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Pillars of Eternity PC system requirements

Pillars of Eternity needs at least an Intel Core i3-2100T @ 2.50 GHz / AMD Phenom II X3 B73 processor, 4 GB of RAM and an ATI Radeon HD 4850 or NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT graphics card, on Windows Vista 64-bit or newer.

For the recommended settings: an Intel Core i5-2400 @ 3.10 GHz / AMD Phenom II X6 1100T processor, 8 GB of RAM and a Radeon HD 7700 or NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 graphics card. It takes 14 GB of storage.

Minimum and recommended requirements

Pillars of Eternity: minimum and recommended PC requirements (Windows)
MinimumRecommended
Operating system Windows Vista 64-bit or newer Same for both: minimum and recommended
Processor Intel Core i3-2100T @ 2.50 GHz / AMD Phenom II X3 B73Intel Core i5-2400 @ 3.10 GHz / AMD Phenom II X6 1100T
Memory 4 GB RAM8 GB RAM
Graphics ATI Radeon HD 4850 or NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTRadeon HD 7700 or NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570
Storage 14 GB available space Same for both: minimum and recommended
Sound card DirectX Compatible Sound Card Same for both: minimum and recommended

How demanding is Pillars of Eternity?

  • Memory: Needs more minimum RAM than 15% of the 1,937 PC games with requirements we track (4 GB).

    It is on our list of low-end PC games (4 GB of RAM or less).

  • Storage: Larger than 50% of the 1,852 games with a storage figure (14 GB).

Compared with the minimum requirements of every game that has a requirements page on gamekeys.deals. We compare memory and storage only: processor and graphics card names cannot be ranked reliably from Steam's text.

Other platforms

Mac

Pillars of Eternity: macOS requirements
MinimumRecommended
Operating system OS X 10.6.3 Leopard 64-bit or newerOS X 10.9 Mavericks 64-bit or newer
Processor Intel Core i5-540M @ 2.53 GHzIntel Core i5-540M @ 3.40 GHz
Memory 4 GB RAM8 GB RAM
Graphics ATI Radeon HD 6750M or NVIDIA GeForce GT 330MRadeon R9 M290X or Nvidia GeForce GTX 775M 2GB
Storage 14 GB available space Same for both: minimum and recommended

Linux and SteamOS

Pillars of Eternity: Linux and SteamOS requirements
MinimumRecommended
Operating system Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 64-bit or newer Same for both: minimum and recommended
Processor Intel Core i3-2100T @ 2.50 GHz / AMD Phenom II X3 B73Intel Core i5-2400 @ 3.10 GHz / AMD Phenom II X6 1100T
Memory 4 GB RAM8 GB RAM
Graphics ATI Radeon HD 4850 or NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTRadeon HD 7700 or NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570
Storage 14 GB available space Same for both: minimum and recommended

Pillars of Eternity is also available on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. The PC specifications on this page do not apply to console editions.

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