Modern Warfare 4 PC requirements: minimum, recommended and Activision's warning

The official table exists, but it is not final

Activision has published minimum and recommended PC requirements for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4. One qualification belongs above every graphics card: this table applies to the beta, and the company warns that the full game's launch requirements may differ.

The beta table remains useful because it runs on the same engine and shows whether a PC belongs in the conversation, although it does not reveal final storage or guarantee identical performance across Campaign, Multiplayer and DMZ. We will update this page at the same URL when Activision publishes the game's final PC requirements.

The practical gap between minimum and recommended

Minimum combines a Ryzen 5 1600 or Core i5-8400, 12GB of RAM and older cards such as the RX 470, GTX 970 or GTX 1060, plus Intel's Arc A580. Recommended rises to a Ryzen 5 3600 or Core i7-8700, 16GB and an RX 6700 XT, RTX 3060 Ti or Arc B580.

Activision has not attached a specific resolution, quality preset and frame rate to either column. We cannot translate recommended into 1440p at 60fps or minimum into 1080p at 30fps. These are official components, not a complete performance promise.

If you do not know which processor or graphics card sits in your machine, our guide to checking whether a game will run on your PC shows where to find the hardware and how to compare it without trusting names alone.

SSD, TPM 2.0 and Secure Boot count too

Both configurations require an SSD, broadband connection, DirectX 12 and a compatible sound card. PC players also need TPM 2.0 and Secure Boot, two security features used by RICOCHET to make system-level tampering more difficult. A computer can have enough performance and still fail to launch if those options are disabled in its BIOS.

Modern Warfare 4 launches October 23 on PC, PS5, Xbox Series X|S and Switch 2. Our beta schedule and access guide records the completed test weekends. The remaining questions are the final spec table and the full installation size.