Notably, these minimum requirements are identical to a list (spotted by PC Gamer) that briefly appeared on Elden Ring’s Steam page before being swiftly deleted. The vanishing act and surprisingly high specs did make it seem as if they weren’t the finished article , but nope, here we are. Does anyone even have 12GB of RAM? I mean it’s technically possible but you’d need to buy two completely different ah you know what never mind here’s the full list.

Elden Ring minimum PC specs

OS – Windows 10 CPU – Intel Core i5-8400 / AMD Ryzen 3 3300X GPU – Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 3GB / AMD Radeon RX 580 4GB RAM – 12GB Storage – 60GB DirectX – DirectX 12

OS – Windows 10 / 11 CPU – Intel Core I7-8700K / AMD Ryzen 5 3600X GPU – Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 / AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 RAM – 16GB Storage – 60GB SSD DirectX – DirectX 12

In fairness to FromSoftware, those two recommended-level graphics cards are only two steps up from the minimum GPUs in their respective product lines – or just one if you count the 6GB GTX 1060 and 8GB RX 580 as separate cards. In general, it does look as though you’ll be able to get by with older hardware, as long as it isn’t too low-end. There’s apparently a 60fps cap on PC too, so having overpowered internals won’t help as much. Even so, Elden Ring could be in greater need of the best graphics cards once it adds ray tracing effects; these won’t be in the game when it launches on February 25th, but will come later in a patch.