Sid Meier's Civilization VII Gets Official PC Requirements

[GFreeman]

Firaxis Games has published full PC system requirements for the upcoming Sid Meier's Civilization VII strategy game that will be launched on February 11th next year, and it looks like it won't need a powerful hardware, at least unless you want to run it at 4K/UHD resolution and with high graphics preset. Unfortunately, Firaxis Games has not revealed any details regarding support for NVIDIA DLSS or AMD FSR, at least not yet.

According to details, you'll need at least an Intel Core i3-10100 or AMD Ryzen 3 1200 CPU, 8 GB of RAM, and either an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050, AMD Radeon RX 460, or an Intel Arc A380 graphics card. Of course, these are minimum requirements so expect the game to run at 1080p resolution at 30 FPS and Low graphics preset. The game will also need 20 GB of SSD storage and Windows 10/11 64-bit OS. The recommended requirements, which should run the game at Medium graphics preset, 1080p resolution, and 60 FPS, include an Intel Core i5-10400 or AMD Ryzen 5 3600X CPU, 16 GB of RAM, and an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060, AMD Radeon RX 6600, or an Intel Arc A750 graphics card.



In order to run the game at 4K/UHD resolution at 60 FPS, and High graphics preset, you'll need an Intel Core i7-14700F or AMD Ryzen 9 5950X CPU, 32 GB of RAM, and an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 or AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT graphics card.

As said, Sid Meier's Civilization VII is scheduled to launch on February 11th, 2025, and hopefully, we'll get more information about the game soon, as it will probably end up as a part of our game benchmark lineup. In the meantime, you can check out the launch gameplay trailer released back in August.

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[Chaitanya]

So overall a fairly High end PC needed for highest resolution gaming.

 

[AusWolf]

4070 or 7800 XT for 4K Ultra 60 FPS sounds reasonable to me.

 

[mate123]

Strange minimum requirements, the i3-10100 should be a lot faster than a ryzen 3-1200, no?

 

[Gungar]

Ah yes 14700 = 5950x does requirements are a joke.

 

[wNotyarD]

Ah yes 14700 = 5950x does requirements are a joke.

My guess is that the game just requires as many cores/threads as possible for parallelism.

 

[kondamin]

I have never played that game zoomed in for the graphics to matter one bit

 

[phints]

Contrary the comments from naysayers these Recommended specs are quite modest, especially on the CPU side for a deep strategy game like this. It's also awesome to see the Ultra specs use high end hardware too as not everything does. Seems like a very flexible engine. Putting a 300W CPU that could fry itself seems a bit ridiculous but that is all Intel offers until Arrow Lake I guess.

 

[EatingDirt]

Contrary the comments from naysayers these Recommended specs are quite modest, especially on the CPU side for a deep strategy game like this. It's also awesome to see the Ultra specs use high end hardware too as not everything does. Seems like a very flexible engine. Putting a 300W CPU that could fry itself seems a bit ridiculous but that is all Intel offers until Arrow Lake I guess.

CPU side requirements are always modest for turn based strategy games. The CPU doesn't need to do much until the turn has ended in these types of games. The difference usually comes in how long turn times take.

 

[mate123]

My guess is that the game just requires as many cores/threads as possible for parallelism.

and yet they put a 4c/4t amd vs a 4c/8t intel to the min requirements...

 

[wNotyarD]

and yet they put a 4c/4t amd vs a 4c/8t intel to the min requirements...

Oh yeah, the 1200 is 4/4. In my mind it was 4/8, but that's the 1400.

 

[evernessince]

I've played every civ game since the first but them requiring you to pay extra for day 1 access and their use of Denuvo is a huge turn off. Going to either wait for a sale or the denuvo free version.

 

[Lew Zealand]

Strange minimum requirements, the i3-10100 should be a lot faster than a ryzen 3-1200, no?

Yup, the R3 1200 is roughly equivalent to an i5-4670 but it can be OCed to about an i5-6600. I've gamed with all of these recently and the 10100 is faster than the non-OC 6700K I'm currently using so that's a weird CPU choice. Haswell i5 should be OK if the R3 1200 is but I suspect they really meant the 4C8T R5 1400 as mate123 said, and they forgot the 1200 is single-threaded.

 

[wNotyarD]

Yup, the R3 1200 is roughly equivalent to an i5-4670 but it can be OCed to about an i5-6600. I've gamed with all of these recently and the 10100 is faster than the non-OC 6700K I'm currently using so that's a weird CPU choice. Haswell i5 should be OK if the R3 1200 is but I suspect they really meant the 4C8T R5 1400 as mate123 said, and they forgot the 1200 is single-threaded.

Either that, or the real equivalency here should be the R3-3100 or 3300X. Those are bona fide 4C/8T roughly on par with the i3-10100.
Then it becomes 4/8 for minimum, 6/12 for recommended, and "give me all your cores and threads" for ultra.

 

[leonavis]

I've played every civ game since the first but them requiring you to pay extra for day 1 access and their use of Denuvo is a huge turn off. Going to either wait for a sale or the denuvo free version.

Ah, Denuvo. Remember when the cracked version of Resident Evil Village was running much better than the DRM-version?

I don't understand the game developers. The success of CDPR should show that none of this is neccessary or wise.