MW4 PC requirements: minimum and recommended

Modern Warfare 4 ships on PC through Steam, Battle.net and Xbox on PC. Activision published a full system requirements table with the PC trailer on September 29, 2026, and the figures below come from that table. The page records what the publisher printed; it does not add a performance target the source did not state.

Minimum specifications

The minimum tier is what Activision lists as the floor for playing the game at all.

Component	Minimum
OS	Windows 10 64 Bit (latest update)
CPU	AMD Ryzen 5 1400 or Intel Core i5-6600
RAM	8 GB
Video card — AMD	Radeon RX 470
Video card — NVIDIA	GeForce GTX 970 / 1060
Video card — Intel	Intel Arc A580
Video memory	3 GB
Storage	115 GB — SSD required
Network	Broadband Internet connection
Sound card	DirectX Compatible

Recommended specifications

The recommended tier is what Activision describes as the specification “to run at 90 FPS in multiplayer on High graphics settings”. The frame rate and the graphics setting are part of the source’s own wording, not an addition.

Component	Recommended
OS	Windows 11 64 Bit (latest update)
CPU — AMD	AMD Ryzen 5 3600
CPU — Intel	Intel Core i7-8700K
RAM	16 GB
Video card — AMD	Radeon RX 6600 XT
Video card — NVIDIA	GeForce RTX 3060 Ti
Video card — Intel	Intel Arc B580
Video memory	8 GB
Storage	115 GB — SSD required
Network	Broadband Internet connection
Sound card	DirectX Compatible

Ray tracing specifications

The third tier is the ray tracing one, described by Activision as “Ultra specs to run with High quality Ray Tracing at 4K upscaled”. It is a separate table from the recommended tier, not a replacement for it.

Component	Ray tracing
OS	Windows 11 64 Bit (latest update)
CPU — AMD	AMD Ryzen 7 3700X
CPU — Intel	Intel Core i7-10700K
RAM	32 GB
Video card — AMD	Radeon RX 9070 XT
Video card — NVIDIA	GeForce RTX 5070 Ti
Video memory	16 GB
Storage	115 GB — SSD required
Network	Broadband Internet connection
Sound card	DirectX Compatible

The ray tracing table lists no Intel Arc card. Intel appears in the minimum and recommended tiers only.

Drivers and requirements that apply to every tier

Item	Requirement
AMD driver	26.7.1
NVIDIA driver	616.56 — an ASD-compatible driver will be made available before MW4 launch
Intel driver	32.0.101.8974
TPM	TPM 2.0 required
Secure Boot	Required
DirectX	DirectX 12 compatible system
CPU support	Only Intel and AMD processors with the AVX instruction set are supported at this time
Intel Arc GPUs	Require Resizable BAR

TPM 2.0 and Secure Boot are not optional. Activision’s note reads that they “are required to play Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 on PC” and that “Other security measures may be enforced”, with a link to its own support page. The security requirement is tied to RICOCHET Anti-Cheat, which Activision describes in the same article as combining server-side detection, hardware-based protections such as TPM 2.0 and Secure Boot integration, deep investigations and legal action.

PC features Activision announced

The same PC trailer article lists the platform features the publisher supports, which sit alongside the hardware table.

• Optimized hardware support. The game “runs on most hardware” and scales up on higher-end setups, and it automatically configures settings based on the hardware. Activision also records 800+ customization options across graphics, gameplay, input devices and interface.
• Display optimization. Support from 4K down through 1440p and 1080p, from standard to Ultrawide.
• Upscaling and frame generation. AMD FSR Redstone, NVIDIA DLSS 4.5, Intel XeSS 3 and Filmic SMAA T2X.
• Sub-frame mouse polling, plus support for a variety of input devices.
• Enhanced FOV, described as exclusive to PC, using physically accurate lens effects to widen the field of view near the edges of the monitor without affecting the centre FOV.
• HDR10+, where the engine reads screen brightness settings in real time and adjusts contrast and lighting.

What this page will not tell you

The source states that “Specs are valid for product launch and may be updated in the future”, and it notes that additional storage space may be required for mandatory game updates. It publishes no measured frame rates for any hardware configuration beyond the 90 FPS at High target attached to the recommended tier, and no benchmarks of its own.

Two things follow from that. First, a specification table is a floor, not a prediction of performance on a given machine. Second, the earlier Beta specifications differ from these launch figures — the Beta minimum asked for a Ryzen 5 1600 or Core i5-8400 with 12 GB of RAM, and its recommended tier listed a Ryzen 5 3600 or Core i7-8700 with an RX 6700 XT, so use the launch table above rather than the Beta one.

The console platforms are a separate matter. Activision publishes no system requirements, frame-rate targets or performance figures for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S or Nintendo Switch 2. Third-party measurement exists for those platforms, but it is measurement by an outside outlet rather than a publisher statement. The platform release dates are on the release dates page.

One detail in the requirements table is easy to misread. The Intel Arc A580 appears in the minimum tier and the Arc B580 in the recommended tier, while the ray tracing table lists no Intel card at all — that is the source’s own arrangement, not an omission in this transcription. The Intel Arc GPUs require Resizable BAR note applies to the Arc entries wherever they appear, and it is listed among the requirements that hold for every tier rather than against one row.

The storage figure is a floor as well. 115 GB is what the table prints for all three tiers, and the source adds that additional storage space may be required for mandatory game updates — which is the usual reason a purchase needs headroom beyond the stated number.

Sources

• Activision: MW4 PC trailer, tech specs and features, September 29, 2026 — the launch requirements table, the recommended drivers and the PC feature list.
• Activision: MW4 Beta PC specifications, August 19, 2026 — the earlier Beta table, used here only to record that the two differ.
• Activision TPM 2.0 and Secure Boot support page — the security requirement in detail.
• MW4 release dates for platform launch dates and the Game Pass position.

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