We’re only about a week away from the long-awaited release of Elden Ring, and the entire internet is absolutely vibrating with hype. With the gameplay history of FromSoftware, creator of Dark Souls, and the story expertise of Game of Thrones writer George R.R. Martin, this game is basically guaranteed to hit what may very well be the most profitable cross section of players in history. Of course, before you get too excited, you should probably make sure that you can actually play the game first. I can tell you from experience that nothing is more soul-shattering than getting hype for a game only to find out you can’t play it. Here are Elden Ring’s minimum and recommended specs.
This morning, after leaving the specs section of the Elden Ring Steam page on TBD for a long while, the official Elden Ring Twitter released the minimum and recommended specs for the PC version of the game. As a reminder, the minimum specs are the baseline of quality output that your PC can manage to run the game more or less cleanly, while the recommended specs are what you need for an optimal, top-quality performance.
Elden Ring Minimum and Recommended Specs
Here are Elden Ring’s minimum and recommended specs for PC:
Minimum Specs for Elden Ring
- Operating System: Windows 10
- Processor: Intel Core i5-8400 or AMD Ryzen 3 3300X
- RAM: 12 GB
- Graphics Card: Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060, 3GB or AMD Radeon RX 580, 4GB
- DirectX: DirectX 12 (Feature Level 12.0)
- Local Storage: 60 GB
- Sound: Any Windows-compatible audio device
Recommended Specs for Elden Ring
- Operating System: Windows 10 or Windows 11
- Processor: Intel Core i7-8700K or AMD Ryzen 5 3600X
- RAM: 16GB
- Graphics Card: Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070, 8GB or AMD Radeon RX Vega 56, 8GB
- DirectX: DirectX 12 (Feature Level 12.0)
- Local Storage: 60 GB
- Sound: Any Windows-compatible audio device
To reiterate, the Recommended specs are just enough to get you a clean, average performance. If you have more powerful hardware, you should be able to run Elden Ring at a much higher fidelity, though it has been confirmed that the game will have a capped framerate of 60 FPS.
If you’re using an Nvidia graphics card, you should check your Nvidia app and update your graphics drivers now, as they’ve already released new game-ready drivers to ensure that Elden Ring is optimized on launch day.
