Can I Run Age of Empires: Definitive Edition?
Released in 2019, Age of Empires: Definitive Edition is a strategy game built by World's Edge. Publishing duties went to Xbox Game Studios. The game supports a single player campaign and competitive multiplayer. Steam lists support for 13 languages. With more than 14 thousand player reviews on Steam, its behaviour on real hardware is well documented. Critics scored it 69 on Metacritic. It is a Windows title, so the requirements below are the Windows ones. Completionists have 44 achievements to work through. Being 7 years old, it was built for the hardware of its day, so a current machine usually has headroom over the published figures. Progress follows the account through Steam Cloud rather than sitting on one disk.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | 1.8 Ghz+ Dual Core or greater i5 or AMD equivalent |
|---|---|
| GPU | DirectX 11.0 compatible card with Direct3D Feature Level 11_0 or higher support and 1GB of free memory - Intel: HD 4000 (Ivy Bridge CPU)or better GPU - nVidia: GT 430 or better desktop GPU, or GT 425M or better mobile GPU - AMD: Radeon HD 5500 or better Desktop GPU, or Mobility Radeon 5650 or better mobile GPU |
| RAM | 4 GB |
| Storage | 20 GB HDD |
| OS | Windows 10 64bit |
| DirectX | Version 11 |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | 2.4 Ghz i5 or greater (4 HW threads) |
|---|---|
| GPU | Nvidia GTX 650; AMD HD 5850 |
| RAM | 16 GB |
| Storage | 20 GB HDD |
| OS | Windows 10 64bit |
| DirectX | Version 11 |
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Setting and environment
Age of Empires: Definitive Edition places its action in a historical setting, and the player works through a base the player builds up. Play is presented from an isometric view. The publisher supplies 5 storefront screenshots of these environments. What taxes the PC is the number of things being simulated, which means the requirements describe the start of a game, not the end of one.
Why Age of Empires: Definitive Edition is demanding
Age of Empires: Definitive Edition barely touches the GPU. Its stated Nvidia GTX 650; AMD HD 5850 target is below anything currently sold. Age of Empires: Definitive Edition needs 64 bit Windows. Age of Empires: Definitive Edition takes about 20 GB of disk space. Its 16 GB RAM requirement matches what a typical machine already has.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Age of Empires: Definitive Edition?
Age of Empires: Definitive Edition is light on hardware. Its minimum, DirectX 11.0 compatible card with Direct3D Feature Level 11_0 or higher support and 1GB of free memory - Intel: HD 4000 (Ivy Bridge CPU)or better GPU - nVidia: GT 430 or better desktop GPU, or GT 425M or better mobile GPU - AMD: Radeon HD 5500 or better Desktop GPU, or Mobility Radeon 5650 or better mobile GPU, 4 GB RAM, about 20 GB free, sits below what an entry-level PC ships with today, so nearly any modern machine, and many older ones, will run it.
Bottleneck: CPU
Projected by resolution
| Resolution | Projection | Headroom |
|---|---|---|
| 1080p | Comfortable | 64.64x |
| 1440p | Comfortable | 36.36x |
| 4K | Comfortable | 16.16x |
A projection, not a measurement. We scale the published GPU requirement by pixel count, since 1440p draws 1.78 times the pixels of 1080p and 4K draws 4 times as many, then compare against RTX 3060 / Ryzen 5 build. The publisher did not state a target resolution, so 1080p is assumed as the baseline. We hold no frame rate data, so no FPS figure is claimed. Headroom above 1 means the reference machine has room to spare at that resolution.
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Frequently asked questions
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What are the minimum system requirements for Age of Empires: Definitive Edition?
The minimum requirements are CPU: 1.8 Ghz+ Dual Core or greater i5 or AMD equivalent; GPU: DirectX 11.0 compatible card with Direct3D Feature Level 11_0 or higher support and 1GB of free memory - Intel: HD 4000 (Ivy Bridge CPU)or better GPU - nVidia: GT 430 or better desktop GPU, or GT 425M or better mobile GPU - AMD: Radeon HD 5500 or better Desktop GPU, or Mobility Radeon 5650 or better mobile GPU; 4 GB RAM; OS: Windows 10 64bit.
How much storage does Age of Empires: Definitive Edition need?
Age of Empires: Definitive Edition needs about 20 GB of HDD storage.
What is the bottleneck for Age of Empires: Definitive Edition?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Age of Empires: Definitive Edition is the CPU.