Recommended Specs for high quality?

[ACE7F22]

I'm literally building a PC to run this game, and experience the return of Armored Core in all it's glory. Any advice on what the minimum component specs should be to crank all the settings to max, and get at least 60fps, at least 2k, with Ray Tracing of course?
(120+fps, at 4K with all settings maxed would be nice)
(Oh, and I'm sticking with Intel and Nvidia, feel free to discuss all options though.)

I'm on a 2016 Lenovo Laptop, so I can't judge what is a necessary upgrade, versus just complete overkill.

To clarify, I'm building a Tower PC, going big. Armored Core is the only game that would force me to upgrade. lol

[SummonerPrime]

They only have released the minimum requirements on the store page (on steam). We dont have any information on the recommended spec, however the min specs require a gtx 960 or smthin.

Also the game probably will be locked on 60 fps like all their other games so keep that in mind I guess.

[DrWilyeCoyote]

Darn you i wish i had your capital. i'd be doing the exact same thing. my laptop processor is just about 30% shy of being able to run AC6.

[.Zaga]

4k 120 fps is very demanding, and we dont even know how optimized this game on pc.
You're going to need the best of the best gpu that you can find

[Getsu Fuma]

Originally posted by .Zaga:

4k 120 fps is very demanding, and we dont even know how optimized this game on pc.
You're going to need the best of the best gpu that you can find

Even an RTX 4090 struggles to do 4k 120 fps without lowering settings in modern games, unless the game is really well optimized.

[Call Sign: Raven]

If you run it at 1080/60FPS, you can save a lot of money on a rig. No need to go wild with a PC, unless you just have tons of cash to burn, I suppose.

[D One]

Originally posted by ACE7F22:

To clarify, I'm building a Tower PC, going big. Armored Core is the only game that would force me to upgrade. lol

Well, the more Tensor and CPU cores you have, the more the core strength will be.

Armored Core : 14th gen for answer

[KillingArts]

Originally posted by ACE7F22:

(120+fps, at 4K with all settings maxed would be nice)

Ignoring the fact that the game is not out and nobody on the planet can tell you how demanding it actually is...

With this kind of demand the only option is to spend 3-4k and go with a 7800X3D and a 4090. And then the game gets released and you realize that From Software is actually a pretty bad PC developer and they've capped their game to 60fps once again. ^^

[ACE7F22]

Maybe some dev' might notice this, and be nice enough to drop some hints. lol

I appreciate the comments. I've been trying to do a lot of research on PC building. Back when I got my laptop, the GTX 1080 was really good, so I figured RTX 40X0 would be overkill for anything running just one monitor. I'm guessing if it's true that the game will be capped at 60fps anyway, and I only have a 2K monitor, the soon to release RTX 4060 would probably be more than enough?

I just really want to max out all the graphics, and expeirance the game at the highest quality.

Also, it seems the new RTX cards are kinda cheating with DLSS. I mean it sounds like it's creating extra frames in between fully rendered frames, like how some TVs were advertised to enhance the motion by turning 60fps into 180fps by forging frames in-between the legit frames. This leads me to believe that even if the game engine is capped at 60fps, would the card still be putting out extra frames in-between, making the actual refresh-rate 120hz?

So far I'm planning a build with an intel Core i7-13700. DDR5 32gb RAM, and Nvidia RTX 4060.

Thanks again for the comments. I'm hoping this might be helpful to others as well, not just myself.

[REhorror]

Originally posted by ACE7F22:

So far I'm planning a build with an intel Core i7-13700. DDR5 32gb RAM, and Nvidia RTX 4060.

Thanks again for the comments. I'm hoping this might be helpful to others as well, not just myself.

That seems more than enough to handle any AAA game nowadays, at least 1440p High setting I think.
So you should be fine unless From messes up with the PC port.

Also, I don't think this game will support DLSS and Ray tracing day one.

[D One]

Regardless, you should upgrade your core speed to play armored core.

[KillingArts]

Originally posted by ACE7F22:

Maybe some dev' might notice this, and be nice enough to drop some hints. lol

I appreciate the comments. I've been trying to do a lot of research on PC building. Back when I got my laptop, the GTX 1080 was really good, so I figured RTX 40X0 would be overkill for anything running just one monitor. I'm guessing if it's true that the game will be capped at 60fps anyway, and I only have a 2K monitor, the soon to release RTX 4060 would probably be more than enough?

I just really want to max out all the graphics, and expeirance the game at the highest quality.

Also, it seems the new RTX cards are kinda cheating with DLSS. I mean it sounds like it's creating extra frames in between fully rendered frames, like how some TVs were advertised to enhance the motion by turning 60fps into 180fps by forging frames in-between the legit frames. This leads me to believe that even if the game engine is capped at 60fps, would the card still be putting out extra frames in-between, making the actual refresh-rate 120hz?

So far I'm planning a build with an intel Core i7-13700. DDR5 32gb RAM, and Nvidia RTX 4060.

Thanks again for the comments. I'm hoping this might be helpful to others as well, not just myself.

