Forspoken PC Requirements Confirm That RAM Specs Are Going Up

Luminous Productions shared the final system requirements of Forspoken and they're very high, especially when it comes to RAM, GPU, and CPU.

[jznrpg]

I used 16GB 15-16 years ago when I quit PC gaming so 32 Gb shouldn’t be an issue when you can put 64GB in most mobos . I would put 64 if I was still PC gaming

[Crows90]

Except how many gb of ram do consoles have?

Now you see it don't make much sense.

[Mr Logic]

You cannot assume that a PC will have a fast SSD so you compensate by pulling assets into RAM ahead of time. It's not that complicated.

[bangoskank]

Can a console run the game at 60fps in 4k?

[SpacedDuck]

Makes perfect sense when a PC will destroy visually what any of the current gen consoles can do and the fact you are.......I don't know running an entire OS on top of the game and background programs.

[MadLad]

@spacedduck

Developers typically don't factor in what might be going on in the background. Of course they factor in the OS, but their ram needs are kind of ridiculous and tells me they didn't focus on optimization, and basically want PC gamers to simply power through it.

Not surprising, considering the company.

[Anomander]

@crows90
It makes sense if you want to run it higher than 4k@60 with all the bells and whistles turned up on PC.

[Profchaos]

That's an apple to oranges comparison though.
Windows 11 requires 4gb of ram alone nowadays and runs like garbage with anything under 16 from my experience.

You also have the overhead of other background tasks scheduled processes on demand AV scans etc.

In comparison a console has a minimal OS with one purpose run games and get out of the way when the user is playing games in terms of background resource utilisation the ps5 uses 512mb dedicated to the os in background mode.

They are not the same looking at consoles as a benchmark for ram isn't technically accurate

[Hofstaderman]

Simple: optimised for the console.

[LordoftheCritics]

My assumption is that these games will store entire map data on the ram to avoid issues with PC gamer's not owning the fast console ssd's.

PC gamers are beginning to adapt to all the faster SSD and GPU's but this safeties the larger population.
Just my guess.

It's the 3070 at 30fps that is extremely concerning. That thing is a beast so either the game is going to be MASSIVE in scale or a massive turd.

[lelo2play]

"Forspoken PC Requirements Confirm That RAM Specs Are Going Up"

I smell Forspoken will be unoptimized crap on PC.

[Hofstaderman]

And Square seldom releases patches. DLC, yes…

[Eonjay]

I mean I think it will be fine with AMD behind this so hard. And keep in mind the 32 is only for max settings. These specs are for native res too. I doubt FSR will be as demanding at all. I think we should get some good results.

[Sonic1881]

I'm glad I have 64GB of ram. Don't have to worry about that this generation

[deleted]

Yea, I just put in an extra 64gb for a total of 80gb DDR5-4800 2 weeks ago. That is absolutely overkill though, and I didn't do it for gaming. I work professionally in Photoshop, Illustrator, Blender, etc where 64gb+ is recommended for working with multiple very large files at once.

It's nice not having to worry about ram with gaming, but it's absolutely not necessary if that's your only purpose.

I don't see any reason Forspoken should recommend 32gb, other than it's poorly optimized. There are plenty of other demanding games that get by just fine w 16gb.

**But I do agree it's nice not to have to worry.

[lonewolf10]

32GB for 4k plus gaming, to be expected now, 24GB at recommended, that has always seemed odd to me I like to keep RAM matched in all ways.

[Sano24]

Triple channel memory perhaps? Three matching sticks of 8GB

[lonewolf10]

Thanks, but I know what it is, Intel only, but to specify 24GB as recommended is odd. It is my OCD on seeing variance from 8 to 16 to 32 ranges.

[Mr Logic]

No such thing as triple channel memory. If you have 3 sticks they're running either single channel or flex mode.

[mkis007]

Mr logic

I dunno if you just meant anymore, but there was triple channel at one point..I had it.

[ActualEngineer]

@Mr logic, modern high end CPUs use quad and even octa-channel ram. If you look at the EPIC and threadripper CPUs, they are quad channel and also the thread ripper PRO are octa-channel. Some Xeons are quad channel aswell as the top of the line intel CPUs up to the 10th gen.

Also If you study computer science, in theory you can create as many channels you want if your approach is systemic and passes over to the CPU and bridge design.

[FinalFantasyFanatic]

That just screams optimized to me, will probably be a bad PC port, Square-Enix has a history of bad PC ports.

[FinalFantasyFanatic]

I just realized I made a spelling mistake, for anyone who couldn't realize, "optimized" was meant to be "un-optimized".

[MWH]

These specs are messy.

[Fonsecap]

150gb of disk space to install? Why is only 89 on PS5?

[andy85]

Kraken + better textures on PC I'd imagine

[bangoskank]

This only makes sense. Not sure why people are getting upset over it. Your PC is going to have to keep up with the complexity of current games. Why is that hard to understand?

[Seafort]

The consoles aren't so why should the PC platform?

[Number1TailzFan]

Right, and better performance/textures than consoles = higher spec requirements. I mean it makes sense, if you can't afford decent PC hardware then just stick to consoles.

