Fallout 4 won’t be too hardware intensive

The Frostbite 3 engine, the Creation Engine is not.

According to a recent announcement by Bethesda, Fallout 4 is going to be a reasonably accommodating game on the PC.

By that we mean, it won’t ask for something absurd like 16GB of RAM and a Skylake processor like Star Wars Battlefront’s recommended requirements do.

8Gb is far more reasonable, and we sort of expected a GTX 780 (which is very nearly a GTX 970 performance wise) or R9 290X. That said, we wouldn’t be surprised if you could get away with slightly less graphical grunt, especially if you lower a few settings from Ultra to High – something we doubt most of you will notice anyway.

Here are those specs for you – notice that 8GB of RAM is the minimum requirement as well:

Minimum
Windows 7/8/10 (64-bit OS required)
Intel Core i5-2300 2.8 GHz/AMD Phenom II X4 945 3.0 GHz or equivalent
8 GB RAM
30 GB free HDD space
NVIDIA GTX 550 Ti 2GB/AMD Radeon HD 7870 2GB or equivalent

Recommended
Windows 7/8/10 (64-bit OS required)
Intel Core i7 4790 3.6 GHz/AMD FX-9590 4.7 GHz or equivalent
8 GB RAM
30 GB free HDD space
NVIDIA GTX 780 3GB/AMD Radeon R9 290X 4GB or equivalent

Just keep in mind that you’re almost certainly going to be able to play the game with 4GB of RAM, but expect some stuttering or a less than ideal performance as a result.

The game has been developed with the consoles in mind, both of which sport 8GB of RAM and a lot less programs and applications running in the background.

For those who want to play Fallout 4 at 4k, you’re probably going to need something like a GTX 980, and keep in mind that inevitable graphics mods are going to require considerably more raw performance before they play nicely.