The Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart PC requirements have been revealed. Following the announcement of a PC port earlier this year, it turns out the requirements for a higher resolution experience are fairly demanding. Even though you don’t need an SSD to play on a PC, you might need to check out how that will affect the performance of the game before jumping in on July 26.
The minimum PC requirements will have the game running at 30 FPS at a 720p resolution, whereas you can bump up the display to 1080p by meeting the recommended requirements with an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 and an SSD. Despite an SSD not being required to run the game, it is recommended to have one even if you are running the minimum requirements just to bolster your performance.
Sony has revealed the full Ratchet & Clank PC requirements in a familiar-looking table, which we've included below for your convenience. However, also for ease of digest, we've laid out some of the key specs and demands below that.
If you’re interested in aiming for the top, we've listed the full system requirements for the Ultimate Ray Tracing setting below:
However, if your PC would struggle to keep up with the Ultimate Ray Tracing requirements, then the minimum PC requirements make for much easier reading.
In a further, interesting development on the game's PC requirements, Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apartappears to be the first PC game to use the DirectStorage 1.2 standard, as announced by Senior Lead Programmer Richard van der Laan in a now-deleted post on Steam.
If it indeed does deploy the tech, then DirectStorage 1.2 will give the game lightning-quick loading times — even when using HDDs like the minimum specs above suggest are appropriate — like it had on the PS5 version. This
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