Elden Ring system requirements could cause headaches for some PC gamers

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Elden Ring’s 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 game’s Twitter account, so we now have the minimum and recommended specification. Let’s take a look at those full details first, before discussing the ramifications (or should that be RAMifications, ahem).

Minimum requirements

Recommended requirements

The first point to note is the rather unusual requirement for 12GB of system RAM, and remember, that’s 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, you’re looking at 16GB of RAM, but that’s no surprise at all.

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

The recommended spec for the graphics card calls for a GTX 1070, which again doesn’t feel like such a big ask given that it’s one step up from minimal, and this is what’s required for obtaining robust performance levels.

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 you’re going to get – still use 8GB. In fact, a third of PCs have 8GB or less, according to the most recent Steam stats, so that’s a sizeable chunk of the gaming population out there.

Now, it’s true that 16GB has become the standard loadout for any new gaming rig, but