https://me.ign.com/en/pc/178798/news/call-of-duty-black-ops-cold-wars-pc-specs-reveal-it-will-require-up-to-250-gb-of-storage
 
Activision and Treyarch have revealed the PC specs for Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War and confirmed that it will require up to 250 GB of storage if you wish to run the latest Call of Duty with Ultra RTX settings. Fortunately, for those who don't need to run Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War on the highest settings, it is possible to download Multiplayer only for 50 GB on Minimum Specs and all game modes for 175 GB on Recommended and Competitive Specs.
 
It's also important to note that these requirements are specifically for launch, and will hopefully go down as time goes by. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare has also dealt with storage requirements of over 200 GB, but Infinity Ward recently released a patch that gives PC players an option to uninstall specific game modes to reduce its file size.
The full list of official specifications for Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War on PC are as follows;

Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War Minimum Specifications

• OS: Windows 7 64-Bit (SP1) or Windows 10 64-Bit (v.1803 or higher)
• CPU: Intel Core i3-4340 or AMD FX-6300
• RAM: 8GB RAM
• HDD (at launch): 50GB (MP only), 175GB (all game modes)
• Video: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 / GeForce GTX 1650 or Radeon HD 7950
• DirectX 12 compatible system Required
• Broadband Internet Connection Required

Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War Recommended Specifications

These are the recommend specs to run 60GFPS in most situations with all options set to medium:

• OS: Windows 10 64 Bit (latest update)
• CPU: Intel Core i5-2500K or AMD Ryzen R5 1600X processor
• RAM: 12GB RAM
• HDD (at launch): 175GB HD space
• Video: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 / GTX 1660 Super or Radeon R9 390 / AMD RX 580
• DirectX 12 compatible system Required
• Broadband Internet Connection Required

Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War Recommended Specifications (Ray Tracing)

• OS: Windows 10 64 Bit (latest update)
• CPU: Intel i7-8700K or AMD Ryzen 1800X
• RAM: 16GB RAM
• HDD (at launch): 175GB HD space
• Video: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070
• DirectX 12 compatible system Required
• Broadband Internet Connection Required

Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War Competitive Specifications

Here are the competitive specs to run at a high FPS for use with a high refresh monitor:

• OS: Windows 10 64 Bit (latest update)
• CPU: Intel i7-8700K or AMD Ryzen 1800X
• RAM: 16GB RAM
• HDD (at launch): 175GB HD space
• Video: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 / RTX 3070 or Radeon RX Vega64 Graphics
• DirectX 12 compatible system Required
• Broadband Internet Connection Required

Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War Ultra RTX Specifications

Here are the Ultra RTX specs to run the game at a high FPS in 4K resolution with Ray Tracing enabled:

• OS: Windows 10 64 Bit (latest Update)
• CPU: Intel i9-9900K or AMD Ryzen 3700X
• RAM: 16GB RAM
• HDD (at launch): 250GB HD space
• Video: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080
• DirectX 12 compatible system Required
• Broadband Internet Connection Required

Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War on PC will feature 4K graphics, uncapped framerate, RTX Shadows and Ambient Occlusion, NVIDIA DLSS and Reflex Technology, Ultrawide and Multi-Monitor support and much more. Additionally, developer Beenox worked closely with Treyarch and all other studios to "bring over 200 individual settings to fine tune the PC version of Black Ops Cold War."
To further explain, RTX Shadows and Ambient Occlusion will allow for more photo-realistic shadows, NVIDIA DLSS (Deep Learning Super Sampling) will use "AI to construct sharp, hi-fidelity images all while rendered fewer pixels," and NVIDIA Reflex will "aid pros or pros-to-be in ensuring there is as little delay between their click or press and what happens on their screen as possible."
 
Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War will be released on PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S on November 13, 2020.
 
Another great game inbound. 

 
I'll wait until Black Friday. Probably will be $20 off I'm guessing.

Between MW and BOCW, just take my m.2 SSD's...

Nice. You can select which parts you want to install now if you have to make tough choices about what games to make room for on a pricey SSD.
Fully loaded, it's taking up 120gb on my SSDs with the last minute patch, and 3 hours to go until it goes live, but it looks like you can ditch at least of that if you just want multiplayer and no 4k rez textures

Can't imagine being able to run with just a single 1TB or 2TB drive anymore... What brands will help the game run fastest if storage files are 250gb?

senecaty
Files are no longer 250GB.  They reduced things to +/-120GB with everything installed including the high def texture pack (recommended).  Though you can pick and choose different pieces of the game to install/un-install.  It sits around 80GB without the high def pack.
 

Is there a noticeable difference with the high def texture pack versus without?

That's crazy man I've been out of PC gaming for a long time haha

Man cod is not worth that space

I got two 1TB going in raid 0 to install this game onto!

I'm actually shocked it requires that much.

skier23
I'm actually shocked it requires that much.

Massive

Geez, that's an insane amount of storage needed. I played the beta and agree that it's pretty much like every other CoD game. Just better graphics and looks like you can sort of do some damage to things like walls. Still like Battlefield games way better.

Is this supposed to include Warzone because I don't see how Cold War alone racks up 250 GB of storage

Didn't they just release a patch that greatly reduced the game size ?

I'll just leave this here then
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2018-11-30-hard-drive-share-as-a-strategic-weapon-for-console-publishers
 
Not unique to console gaming of course, 250GB is a nice chunk of even 1-2TB SSDs.