EVE Online System Requirements

The Eve Online system requirements are pretty low. The Eve minimum specs are set so low because the gameplay rarely looks as glorious as its trailers... it is really a massive number crunching machine. The minimum memory requirement for EVE Online is 2 GB of RAM installed in your computer. Additionally, the game developers recommend somewhere around 16 GB of RAM in your system. To play EVE Online you will need a minimum CPU equivalent to an Intel Core 2 Duo T5750. However, the developers recommend a CPU greater or equal to an Intel Core i7-7700 to play the game. The Eve Online size is 20 GB, so you should be able to find enough hard drive space to install EVE Online. The cheapest graphics card you can play it on is an NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS. But, according to the developers the recommended graphics card is an AMD Radeon RX 580. The game is available from Steam, Epic or direct from CCP. For an up to date Eve Online beginners guide check PCGamesN.

Eve Online settings

Looking to improve your FPS in Eve Online? Here are some tips.

• Close resource-heavy background programs before running Eve Online - Open Task Manager (Ctrl + Shift + Esc) to see which programs are using the most resources.
• Run the game in fullscreen as opposed to windowed.
• Ensure you have the latest graphics cards drivers installed.

EVE Online will run on PC system with Windows 7 and upwards. Additionally it has a Mac version.

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EVE Online FPS - what frame rate can you expect?

How many FPS will I get on EVE Online? We reference thousands of reports from PCGameBenchmark users running our FPS tracking app to tell you exactly how EVE Online performs across a range of different settings and resolutions on the most popular PC gaming setups.

What frame rate does EVE Online run at?

Here are the typical frame rate samples

Avg FPS	CPU	GPU	RAM
155	Intel Core i9-10850K	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060	32 GB
103	Intel Core i7-10700KF	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070	32 GB
99	Intel Core i7-14700KF	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti	32 GB
48	Intel Core i7-8700K	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080	32 GB
34	Intel Core i5-6200U	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M	8 GB

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