Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart PC Requirements revealed

Nixxes Software has revealed the official PC system requirements for Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, covering 1080p, 1440p and 4K resolutions.

[darthv72]

steam deck should be able to run this.

[KillaJamm]

Biggest surprise for me is it only needs a HDD, I'm pretty sure when it released they marketed it as only possible because of the NVMe SSD in the PS5?

[phoenixwing]

You're right but that was before 1.2 direct storage update software came to pc. Sony didn't lie technology just got improved afterward.

[blackblades]

We'll see the downside of it when DF does a video.

[Destiny1080]

Mike Fitzgerald, core technology director at Insomniac Games

"there’s so much to peel back about the SSD and the I/O around it. We’re just scratching the surface of it"

[purple101]

Hmm yes HDD, The lowest column

Where it lists great smooth running, such as 720p and 30fps.

All columns with 60fps it says SSD

[mkis007]

literally the lowest settings at 720p and 30fps...it's not hard to imagine that they will have loading screens in a lot more places with an hdd.

[anast]

It's not out of the box. It needs a tech band-aid via 1.2 direct to run it.

[Good-Smurf]

They didn't lied there was no Direct Storage 1.2 when they were developing the game and designing the console.
5200 RPM HDD on PS4 would make the game felt very gimped and unimpressive.

[chicken_in_the_corn]

It was just marketing talk.

https://www.videogameschron...

[purple101]

Ok so you won't need an SSD. (Its only recommended, not required) But youl need at least £500 worth of graphics card. Sheesh

[phoenixwing]

My 2070 super i7 9700f computer is old hat these days. If you look up the requirements for that something aveum fps rpg the requirements are even worse lol

All I can say is thank goodness baldurs gate 3 will run well on my PC. That's all I really need PC wise

[mkis007]

you need an ssd for anything other than low settings. 720p and 30fps... that is a lot to lose just to use an hdd.

[Number1TailzFan]

Graphics cards are literally the only component which are stupidly priced these days, just about everything else PC wise is well priced for the performance you get, as for GPUs I think spending just over a grand on a 4080 is stupid when a 4090 is quite a lot faster and "only" maybe £200-£300 or so more.

[Good-Smurf]

This only confirms the amazing value PS5 brings and even better at $300 used it's a steal, makes my high end gaming laptop felt insanely overpriced and inefficient at running games at 1440p/4K with consistent performance.

[mkis007]

it will be interesting to see how the lowest spec runs without the ssd...pretty much assumed it would need high ram and or some form of ssd. the fact that it runs at all on an hdd is curious...but maybe not depending on cutbacks and loads.

[Eonjay]

So the work around is requiring a very decent GPU paired with Direct Storage.

[mkis007]

yes, but how it runs on paper and how it actually runs will be the proof that it can be done. What cutbacks are required exactly.

[Eonjay]

Most likely the biggest cut will be resolution.

[anast]

I heard it runs on the NES...

[Good-Smurf]

In order to play equivalent PS5 fidelity mode I need RTX 3060Ti and 75 GB of space.
I'll just sitck to PS5 original as it runs flawlessly on Fidelity and already looked mind blowing.
I know my gaming laptop can run it at that settings but I doubt it would be half as smooth and consistent.
30 fps just sucks stability wise on PC it simply doesn't look smooth like on PS5.

[Vits]

Looks fairly well-optimized. And a DF comparison with the PS5 version will be really interesting. Though, based on the table provided I would assume that High will be very similar to the PS5 Performance RT mode. Which if true, just shows how good Nixxes is at optimization. The exclusives of RT-Shadows and Ambient occlusion requiring extra juice to run also make sense, those are the things that tank performance on pretty much every new release.

But the most surprising is the Minimum settings. Not only because of the use of an HDD. But because that is a fairly old GPU - The RX470 is from 2016 and while it's not apples to apples it would slot itself into somewhere between a PS4 and a PS4 Pro - and the CPU requirements are a bit higher, but the Intel i3 8100 is still a quad-core from 2017 and all of that is paired with a measly 8GB of DDR4 memory...

Sure it is still for low settings 720p. But that means that portable handhelds like the Steam Deck and the ROG Ally will probably be able to run this game reasonably well.