Resident Evil Requiem system requirements

The Resident Evil Requiem system requirements are very accessible, for the most part, with CPU and GPU specs that most gaming PCs should surpass. However, 16GB of RAM is required, even at minimum settings, so if you haven't already upgraded to at least this amount, you could be facing a costly upgrade, given current RAM prices.

In terms of the highest likely expense for most gamers, though, you'll be glad to know you won't need the best graphics card to get Resident Evil Requiem up and running. Either the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660 or AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT is sufficient to fire up this game, and both those entry-level cards are nearly seven years old now, so even if you do need an upgrade, it won't be a costly one.

Here are the Resident Evil Requiem requirements:

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The Resident Evil Requiem minimum requirements call for an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660 or AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT graphics card, with no mention made of which Intel Arc GPUs will be enough to play the game. However, we'd expect all of Intel's Arc cards to be powerful enough to at least play this game, as they're relatively modern options that are more powerful than either of those AMD and Nvidia cards. For CPUs, requirements are just as modest, with only an AMD Ryzen 5 3500 or Intel Core i5 8500 needed, both of which are chips that are well over six years old.

Where some older gaming PCs might struggle, though, is hitting the 16GB minimum RAM requirement, as plenty of older, budget systems will have only shipped with 8GB. Normally, this would be an easy and cheap upgrade, but RAM prices have exploded recently. However, the biggest rises have been for DDR5, so if you're running a DDR4 or even DDR3 system, you might be able to find a more affordable 16GB upgrade.

The Resident Evil Requiem download size is a relatively modest 74GB, which is half that of some modern triple-A games. The game does require an SSD, though, so you might benefit from a storage upgrade. You won't need to grab one of the very best SSDs for gaming, but if your PC has an M.2 slot, a modest SSD, such as this $79.99 500GB Crucial P310 model, will be great boost to game load times over an old SSD or hard drive.

As for the Resident Evil Requiem recommended specs, these are really modest as well. Just an AMD Radeon 6600 or Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 is required to hit this level. Capcom doesn't specify the expected game experience with such hardware - whether the game will run at 720p/30fps or 1080p/60fps, for instance - but we'd generally expect a gaming PC that meets the recommended specs of a game to provide a 1080p/60fps experience with medium detail settings.

CPU requirements do rise a little to meet the recommended specs, but the AMD Ryzen 5 5500 and Intel Core i7 8700 are still old mid-range CPUs, so again, any reasonably modern system should have no issues. Thankfully, RAM requirements stay the same, at 16GB.

As for the answer to the question, "Can you play Resident Evil Requiem on the Steam Deck?", it's "yes." Not only does the game not require any anti-cheat software or other features that make it incompatible with Linux, but the modest requirements for the game mean the Steam Deck can run it quite well, despite Valve still not having given the game any sort of Steam Deck rating.

For more about the game, check out our Resident Evil Requiem review and our Resident Evil Requiem best settings guide, the latter of which will help you optimize the game for peak performance on PC.