run Call of Duty: Vanguard:

Call of Duty: Vanguard minimum system requirements

OS: Windows 10 64-bit (latest update)
Processor: Intel Core i3-4340 or AMD FX-6300
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 or AMD Radeon RX 470
RAM: 8GB
VRAM: 2GB

Storage: 36GB at launch (Multiplayer and Zombies only)

Call of Duty: Vanguard recommended system requirements

OS: Windows 10 64-bit (latest update) or Windows 11 64-bit (latest update)
Processor: Intel Core i5-2500K or AMD Ryzen 5 1600X
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 or AMD Radeon RX 580
RAM: 12GB
VRAM: 4GB
Storage: 61GB at launch

Call of Duty: Vanguard competitive system requirements

OS: Windows 10 64-bit (latest update) or Windows 11 64-bit (latest update)
Processor: Intel Core i7-8700K or AMD Ryzen 7 1800X
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070/RTX 3060 Ti or AMD Radeon RX 5700XT
RAM: 16GB
VRAM: 8GB
Storage: 61GB at launch

Call of Duty: Vanguard ultra system requirements

OS: Windows 10 64-bit (latest update) or Windows 11 64-bit (latest update)
Processor: Intel Core i9-9900K or AMD Ryzen 9 3900X
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 or AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT
RAM: 16GB
VRAM: 10GB
Storage: 61GB (with an optional “Hi-Rez assets cache” up to 64GB more)

Any players who pre-ordered the game digitally on Battle.net will be able to preload it so they’ll be ready to play when it launches.

PC preloading starts on November 2nd at 5pm GMT / 10am PT. If you bought the game digitally but it didn’t download during the preload time, go to the Battle.net Launcher and look for Vanguard under “Partner Games.” Follow the prompts and the download will start.

Call of Duty: Vanguard releases on November 5th and is available to pre-order from our store now across all platforms!