Hogwarts Legacy Full PC Specs Are Out - 1440p/4K Ultra Require 32 GB of RAM

Avalanche Software released the final PC requirements for Hogwarts Legacy. To play at 1440p/4K and Ultra settings you'll need 32 GB of RAM.

[Gridknac]

I hope this game doesnt run like shit. Those specs are ridiculous. The game looks good in the trailers, but I havent seen anything that is just totally mind blowing or that would justifiy 32gb of ram. Sounds like the developer is trying to use blunt force to push the game instead of optimization. Is this the same team that does the Just cause games? Those games are hot garbage.

[senorfartcushion]

I put it up there with Gotham Knights in terms of quality but that only took around 16gb of Ram for recommended.

[KeeseToast]

This also needs 16 gb for recommended, read the article

[CantThinkOfAUsername]

Just Cause developer is Avalanche Studios Group. This is Avalanche Software. They made some Disney games before WB acquired them.

[Tacoboto]

Having 32GB of system RAM myself... The 8GB VRAM in my RTX 3070 is crying as it is

[frostypants]

They develop these games first for consoles that have memory that is much faster than what most PCs currently have. It is far easier to port to PC via raw quantity of RAM.

[telgou]

"Sounds like the developer is trying to use blunt force to push the game instead of optimization"
That's every """ AAA """ game developer in the last 5 years

[Profchaos]

I guess returnal needing 32gb isn't a edge case anymore

[thecodingart]

It’s 2023 and PC gamers get their panties in a twist over 32 gigs of RAM…

[Demetrius]

Lmfao

[MadLad]

Because that's a pretty ridiculous amount just to run a game.
Most higher end machines will have that, but actually needing it to run a game shows a dev that probably didn't optimize their title and just expect gamers to blunt force it.

[thecodingart]

Are you a developer or subject matter expert on game asset pipelines?

[StarkR3ality]

What's with recent games needing 32gb of ram? If you can get it running on console there is no reason for that, I'm sure you would get away with decent 16gb ram, 32gb is overkill.

[Alexious]

The hilarious thing here is that this game also has to run on a Nintendo Switch console with 4 GB of RAM.

[Outside_ofthe_Box]

Will probably be downgraded on the Switch. Switch version is coming after the real console and PC versions mostly likely because they have to work on what concessions will have to be make in order for it to run.

[thecodingart]

Have you not played Switch ports..

[GoodGuy09]

Consoles are very well optimized for the ram though unlike PC. You got a lot more things going on on PC as well that use up ram. And really I think its just more for if you want to play the game at the very best settings in 1440 and 4k especially. You'll be fine with 16gigs if you don't really care for visuals as much at 1080p.

[StarkR3ality]

Yeah but the top GPU's also have 20+GB of Vram, I know it's different but still. Doesn't make sense to me.

[ZycoFox]

Consoles might be a little more optimised but it doesn't mean needing anywhere near 2x better hardware, sorry but that's nonsense and you know it.

[Vits]

This one in particular is weird because it's going to be released for the previous generation of consoles from what I understand. But for the ones that are current-gen exclusives, I would assume that instead of using the DirectStorage API the developers are opting to just load the RAM.

Now why they are choosing to do that is anyone's guess. It could be laziness as just dumping everything in the RAM would be easier than working with new tech. It could also be they trying to guarantee some compatibility with the Steam Deck. There might be something wrong with the API itself that we don't know. Or even that their market analysis pointed out that 32GB of RAM is less restrictive than a compatible Nvme SSD and platform.

[StarkR3ality]

Think you're probably right. Either lack of knowhow or laziness.

[ED-E]

I guess it's about streaming in an open world environment. All current gen consoles have a NVMe hard-drive, fast to stream from. You can't guaranteed that with PCs, so it has to preload more into ram.

[porkChop]

You can guarantee an SSD on PC. You just make it a requirement like some games have already done. SSDs are far more common than 32GB RAM.

[ED-E]

@porkChop
They probably have, but probably think (rightfully so) that most have still SATA SSDs which has performance limit of 550MB-600MB (since SATA was never designed around SSDs). Current gen consoles have 2500-5500MB read speed out of box, which via compression can double in speed. This makes a difference in streaming opulent open world games.

[sadraiden]

Consoles aren't running the game at a native 4K.

[StarkR3ality]

Yeah but it says you need 32gb for 1440p.. so your point is mute.

[sagapo]

True but according to the article you still need 32gig for 1440p in ultra settings.

[StarkR3ality]

@sagapo

Yeah but that's my point, why?? If Forbidden west which is above this visually in every respect can run on 16gb @4k40fps or @1800p60fps+. Why does this need 32gb?

The Dev is brute forcing with specs to cover poor optimisation, I'm guessing the performance on this will be another example of a shit show, running at 30fps on console and other than 4080/90, sub 60fps on PC.

Not good enough.

[MrNinosan]

@Stark
Forbidden West ain't out on PC, nor is the system requirements for it.

