'Dragon Age Inquisition' Official Specs Revealed: Check Out If Your PC Can Run The Game
Players curious on the minimum and recommended system requirements of "Dragon Age Inquisition" can now view the entire list at the official website. Alternatively, System Requirement Labs also updated the Can You Run It engine for easy testing.
'Dragon Age Inquisition' System Requirements Revealed
BioWare confirms the official system requirements of "Dragon Age Inquisition" via the game's official website. As usual, the list is divided into two detailing the minimum and recommended hardware requirements for gaming experience:
System Component | Minimum Settings | Recommended Settings |
Operating System | Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 64-bit | Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 64-bit |
Processor | 2.5 GHz AMD quad-core or 2.0 GHz Intel quad-core | 3.2 GHz AMD six-core or 3.0 GHz Intel quad-core |
RAM | 4 GB | 8 GB |
Graphics Card | AMD Radeon HD 4870 or NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT | AMD Radeon HD 7870 or R9 270 or NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 |
Graphics Memory | 512 MB | 2 GB |
Hard Disk Space | 26 GB | 26 GB |
DirectX | Version 10 | Version 11 |
In addition on Windows 8.1 64-bit support, "Dragon Age Inquisition" also supports Xbox 360 controller and DirectX 9.0c sound card compatibility on PCs. Players are required for online authentication of the game at time of installation.
Can You Run It?
For computer owners unaware of the hardware parts installed, a testing engine provided by System Requirements Lab via website called "Can You Run It" can help out determine if the game will run on the minimum or recommended game settings.
Highlighted by the website includes the processor speed and type, video card graphic shaders such as Pixel, Vertex, the GPU memory, system RAM, operating system and hard disk space. The website also provides a percentile chart for each category to notify users which among requires an upgrade.
Unfortunately, "Dragon Age Inquisition" does not seem to have a laptop mode unlike with "The Sims 4," according the details revealed by BioWare. This is most likely due to the vast open world with constant rendering making the game more enjoyable on desktop computers or high-powered laptops. Click here to see new image samples provided by BioWare.