You can’t turn off Indiana Jones and the Great Circle’s ray tracing

Indiana Jones and the Great Circle system requirements are here and could prove face-meltingly high for some older systems. In a surprise turn of events, the game features mandatory ray tracing thus boxing out older Radeon and GeForce GTX graphics cards.

Regardless of your performance targets, you’ll need 120GB free on an SSD to install the game. While Bethesda & Machine Games only include Windows 10 64-bit in the official system requirements, I have no doubt that Indy’s latest (and greatest?) adventure will run fine on Windows 11 too.

Indiana Jones and the Great Circle system requirements (ray tracing)

Much as the ray tracing requirement may intimidate some novice system builders, the developers set the graphics card floor reasonably low with GeForce RTX 2060 Super and Radeon RX 6600. Even Intel Arc gets a showing, with A580. Combine these pixel pushers with 16GB of RAM and a processor comparable to Core i7-10700K or Ryzen 5 3600 and you’ve met the minimum specs. However, set your expectations for performance and fidelity appropriately low, to the tune of 60fps using ‘Low’ settings at 1080p.

Recommended is the tier to aim for, with hardware in this set of specs delivering 60fps with ‘High’ settings at 1440p. You’ll need a far more powerful system to get there, though, with graphics card requirements rising to GeForce RTX 3080 Ti and Radeon RX 7700 XT. Similarly, a beefier CPU is a must, akin to Core i7-12700K or Ryzen 7 7700. If that wasn’t enough, RAM doubles up to 32GB too.

For those that want the treasures in Indiana Jones and the Great Circle to glitter as beautifully as possible, you’ll want a system almost worth its weight in gold. The Ultra tier delivers ‘Ultra’ settings at 60fps at 4K, a feast for the eyes indeed. Of course, such lofty performance requires a machine equipped with GeForce RTX 4080 or Radeon RX 7900 XT. Don’t forget a chip as capable as Intel Core i9-13900K or Ryzen 9 7900X either.

Indiana Jones and the Great Circle system requirements (path tracing)

Like Alan Wake 2 and Cyberpunk 2077, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle features path tracing. Instead of the hybrid approach of mixing ray traced elements with standard rasterization, this style of rendering uses nothing but ray tracing. As you can imagine, this requires a lot of pixel pushing power and sends graphics card requirements shooting up. It also calls on the use of upscaling and frame generation technologies, making GeForce RTX 40 series cards the only ones capable for the job in this game.

Indiana Jones and the Great Circle launches December 9 on PC and Xbox Series consoles. It’s available from Steam and other digital storefronts for $69.99 / £69.99 but it’s also playable via a Game Pass subscription.