Star Wars Outlaws, a new open-world game set in the iconic universe where you take on the role of a smuggler from the studio behind The Division, sounds like a winner. However, with recent gameplay deep dives and previews being mostly lukewarm and Ubisoft asking for extra money to play the game a few days early, the hype for what should be this month’s biggest release doesn’t seem to be there.
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On the plus side, the PC version sounds technically impressive, with real-time ray-tracing and the new DLSS 3.5 Ray Reconstruction tech dramatically improving image quality on a GeForce RTX rig. However, with Ubisoft updating the official storage page with full PC requirements and hardware specifications for Star Wars Outlaws, you’re going to need some serious power to play this at 1440p or higher.
The recommended specs, which cover running the game at 1080, 60 FPS, with the ‘High’ graphics preset, require at least an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti or AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT GPU. But even then, DLSS or FSR needs to be set to ‘Quality,’ which means rendering the game at 720p before the upscaler does its thing.
Increase the resolution to 1440p, and you’ll need a GeForce RTX 3080, RTX 4070, or Radeon RX 6800 XT to hit 60 FPS using the same ‘High’ graphics preset. This also includes running DLSS or FSR using the ‘Quality’ setting – rendering at 1080p.
Increase the resolution to 4K, and you’ll need a GeForce RTX 4080 or Radeon RX 7900 XTX, two flagship current-gen cards used by only a very small percentage of the PC gaming community, to play Star Wars Outlaws at its most visually impressive.
Based on the system requirements, it looks like the game is set to be a performance benchmark for quite a while. DLSS or FSR being a requirement to hit a performance target is not uncommon, and based on what we’re seeing here, it will become increasingly prevalent in the years to come.
Here are the PC system requirements for Star Wars Outlaws broken up into various categories. On the plus side, 65GB of SSD storage space is on the light side for a modern open-world AAA title.
Minimum
- Operating System: Windows 10, Windows 11 (64-bit versions), DirectX 12
- CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 @ 3.6 GHz, Intel Core i7-8700K @ 3.70 GHz, or better
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 (6 GB), AMD RX 5600XT (6 GB), Intel Arc A750 (8 GB, with ReBAR on) or better
- RAM Memory: 16 GB (dual-channel mode)
- Storage: 65 GB SSD
- Resolution: 1080p, 30 FPS, LOW graphics preset with upscaler set to Quality
Recommended
- Operating System: Windows 10, Windows 11 (64-bit versions), DirectX 12
- CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600X @ 3.7 GHz, Intel Core i5-10400 @ 2.9 GHz, or better
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti (8 GB), AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT (12 GB) or better
- RAM Memory: 16 GB (dual-channel mode)
- Storage: 65 GB SSD
- Resolution: 1080p, 60 FPS, HIGH graphics preset with upscaler set to Quality
High
- Operating System: Windows 10, Windows 11 (64-bit versions), DirectX 12
- CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X @ 3.8 GHz or Intel Core i5-11600K @ 3.9 GHz
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 (10 GB), NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 (12GB), AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT (16 GB) or better
- RAM Memory: 16 GB (dual-channel mode)
- Storage: 65 GB SSD
- Resolution: 1440P, 60 FPS, HIGH graphics preset with upscaler set to Quality
Ultra
- Operating System: Windows 10, Windows 11 (64-bit versions), DirectX 12
- CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D @ 3.4 GHz or Intel Core i7-12700K @ 3.8 GHz
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 (16 GB), AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX (24 GB) or better
- RAM Memory: 16 GB (dual-channel mode)
- Storage: 65 GB SSD
- Resolution: 2160p, 60 FPS, ULTRA graphics preset with upscaler set to Quality