Elite: Dangerous System Requirements | Can I Run Elite 4 PC requirements

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Currently in paid Beta - Take a ship and 100 credits to make money legally or illegally - trade, bounty-hunt, pirate, assassinate your way across the galaxy. Elite: Dangerous is the latest installment of a long series of epic space games, starting with "Elite" - one of the most successful games of the 1980s.

Elite: Dangerous System Requirements

Minimum Requirements

OS: Win 7 64
Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4GHz / AMD Phenom 9850 Quad-Core
Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 4870 or NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260
VRAM: 512MB
System Memory: 4 GB RAM
Storage: 7 GB Hard drive space
DirectX 11 Compatible Graphics Card

Recommended Requirements

OS: Win 7 64
Processor: Intel Core i7-3770K 4-Core 3.5GHz / AMD FX-4350
Graphics: AMD Radeon R9 280X or NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770
VRAM: 1GB
System Memory: 8 GB RAM
Storage: 7 GB Hard drive space

PC System Analysis For Elite: Dangerous Requirements

Elite: Dangerous requires a Radeon R9 280X graphics card with a Core i7-3770K 4-Core 3.5GHz or FX-4350 processor to reach the recommended specs, achieving high graphics setting on 1080p. 8 GB will also be needed to achieve the Elite: Dangerous rec specs and get 60FPS. Elite: Dangerous needs a graphics card thats at least as powerful as a GeForce GTX 260/Radeon HD 4870 paired with Phenom 9850 Quad-Core/Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4GHz CPU to match the min specs. This PC setup will deliver 25-35 Frame Per Second at Low graphics setting on 720p resolution. Minimum RAM requirements are 4 GB system memory. Your GPU is expected to be able to deliver DirectX 11. We suggest a 6 year old PC to play smoothly.

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92 FPS

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Elite: Dangerous System Requirements

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GD Verdict

Minimum Requirements

Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4GHz

Phenom 9850 Quad-Core

GD CPU hardware score: 5

GeForce GTX 260

GD GPU hardware score: 3

512 MB

GD VRAM hardware score: 2

4 GB

GD RAM hardware score: 4

Win 7 64

DX 11

7 GB

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GD Adjusted Requirements

Core 2 Quad Q6400 2.13GHz

Phenom 9600 Quad-Core

GD CPU hardware score: 5

GeForce GTX 660 Ti

GD GPU hardware score: 5

2 GB

GD VRAM hardware score: 5

6 GB

GD RAM hardware score: 6

Win 7 64

DX 11

7 GB

Recommended Requirements

Core i7-3770K 4-Core 3.5GHz

GD CPU hardware score: 6

GeForce GTX 770

GD GPU hardware score: 6

2 GB

GD VRAM hardware score: 5

8 GB

GD RAM hardware score: 8

Win 7 64

DX 11

7 GB

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Elite: Dangerous PC Release Date: 16 Dec 2014

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