Homeworld 3's latest system requirements won't fill up your SSD but you'll need all the CPU and GPU you can throw at it

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With Homeworld 3 just weeks away from launch, Blackbird Interactive has done what surprisingly few developers do these days: updated and released a comprehensive system requirements chart. For gamers using a modest PC, it looks very promising, but if you're hoping to play it at 4K with maximum graphics, you're going to need the very best gaming hardware.

The chart was tweaked last week to «match the performance and optimization improvements made coming up to launch», which is May 13. I'm not a big fan of developers posting minimum requirements and much prefer to use their recommended specs as the entry point for enjoyable gameplay. For playing at 1080p, using the medium quality preset, a Core i5 9600K or Ryzen 5 3600X is suggested for the CPU.

Those are both six-core processors, though AMD's does offer multithreading support for 12 threads in total. That Intel chip dates back to 2018 (the Ryzen is a year younger) so it doesn't look like Homeworld 3 will be especially CPU-heavy. That said, it is a real-time strategy game set in space, so I should imagine that in really big battles, especially online ones, the 9600K might struggle a bit.

For graphics cards, Blackbird Interactive suggests an Arc A580, GeForce 'RTX 1080 Ti', or a Radeon RX 5700. The Nvidia recommendation is obviously a typo and should be a GTX 1080 Ti, which is a seven-year-old GPU. At the time, it was one of the most powerful graphics cards you could buy but today's mainstream GPUs are more than a match. It does make a pleasant change seeing Intel's graphics cards getting a mention in system requirements.

RAM requirements are 16GB across the board and that's pretty much the norm for PC gaming these days. What is unusual is the amount of storage space needed, just 40GB. Compared to the 100GB+ behemoths we often see nowadays, that seems like a mere drop in the ocean. Mind you, space is mostly empty.

Going to the other scale of things, 4K gaming on the Epic preset needs far more recent and potent