Upgrade Your PC for Ultimate Forspoken PS5 Gaming Experience!

Forspoken was promoted from the start as a demonstration of PS5 and PC hardware, with cutting-edge features like quick game loading thanks to solid-state drives and AI upscaling. The energy requirements of the “magical parkour” game have only become clear today.

Now that Square Enix has released the PC system requirements, I’m unsure if my mid-range gaming PC can run the game. To play this game at a pitiful 720p resolution at just 30 frames per second, you’ll need a 3.7GHz Core i7 processor or more, 16GB of RAM, and 150GB of hard drive space.

Even with the recommended configuration of 24 GB of RAM, an RTX 3070 or greater graphics card, and an SSD, the frame rate will only reach 30 fps while playing. Square Enix and Luminous Productions recommend a rig with an RX 6800 XT or RTX 4080, 32GB of RAM, an NVMe SSD, and a somewhat current enthusiast-class CPU if you want 4K resolution and/or 60 frames per second.

I’m playing it on PS5 because my computer has an RTX 3060 Ti, and I wouldn’t say I like the direction the newest GPUs are going. However, based on the recent free PS5 demo, I should be able to expect between 30 and 40 frames per second.

It’s unclear if the PC version of the game is underoptimized. Still, it’s important to note that it uses the developer’s Luminous Engine rather than Unreal Engine 5 (even if the two are easily confused). To get the most out of Forspoken, 32GB of RAM is recommended, even if you have no plans to revamp your gaming machine otherwise wholly.

DDR4 pricing is at an all-time low, and games gradually demand more memory. However, Returnal no longer recommends 32GB of RAM unless you’re playing at 4K. So far as I can tell, you can purchase 2x16GB for $110 or less, based on some quick research I conducted on several popular 32GB kits. In case you couldn’t read the graphic perfectly, here are the minimum specifications in bullet point form: