The Elden Ring system requirements are fine for a modern PC game, actually
Elden Ring publisher Bandai Namco finally revealed the system requirements for the highly anticipated game earlier today, and while some of the specs that the game is recommending might seem a bit odd — especially the memory requirement — there's really nothing to see here.
According to the minimum system requirements released by the developer, you're going to need 12GB of RAM, an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 3GB or Radeon RX 580 and a Core i5-8400 or Ryzen 3 3300X CPU. If you're used to seeing most PC games requiring just 8GB of RAM, I've got some sour news for you: those days are probably over, especially in the world of AAA games like Elden Ring.
And if you want to know why those days are over, you really only need to look at the system specs of the new consoles. Both the PS5 and Xbox Series X have 16GB of system memory — even though that's shared between the CPU and the graphics card. And while the game is coming out on older platforms, you really only need to look at the nonsense that happened with Cyberpunk 2077's launch to see why it's probably best not to base your expectations on the last-generation version of the game.
In the world of PC components, we're constantly going through up and down phases when it comes to RAM prices. A few years ago, RAM was going through a similar shortage to the best Nvidia and AMD graphics cards right now. Back then, a 16GB kit of DDR4 memory was extremely expensive, but those days are over.
Just looking at Newegg, where you can get a pretty solid kit of DDR4 memory with two 8GB DIMMs for around $60 in the US. When it comes to an upgrade, that's what you'd be spending on a new game anyways, and it's going to make your system much more capable of running new games as they come out.
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