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Elden Ring\u2019s system requirements were announced not too long ago after a bit of a stop\/start, briefly showing up on Steam and then disappearing again after a massive uproar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s the massive uproar that is interesting here. First, these are the official system requirements:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The difference between minimum and recommended is pretty minimal, but what is key to note here is that even the recommended requirements are tied to a GPU that\u2019s a few generations old, before both COVID and crypto destroyed the availability of GPUs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, a chief complaint is that the system requirements are too high for a game that can run on a base PS4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We don\u2019t have any benchmarks, but most likely we\u2019ll see that base PS4 running at 720p (NOT 1080p) 30FPS with some stutter. As well, given that optimizing for consoles tends to be easier than PC (due to the fact that consoles have a limited fixed hardware set and are designed for gaming as a whole), we\u2019ll obviously need some latitude on the minimum specs for PC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In fact, I want you to check this article out on equivalency between PC and PS4 for the GPU<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you don\u2019t feel like reading, here\u2019s the short version: While on paper a pre-10xx GPU is \u201cequal\u201d to a PS4 GPU, in practice you\u2019re looking at.. Surprise, the same GPU minimum requirement for Elden Ring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CPU is perfectly understandable: Open worlds tend to be more CPU heavy due to things like AI pathing, not to mention the fact that a PC is going to have more running in the background than a PS4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

RAM? Yeah, if you\u2019re still running on 8 GB of RAM you probably aren\u2019t gaming much anyway on your PC, as it\u2019ll have the same background process issue as the CPU. RAM is fairly cheap, though, so if you can get your hands on some, upgrade!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Playing my own devil\u2019s advocate here, though, we do have the issue of people in less economically developed regions still running older hardware, as well as younger fans who don\u2019t have a reliable source of income in order to upgrade. In cases like those, it\u2019s understandable to be upset to a limited extent<\/strong> given that Elden Ring isn\u2019t going to look like Cyberpunk 2077, but it is still important to note that even the recommended hardware is generations behind current recommended hardware.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s not simple, but ultimately From Software has to weigh the availability of hardware with the kind of game they wanted to make, and the balance they struck from my perspective seems fairly reasonable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The unfortunate part is that From Software\u2019s titles are so widely popular that numerous fans are unable to acquire appropriate hardware to play modern releases. While streaming can be a solution in some cases, practically speaking a large portion of gamers who can\u2019t afford modern hardware also won\u2019t have a connection reliable enough to stream.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elden Ring is due to release  on 2\/25\/2022 (2\/24 at 11 PM CST time); GGN does plan on reviewing the game, and depending on how embarrassingly bad I am at it I may stream it that weekend, as well as working to produce guide content.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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