Sea of Thieves System Requirements

The Sea of Thieves minimum requirements are quite low for a new title - an Intel Core 2 Quad Q9450 CPU is required at a minimum to run Sea of Thieves. Whereas, an Intel Core i5-4690 is recommended in order to run it. You will need at least 50 GB to install Sea of Thieves. Make sure you have 50 GB in order to install Sea of Thieves. Provided that you have at least an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 graphics card you can play the game. Furthermore, an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 is recommended in order to run Sea of Thieves with the highest settings. Sea of Thieves requirements state that you will need at least 4GB RAM - If possible, make sure you have 8 GB in order to run Sea of Thieves to its full potential.

At the minimum requirements, developers Rare claim 30fps at 720p on low graphics. At recommended requirements, you can achieve 1080p at 60fps on medium graphics.

There is a Sea of Thieves Steam release, as well as being available on the Microsoft Store or as part of the Xbox Game Pass subscription service.

There are regular updates to the game, the latest Sea of Thieves update being the 'Fate of the Damned', with new weekly challenges and events and new cosmetic items.

Sea of Thieves crossplay

You'll be happy to know there is crossplay on Sea of Thieves between PC and Xbox players.

Sea of Thieves Performance Guide

Looking to improve your FPS in Sea of Thieves? Here are some tips to improve performance.

• Ensuring you have the latest AMD Drivers or NVIDIA Drivers for your graphics card.
• Alternatively, lowering graphically demanding options such as water detail and particle effect quality may help boost FPS.
• Close resource-heavy background programs before running xxx - Open Task Manager (Ctrl + Shift + Esc) to see which programs are using the most resources.

Sea of Thieves will run on PC system with Windows 10 and upwards.

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