Patches, Bugs and PC Requirements

EA PC System Requirements and chart

www.ea.com/en-gb/games/dragon-age/dragon-age-the-veilguard/pc-system-requirements


Minimum Requirements



OS: Windows 10/11 64-bit

Processor: Intel Core i5-8400 / AMD Ryzen 3 3300X* (see notes)

Memory: 16GB

Graphics: NVIDIA GTX 970/1650 / AMD Radeon R9 290X

DirectX: Version 12

Storage: 100GB available space

Additional Notes:

SSD Preferred, HDD Supported; AMD CPUs on Windows 11 require AGESA V2 1.2.0.7


Recommended Requirements



OS: Windows 10/11 64-bit

Processor: Intel Core i9-9900K / AMD Ryzen 7 3700X (see notes)

Memory: 16GB

Graphics: NVIDIA RTX 2070 / AMD Radeon RX 5700XT

DirectX: Version 12

Storage: 100GB SSD available space

Additional Notes:

SSD Required; AMD CPUs on Windows 11 require AGESA V2 1.2.0.7


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These are interesting.  I don't know what AGESA is, (I'm on Intel for CPU) but that isn't the interesting thing.

The interesting thing is the minimum requirements are largely in line with, or below, the minimum requirements for BG3.  A game that is certainly beautiful, but, I wouldn't have thought would be anywhere near as demanding as DAVe.

The other interesting thing is the CPU for recommended...that is a very, very beefy CPU when compared against the GPU(s) they're pairing it with.  I have an 11th Gen i9, 64GB RAM and a 4090, so I'm set for recommended, but do we really think there's that much going on 'under the hood' that requires a CPU like that?

And more generally, the GPU reqs (both min and recommended) are pretty light given how the game appears to look so far (and given how other, comparable games released recently have needed much more).

Good point - it is an older i9, so maybe that's why.  But it seems strange to me that they'd use it at all.  If all the i7's below it are too slow, then why bother including it all?

I would have thought they just would go to the first i7 that made the grade and let everyone work backwards from there.  I don't recall another game where i9s were mentioned in the system reqs before.

Ah, quite right.  I went off memory for BG3.  Went and looked after seeing this.

I got 3 TB of SSD space for games. Glorious PC Master Race!

I had to do that with my PS4 eventually because ESO takes up GARGANTUAN amounts of space every update on that platform because it's like it redownloads a whole version of itself in the process, so you had to have the space of two versions of that game for it to finish updating. And with patches that feel like they are every other week, I got tired of trying to free up more and more space.

So, I bought an external hard drive. 1 TB of storage and was only about $100 on Amazon a few years ago. Plugs into one of the USB ports. Super easy.

I have a PS5 now and haven't tried moving it over to there, but I imagine it should work fine. And I definitely will have to as the PS5 seems to have less native space than the PS4 did, and it's basically almost full with just ESO, Red Dead 2, and Valhalla on it. I also imagine since it's been a few years that you can probably buy an external hard drive with even more storage space for the same amount or maybe less money for less space.

I think my PC with GTX 1660, i5-6500 and 16GB RAM can run it?


my Processor is about to make a name for itself here, but I don't think it will walk away from this



come on, PC! you must survive this one!

Is there any way to tell if I'm all good with this AGESA V2 1.2.0.7 thing?

I have an AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D processor, if that helps. I honestly don't even know how to look at the BIOS other than doing the dxdiag thing.

You are almost certainly fine. The requirement is for stuff from about two years ago, so your BIOS has to be in order.

Still, you can check your mobo and go into the BIOS settings to see the version.

Fairly reasonable I'd say. Definitely seen some head scratcher PC requirements recently. Tickled to see my old GPU could still run this game.

Asking the real questions here. I have a PS5 and so far I haven't needed to connect to the Internet once in order to play (granted, I don't own many PS5 games as it is a new console), I'd definitely prefer if this was such a case.

I bought mine in 2018 (i7-8700K and 1080ti) thinking that a new DA was probably just a year or so away

Well, since i bought it for a new DA I'm going to play a new DA on it, dammit.