Elden Ring system requirements could cause headaches for some PC gamers

Date:
Tue, 15 Feb 2022 15:04:19 +0000

Description:
The much-awaited action RPG could leave a surprising number of gaming rigs
out in the cold.

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Elden Rings system requirements were briefly glimpsed at the weekend , as
you may have seen, before being yanked down from Steam but it turns out the spotted minimum spec was correct.

The official PC requirements have now been aired via the games Twitter
account , so we now have the minimum and recommended specification. Lets take a look at those full details first, before discussing the ramifications (or should that be RAMifications, ahem).

Minimum requirements OS : Windows 10, Windows 11 CPU : Intel Core i5-8400 or AMD Ryzen 3 3300X RAM : 12GB GPU : Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 (3GB) or AMD
Radeon RX 580 (4GB) Drive Space: 60GB

Recommended requirements OS : Windows 10, Windows 11 CPU : Intel Core i7-8700K or AMD Ryzen 5 3600X RAM : 16GB GPU : Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 (8GB) or AMD RX Vega 56 (8GB) Drive Space: 60GB

The first point to note is the rather unusual requirement for 12GB of system RAM , and remember, thats a minimum . In other words, if you have less than 12GB of memory, and there are still a number of folks in that boat who may only have 8GB, then you can forget about playing Elden Ring at all.

For recommended, youre looking at 16GB of RAM, but thats no surprise at all.

The graphics card minimum requirement may leave some PC gamers out in the cold, as well, given that you cant have less than a GTX 1060, and again,
thats not a threshold everyone will hit.

The recommended spec for the graphics card calls for a GTX 1070, which again doesnt feel like such a big ask given that its one step up from minimal, and this is whats required for obtaining robust performance levels. Analysis: Possible RAM and GPU worries, but for how many gamers?

We already chewed this over to some extent at the weekend , of course, and a fair few gaming PCs at least going by the Steam hardware survey, which is about as good a snapshot of the current gaming scene as youre going to get still use 8GB. In fact, a third of PCs have 8GB or less, according to the
most recent Steam stats, so thats a sizeable chunk of the gaming population out there.

Now, its true that 16GB has become the standard loadout for any new gaming rig, but were talking about older PCs here not everyone can afford to
upgrade regularly, particularly not given how expensive some components have become these days. And in particular a good number of aging laptops used for gaming will likely still run with 8GB (which wont be upgradable, either, most likely).

While were beating the RAM drum, its also true that some games have
stipulated 12GB other hulking open world efforts like Red Dead Redemption 2 to pick an obvious example but that amount of system memory was the recommended configuration for RDR 2, not the minimum .

As well as potential problems around system RAM, some gamers may also be worrying over that GPU requirement. A GTX 1060 is not a beefy graphics card
by any means (neither is an RX 580), but again looking at Steams hardware survey, around 20% of gamers have a worse card than the 1060 (briefly
checking the top set of cards). And of course, the near 10% who do own a GTX 1060 or RX 580 wont have a great experience, youd imagine, if their GPU is literally the lowest spec you can get away with for playing Elden Ring.

The RAM requirement will have more impact than the GPU, no doubt, but both could cause headaches for some lower-tier gaming rigs. What we can hope is that the developer is overestimating the spec somewhat; in other words,
erring on the side of caution when laying it all out here. Because these system requirements are certainly a bit of a shock compared to previous FromSoftware outings on the PC, like Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice. We were expecting Elden Ring to be more demanding, of course, but not this much more taxing. Best gaming laptops of 2022



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