Elden Ring Has Reasonable PC Specs, But Requires 150GB Of Space

TheGamer

By Sean Murray

Published Aug 10, 2021

You’ll need a good chunk of hard drive space, but Elden Ring’s PC requirements are otherwise pretty reasonable.

UPDATE: It seems the PC requirements listed for Elden Ring are just a placeholder, as an eagle-eyed fan noticed they're identical to those of Red Dead Redemption 2. Expect to see accurate numbers announced as we learn more about FromSoftware's mysterious project.

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Elden Ring's Steam page is now live, but those looking to get a peek at the upcoming FromSoftware game's required specs will be disappointed to find a "TBD." To find out what kind of rig Elden Ring will require, we head on over to Game Informer.

The good news is that the game’s specs seem very reasonable. Requiring 150 GB of hard drive storage is a lot, but not unheard of for a PC game. Red Dead Online, Microsoft Flight Simulator, Quantum Break, and Black Ops Cold War all require 150 GB or more of dedicated disk space to play, and being a modern MMO certainly qualifies Elden Ring to join their ranks.

Both the CPU and video card listed as recommended are several generations old and seem to match up well with Steam's most recent hardware survey. Nvidia's GeForce GTX 1060 is still the most common video card on Steam today, and likely will remain so for some time thanks to ongoing video card shortages. Although prices have dropped after the recent Bitcoin crackdown in China, supply remains far outstripped by demand for next-gen video cards, which means it'll be a while before we see developers aim for something like the RTX 3060 as the recommended video card.

In fact, the recommended specs seem very much in line with what we'd see for games that launched on the previous console generation. Elden Ring still plans to launch on the PS4 and Xbox One, which means FromSoftware is developing for fairly humble console hardware.