Tango Gameworks’ upcoming horror thriller, The Evil Within, is rapidly approaching its October 14th release date. While console gamers are content with their pre-orders and such, PC gamers have been pondering a very critical piece of information – the game’s system requirements on PC.

Now we’ve gotten confirmation via Bethesda Softworks for not the system requirements, rather an ultimatum of sorts. You literally can’t make this up but here goes – they’re not saying these are the required specifications, but they’re warning fans with anything below the following specifications that the game may not run optimally:

• 64-bit Windows 7/Windows 8
• i7 with four plus cores
• 4 GBs RAM
• 50 GB of hard drive space*
• GeForce GTX 670 or equivalent with 4GBs of VRAM
• High Speed Internet Connection
• Steam account and activation

Bethesda elaborated on their stance, on their official blog:

“We do not have a list of minimum requirements for the game. If you’re trying to play with a rig with settings below these requirements (you should plan to have 4 GBs of VRAM regardless), we cannot guarantee optimal performance.”

So, to reiterate this kerfuffle, if you don’t have these specs on your rig, the game may not run well, or maybe not even at all. What do you guys think? Is the 4GB of VRAM a tad bit ridiculous?

The Evil Within will launch across Playstation 3, Playstation 4, PC, Xbox 360, and Xbox One on October 14th in North America and Europe, on October 16th in New Zealand, and on October 23rd in Japan.