The Mass Effect Remaster/Remake is officially arriving on May 14th, and whilst the last two games of the trilogy are just traditional remasters, the original Mass Effect 1 will be a light remake. But how well will it perform on our systems? And what kind of PC hardware do I need to run Mass Effect Legendary Edition?
Whilst the requirements don't look too demanding for our PC rigs, there is a hefty storage size coming with it. Obviously it includes all 3 original Mass Effect games but 120GB is still a lot of space to take up on our drives. Let's take a look at the official Mass Effect: Legendary Edition PC system requirements...
Mass Effect Legendary Edition minimum system requirements
- OS: Windows 10 64-bit
- CPU: Intel Core i5-3570 or AMD FX-8350
- RAM: 8GB
- GPU RAM: 2GB
- GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 760 or AMD Radeon HD 7970
- DX: 11
- Storage: 120GB
Mass Effect Legendary Edition recommended system requirements
- OS: Windows 10 64-bit
- CPU: Intel Core i7-7700 or AMD Ryzen 7 3700X
- RAM: 16GB
- GPU RAM: 4GB
- GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 or AMD Radeon RX Vega 56
- DX: 11
- Storage: 120GB
In order to run Mass Effect: Legendary Edition on High graphics settings at 1080p you will need to have a graphics card that's at least as powerful as a GTX 1070 or RX Vega 56 paired with either a Core i7-7700 or Ryzen 7 3700X processor. You should also have at least 16GB of RAM to reach 60fps performance.
Mass Effect Legendary Edition requires a GTX 760 or Radeon HD 7970 GPU in order to play on the lowest graphics settings at 1080p resolution. You should also have at least a Core i5-3570 or FX-8350 CPU and 8GB of RAM in order to reach 60fps.
Overall, looking at all the PC specs above, Mass Effect Remastered will need at least a 5 year old PC in order to run at the recommend settings.
As ever, remember you can always check out how well your PC can run the Mass Effect Legendary Edition System Requirements here, where you can check benchmarks and performance from other users. Compare your graphics card to the Mass Effect Legendary Edition GPU benchmark chart and we also have a Mass Effect Legendary Edition Frames Per Second system performance chart for you to check.
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OMG 7700 vs 3700 on recomended? are they kidding? if its 7700 then must be Ryzen 7 1700 or 1700X lol. 3700 is way faster and stronger than 7700 or 7700K :D i am interesting who set this recomended specs?...
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I believe this can easily be explained with engine. Unreal Engine 3, one remaster is using, is very Intel optimized and does badly on Ryzen, at least if I remember correctly. Hence the difference. Plus especially with 1st gen Ryzen where you don't get as much of single core performance, if they took newer Ryzen, I would say they probably could drop recommendation to Ryzen 5 or even Ryzen 3.
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Reasonable min system requirements.
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Will ignore those system requirements as Bioware are a small company so those requirements are wrong a 4 core i7-7770 but a 3700x on the AMD side don't be silly.
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TOTAL BS THOSE SIMILAR TO THE LAST MASS EFFECT AND IT WAS UNSTABLE AND LOW FPS
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Unreal engine is kind of ass for an all AMD system. This would be especially the case for Unreal Engine 3. That's old af
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I'm hoping the remaster runs well. Unlike other remasters we have seen (Mafia II). Can't wait to replay the trilogy!
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Wait! GTX 1070 1080p High IS demanding. By that metric you need a much more powerful card for 4k. This is a remaster of a decade old game so this IS demanding.
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Yes, though it kind of is close to 5 year old card too, so I kind of expect recommended requirements to bump to 1060 or 1070 by now. Though in a way with Turing being so disappointing and Ampere unavailable, it is easy to forget how old Pascal is and feel like nothing worthwhile and new really came out. Though in case of ME, I would guess it is UE3, probably high quality tricks they are using...
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... are quite demanding and inefficient. Which might have been better with UE4. But I guess we will never know.
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Good to know that an i7 7700 is equivalent to an r7 3700x
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Correct me if I am wrong, but Unreal Engine was very notorious to run poorly on AMD hardware, hence why I suspect UE3 they are using hasn't been patched for Ryzen. Which is why I assume they need much higher end Ryzen than Intel. Or it might just be that they didn't bother to test it at all with Ryzen and are just going for overkill, since technically speaking they aren't wrong... :-D
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oh great, now GTX 760 is not that demanding
do you think all people are rich?
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It's not demanding at all. It's over 7 year old mid range card, what did you expect from it. A GTX 1050 outperforms it in games.
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well 1050ti cost like 100-200 eur i dont know if this is expensive for you.. And my PC is like 6ys+ and i run all the nowadays games. Especially games like csgo, dota 2, lol, the division, overwatch, rainbow works like a charm. But more demanding games like the lates bf the fps was 30-45 in beta and it wasnt playable to me so i never bought it.
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also as far as i know you can buy CPU's that are far cheaper than mine and better. Its all up for better prices. Even if u save up 200-300 eur from ur salary you'll have enough money for low-mid-end PC that will run games just fine.
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Note. Before buying new cpu/motherboard get yourself known with what socket the other CPU's are using. For example you can buy cheaper CPU and save up money for the more expensive cpu's on the market later. For intel it is between lga 1151 and 1200 and the good think that AMD use is AM4. Now i even found this goodie
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Ryzen 7 3700x 300eur amazon
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What games do u play on ur 710?
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latest games like The Medium, HItman 3
they are playable except for medium sometimes I have drop fps in spirit world
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Holy crap you can play those games on that gpu?
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Hitman is well optimized so it might be playable in lower resolution, no way medium is playable with that setup.
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That's an over 7 year old GPU. It's ancient. PC Gaming has always been a luxury, it costs a lot and you need to update constantly. If you can't afford that, get a console, they're made for poor people
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The luxury part has only become true since about 5 years ago.
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i mean its mostly a texture pack so i would hope it can run a series that started in 2007.