{"id":107659,"date":"2016-10-11T07:45:03","date_gmt":"2016-10-11T05:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=107659"},"modified":"2016-10-11T07:46:03","modified_gmt":"2016-10-11T05:46:03","slug":"skyrim-special-edition-system-requirements-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/107659-skyrim-special-edition-system-requirements-revealed","title":{"rendered":"Skyrim Special Edition system requirements revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is not a very demanding game by today&#8217;s standards, but the addition of high-quality texture packs and graphics mods on PC can drastically increase its hardware requirements.<\/p>\n<p>The upcoming Skyrim Special Edition is a remastered version of the original game, featuring better textures and visual effects.<\/p>\n<p>This also means that the remastered game has high system requirements compared to the 5-year old original title.<\/p>\n<p>Bethesda has <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/bethesda.net\/?hootPostID=7cadd48d0a67148eca12e05b87335031#en\/events\/game\/skyrim-special-edition-gone-gold-system-requirements\/2016\/10\/10\/229\" target=\"_blank\">released <\/a><\/strong>the system requirements for the upcoming remaster, with\u00a0the Special Edition requiring a quad-core processor and at least 8GB of memory.<\/p>\n<p>Below are the official system requirements for Skyrim Special Edition:<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Minimum<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Windows 7\/8.1\/10 (64-bit Version)<\/li>\n<li>Intel i5-750\/AMD Phenom II X4-945<\/li>\n<li>8GB of RAM<\/li>\n<li>12 GB free HDD space<\/li>\n<li>NVIDIA GTX 470 1GB \/AMD HD 7870 2GB<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Recommended<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Windows 7\/8.1\/10 (64-bit Version)<\/li>\n<li>Intel i5-2400\/AMD FX-8320<\/li>\n<li>8GB of RAM<\/li>\n<li>12 GB free HDD space<\/li>\n<li>NVIDIA GTX 780 3GB \/AMD R9 290 4GB<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p>It is important to note that Skyrim Special Edition will be a 64-bit application, meaning that modders will no longer have to deal with a memory limit.<\/p>\n<p>Skyrim Special Edition is set to release on <strong>28 October<\/strong> for <strong>PC<\/strong>, <strong>PlayStation 4<\/strong>, and <strong>Xbox One<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Now read this:\u00a0<a title=\"Permalink to Sony won\u2019t allow Skyrim or Fallout 4 mods on PS4\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/103975-sony-wont-allow-skyrim-or-fallout-4-mods-on-ps4.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Sony won\u2019t allow Skyrim or Fallout 4 mods on PS4<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are the system requirements for the upcoming Skyrim remaster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":232,"featured_media":95273,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11681,4],"tags":[31,18337,22683,10987,20182,69,10137,20180],"class_list":["post-107659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","category-playstation","category-xbox","tag-active","tag-edition","tag-enhanced","tag-remastered","tag-requirements","tag-skyrim","tag-special","tag-system"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/232"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107671,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107659\/revisions\/107671"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}