Metal Gear Solid Delta system requirements

The Metal Gear Solid Delta system requirements may sit on the high side when it comes to modern games, but major performance issues are being linked to the use of Unreal Engine 5, although fixes have been promised.

While you won't need the best graphics card to get the most out of Metal Gear Solid Delta Snake Eater, the storage and graphics demands are on the high side, considering this is a remake. This may catch out anyone with an older or budget gaming PC hoping to run the long-awaited remake.

Here are the Metal Gear Solid Delta Snake Eater system requirements:

The Metal Gear Solid Delta minimum requirements are in line with what is expected for the recommended tier of a modern 3D game. You'll need an Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 Super alongside an Intel Core i5 8600 or AMD Ryzen 5 3600 just to get started. Oh, and you'll also need 16GB of RAM. We could be nearing the end of the Nvidia GeForce GTX era if more games continue to demand RTX cards as the bare minimum.

As for the Metal Gear Solid Delta recommended specs, you'll need an Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 alongside an Intel Core i7 8700K or the same AMD CPU in the Ryzen 5 3600. Thankfully, there is no increase to the RAM requirement, which sticks at 16GB.

The Indiana Jones and the Great Circle system requirements are arguably the most demanding seen in recent years, rivaled only by the original Alan Wake 2 specs, which were later reduced after optimization. Metal Gear Solid Delta matches the minimum requirements of Indiana Jones. However, there is no way to turn off ray tracing in Indiana Jones, even at the lowest settings, which explains the need for a modern GPU at all levels. While there is currently no confirmation, this could also be the case in Metal Gear Solid Delta.

If this is any indication of the hardware needed for running the game at the highest settings possible, then the Metal Gear Solid Delta ultra specs, which may include path tracing based on lighting seen in the pre-release imagery, could demand an Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090, an Intel Core i9 13900K, and 32GB of RAM.

It's time to do some spring cleaning with your storage, too, because the Metal Gear Solid Delta download size demands 100GB of free space on an SSD. You can check out our best SSD for gaming guide if you need to purchase an upgrade. For the sake of comparison, a PS2 disc could hold a maximum of 8.5GB, and the original Metal Gear Solid 3 reportedly used less than 5GB of this.

This is a testament to just how massive video game file sizes have become, with 100GB+ files being increasingly common. However, I have to admit that MGS Delta does look very pretty in the pre-release footage and screenshots I've seen so far.

An obvious explanation for why the demands for this game are so high is that it is being developed in Unreal Engine 5. Metal Gear Solid Delta isn't a simple remaster but is instead a full, ground-up remake that matches the high graphical fidelity seen in modern triple-A games.

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