The full Crimson Desert PC system requirements are out, and you will get away with older gen tech

Pearl Abyss has officially revealed the PC system requirements for Crimson Desert, finally giving you a much clearer idea of the hardware needed to explore the vast world of Pywel.

Since the game is built on Pearl Abyss’ BlackSpace Engine, the minimum specs aren’t outrageous by modern standards, but pushing the game to the highest visual settings is going to require some serious horsepower.

Let’s dig into what your PC’s internals will need to look like to run Crimson Desert.

Crimson Desert’s minimum PC system requirements are very achievable

If you’re simply looking to get the game running, the minimum specs target an upscaled 1080p resolution (from 900p) at 30 FPS.

To achieve that baseline, you’ll need either an AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT or NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 paired with a Ryzen 5 2600X or Intel i5-8500. The game also requires 16 GB of RAM, Windows 10 64-bit (22H2 or newer), and 150 GB free storage on an SSD.

Even at the lowest settings, that SSD requirement suggests Crimson Desert will feature large environments and high-resolution assets that simply wouldn’t play nicely with older hard drives.

All in all, though, this is very impressive considering most open-world single-player games of today need you to have something like an NVIDIA 4000 series GPU, which is out of a lot of entry-level PC users’ price ranges.

Higher settings quickly ramp up the hardware demands

If you’re looking to push beyond the minimum, you’ll initially be impressed, but soon notice the hardware requirements ramp up fairly quickly after that.

For 1080p at 30 FPS on low settings, Pearl Abyss recommends a Radeon RX 6500 XT or GTX 1660, while medium settings targeting 1080p 60 FPS or 4K 30 FPS require something more substantial like an RX 6700 XT or RTX 2080, alongside a Ryzen 5 5600 or Intel i5-11600K.

As you’d expect, things get more serious at the higher tiers.

Running the game at 1440p 60 FPS on high settings calls for a Radeon RX 7700 XT or RTX 4070, paired with a Ryzen 5 7600X or Intel i5-12600K.

Meanwhile, if you want the absolute best experience of 4K at 60 FPS on ultra settings, a recommendation of a RX 9070 XT or RTX 5070 Ti, along with a Ryzen 7 7700X or Intel i5-13600K, is where you need to be at.

For a complete look at all of the requirements for the game, including console recommendations, and even ROG Ally specs, take a look at the official blog post.