PUBG pc system requirements

PUBG pc system requirements

PUBG minimum system requirements

Here's what you need to run PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds on your PC, according to developer PUBG Corp. Note that these specs are slightly higher than they used to be: a Core i3-4340 has been bumped to a Core i5-4430, the former 6 GB RAM suggestion is now 8 GB, and instead of a GTX 660 the min spec now lists a GTX 960.

OS: 64-bit Windows 7, Windows 8.1, Windows 10
Processor: Intel Core i5-4430 / AMD FX-6300
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 2GB / AMD Radeon R7 370 2GB
DirectX: Version 11
Network: Broadband Internet connection
Storage: 30 GB available space

Let's dig into the old and new minimum specs a bit. The previously recommended Intel Core i3-4340 is a dual-core CPU from 2013, running at 3.6GHz. Battlegrounds can run on a lower-end CPU without four cores, at least for bare minimum performance. But our detailedperformance analysis showed us that PUBG can be quite CPU limited, so that really is a minimum requirement. The new min spec of an Intel Core i5-4430 is more reasonable.

The old graphics requirement is similarly basic: the GTX 660 was released in 2012, and is hardly a powerful graphics card for modern games. Even at minimum settings, you may struggle to run Battlegrounds at 30 fps with one. The new GTX 960 minimum is again a little more honest if we're not assuming 'minimum' means 'hardly runs at 30 fps.'

PUBG recommended system requirements

Minimum settings are never the ideal way to play a game, and PUBG is no exception. Here's the kind of hardware we'd actually recommend playing Battlegrounds on.

OS: 64-bit Windows 10
Processor: AMD Ryzen 5-1600 / Intel Core i5-7600K
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: Nvidia GTX 1060 6GB or better

(DirectX, Internet connection and storage requirements don't change)

While PUBG will run just fine on Windows 7, at this point it's an old OS no longer being updated. Windows 10 isn't perfect, but it offers better performance and fixes most of Windows 8's missteps.