[Duke19]

high resolution textures for 4k take a lot of space. Everybody is in here with pitchforks, but this is going to start being the norm (and honestly should be for PROPER 4k, high fidelity games).

[Number1TailzFan]

Most likely the ones complaining are stuck on mid/low level hardware that's 4+ years old. Then they complain that games are too demanding when upgrading maybe once every 10 years. Lol

[phoenixwing]

Ram isn't even that hard to upgrade honestly. You'd have to have a terrible motherboard if it doesn't support up to 32 gb.

[Charal]

They take a lot of place in the VRAM of the graphic card if my understanding is correct, I dont understand why RAM requirement scale up with resolution.
If my computation is OK a 4K texture coded with 12bits color space is 12MB in size, so even as a buffer to transfer from hard drive to VRAM, 16 GB of ram should be enough.

If a specialist could give more insights I would appreciate it.

[MadLad]

An unoptimized title doesn't equate to "higher standards".

[XxINFERNUSxX]

32GB RAM I had for 4+yrs. The issue I'm looking at is this: RTX 3070 /1440p 30fps WTF? Hell no. If that's what you get for turning the settings to max that's not for me. I'm happy I'm still using my 1080p/360hz LCD , with my 3070 at least I can try to push the settings to max and hopefully go over 60FPS 🙃

[IanTH]

Yeah, that is really questionable now you mention it. And I'll tell ya what, when I did a quick swap between fidelity and performance on the PS5 demo, I didn't see a massive graphics leap or anything. From what I saw, their RT isn't robust enough to drain so much performance (and I just rewatched the DF video on it, where even they struggle to notice the impact of RT on the visuals).

I have to imagine FSR2 (can't recall if they'll support DLSS) should at least help shoulder some of that weight, but I still question why it is so heavy. DF says the PS5 performance mode is upscaled from 900p (!!!!!!), which just seems crazy. I'm sure I'll play this at some point on either my PC or PS5, but I'll be curious to see performance reviews for both after launch.

[XxINFERNUSxX]

I think the RT will be pushing the PC a lot more, I guess that's why the FPS will be so low at 1440p still unacceptable. I'm guessing this is native not DLSS/FSR. DLSS/FSR are not good at all at 1080p, I really like to use native all the time, another reason I might stay on 1080p for quite a while and of course the performance hit of going higher res. Even at 1080p future games will still be GPU bound, like Forspoken and Hogwarts Legacy. Then again if both games just flop well I saved myself the headache of trying them 🤣 Oh almost forgot I use reshade for all my PC games, plain vanilla looks meh. That does bring down the FPS anywhere from 5 to 20+ in demanding areas.

[thejigisup]

Some people are certainly going to need more deditated wam

[Binarycode]

I'm just not seeing where the game needs that amount of ram.

Yes it's open world but nothing special to look at, some of the environments looks bland asf. The water looks awful.

Seems like a badly optimized engine.

[FinalFantasyFanatic]

It really doesn't make sense that this game would use more than 16GBs, but the specs for this game overall look pretty messy, they even state a 3070 will give you 30fps at 1440p, for recommended requirements. It's even shocking that people are defending this when it's clearly going to be unoptimized, and SE has a history of unoptimized PC ports, from memory it's happened with the majority of their games.

Like I said in a previous comment, this will be an unoptimized PC port.

[Anomander]

Guessing this game will not be optimized very well for PC. I'll be waiting for reviews on this game before I get it on PC.

[chronoforce]

Good, let the wheat be separated from the chaff lol.

[Yui_Suzumiya]

Last time I was big into PC gaming, that computer came with 8MB RAM. Yes, megabytes. I have a laptop now that I just bought and it has either 2 or 4GB of RAM but I only use it for visual novels (eroge specifically since console versions are all ages and the only way you get the FULL experience is on a PC or laptop, lol).

[FinalFantasyFanatic]

I remember seeing a 8MB hard drive in my Tafe College when I was studying for my Diploma in IT, that thing was massive, almost like 4 standard 3.5 taped together, and it was heavy too.

[badz149]

is this a GAAS game?

[Tzuno]

PC is a rip off these days
Optimization is ignored most of the time and the testers are the buyers
Look at Tlou Part I remake, it has mind blowing graphics for a hardware that costs under 500$ to manufacture
You'll need a very expensive PC to reach the same type of quality and performance that PS5 has
PC has no excuse, just a rip off market

[FinalFantasyFanatic]

The costing for PC parts has really blown out since the pandemic, GPUs are the worst for it, those prices are ridiculous. Power efficiency has also gone out the window with modern GPUs (admittedly the AMD GPUs are faring better than Nvidia despite the performance difference).

[onisama]

it was about time i guess....i need to upgrade my laptop with additional 16 gb ram ....my rtx 2070 still doing very good ...i stopped using my ps4 i will just wait for spiderman 2 and give it to my nephew, and buy a ps5 maybe after 5 years when its cheap....now i will keep gaming on XSX and laptop and gather exclusives of ps5 for the next 5 years till its on PS PLUS and ps5 is cheap