Crimson Desert system requirements forecast

With the Crimson Desert release date originally slated for July 2021, Crimson Desert has since faced major delays. However, a Gamescom gameplay trailer in August 2023 has revitalized hopes that Crimson Desert will see a release in the near future, perhaps during the late 2024 release window.

Predicted Crimson Desert PC requirements

As such, we've put together our predicted Crimson Desert system requirements, taking the gameplay trailer's impressive graphics and particle effects into account.

We believe that the Crimson Desert minimum requirements will call for an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 graphics card, an Intel Core i7-4790K CPU, and 8GB of RAM. This should be enough to get the game running, but will likely require you to lower the graphics settings as much as possible to achieve a decent framerate.

To play on the Crimson Desert recommended specs, it isn't unreasonable to believe that an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti GPU, an Intel Core i7-8700K CPU, and 16GB of RAM will be able to run the game well.

Crimson Desert size

With the previous installment, Black Desert Online, coming in at less than 30GB, it seems right to estimate that the Crimson Desert download size for PC will be about 45GB of SSD space. So, if you need more space or want to make an upgrade, check the PCGamesN buyers guide for the best SSD for gaming.

Crimson Desert will run on PC system with Windows 10 64-bit or higher and upwards.

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