Elden Ring PC system requirements cause raised eyebrows before vanishing

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Elden Ring’s system requirements have briefly appeared on Steam, but given that they were yanked down sharpish – and look a little iffy anyway – we can guess that this was some kind of odd mistake.

Still, it’s worth checking out what was spotted, and seeing if we can glean anything from the potential demands on your PC that were aired, which were as follows for the minimum spec.

As PC Gamer, which spotted this, points out, that looks a little heavy on the CPU side when you consider FromSoftware’s previous efforts, the most recent of which was Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice .

That required just a Core i5-2500K processor – and that’s for recommended – with a Core i3-2100 passing muster for the minimal spec, and 4GB of system RAM being stipulated for the latter, too. For the graphics card, a GTX 760 was the minimum for Sekiro.

So, theoretically we’re jumping from a Core i3-2100 plus GTX 760 to a Core i5-8400 plus GTX 1060 from Sekiro to Elden Ring, if this Steam minimum spec is correct, which as we’ve already said, doesn’t seem likely.

The fact this has been taken down so quickly is indicative of a faux pas (all the Steam listing for Elden Ring says now is that the spec is TBD), and the hard requirement for 12GB of RAM is a bit of an eyebrow raiser too. A fair few gaming rigs still have 8GB (a third of PCs have 8GB or less, going by the latest Steam hardware survey), even if 16GB has clearly become the standard in the contemporary gaming world (and you’d certainly be foolish to outfit a new machine with anything less).

There could be outright mistakes here, though, with some of the spec, or rather than the minimum as stated, perhaps this is the recommended requirements – or a working set of them – and the error has been made in that