Update: EA has reached out and clarified that the game will be recommending 16GB of RAM, rather than 32GB. The original article continues below.
EA has released system requirements for its upcoming Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, and for once they seem kind of reasonable. Well, at least until you look at the recommended amount of memory (RAM) to run the game.
If you want to run the game at the recommended spec, you’ll apparently need 32GB of RAM, meaning that only hardcore video editors and professionals can really get the full potential from this interstellar character action game. Now, of course, the minimum required amount is 8GB, so your lowly mid-to-high-end gaming PC should still be able to scrape by.
And, it’s kind of a shame, too, because the rest of the system requirements are downright reasonable by today’s standards. Developer Respawn’s action game only recommends an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 and an Intel Core i7-6700K, which should mean this game will be pretty easy to run at maximum settings.
Here are the minimum system requirements for Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order:
- OS: 64-bit Windows 7/8.1/10
- CPU: AMD FX-6100 or Intel Core i3-3220
- RAM: 8GB
- Graphics card: AMD Radeon HD 7750 or Nvidia GeForce GTX 650
- DirectX 11
- HDD: 55GB
And, here are the recommended requirements:
- OS: 64-bit Windows 7/8.1/10
- CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 1700 or Intel Core i7-6700K
- RAM: 32GB (!)
- Graphics card: AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 or Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070
- DirectX 11
- HDD: 55GB
Will you really need 32GB of RAM?
So, that recommended RAM capacity, we don’t think you’ll actually need that. We recently did some testing to see how much RAM you need in a gaming PC, and even in the most memory-intensive games, we only see about 12GB of RAM usage for the whole system. It’s unlikely that, if the game can run on 8GB of RAM, that a 32GB RAM kit will see a significant boost in performance over a 16GB kit.
That’s not to mention the fact that Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order will be running on current console generation hardware,…