For the frame generation feature the game needs to support it. And From Software is not exactly known to implement new PC-specific features. So I have my doubts that this will be in the game. Then again, Elden Ring supported DLSS2.0. So I wouldn't rule out DLSS3.0 support completely. Also, there is a DLSS3.0 mod for Elden Ring now. So even if AC doesn't support it, there is still a chance that there will be a user mod at some point (probably not shortly after launch, though).

That being said, I am not sure the 4060 will be enough for max settings at 1440p. Again, it's impossible to say right now. But if you want to minimize the chance of having to reduce settings and have the budget for it, maybe go one tier higher.

[KillingArts]

Maybe watch this before buying a 4060 or 4060ti. :/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2b0MWGwK_U

So, since the 4060ti is barely faster than the 3060ti, the 4060 might actually be slower. Perhaps something like a used 3080 12GB is a better option?

[ACE7F22]

What I'm thinking with the RTX 4060, is the $300 entry point to just have a well working PC. I figured it's not a lot to burn, while waiting to see what happens with RTX 4080/90 prices. If the high end becomes affordable, I'd be saving money even if I don't resell the 4060.

Point being, 4060 as an entry point place holder. Something good enough to get by until high end price comes down, also, gives me time to pay off the rest of the PC, at a lower entry point, then upgrade later. Otherwise, I was looking to start with RTX 4070 TI oc at $800.

Thanks again for the advice an comments.

By the way, I heard the pricing with the RTX 4060/ 4060 TI(8gb)/(16gb) at $100 apart from each other, is like a marketing thing to get people to just go up to the next expensive model, end up paying $500 for the best 4060 Ti (16gb), when $300 could do well enough till a major upgrade. If 4060 works, and someday the high end cards drop more than $300, I technically still save money upgrading, and be able to play my games in the meantime.

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Originally posted by REhorror:

Originally posted by ACE7F22:

So far I'm planning a build with an intel Core i7-13700. DDR5 32gb RAM, and Nvidia RTX 4060.

Thanks again for the comments. I'm hoping this might be helpful to others as well, not just myself.

That seems more than enough to handle any AAA game nowadays, at least 1440p High setting I think.
So you should be fine unless From messes up with the PC port.

Also, I don't think this game will support DLSS and Ray tracing day one.

i have that processor and a 3060 and can run everything really well 2160 p 60-140 frames on most new games u

[This PC]

Originally posted by ACE7F22:

I'm literally building a PC to run this game, and experience the return of Armored Core in all it's glory. Any advice on what the minimum component specs should be to crank all the settings to max, and get at least 60fps, at least 2k, with Ray Tracing of course?
(120+fps, at 4K with all settings maxed would be nice)
(Oh, and I'm sticking with Intel and Nvidia, feel free to discuss all options though.)

I'm on a 2016 Lenovo Laptop, so I can't judge what is a necessary upgrade, versus just complete overkill.

To clarify, I'm building a Tower PC, going big. Armored Core is the only game that would force me to upgrade. lol

I have not read the rest of the suggestions, but from my experience, 120FPS 4k might be unattainable. 4k 60FPS is fairly reasonable though. I also wouldn't rely on being able to run raytracing, From's implementation is pretty terrible. x)

Moving on from that, you'll probably want a high end AMD cpu, I wouldn't really recommend Intel chips right now because of some newer "features" that cause issues with games and their middlewares. 32gb of 3600mhz ram, 4 chips to fill all your slots for maximum bandwith. Would probably go for a 3090/3090 TI, 40xx cards have a very poor reputation (That actually can't be said of the 4090, after research). Make sure you get a monitor that can actually handle high refresh rates at 4k too. You'll also want to make sure your motherboard and your PSU matches the kind of hardware you're putting in.

But frankly my man, I don't think you need 4k 120fps. I would think 1440p (2560x1440) @ 120 fps is a nice compromise (it's actually not much smaller than 4k, 4k is 3840x2160), and the gear to achieve that is super affordable, like, not even a sixth of the price you'll pay to attempt 4k @ 120fps (if you manage to hit that at all), and a lot more stable than tippy top of the line gear.

I've always felt myself that having a crisp experience > having beautiful graphics. As you increase the graphics, you introduce more opportunity for stutters and other kind of unpleasant artifacts in your experience, even if you run it at 24,000 fps. Doesn't mean it's impossible to have pretty graphics, on Elden Ring, I run max settings @ stable 60 fps @ 1080p with a 3060, I can turn on raytracing, and am still stable at 60fps, but I get these weird unpleasant stutters and very little benefit on the quality of my graphics.

This is of course, opinions to be taken with a grain of salt. ^^''

Edit:

Originally posted by ACE7F22:

So far I'm planning a build with an intel Core i7-13700. DDR5 32gb RAM, and Nvidia RTX 4060.

Yeap, that's a really good, solid, reliable, cost effective setup. ♥
Just make sure you research gaming on that processor properly ? Like, inform yourself on e-cores and the kind of problems that can cause. There's an IT guy on the Elden Ring forums that resolved a lot of problems for people by tackling that. Am more of a coder myself, I can do some basic IT but not in depth IT with latest tech, I don't know all the details. :D