[StarkR3ality]

@mrninosan

Oh wow cheers mate. Didn't know that.

Why do you think I put in the 2 graphics modes that are used on PS5?

Genius you sir.

[sagapo]

@Stark, I commented on sadraiden, not you (just to clarify).

You can’t compare PC and console just one on one. But I agree that 32 gigs feels like unoptimized. I could understand 32 gigs @4k (native) but not so for 1440p tho.

[MrNinosan]

@Stark
I thought you were smarter than that, and didn't try to compare console specifications straight up with PC.
I was wrong, my bad.

[MadLad]

@stark

Point is moot...

I'm not a grammar Nazi by any means, but people who use lines like that should at least actually know what they're saying lol.

[GoodGuy09]

I just got my 32gb bout a month back and it was a good decision imo. Some games that stuttered and had a terrible 1% low fps were doing much better with the new sticks. I highly recommend 32gb in this day and age especially if you're hoping to play modern big AAAs like this.

[lonewolf10]

The newly added Ultra settings require 32 GB of RAM to play Hogwarts Legacy at 1440p or 4K with the Ultra graphics preset.

You will be fine with 16GB as long as you don't want ultra at 1440p + resolution

[LordoftheCritics]

Just don't go Ultra, that's it.

[Fonsecap]

This game is being developed for ps4 and switch also, so how come it needs 32gb of ram and ssd?... Even to run on low setting needs minimum 16gb of ram, I'm afraid that the game will run like crap, but we'll see...

[Lexreborn2]

After seeing the gameplay, I’m going to wait for a demo to judge if I’m getting this game or not.

[masterfox]

last week I just upgraded to 32 GB just because I think RAM is going to get expensive in the future, but not necessarily for gaming, but it seems is a must now, heck! I still have an empty RAM slot will go for 48 GB then!!, those MAME games going to look effing awesome now! :D

[ZycoFox]

Dude i got 32GB DDR5 6400 CL32 kit recently, they won't go up in price any time soon, i think they're still forecast to drop more this year which they probably will slowly. Especially with sales down and not as much people buying hardware.

[Good-Smurf]

Looks like an unnecessarily rushed PC port that they could easily avoid considering that Switch port won't come out 'till July so why PC port have to come out the same day as current consoles when they knew they needed more time to optimizing PC port?
Just delayed the PC port to at least July and they will have the time to not make it such a resource hog game and its not even UE5 yet they already made PCs bleeding RAM like crazy.
Some also mentioned that PC version uses Denuvo DRM too that could be one of reasons why the RAM requirement are so suspicioisly high.

[jznrpg]

Ouch , but ram is fairly cheap and if you’re a pc gamer you all are supposed to have the highest end pc in the world so you call us console players peasants .
Just a joke but 32 GB ram makes sense for games these days . When I quit PC gaming 15+ years ago I was using 16gb then .

[lonewolf10]

Yeah I went 32GB about 2 years back you could see it coming for a long time.

[Good-Smurf]

A 32 GB DDR5 4800 RAM for my laptop is going to charge me $200 this game really pushed me to put in another 32 GB into it.
At that price I'd just buy PS5 version instead.

[D4RC]

We all should be rocking at least 32gb of RAM in 2023.

[sadraiden]

32gb of RAM is like $100. It's 2023. Upgrade your PC.

[343_Guilty_Spark]

Buy a PC they say

[XxINFERNUSxX]

I'm using 32GB DDR4 3200CL 14 with a 5800X3D, + a 3070. I still using 1080p, 360hz from ASUS as I still like very high FPS with settings at max or very close to it. I'm sure if I had 1440p and a 3070 no way I would be able to increase settings that high with future games. For now I'm good with 1080p😊 Let's hope the game will be good all these settings will be worth 💩 🤣

[ZycoFox]

I game at 4k 160hz, i won't upgrade til noticably faster screens come out. Trouble with OLED is you get flickering blacks due to the technology, or vrr flicker, however it's referred as.

Recently got a 13700k as it's better for video editing and has strong single & multicore performance, likely won't upgrade again until Arrow Lake, and i wanted to move away from AMD. 3D cache is good but it doesn't benefit every game, and the majority of apps make zero use of it.

[Binarycode]

I sent marty back to the future and this game still has issues. You're welcome.

32gb ram indeed.lol.

[Crows90]

No you don't need 32gb of ram. False.

This again is yet another sign that the recommended or higher specs are just to push people to upgrade. It's advertising.

[1nsomniac]

Lots of people complaining about bad developers on here and have no idea what they are talking about in their arguments.

The consoles have very fast integrated memory and SSD’s that can pull the high quality assets on the fly for the most part. 99% of pcs don’t have this ability or need to run for a lower common denominator at least. so it needs to pull through the bigger data and store it for easier access rather than just pull it on the fly… ala 32gb of ram.

Knowing Avalanche, it will run extremely well on pc.