The already beautiful Metro Exodus is getting an upgrade on PC on May 6, but enjoying it will require a very solid machine.
The Enhanced Edition will also be free for owners of the original version, on Steam, GOG or the Epic Games Store. It includes many improvements to already superb graphics, but the price to pay could be colossal.
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Improvements on all floors, but not for everyone
Among the improvements of this Enhanced Edition, we can notably cite exhaustive support for ray tracing, a wide choice of optimizations and support for DLSS 2.0 on compatible NVIDIA graphics cards.
Much to the chagrin of AMD fans however, this new version of Metro Exodus will not support FidelityFX Super Resolution, due to compatibility issues with the game's rendering techniques.
As said before, this version will be free for the owners of the initial game and the saves of this version can be transferred to the new version of the platform concerned. With the exception of that of the Microsoft Store, due to an encrypted cloud solution per product, making backups incompatible between the two versions.
The Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition will weigh its weight too: 72,2 GB, and the two expansions will weigh 1 GB and 6,4 GB respectively.
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A very gourmet Enhanced Edition
To take advantage of this updated version of the excellent Metro Exodus, however, you will need to arm yourself with a particularly solid machine. If indeed it is possible to acquire the latest graphics cards from NVIDIA, subject to a shortage of stocks that is not about to improve any time soon.
Configuration minimal (1080p/45fps) :
- General Settings: Normal
- Ray tracing quality: Normal
- Operating system: Windows 10 (version 20H2)
- Number of processor cores: 4 cores + HT
- RAM: 8 Go
- Graphics Card: NVIDIA RTX 2060
- DirectX 12
Recommended configuration (1080p/60fps):
- General Settings: High
- Ray Tracing Quality: High
- Operating system: Windows 10 (version 20H2)
- Number of processor cores: 8 cores
- RAM: 8 Go
- Graphics card: NVIDIA RTX 2070 / RTX 3060 or AMD RX 6700 XT
- DirectX 12
High configuration (1440p/60fps):
- General Settings: Ultra
- Ray Tracing Quality: High
- Operating system: Windows 10 (version 20H2)
- Number of processor cores: 8 cores
- RAM: 16 Go
- Graphics card: NVIDIA RTX 3070 or AMD RX 6800 XT
- DirectX 12
Configuration Ultra (4K/30fps) :
- General Settings: Ultra
- Ray Tracing Quality: High
- Operating system: Windows 10 (version 20H2)
- Number of processor cores: 8 cores
- RAM: 16 Go
- Graphics card: NVIDIA RTX 3080 or AMD RX 6900 XT
- DirectX 12
Extreme RT configuration (4K/60fps):
- General Settings: Extreme
- Ray tracing quality: Ultra
- Operating system: Windows 10 (version 20H2)
- Number of processor cores: 8 cores
- RAM: 16 Go
- Graphics Card: NVIDIA RTX 3090
- DirectX 12
So here are all the details to, as far as possible, discover the post-apocalyptic world of Metro Exodus, more beautiful than ever. Recall that the Enhanced Edition PC is expected on May 6 on Steam, GOG, Epic Games Store and Microsoft Store.
